If you don’t know what you are doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get His help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who “worry their prayers” are like wind whipped waves. Don’t think you’re going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open. James 1:5-8

Verse Reflections:  I definitely don’t know what I am doing.  That is why I have scoured the scripture to gain insight.  Each verse that is revealed gives me strength and power from God.  This verse promises us that God loves to help us.  How comforting and reassuring is this?  And He goes further by saying that we won’t be condescended to, He won’t make us feel like a failure.  He will treat us with respect and give us hope even if we have gained weight.  We have to ask boldly for Him to give us knowledge and success.  Remember when Peter stepped out of the boat on faith to walk on the water?  The minute He took his eyes off of Jesus he began to sink.  This is me.  I have to ask God every day to help me.  I can’t ask on Monday and then try to walk on the water Tuesday and Wednesday without asking Him for help.  I will sink every time.  In fact, that is what has happened to me.  I start eating healthy and then warm gooey cookies are waved in front of me and I take my eyes off of Jesus’s healthy foods.  However, I have to say, when I come to God daily I am strong.  God’s strength can see me through.  I know that alcoholics go to meetings daily, sometimes twice a day.  I am an addict to sugar and processed foods.  I have to go to God and ask boldly believing.  Otherwise, I become that person who “worries their prayers”.  I am all talk.  I have learned I can’t just throw up “God help me eat good today” and not read scripture.  I don’t understand it but there is power in His word.

Prayer:  Father, I am coming to You today because I don’t know what I am doing.  I am an utter failure at eating healthy foods without You.  I will binge at a level that is impossible to believe.  I am coming to You begging boldly.  I am begging without a second thought.  I love that addition.  I have to not question myself or our abilities together.  There cannot be another thought that I cannot do this.  It is hard.  I have to remind myself that while You give me strength to win the battle I still have to fight the war.  My prayers have been like a whipped wave… coming in beautifully to shore and then the wind of temptation comes and the beauty disappears into a uneven mass of water whipping in multiple directions.  Father You have to remind me that we can do this.  We can eat healthy foods and resist the unhealthy ones.  You say here that You LOVE to help.  God, I am really weak and honestly sometimes I really, really need Your help.  I am picking up the sword of Your word.  Please give me the strength to swing it into the stomach of temptation.  I want my health.  I want my sanity.  I want to be able to wear the clothes in my closet instead of buying new ones.  I am going to close all my options today.  I am going to say no to the foods I know I cannot have in small quantities.  You love to help.  I need Your help desperately.  Let’s be bold together.  I love You and I love Your foods.  Here’s to a great day,