How can you win over a bad habit (especially if you don’t have a Dr. She managed to win, only because her doctor husband came home from a late night shift and – ate the cake! Later that night, she snuck down and her struggle with getting the cake and resisting it was truly comic. One small piece was left which she reluctantly put in the refrigerator. Making a cake for the family’s dinner, Donna salivated as her kids ate three pieces each, and her husband, also had a big share in front of her. She started trying to exercise the extra pounds away, but her husband suggested, “Why not just stop eating candy and desserts for a month?” In this episode, Donna (Stone) realized a favorite dress was too tight.
#STRONGHOLD 2 CHEATS PATH OF PEACE TV#
I just happened to see a very old tv sitcom – the Donna Reed show. For a long time, I’ve excused myself, “I’ll never be able to lose that! Why, I have 5 grandkids! I’m older, therefore, it’s just too hard.” No, I am not grossly overweight, but I have about 15 pounds of unneeded weight. I recognize that food has been a stronghold for me. Your eyes are on IT for relief, and not God. The worst of it is, a stronghold is often something that you have put in the place of God – something to soothe or satisfy yourself. A stuck place like this is a prison, not a fortress of protection. You can’t seem to stop it – whether it is daily drinking like my friend so honestly spoke about, overeating, spending money you don’t have, yelling at your kids too easily. Maybe you worry…What is that one weakness, bad habit, or rotten attitude ?”Ī spiritual stronghold, a stronghold of the mind, is a habit or an attitude that is entrenched in you, around you. He starts with two questions, “Does one prevailing problem stalk your life? Where does Satan have a hook in you?” And then he says, “Some are prone to cheat. I love how Max Lucado frames it in his article on strongholds. However, there’s also a negative meaning to the word stronghold. “The LORD is the stronghold of my life – of whom shall I be afraid?” says Psalm 27:1 NIV However… God is even called a stronghold, or a fortress in whom we can hide: So, there’s a positive meaning to “stronghold.” It’s a massive structure in which you can be protected. I was amazed when I went to Old Jerusalem and walked up on top of the city walls around it with several friends side by side – the wall around the ancient city is that wide. The main definition of a stronghold actually is a high-walled fort. Natalie Regoli, an author on the Connect Us website, says there are 70 mentions of the word stronghold in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.Ī lot of these mentions are literally about fortresses, forts, and fortified cities with big gates and huge, thick walls. I hated that saying no to drinking felt like I would be saying no to living life fully.” “What is a stronghold?” someone might ask. She described her daily habit of drinking alcohol and said, a few paragraphs later, “I hated that…I couldn’t quit…I wasn’t strong enough to just forget about it. “One year ago tonight I had my last drink,” were the first words in my friend Tonya’s post.
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