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TERRI: Hey, I'm Terri Savelle-Foy, your cheerleader of
dreams. Hey, I pray that as you invest in yourself today you're
captivated and you're catapulted to live your dreams. In fact, if
you've subscribed to this podcast, just push the little
red button right there to get consistent teaching tools and
tips to help you live your dreams. Today I want to talk to
you about how to use the law of attraction for weight loss, the
law of attraction for weight loss. You know, this podcast is
specifically on the weight loss issue, but honestly it can be
applied to whatever battle you're facing. Are you fighting
a financial battle, a legal battle, a health battle, a
marital battle? Whatever it is, the law of attraction is simply
expressing gratitude for what you want, gratitude is the key.
The law of attraction basically states that whatever gets in
your mind and stays there, you will attract it in your life,
that your mind is like a magnet, that's the law of attraction.
Well, as believers we call it Proverbs 23:7, "Whatever a man
thinks in his heart, so does he become." In other words, what
you think about, you bring about. Well, here's the thing,
God will go to work to fight your battles, but you have to
express gratitude, praise and thanksgiving. Now, to give you
proof, I'll tell you about my weight loss issue. But let me
just give you proof about what I'm sharing today. You know, we
see the story of Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles, if you remember
the story, armies are coming against Jehoshaphat, he was
completely outnumbered and it looked hopeless, there was no
way he could win this battle. So what does he do? Well, the Bible
says he sent the praisers out ahead of him, they were bowing
down and praising God, expressing gratitude for how
powerful and mighty he is, and their praised confused the
enemy. See, the enemy doesn't know what to do when it does not
appear that your breakthrough is ever going to happen and you
just start praising and thanking God, it sounds crazy. Well, the
Bible says the enemies actually turned against each other and
slaughtered themselves. Listen to what Jehoshaphat did. This
was his solution. He said, "Lord, I don't know what to do,
and even if I did, I don't have the strength to do it. But my
eyes are on you." He just began praising and worshiping God, and
then he said, "Oh yeah, and the armies are coming against me."
Listen to what the Lord said, he said to him, "The battle is the
Lord's, the victory is yours." And he won the battle. Now think
about it, Jehoshaphat's position was, "Don't worry about it, just
keep my eyes on God." Now get this ingrained, when you
complain, no matter what it is, when you complain, you remain.
When you praise, you make progress. Now let me explain how
I discovered personally that one of the ways that we maintain our
less than desired bodies is through the words of our mouths.
Now complaining and constantly focusing on the negative things
that we hate about ourselves, it causes us to remain that way.
When we're saying things like, "I hate my thighs, my stomach is
huge, I'll never get this weight off. No matter what I do I can't
lose weight. This cellulite is disgusting." Well, what we focus
on expands. Now personally, I experienced a major change in my
body years ago when I reached a milestone, when I turned 40.
Suddenly I began to look in the mirror and hate what I saw, my
thighs, my hips, my waste, my face, everything, and
increasingly I began to gain weight. I just hated looking in
the mirror, I hated what I saw. I was so discouraged over my
lack of ability to look like my old self. Strangely enough, I
was eating healthier than ever and working out harder, but
looking worse than ever. I was convincing myself that no matter
what I try it's not working. Well, keep in mind, those are
debilitating thoughts. So the more I believed it and expressed
it, the more it became my reality. Finally, I began to get
control of myself, my thoughts, my words, my attitude, and what
I did was, I got a vision board. Number one, I got a vision.
Remember this, don't complain about something you don't have a
vision to change. In fact, we see in the Bible, when Habakkuk
complained to the Lord, his response was, "Write the
vision." So I did that. I found a photo of myself at my ideal
weight wearing a swimsuit, nobody else saw this but me, I
put it on my vision board that nobody saw, and I began looking
at it every single day. In prayer I would literally close
my eyes and imagine myself looking like that again. I mean,
literally, I would visualize my thin thighs, my trim waist, my
flat stomach, my slender face, everything, and I wrote out
clearly my vision. I said, "I am so happy weighing my perfect
weight," and I wrote what I wanted to weigh, which I'm not
telling you. Then like Jehoshaphat I said, "Lord, I
don't know what to do, I'm doing all I know to do. I don't even
have the strength to do any more, but my eyes are on you."
Now remember, the battle is the Lord's, the victory is yours. I
just started praising God, just like Jehoshaphat did. I began
thanking the Lord for his promises to me in the word of
God and actually listed promises and declarations. I would say
things like, "Thank you, Lord, according to your word, you said
the righteous cry out and the Lord hears them and delivers
them from all their troubles." I said, "Thank you for delivering
me from torment over my body." Then I said this, "In the
multitude of my anxieties within me, your comforts delight my
soul. I am free from anxiety over my body." Philippians 4:13,
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Then
this Scripture, "Your grace is sufficient for me." I have the
grace to weigh what I want to weigh. Remember, grace means the
power of God coming on you to do with ease what you could never
do on your own. Then I said this one, "So shall my word be that
goes forth out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void,
but it will accomplish that which I please." Then I made a
list of positive declarations. I started saying things like, "I
am grateful for my fast metabolism. I'm grateful that I
am in the best physical shape of my life. I'm grateful that I can
eat whatever I want to eat and maintain my perfect weight. I'm
grateful that I am free from food and bondage to food, I'm
free from torment over my body, I'm happy with my body, I'm
healthy and in excellent shape. I'm thin, firm, muscular." I
mean, I made this list, I've got them right here. I said, "I'm
disciplined and full of energy, I enjoy working out." I'm
telling you, the weight began falling off of me. That is what
the Lord said though, he said, "The battle is the Lord's, the
victory is ours." The struggle was over. So how can you apply
the law of attraction to your weight loss? First, start by
deciding what you want to look like. If you have a photo of
yourself when you looked your best, then that's the image you
want to keep before your eyes. If you don't, find a picture of
your ideal body, chop somebody's head off, put your head on top,
figuratively speaking. Number two, guard your mouth. What goes
in your mouth isn't nearly as important as what's coming out
of your mouth. Overeating is not nearly as detrimental to your
weight goal as complaints are. Determine to not let one
negative word come out of your mouth about your body again. I'm
telling you, I know it's not easy. We all have that tendency
to look in the mirror and just start to feel disgusted. Don't
voice it. Your words are powerful and they have a way of
keeping you trapped into the very thing you don't want.
Number three, trade all those complaints for praise and
thanksgiving for where you're headed. See, you're giving God
something to work with, he responds to a grateful heart. He
loves to hear your faith expressed through gratitude. So
I'm telling you, all the weight loss books, the fitness
equipment, they won't change a thing until you first guard your
words. Just like Jehoshaphat, say, "Lord, I don't know what to
do, even if I did, I don't have the strength to do it, but my
eyes are on you." Then say, "Oh yeah, thanks for taking care of
this fitness issue." So I hope you enjoyed that. Real quick I
want to mention our YouTube subscriber of the week is
Doyan-- these names sometimes are so hard for me, okay this
one is Aloran Fimi, Doyan Aloran Fimi, it's just a
common name. But this is what Doyan wrote, "Thanks, Miss
Terri, I heard you talk about this and started in 2017
practicing this hour of power, and it has been my most
purposeful year so far." I love that. "I published three books
and did a tour of schools and organizations where I spoke to
1000 girls and gave them copies of my book." This is amazing!
"Having that power hour clarifies the goal, frees the
clutter in the mind and fuels you to go forward. I believe
that. Thank you for always speaking the truth to us in
love. Love, Doyan." That is amazing! See, I love getting
reports that you are truly living your dreams, and I am
cheering you on. Thank you, Doyan for sharing that with me.
I'm sorry I jacked up your name. But bottom line is this, when
you complain, you remain. I have found that it is so easy for us
to complain without even realizing we're doing it, so I
have provided for you a free downloadable PDF that will help
you consciously be grateful. I even have challenges in there
for you to text like three people that you're thankful for
and just tell them how much you appreciate them. Now it's been
proven that you will feel better about yourself after doing that
than they even will. Now, I truly believe gratitude is going
to open doors for you that no man can shut, which is why I
want you to download this and apply it today. So just click
the link in the description to download your gratitude
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I want to remind you, I'm cheering you on.
Thank you for watching, and I'll see you next week.
TERRI: Icing means something added
to something good to make it even better.
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