Last week, I talked about how God taught me to seek Him and His Word to gain victory in weight loss.  This week I will give you 5 steps to implement into your daily life that will allow God the opportunity to show Himself strong on your behalf.

1. Make Jesus Lord over everything (1 John 5:1-4).

            From your prayer time to your food choices, this will be the best decision you’ve ever made. It’s also a necessary decision in order to involve God’s Anointing—His burden-removing, yoke-destroying power—in achieving your goals.

 2. Identify the problem.

            Too many times we put our faith in carnal weapons—diets, pills, certain kinds of exercise—believing those things are going to solve our problems. As we fail to achieve our goals, our faith weakens and we begin to lose hope. We’ve simply been deceived into fighting spiritual warfare in the arena of the flesh instead of trusting God’s Word. Put your hope and faith in God because He is the way to lasting victory.

 3. Spend time in the Word.

            Often, we allow our mind, will, and emotions to talk us out of God’s best for our lives. The power of God’s Word is vital in empowering your spirit to dominate your flesh. When faced with temptation, a renewed mind will side with your spirit. Transformation comes only through renewing your mind to God’s Word.

 4. Walk in the spirit (Galatians 5:16).

            Even before you see a change with your natural eyes, continue sowing to the spirit. It’s seedtime and harvest—the more fruit of the spirit that you sow, the more you’ll reap. As you continue to walk in the spirit, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

5. Stand fast (Galatians 5:1)!

            It was God’s responsibility to break the power of sin and death off our lives once and for all. It’s our responsibility to maintain that freedom. Make a quality decision not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage, stand fast in the liberty that the anointing attained for you, and rejoice in your new found freedom.