In today’s stressful world, families are under incredible pressure. However, since healthy families are society’s greatest assets, keeping them together must be a top priority.
If practiced, these keys will keep your family strong so that you can weather all of life’s storms.
We celebrate each other’s value.
Strive to appreciate each person’s uniqueness. While conflicts can occur in relationships, always recognize that God can restore peace into any situation. So pray for peace in your household and if strife occurs, pray that God reveal to you what you can do to restore serenity.
We demonstrate kindness to each other.
Remember, love is both a feeling and an action. Turn your feelings into action by speaking good words to uplift your family and do nice things for them. The bible says, "The wise woman builds her house but the foolish pulls it down with her hands" (Proverbs 14:1). Kindness should be a cornerstone in your house.
We forgive one another.
According to the bible, “The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and his glory is to overlook a transgression” (Proverbs 19:11). Take this wisdom to heart by being quick to forgive. It’s okay to acknowledge that you are hurt, but it is not okay for you to remain unforgiving. It hardens your heart. Instead look to God. Just as he forgave you, so you should forgive others.
We praise God together.
Spiritual disciplines like praise, worship, and prayer keep you secure in God’s love. As you become filled with His love, you increase your capacity to give love.
One of wisest investments you can make is building healthy families. Recognize that as a following of God through Christ Jesus, Earth is not your ultimate home. Treating your family like the blessing they are is the best way to maximize your limited time here.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Christian Weight Loss: Two Quick Success Strategies
Do you often have issues with food temptations? To handle them, keep in mind a key principle of Christian weight loss success: The best way to win a fight is to avoid getting into one. If you constantly keep food temptations in your environment, you are making losing weight harder than it has to be.
To lose weight most efficiently, keep the following two quick tips in mind:
1. Create a healthy “safety zone” at home
At home, you can make eating healthy convenient by batch cooking once a week. Often, a major roadblock to eating healthy is being too busy to cook. However, you can pick one day each week and broil chicken, oven fry fish, bake sweet potatoes, or prepare vegetables. Then, freeze the food in individual serving containers. During the hectic weekdays, simply retrieve one of the containers from the freezer and reheat it in the microwave.
Another tip is to avoid bringing the higher calorie snack items into your environment as competition. If you do buy a higher calorie snack item, then purchase a small size. This is built-in portion control.
2. Create a healthy “safety zone” away from home
Creating a healthy safety zone with fast food restaurants begins at their website. Many restaurants post their menus and nutritional information for each item. Reviewing this information before you go can help you make a better decision because you won’t have tempting food smells clouding your judgment. Once you’ve decided what to order, then go to the drive thru to make your purchase. This will be additional insurance to ensure that you stick with your decision.
So remember that to succeed with Christian weight loss success, you need to plan for it. You’ll lose the weight and enjoy yourself as you slim down!
To lose weight most efficiently, keep the following two quick tips in mind:
1. Create a healthy “safety zone” at home
At home, you can make eating healthy convenient by batch cooking once a week. Often, a major roadblock to eating healthy is being too busy to cook. However, you can pick one day each week and broil chicken, oven fry fish, bake sweet potatoes, or prepare vegetables. Then, freeze the food in individual serving containers. During the hectic weekdays, simply retrieve one of the containers from the freezer and reheat it in the microwave.
Another tip is to avoid bringing the higher calorie snack items into your environment as competition. If you do buy a higher calorie snack item, then purchase a small size. This is built-in portion control.
2. Create a healthy “safety zone” away from home
Creating a healthy safety zone with fast food restaurants begins at their website. Many restaurants post their menus and nutritional information for each item. Reviewing this information before you go can help you make a better decision because you won’t have tempting food smells clouding your judgment. Once you’ve decided what to order, then go to the drive thru to make your purchase. This will be additional insurance to ensure that you stick with your decision.
So remember that to succeed with Christian weight loss success, you need to plan for it. You’ll lose the weight and enjoy yourself as you slim down!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Healing Scriptures: Powerful Faith Builders
Are you facing a health challenge? Then consistent use of healing scriptures will strengthen your faith and support your healing. It is recommended that you read these seven scriptures out loud a minimum of three times a day, as often as you eat food.
Psalm 103:1-3
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases
Proverbs 3:7-8
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Jeremiah 33:6
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
3 John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
In addition to faithfully reading these healing scriptures, you also want to do what you can in the natural to support your healing. Eat with wisdom and exercise, manage stress, forgive others, and make time for rest and laughter.
Most importantly, spend time with God every day and nurture your relationship with him. Obey God’s commands by following the leading of the Holy Spirit. When you walk in integrity, peace will reign in your life and you will encourage healing to flow into your life.
Psalm 103:1-3
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases
Proverbs 3:7-8
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Jeremiah 33:6
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
3 John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
In addition to faithfully reading these healing scriptures, you also want to do what you can in the natural to support your healing. Eat with wisdom and exercise, manage stress, forgive others, and make time for rest and laughter.
Most importantly, spend time with God every day and nurture your relationship with him. Obey God’s commands by following the leading of the Holy Spirit. When you walk in integrity, peace will reign in your life and you will encourage healing to flow into your life.
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