Inspiration

Here are some verses that I'm using to persevere in my journey to get healthy in mind, body and soul. :) Hopefully they inspire you too.  The different versions of very familiar verses really help to make them personal to me.

~"No test or temptation that comes my way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will NEVER let you down. He'll never let you be pushed past your limit, he'll always be there to help you come through it." 1 Cor. 10:13 (MSG)   (He'll provide a way out!) 

~"I do not regard myself as having laid hold of "it" yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on to the goal for the prize...I'm off and running & I'm not looking back." Phil 3:13-14 (NASB/MSG)

~"Just because something is technically legal doesn't mean it's spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I'd be a slave to my own whims. I must not become (mastered) a slave to anything. 1 Cor. 6:12 (MSG/NLT)

~"ALL THINGS are possible to those who believe." Mark 9:23b

~"An appetite for good brings much satisfaction, but the belly of the wicked ALWAYS wants MORE." Prov. 13:25 (MSG)

~"I know the One in whom I trust and I am sure that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until the day of day of his return." 2 Tim. 1:12b

~"So now there is NO condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to Him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has FREED you from the power of sin which leads to death." Rom. 8:1-2 (NLT)

~"We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." 2 Cor. 10:5 (NIV)

~"Why do you spend your money on junk food, your hard-earned cash on cotton-candy. Listen to me, listen well: Eat only the best, fill yourself with only the finest. Is. 55:2b (MSG) The NLT says, "Why do you spend your money on food that does not give you strength."

~"Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32 (MSG)

~"Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body." 1 Cor. 6:19-20 (MSG)

~"My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness." Gal. 5:16 (MSG) The NLT says, "So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves."

~"Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The devil is poised to pounce and would like nothing better than to catch you napping." 1 Pet 5:8 (MSG)

~"Search me O God and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything that offends You and lead me along the path of everlasting life." Ps. 139:23-24 (NLT)

~"God can do anything, you know-far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it, not by pushing us around but by working within us, His Spirit deeply and gently within us." Eph 3:20 (MSG)

~"So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life-your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking-around life- and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him." Rom 12:1 (MSG)

~" I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; With singing lips my mouth will praise You." Psalm 63:5 (NIV)

~"A hostile world! I call to God to help me. From his palace he hears my call; My cry brings me right into His presence- A private audience." Psalm 18:6 (MSG)

~" I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Phil 4:12-13 (NLT/NASB)