{"id":3952,"date":"2012-04-22T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T06:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:19:02","slug":"extra-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3952","title":{"rendered":"Extra Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Lord will decide between us. \u00a0Perhaps the Lord will punish you for what you are trying to do to me, but I will never harm you”\u00a0 (1 Samuel 24:12 NLT).<\/em>
\nIt’s a daily struggle to battle the bulge. It’s one choice after another to make the healthiest decisions.\u00a0 It’s a love\/hate relationship between myself and the gym’s treadmill. Today’s verse offers a very important dieting tip.<\/p>\n

Taking the higher road is a weight loss technique.<\/p>\n

Refusing to carry a grudge looks good on any body shape.<\/p>\n

Allowing God to settle the score between myself and any of my offenders, frees me up to experience more and more of His blessings.<\/p>\n

Are there issues I could continue to stew about in my mind? \u00a0Are there instances of hurt feelings quickly recalled to memory at the slightest thought? \u00a0Have I been hurt, used, ignored, spoken badly to or enraged?<\/p>\n

You bet. But from one weight watcher to another, they’re not worth carrying around.\u00a0 Receiving a well done from God surpasses the most fleeting tastes of revenge.<\/p>\n

Malinda Edgell
\nIllinois<\/p>\n

PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>Pray for unity and freedom from these extra weights of conflict among believers in your congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Lord will decide between us. \u00a0Perhaps the Lord will punish you for what you are trying to do to me, but I will never harm you”\u00a0 (1 Samuel 24:12 NLT). It’s a daily struggle to battle the bulge. It’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}