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Welcome to Your Daily Bread podcast. I'm your host, Abbie Stasior, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. My prayer is that these bite-sized episodes will help you heal your relationship with food, improve body image, and ultimately help you grow closer to God. Now, I can't personally heal you, but I'm gonna be directing you to the one that can, and that is Jesus. Also disclaimer, I'm not a pastor, but a sister in Christ that's offering you some food for thought that you can take into your quiet time with the Lord as your daily bread. Let's dig in.
Hello. Hello. Welcome back to this week's episode of Your Daily Bread podcast, y'all. I am so excited for this week's Holy Week episode. I hope everyone is having a blessed Holy Week this week. And Woo, do we have a sacred conversation about to come up. I am joined this week. By Madison Perrin, who is a fellow Christian dietician, and she is also a Christian life coach as [00:01:00] well.
And , she is just. Such a delight. The Lord has deposited so much wisdom in her, and even though we do similar things and we are both Christian dieticians offering a faith-based approach, it's so cool to see how God reveals different things to us even within the same scripture. So I am so excited for y'all to hear this conversation and just be more equipped to.
Steward your body truly for the glory of God and not for earthly vain reasons where you can be walking by the spirit and not by the flesh. And also be equipped to handle spiritual warfare in your health journey. So I will pray us in.
Father God, thank you so much for ah, this day, this week, Lord, this week. And everything that you did has changed all of our lives, Lord, and we just take a moment to exalt you, to recognize you, to honor you, and your great [00:02:00] sacrifice. Lord. Lord, thank you for modeling to us perfect obedience, perfectly abiding in the Father.
Lord, and you invite us to abide in you. Thank you for paying a debt that we could never pay back for living a life that we could never live for never leaving us nor forsaking us, Lord, not leaving us as orphans. We are just so grateful for everything that you have done.
Mm Lord, help us to have deeper revelations this week about the cross and the crucifixion and the finished work of the cross, and that now we operate from a place of victory because of that. Lord, you are alive so we can live. Thank you Lord for freedom. It is for freedom. We come to you with humble hearts, Lord, and we honor and exalt you. And I pray that this episode transforms people. 'cause you didn't come just to save us. You came to transform us. You came to form a relationship with [00:03:00] us, Lord. So I pray that this episode honors and glorifies you, feeds your sheep, and transforms every single listener from the inside out.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Hey, Maddie. Hey, Abby. Girl. I am so excited for today's episode and to have you on the podcast. What a gift it is to have you here for Holy Week. I know. So blessed to be here. So excited that God has prepared this opportunity for us. Yeah. Amen. Girl. So I know so much about you, but tell us a little bit about yourself, what you do as a fellow Christian dietician, I know that you specialize in holistic healing, so.
Girl, we know that there are so many different definitions of holistic healing, so let us know like what that means to you and where you specialize as a Christian dietician. Yes, for sure. There is so much to [00:04:00] this, like when people ask me what this really means, what does it mean to do faith-based nutrition?
Where do you even begin it? There's so much to it and so much encompassing it. I, little background on me,, when I was going through school to be a dietician, I wanted to be sports dietician. That is where I thought it was at, but it's so interesting as God gave me the opportunities to do that.
Something in me, which the Holy Spirit obviously was like, there's more to this. You just need to be immersed in it. I felt like I wanted to do more than just help people play their sport better. I wanted to be able to help them as a whole because they are a whole, and, , just going over one thing, which is their nutrition just was not having the impact that I felt God calling me to.
As soon as I started seeing clients, I knew there was still something [00:05:00] missing. People need to be including God in this health journey. And that's where I started exploring what that really meant, how to include God in this, because as a new dietician.
And growing your faith, it can be challenging to figure out what does this actually look like? So that's where I went through some experiences and God called me to really starting this, being bold in it. So holistic care. This is what I always share with my clients for if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail, but if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men. You will only find yourselves fighting against God.
That is Acts 5 39 and that is the foundation. For this holistic care, because if we are seeking [00:06:00] our own understanding or goals from this whole health journey, it may not work. It probably will fail. That's why a lot of us in this health journey can feel so discouraged, overwhelmed, challenged, but when you can slow down and reflect and ask yourself, okay, what is the reason?
I am doing this health journey. You have to remember, if it is for God and you are following his will in this journey, it is not going to fail. Amen. Amen. And we know that Jesus says, apart from me, you can do nothing. So you could be doing all of these healthy things, but still not seeing good fruit from that or getting any sort of results or sustainable results because you're not doing it with the right motivation or not with the right heart posture or just cutting God out altogether.
Mm-hmm. But when you do it with God, no one can stop you. And that's another thing too, is I always [00:07:00] encourage my clients, yes, I am the dietician and I am seeking God's guidance in this journey of.
Helping you, but there may be some things that he reveals to you that he may not reveal to me to help you in this journey. And I want you to open your ears to that because you can bring that back to me and we can collaborate on that, both with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. That's so good.
And that teaches them how to partner with the Holy Spirit, encourages them to pray or you're not doing it for them. And I find that so much in our culture's wellness industry and in diet culture, certainly it is other people telling us what to do and we follow the plan, we take the supplements, we do the workouts, whatever's prescribed.
So I like that you're giving them the tools to turn to God and letting them know, Hey, you actually can do that. You can ask God these things. And even though you're the expert, that God has graced you in a way where you're in a position to help [00:08:00] people and you understand the science, you know as a dietician, but you're giving them the skills to be able to sustain that and grow their relationship with God.
Exactly, and as a dietician, I have learned the importance of including God in my own health journey. And it's amazing how as I continue to grow closer to him, he is developing and shaping my own health journey because he is the expert, not me, and he created our bodies. So with that, we could go into the foundations of whole body wellness, if that sounds good to you.
Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So this is the foundations, I call this the four rhythms of whole body wellness, and that is nutrition, movement, rest, and the renewing of the mind. Another scripture that I share with clients is there are many parts of the body, but they are [00:09:00] all connected to one body. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.
If one part is honored, every part rejoices with it, and that's why we have to go through those four rhythms of whole body wellness because we have to make sure all of those parts of our body are in alignment with our mind, body, soul, all of it. Most importantly with God. And what I love about that verse too is that it even goes on to say like every body part is essential, and even something that you may think is insignificant, it is actually indispensable.
Us individually in the the body of Christ. We are each indispensable. We have something to offer, but every part of our body, even the parts of our body that we don't like or we feel like aren't toned enough or too big or take too much space God looks at that and says, this is fearfully and wonderfully made.
Exactly. Yeah. So I love that too, even relates to the body image. [00:10:00] But you're so right that with those four rhythms you could be. Doing the most perfect workout plan and doing everything perfect with nutrition. But if you're not getting adequate rest, the body's not gonna recover., We know that if you even get one hour less of sleep, your hunger hormones are off the next day, you're just not functioning optimally.
, And you're not even gonna have the energy to renew your mind and take every thought captive if you're too tired and not prioritizing rest. Exactly. Yeah. So it all feeds into one another. That is so good. And I love that you start client sessions off that way. Like, hey, here's where we're going.
Here's what I believe this is what's all going to be a part of, our time together. Because I think a lot of the times when people start working with a dietician, a nutrition professional, they think it is just a meal plan in macros, but it's like, oh, no, no. I'm gonna help you with your rest.
We're gonna help renew your mind. And, and even exercise too. All of that. All of that counts. And one thing that we had talked about as we were preparing for this episode is [00:11:00] even with the same scripture, the Lord has given us different.
Revelations about it and has spoken to us differently about various scriptures, even though we're both counseling clients with a faith-based approach. And I just think that that is so beautiful And I just love everything that the Lord has unfolded to you in Proverbs three. If we don't want things in our health journey to be of human origin, but we wanna be relying on God's wisdom. What does that look like?
How do we do that? In Proverbs three the writer of Proverbs is discussing how wisdom, bestows wellbeing, and of course as a dietician, a verse that stands out to me is this will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Now we have to figure out, okay, what is this that will bring this to our body if we back up a little bit?
First part of this chapter, my son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart. If we go down a [00:12:00] little bit more, trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways, submit to him and he will make your path straight. Do not be wise, in your own eyes, fear the Lord and shun evil.
It's talking about wisdom, but we have to recognize that knowing what to do. How to do it is not the wisdom of the Lord, but leaning on him and his wisdom to direct those steps is what will bring health to our body and nourishment to our bones. And this also makes me think of Proverbs four 20 to 23, which listeners know I'm like obsessed with this verse.
But that says, my son or my daughter pay attention to what I say. Turn your ear to my words. Do not let them out of your sight. Keep them within your [00:13:00] heart for their life to those who find them in health to one's whole body. That's verse 20 to 22. And then it goes on to say, above all else, guard your heart for everything you do.
Flows from it. And I love that it's so similar to Proverbs three because we know that if God is repeating something, he wants us to pay attention to it. What does he want us to pay attention to? Pay attention to his words. Don't let them out of our sight. So when we're thinking, okay, I wanna listen to God's wisdom, but what's God telling me to do for my health? Well, you have to turn to his word.
Don't let it out of your sight, because if your gaze goes to something else, thank you, holy Spirit. If your gaze goes to something else. If it's not on God's word, what is it on? What is holding your gaze? We know that Peter was able to walk on water when he kept his eyes and his gaze on Jesus as soon as he brought his eyes down and then he started to drown.
So where is your gaze? And if your gaze is on his word, you're not letting it out of your sight. You're keeping it within your heart. So it's [00:14:00] going from your head to your heart. Then his word will be the motivation behind why you do things. 'cause everything flows from your heart. So if you like, really receive it into your heart, that will bring health to your whole body.
And then you're not gonna be relying on our own understanding because but you just start.
Thinking as God thinks. 'cause he gives you eyes to see, and ears to hear, and you just start, you know, more scripture. It's on the tip of your tongue. And the more that you receive that into your heart, you just automatically start doing things that are aligned with God's will and his way makes perfect sense because as you seek him, he puts the desires in your heart.
And part of this whole conversation, if we look back to that scripture, it's. Recognizing that you do not know it all. Humbling yourself before the Lord and saying, I can't do this. I need you. And that is what makes your path straight [00:15:00] and brings health to your body and nourishment to your bones. Yeah. So honestly, at the root of all of this, where we go astray with our health, honestly, it seems like this is pride.
Yeah. Wow. So you have to humble yourself. And one thing that my pastor said recently, he was like, there's two different jobs. You pick one and God will do the other. But you have to be wise and which one you pick. There's exalting and then there's humbling. So if you would exalt yourself, the Lord will humble you, but if you humble yourself, then he will exalt. One of you is choosing one of them to do. Exactly, and part of it is just recognizing, be still and know that I am God. Because the world will tell you to have knowledge, to have wisdom, but Godly wisdom is actually leaning, not on your own understanding in what you know, but the word of God and being still in that [00:16:00] so he can bring you to that next step.
Oh, that's so good. And I think people would be surprised and maybe not because if they've been listening to this podcast and they've been, you know, having a relationship with the Lord, you may realize how many scriptures there are about how to eat and how much the Lord can show you about how to steward your body through his word.
But I think at least new clients that I start working with, or clients that are new believers, they really are surprised and there is a little bit of doubt that the word is actually sufficient to help us. Healing our whole body and to tell us what to eat and actually get that specific.
I think a lot of people are just really surprised at how, even the scripture that does not mention your health. It directly applies to your health because it is the word teaching us how to live more like him. And actually that reminds me of in First John.
But if anyone obeys his [00:17:00] word, love for God is truly made complete in them, this is how we know we are in him. Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. Mm mm-hmm. Oh, it's so good. This is like the being before the doing. This is Martha and Mary. This is being rooted in your identity in Christ and then the activity from that flows out of that.
Yep. You have to be rooted in identity and really your belovedness first. I heard once from my church. God is after your heart, not your habits. And that's because when you give him your heart, like we were just talking about, he puts those desires in your heart to develop the healthy habits that steward your body.
For him, we have to be faithful with what he has originally given us, which is the body that he knit together in our [00:18:00] mother's womb. So if we give him our heart. He's going to teach us how to be faithful with that. Yeah. Yeah. And just being faithful with the time that you have. I think people are like, well, I don't have, I know I need to be going to the gym five days a week for an hour, whatever it is, and I just don't have the time for that, so I'm just not gonna exercise.
It's like steward the little time that you have, even if it's just going on a walk for 10 minutes. That's still something that's stewarding what you have, being faithful with what you have, and the Lord can increase your capacity. We can build on that from there. Oh, and this makes me think of, oh, there's one verse in Zacharia.
I think it's Zacharia four, that says, don't despise the small beginnings because the Lord delights in just seeing the work begin. That's so good. Sweet. That really shows his character so much. Yeah, it's, yeah, we put so much pressure on ourselves to be doing all the things all the time, and it makes it such a big barrier for entry.
And then people don't do anything for their health, and that's not honoring to God [00:19:00] either, to just be doing nothing but just start small. I think that all or nothing mentality really holds people back. Oh, it for sure does. So what are some things that you do or suggest to help clients root in their belovedness root in their identity with God or be still and know that he is God and not worry so much about all of the healthy habits. A huge part of that is that rest rhythm, which is an act of restoration and reconnection.
That is your time of reconnecting with God, because if you don't take that time to slow down and pause, you are not going to hear from him and what that next step is. Most of the time I hear from clients like, oh, I don't have time to rest.
I can't Sabbath because I have too many things to do on the weekends. Like, what do you normally suggest? You know what's really interesting is, I feel like I hear that, but after our first session of [00:20:00] explaining the four rhythms. It's like God puts it in their heart to take that time of rest or eating mindfully.
And as I'm talking about this, I wonder if a big part of that is because something I've been working on as a dietician is before my sessions, not just praying for the session and that God would, , give me the words to say, but praying over their life and for just for their life rather than just the session.
I must feel like that has had such a big impact. So it's not necessarily something that I am asking them or telling them, but it's how I am using this as an opportunity to pray for them. Wow, that's good. And that keeps us as the dietician humble. We know we are just a vessel and God is gonna do what God wants to do.
And God is ultimately sovereign. We care so much about the clients that we work with. But God loves them more and he [00:21:00] always will, and he will take care of them. And I think about this too, even with family members that I have that are unbelievers. And for a long time I was taking on responsibility for their salvation as like the one Christian in my family.
And the Lord was like, you have it so backwards. You have put a burden on yourself. That was never your burden to carry. And Jesus was like, that was my cross to bear. And of course, this is all coming up Holy week. . He said , salvation is my job. Your job is just to plant the seeds and to model me and be obedient to me and just keep modeling me to them and I'll prompt you when it's the time to say something.
But just keep living for me. Abiding in me, but I will take care of saving them. And I feel like that's the same when it comes to our clients. Like the big things, the Lord will actually do that work, but we just plant seeds. We create the space we invite. And I also think too, when you're praying for clients. You're going to [00:22:00] battle for them spiritually.
Ah, war for them. And we know that this is not a battle between flesh and blood. We know that there is so much spiritual warfare when it comes to our health journeys and what a gift it is that you can actually stand in the spiritual gap and protect them from things. 'cause at least what I've found, like when clients start living and eating, stewarding their body for the glory of God, that invites so much spiritual warfare.
I think people think, oh, now that I'm eating for God, it's actually things are gonna be a lot easier. And in some senses it is, but it makes us a threat now. It actually makes us more visible to the enemy. So what a gift it is that, our clients have dieticians that are praying for them and going to battle for them.
In the spiritual realm is, I pray for my clients too, and it's. It is so necessary. 'cause there really is a lot of spiritual warfare, especially in the beginning. There really is a tension where they're trying to eat God's way and listen to God, but they feel like the enemy and culture and everything is just pulling them [00:23:00] backwards.
A verse that we can be rooted in for this is Walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh for the flesh desires. What is contrary to the spirit? The spirit. What is contrary to the flesh? They are in conflict with each other. So that you are not to do whatever you want, and I feel like the enemy can try to make us gratify the desires of the flesh, bringing us constantly back in this health journey to, well, I wanna look better, I want to be at this certain weight, I just want a meal plan so I can understand better what to do.
Things like that, that kind of take away our reliance on God and it shifts us into comfort and security in our own understanding, and the enemy wants to lure us into that because if we understand, we don't have to rely on God. There you go. And the enemy knows that apart [00:24:00] from God, we can do nothing.
So , if he can make us self-reliant, then he knows we're not gonna be able to produce anything. Nothing of value, nothing that's sustainable, nothing for the kingdom.
What's more important, how you look or inheriting the kingdom of God?
And this goes all the way back to what we were just talking about of humbling yourself before the Lord when you humble and say, I don't know how to do this.
No. Yeah, he will exalt you. Yeah, we don't have it all figured out. And again, it just comes back to pride. It's another like layer of pride. And I feel like when people start their health journey. There is so much surrender, so much vulnerability, so much humility with that. Especially if you just sign up to work with a dietician and surrender your eating to the Lord and invite him in.
But there's pride woven in the curtains of humility. There's just always deeper layers with it and there's a lot of different types of pride too, where it can show up. And the enemy can definitely lure us into that. And I love that scripture you mentioned because it says [00:25:00] that the spirit and the flesh are in conflict with one another. So there is that tension. And so you need people that are praying. You need intercession, , so that you can walk by the spirit and be rooted in that.
Now. It also says when talking about the fruits of the spirit, it also talks about everything when you're walking by the flesh, the consequences and the signs of that. And we know that, you know, prides their jealousy, envy, idolatry, but also fits of rage. And I know that that's something that you and I have talked about before.
Yeah, if it's a rage, because oftentimes we get discouraged and frustrated with this health journey because it is not turning out the way that we hoped and expected. We're not seeing the results yet, and we can begin to get angry at this health journey and relating this to what this looks like with food rules I often hear.
People get really focused on the [00:26:00] food rules and what they can't eat, then they go and eat more of that as kind of like a cheat meal
It's almost like a rebellious spirit. Like a rebellious spirit. Yeah. Yeah. It's like they're frustrated, so I'm just going to do this anyway, and I, I, you know, I've experienced that in my own life to just be completely transparent, when I was going through a lot of my gut health issues, if I ate something, and maybe it was, you know.
Accident or whatever like, and it made me really bloated and symptomatic. I would be like, well, screw it. I already feel bad. I already feel bloated, so I'm just gonna continue to eat things that I know will make me feel bloated and gross and just give me stomach upset because I know. I'm already feeling bad, so I'm just gonna make myself feel worse.
Or I felt like I had permission to eat that because I had already felt bad. So it's like, well, I'm not really gonna feel it that much because I'm already feeling bad, which is just such a horrible mindset to actively be eating things that I know are not going to benefit my body. Things that [00:27:00] the spirit has already told me that does not agree with your body.
Please, please stop getting Dairy Queen. Okay. It's just the lactose for me, like I can't do it. . Oh, and this also makes me think of when Moses hit the water out of the rock, and he did it out of frustration and impatience towards the Israelites. And he had good reason to be frustrated and have a lack of patience with the Israelites at that point.
But the Lord told him to speak to the rock, not to hit the rock. And the Lord did not withhold the blessing in the water for people, but there were consequences for Moses. And how often are we treating our bodies like that rock where God tells us in Colossians three to clothe ourselves with kindness and gentleness and patience and love, but instead we're out of anger, out of impatience, out of frustration, whacking our bodies into submission and punishing our bodies for things that , we just need to trust God for in the timing of it.
When you [00:28:00] said, God said to speak to the rock, that made me think of something. God is our rock in this health journey. When we do feel frustrated or discouraged, speak to God, who is? The rock. Yeah. And we can learn by Jesus's example in Matthew, the more he prayed to the father, he poured out his raw, honest feelings to the father.
And you notice if you look deep into it, the more he prayed, the more the father shaped his prayer into alignment with his will. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. And that's how he was able to get to a place from, Lord, take this cup from me to Lord. Let your will be done. Yep. And that's the same thing with the health journey.
We might come in with certain hopes and expectations, the more you pray about it, and if you have eyes to see and ears to hear. He will shape those prayers into alignment with [00:29:00] stewarding your body for him. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's so good. I've never thought about it that way of like, speak to the rock. Our rock is God, because then you're gonna get that godly wisdom from Proverbs three and four that's going to make your path straight, that's going to bring wellness and health to your bones and nourish your body. I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's okay to bring your frustrations, the wrong emotion. It's okay to bring that to God. And we know Jesus even did that, and he had told other people too.
I mean his closest disciples like my soul. Is troubled and I'm so distressed. I mean, in the Garden of Gethsemane, it was like he was sweating blood, he was so distressed, , about going to the cross. So, , it's okay to bring all of that to him. It's when we, like, anger isn't a sin, it's what we do with that.
And if you are harsh towards the body and then do a lot of disordered things with your [00:30:00] health towards your body. That's not honoring to God. But if you take any of that rage, that anger, that frustration, you take it to the Lord and you sort it out with him, that is an honoring thing. And he's not afraid of that.
That's actually what he wants us to be doing. So it's not bad to feel those emotions, but that should be an indicator, oh, let me bring this to God. Let me talk to the rock. So good. Yep. Yeah. Using that as an indicator.
Another thought about spiritual warfare is the battle is not against flesh and blood. It's not necessarily about the weight loss or the whatever it may be in the health journey. It is the fact that the enemy sees you relying on God for your health, and he wants to try to pull you away from that. So that is something to really look out for if you are getting frustrated in the health journey or discouraged.
Remember, it's not exactly about this. [00:31:00] It's that the enemy sees me and does not want me to be getting closer to God through stewarding my body. And he's gonna try and tempt you with all of these other things like tracking your macros or tracking your weight or. Just finding someone on Instagram that can give you a meal plan or taking a supplement or something like that, he's gonna, he's gonna try and lure you with someone, so many of these other distractions.
So we really have to be cognizant of what information we're taking in and what we do in those moments of temptation or weakness so that we don't fall into that and then go astray. . Are there other things that you see as far as spiritual warfare with the clients that you work with?
Hmm. Jealousy. Yeah. I find with jealousy, I mean, people are always comparing to other people, always comparing. And how do you think that makes God feel?
When he created us, looked at us and said that his creation was good, and we say it's not enough. Wow. He's had good, good plans for you [00:32:00] since before you were born. Yeah. He informed you and you're saying that it's not good. Yeah, and again, I think it comes back to where do we have our gaze?
Because if your gaze is on somebody else's journey, somebody else's body, we've taken our eyes off of God and the plans that he has for us, the race that he has us running in. And I don't say that where now you need to be self-absorbed and not care about anybody else. But when it comes to your own journey, I mean, you gotta stay in your lane and not compare your journey to.
Somebody else's. And also you don't know if other people are stewarding their body for the glory of God. It could be looking like that on the outside. You could see them at church on Sunday, but that doesn't mean they're actually being obedient to what the Lord has called them to for their bodies.
You could actually be comparing where you are to somebody else's bad fruit because the enemy can bless you as well. So we wanna be very wary about jealousy and envy and all of that, and just take that to the Lord and let him affirm the good plans that he has for [00:33:00] you. The Lord is trusting each of us with this task for a reason, and this task of stewarding our body could be the very thing that grows and shapes us in ways that we couldn't even imagine.
One thing that I always remind my clients of, especially since we're talking about spiritual warfare and that tension of walking by the spirit and being pulled back into, the flesh and things like that, it's important for us to remember that the work is finished.
It is the finished work of the cross and we operate from a place of victory. We don't have to be operating for it. And I think that this is such a perfect time, perfect week to remind ourselves of that, that the events of this week, which it's really cool that I think it was actually these days of the week, which is so cool.
Good Friday is on April 3rd and they actually. Think that it was April 3rd that Jesus [00:34:00] actually died on the cross, which is super cool. Um, that we are just operating from a place of victory and that it is one, it is the finished work of the cross.
I know that the Lord revealed something big to you this morning before we started recording.
Praise God. , What an amazing Holy Week revelation. So, yeah, let us know what that, what that is. I'm like super curious. I know. Okay. It was actually yesterday, Sunday morning and it was before church. Sometimes he reveals this stuff to me and it's like, oh my goodness, I'm speechless and in awe, what was happening was I was reading in Proverbs, like we were No, no I was not.
I was reading, this is what's even more crazy. I was reading in whatever I'm reading now, it was second Peter, i'm journaling on second Peter three. It was talking about how the scoffers will say that Jesus return will never happen, but they deliberately forget that long ago by [00:35:00] God's word, highlight that by God's word, the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water by water. So that's what took me to the beginning of creation, the beginning of Genesis,
in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters and God said, let there be light. And there was light.
. So we see the first thing God said when he noticed that the earth was formless and empty and there were darkness over it. He said, let there be light. And there was like, he spoke that into existence. God saw that the light was good and he separated the light from the darkness.
Mm-hmm. If you keep going to each of these days of his creation, [00:36:00] it always ends with, and there is evening and there is morning, the blank day, whatever day it was. On each day of creation, it keeps going back to God's original work of let there be light. And this light is what separated the light from the darkness.
Jesus is the light of the world. Now., Jesus has finished work on the cross. Goes all the way back to God's original work of let there be light. And that is what separated the light from the darkness. And it is through Jesus and his finished work on the cross that we have been pulled out of darkness and into his light.
Wow. Wow. By God's word and Jesus is the word. Yes. And we have [00:37:00] access to, to this word, the word every single day. And not only do we have access to his word, but he's speaking his word in us. We have the Holy Spirit in us, and this is the same spirit that created the heavens and the earth by his ward. Wow.
Girl chills right now. That is a huge revelation and connection, and what's sticking out for me is just the word set apart. He separated the light from the dark. We are set apart with Jesus in the light. Mm-hmm. . And I think when people remember that, they won't feel yes, even though there's spiritual warfare, they won't feel that there's that much of a tension because they're like, oh, I'm with the light now.
Yeah, the est may be trying to, , take me out, , but I'm secure in the light. It's the finished work of the cross. It is. It is done. It is finished. The battle is one. And first John says, God is light [00:38:00] in him. There is no darkness at all. Amen. And we are in him. Yeah. And our job is to abide. So like what is your, to-do list?
What do you do today? Abide. Because when you abide, you will bear fruit. He will order your steps. He will make your path straight. He'll give you the wisdom that you need that's going to bring health to your whole body, nourishment to your body, health to your bones. Everything that it says in Proverbs. So we just have to focus on abiding
And back to the wisdom. By wisdom, the Lord laid the earth's foundations by understanding. He set the heavens in place by his knowledge. The watery depths were divided, and the clouds that drop the do. Amen. That's the beginning of Proverbs three. Yep.
All the way back to Proverbs three, what we started out with and his wisdom, his understanding, his knowledge are all his word. Amen. And it's so cool because you and I met, we outlined the episode, here's what we're gonna talk [00:39:00] about, and God's like, this is what you're gonna talk about. And he just cracked everything open and like connects everything with just the tidiest bow.
Wow. Yep. Praise. Okay. Also, when you said how we met, did I ever tell you how I knew about you? No. This goes back to the beginning of my whole like work testimony. My first job when I was like, God needs to be in this, something major is missing and it's God my coworker showed me your account. Oh, because I shadowed one of her sessions where her client started talking about God, and that opened my eyes.
I was like, wait, this is something I wanna do. And she showed me your Instagram and now we're here. Oh my goodness. That's amazing. Aw. Wow. Wow. That is so cool. There is a growing [00:40:00] community of Christian dieticians and what I see in the Christian dietician community is that there is more in the last year, especially more of a boldness with sharing.
Like they're more apt to share their faith more apt to ask about it in sessions.
And I'm so happy that you have really stepped into that because there's such a need and it's really serving people. As soon as my business became faith-based, people were getting delivered left and right. So much fruit, like radical, changes and transformation. So much freedom and healing, and just finally breaking through those. Those barriers that I saw with clients before where they had improved body image a little bit, but there was still something, I don't really know how to describe it more than that, but, oh my gosh.
There is such a difference to faith-based counseling because it is the spirit of the living God. You know what the answer is? That verse that we talked about in the beginning. If [00:41:00] what you are doing is for God. It's not gonna fail. There you go. There you go.
And I feel like I needed that encouragement in my business too today. Yeah. Because I know that like this is all for the glory of God. This show is for the glory of God. And it's hard sometimes to like look at downloads or look at followers or look at likes and you know, get discouraged, but it's like, oh, that's all worldly success.
But I know that this will be successful for the eyes of God because this is for the glory of God. Mm-hmm. And he has called me to this and he's called you to this. So I know that your practice will be successful as well. Thank you so much. . All Gods people said, amen. Amen. Awesome.
Well, where can people find you? All the things made for more wellness. Instagram, TikTok made for more underscore wellness. I'm also on Facebook. It's just made for more wellness.
Yay. I love it. Awesome, Eddie. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show today and just sharing all of your wisdom and just thank you for your obedience. And just being so sensitive to the spirit of God to be able to share all of that. I mean, that [00:42:00] was a huge revelation and I just pray that this blesses people.
Yeah. You as well. Yay. Thank you, girl. Love you. Thank you.
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