Weight loss revelation.

Romans. Wow. I can HARDLY get through a chapter.

Every verse is life giving. Every verse deepens my faith.

This is where my "power of the spirit scripture" came from; Romans. And I can see why! In Romans 6, I learned everything I needed to learn about •heart obedience.•

Heart obedience is the difference maker when it comes to crucifying the flesh in order to be led in the spirit even in weight loss.  Romans 6:12-13, “Do not let sin control the way you live. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin.”

••••AN INSTRUMENT OF EVIL.••••

Wow. For so long I didn’t even realize that I didn’t even know what •sin• really was. I always defined sin as “doing wrong”, but realizing that it is also •not doing right•; freed me. Freed me from bread. Wine. Nachos. Pasta. Rice. Crème Brûlée.

None of those things were BAD. I was just a slave to them because I didn’t have heart obedience. I didn’t have any idea that I was practicing being led by my sinful nature. The nature within me that mastered my every thought. My sinful nature had me convinced that I needed to do whatever my flesh felt compelled to do. When I was stressed, I drank wine. When I was hungry, I ate whatever was available to me, despite any commitments I had made to change my life physically. I was a slave to my sinful nature. I didn’t know that I had a choice to be mastere