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Episode 026\\u2014Peace Amidst Confusion

I think the state I am currently living in is the state of confusion. If you are like me, I don\\u2019t do well in confusion. I like to be decisive, to make a decision and stick to it. But these days no one wants to make a decision that goes past tomorrow at the most. We feel like we can\\u2019t plan for the future so we are living in this never-never land of being perpetually on hold with most everything. That really goes against my nature so there is turmoil and confusion rolling around inside me.\\xa0

Confusion means having a lack of understanding, uncertainty, a breakdown of order, doubt, skepticism, indecision, perplexity, upheaval and a general feeling that everything is a giant disorderly jumbled up mess.

Paul tells us in 1 Cor 14:33 that God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. I\\u2019ve known this to be true in my life. When confusion hits, that means God is not in that decision or choice.\\xa0 So, how do we even know that we are in confusion instead of peace and how can we find peace in the midst of these topsy-turvy times?

For 20 years we took care of mentally challenged foster teens and young adults. To say they lived in confusion is an understatement. Each one we took care of had different diagnoses and issues. But one of the biggest things each of them had was a tendency to misuse food.\\xa0

One of our foster sons tried to eat everything in sight even if it made him sick.\\xa0 Several foster daughters would carry off bags of chips or cookies or anything they could find to their room and eat them in the middle of the night. However trying to eat away their confusion and turmoil never worked for them and it won\\u2019t work for us either

I have a feeling there are many who are trying to do some of these same things. Like my foster son you are trying to hoard food and other items that for some odd reason you think you can\\u2019t do without. If this crisis had happened when I was super morbidly obese, I\\u2019d be freaking out. I couldn\\u2019t let there be any vacant space in my pantry, refrigerator or freezer because I didn\\u2019t want to chance being without food. To me that would have been the worst thing in the world.

Some of you are like the foster daughters I had and are sneaking food so others can\\u2019t see what you\\u2019re doing. Not that they would care, but if they did see you then you\\u2019d have to be accountable for what you are eating.

It\\u2019s interesting to me that we don\\u2019t want others to see what we are doing, but what we are doing will eventually show up on the scales anyway. Why do we play this game of if no one sees me eat it then it doesn\\u2019t count? The biggest thing we have to learn on the journey to healthy living is personal accountability first to ourselves and then to God. We cannot be accountable to God if we are constantly lying to ourselves.

Lying to ourselves means we aren\\u2019t keeping track of what we are eating. It\\u2019s like if we don\\u2019t know how many calories we are eating in a day then we don\\u2019t have to worry about it. And if we don\\u2019t step on the scales then our weight will just magically stay the same.

There are many things that we like to bury our heads in the sand about and pretend they will just go away. For many years I would pray that God would just magically remove the weight from my body without any effort on my part.

What I learned is God will do His part, but only when I surrender my right to eat whatever I want whenever I want it. I have to be willing to surrender the foods that are making me unhealthy. When I finally made that commitment, God led me on the wildest journey to transformation ever and all at the courtesy of His matchless, powerful grace. He will do the same for you.

In this podcast I continue to talk about how to discover God\\u2019s peace by going through Romans 7:19-Romans 8:4 TPT. I also talk about 3 John 2 AMP and Philippians 4:6-7 TPT. Be prepared for some deep revelations and personal challenges.

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