Accepting

I was thinking about this whole thing about accepting... I was filling out a survey that a friend actually wrote. It was very cool, it got me thinking.

There were many good questions, but one was 'What is your greatest weakness'. At first I joked and said "STARBUCKS" hehe, but when it got down to it, my weakness is myself. I let Satan get into my head saying that I am not good enough and that I need to lose weight to be happy and I need to be prettier. Satan has used my weaknesses about myself to rule my life, and I hate that. He has used the fact that I dont like my body to influence me to do drastic measures about that fact and I HATE it. Satan is a JERK!

I am still struggling to accept myself, and I think its a lifelong process. I need to be happy with what God gave me. I think Satan does this all the time, he uses what we dont like about ourselves and he torments us with it so bad to the point that we are willing to do drastic measures to be "perfect" according to the world's society. I don't want Satan to have that power over me any longer!

Father, help me to accept my body and accept who I am. It is really difficult for me to do, but by your strength I believe that I can be able to accept myself. I pray that you will give me the strength to not listen to Satan's crap. I speak to Satan, I tell you to GET OUT in the name of Jesus! Get out of my life because you are NOT welcome here! My body belongs to God and you no longer have ANY power over me! NONE! Thank you Father for your many blessings in my life and I thank you for all the work you have done in my life and helping me to get to where I am now. I thank you that you told me to go to RAW, its going to be an eye opening experience, but only because of your strength I am ready! Only by your strength will I be able to get through the experience. I pray your presence in my life daily! I pray that I can wake up and remember that you love me and remember that each day is a gift from you. You taught me that lesson many times since I fell down those stairs 18 years ago, you taught me that each day is a gift not to be pushed aside. Thank you Father! I love you. Amen


"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." \
(Matthew 6:25-34 )

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20)