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Kimberly Davidson
July 7, 2009
Summer. Weddings. Bathing suits. Beaches. Family Vacations. Sun. I love summer – but I don’t like bathing suits. Bathing suits remind me that I’ll never look like Jillian, neither the current ABC TV’s The Bachelorette or the workout diva on NBC’s The Biggest Loser.
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Cornell University also did a purchase Accutane online without script similar study, years earlier, with many of the same findings:
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- 1 Corinthians 10:31 – “So, whether you purchase Accutane online without script eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to purchase Accutane online without script the glory of God.”
- 1 Corinthians 6.19-20 – “Do you purchase Accutane online without script not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you purchase Accutane online without script have from God? You are purchase Accutane online without script not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your purchase Accutane online without script body.”
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If we know as biblical men and purchase Accutane online without script women that our bodies belong to the Lord, then shouldn’t we be more disciplined to take care of what we’ve been given?
The following suggestions come out of a purchase Accutane online without script lifelong struggle with weight and discipline in eating. But, God’s grace is purchase Accutane online without script sufficient and has given me daily victory in many of these areas by the purchase Accutane online without script blood of Jesus and the control of the Spirit. It has purchase Accutane online without script become a topic and discipline that I love to study.
To single women:
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2. Live 1 Corinthians 6.19-20. Every day. Every meal. Every workout. Carolyn Mahaney, in her book Feminine Appeal, writes to encourage women to live self-controlled lives. “Self-control doesn’t just happen. We can’t adopt the indifferent attitude of “let go and let God” and purchase Accutane online without script expect magically to become self-controlled. Self-control requires effort. It is only as we cooperate with the purchase Accutane online without script Holy Spirit that we will achieve self-control.” (p 65)
3. Start now. Maybe as you are reading this you know you haven’t exercised in a month and you’ve had purchase Accutane online without script far too much of your favorite cheesecake. Pray for grace and purchase Accutane online without script strength to start anew. His mercies are new every morning (Lamentations 3).
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To married women:
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In dating and purchase Accutane online without script in marriage, may we have a desire to live as godly women – even in the purchase Accutane online without script area of food and weight and exercise. May we heed well the purchase Accutane online without script words of Carolyn Mahaney in light of Romans 12.1-2:
“A disciplined approach to purchase Accutane online without script eating does not automatically indicate the presence of self-control as biblically defined. (We) sometimes pursue self-glorification – not godliness. This sin of vanity is purchase Accutane online without script no less serious than the sin of gluttony. When (we) repent of our vanity, (we) are able to pursue self-control in a manner that (will bring) glory to purchase Accutane online without script God. We need to ask ourselves: am I seeking my own glory of God’s glory with my eating habits.”
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