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Have you ever started a weight loss program with great enthusiasm - only to lose focus and regain the weight you lost? Kimberly Taylor's 7-day devotional helps you begin to think like a weight loss success story. Once 240 pounds and a size 22, Kim lost 85 pounds through God's power. Use these encouraging scriptures to help you reach your ideal weight - and maintain it for life.

This 7-day devotional teaches you essential spiritual truths about your weight loss journey in simple, easy to digest daily readings and exercises and light-hearted humorous videos. It shows you the patterns that have kept you in bondage and the biblical truths that will set you free. It will shift your perspective and focus so weight loss becomes a celebration of who you are in Christ.

Let go of what weighs you down and let God carry it. This five-day plan will help you know how.

In the glorious and in tragedy, God is there wishing to carry our hearts, to show us the beauty of a love that never dies. Release your burdens, your troubles, your worries and discomfort  to Him and allow Him to restore all the broken, untouched places in your heart. With this five-day plan via Rush from Gather Ministries make the decision to believe in hope again. 

Waiting sucks! Although we may all be waiting for something different, the waiting game still feels the same. Feelings like disappointment, discouragement, and anxiety can chip away at happiness and our confidence in God. In The Game of Life Devotional, Dacía James Lewis uses her favorite childhood games and biblical principles to offer encouragement and guidance in releasing the weight of the wait.

Imagine what it would have been like to learn about God directly from Jesus! That’s what Ancora Kids will be doing in this three-day plan about Jesus’ first friends. On the shore, in the boat and back to land again: it’s always an adventure to be with Jesus! The plan complements the free children’s game app Guardians of Ancora.

Losing a loved one to addiction brings a range of emotions, from shame to regret to agonizing sorrow. This plan will help you process your grief and move forward on the journey of healing and restoration. (Plan written and developed by Kris Darrah and Amy LaRue of Hope After Loss, a ministry of Hope is Alive.)

Countless Christian women struggle to have a balanced relationship with food and maintain a healthy weight. Former emotional eater and bulimic, Danna Demetre, author of Eat Live Thrive Diet, understands the battle and shares five spiritual perspectives that helped her gain lasting victory, vibrant health, and permanent weight loss.

Adapted from an eight-week faith and fitness Bible study by Alisa Keeton, The Wellness Revelation 40-Day Journey offers daily devotions on eight topics essential to true and lasting weight loss. A journey to wellness isn’t just focused on what you eat or how many pounds you weigh, but the “weight” that keeps you from living an abundant life in Christ.

You may have heard people talking about bodily transformations— through weight loss programs, diets, or crazy exercise. But did you know that God wants us to transform our minds? When we choose to trust in Jesus, we become brand-new people. What does it mean for God to transform us and how does it happen?

You’ll develop the spiritual and practical focus necessary to achieve your weight loss goals by learning how to plan properly. You’ll discover the planning tools that every successful goal-getter must have to accomplish all that God has for you. We will be focusing on your health goals, but it will spill over into all other areas of your life.

I have a secret - Diets don’t work! But the good news – I can show you what does! I’ve worked in fitness for 36 years and am convinced that lasting, healthy changes can only be accomplished with the help of our heavenly Father. This 5-day program will share the ABCs of healthy living and everyday practical weight loss tips that will make an impact on your healthy future.

When we don’t reach our fitness and weight loss goals, we often think we need to eat less and exercise more. From my 38 years in the fitness industry, I’ve found that what is keeping so many from succeeding isn’t solely about exercise and food but about something much bigger. In this 5-day plan, I am excited to share that missing piece with you and how you incorporate it into your health plan so you can find success, joy, and freedom.  

For many, thoughts of food and weight are all-consuming; either we’re thinking about what to eat or planning our next diet. If you’ve ever felt hopeless or out-of-control with food, join author Shellie Bowdoin as she opens the Scripture to reveal the path to freedom over food; one that leads to new thinking, doable habits and sustainable change. This reading plan is adapted from Find Your Weigh: Walk in Freedom.

The Get Active Devotional and Challenge offers you daily devotions to inspire you to get active. It is based on John 5:1-8, where Jesus tells the man at the pool to “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” Be encouraged as you RISE and get active.

Whether it's a full blown sugar addiction or you just love sweets, this devotional will guide you in detoxing your body from sugar and your mind from its toxic thoughts while nourishing your spirit with the Word of God. I pray that this is the kickstart you need to help you regain control of your health and weight.

We waste so much time trying to lose weight, but we keep putting it back on. We think it's as simple as saying, "I lack discipline, therefore if I work on my discipline, then I'm good. Or, I just need to work on my self-control. However, those are just band-aid solutions. There's a deeper reason you keep yo-yo dieting--that's what you will discover in the devotional.

Food is not the enemy! It's a gift from God and the sooner we can accept this truth and fix our focus, the sooner we will be free from the bondage of food. In this devotion, you'll discover that what you're really craving is something a lot more satisfying than food and a lot more delicious and nutritious, for not only your body, but also for your soul and spirit.

As you experience this busy Christmas season, give yourself the gift of receiving God’s gift of love every day! As we learn to give and receive God's love, all the other cares of this world will fall away. These short devotions help prepare our hearts to truly enjoy the best Christmas gift ever - the Love of Jesus!

Boundaries are Blessings will show you exactly why you have not been able to stick to your plan in the past. This course will provide you with a clear roadmap by laying out how you can create boundaries around your eating, exercising, and rest so you can achieve your health and weight release goals.

You know you want to be healthier and lose weight. And you know that prayer works. You're just not sure how to bring these two things together. If you desire to lose weight by relying on the power of prayer, this devotional is for you. I'm so glad that you have decided to join us for this sample of the Praying for Your Health Challenge.

Research shows only 20 percent of people set goals, and only eight percent achieve them. If you have been on the other side of those statistics, there is no better time than now for a change! Join MCWEN founder Andrena Sawyer for this 5-day devotional with biblical principles to help you improve your chances of success with your goals this year.

Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this life-transforming devotional. Run your race. Let the burdens of the past go. Let the weight of the past go. Cast your cares to Him. Lay aside every weight that can so easily distract you. Every weight was meant to slow you down. Cast the weight. Be determined to shed the weight. Let God lead your heart as you read this transformative devotional.

Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this burden lifting devotional. Let God transform your heart as you cast your burdens to Him daily. Don’t hold on to the weight of the past. Choose not to be entangled by the sin of the past. Choose Christ. Let every burden, weight and worry go — God will lift you up out of the pit of despair.

Have you tried all the things yet still struggle with your body image? Author Heather Creekmore will take you on a journey to look at body image issues through the lens of Scripture. She’ll help you see your image issues differently and find a path to freedom through God’s Truth instead of culture’s ever-changing recommendations for a better body.