The Good Way Ministries, Eat Breath & Pray Journal

All too often I see believers struggling with the admonition we find throughout scripture, to rejoice always, and I believe the reason for this has to do with the fact that we know longer understand what this word really means. Joy, Enjoy and Rejoice have all been reduced to feelings associate with being happy, or pleasure; so how can we rejoice when we’re feeling stressed or grieving; how can we enjoy life, when things are going wrong and times are tough; how can we be joyful, when we are full of anxiety, stress and grief? And what sort of God expects that of us? And all too often when we seek the answer to these questions, we’re told to just “fake it until you make!”

Today we’re going to look at Joy, Enjoy, and Rejoice, and dig a little into their origins and meanings so that our perception of the admonition to rejoice always, goes from 'feeling Happy, glad or delighted always'. To 'being full of the source of pleasure and happiness and being able to use or benefit form it always'. And I’m going to give you 4 steps to finding Joy, knowing it’s uses and benefits, and how to infuse it into your daily life.

What Does the Bible Say About Rejoice In The Lord?

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 Have you ever tried to change up your eating, the make it healthier, but find yourself falling back into cooking the foods you’re used to, your old favourites, because they’re familiar and satisfying? Or because your family doesn’t want to try new things? Well toady I’m going to let you know how you can change things up, how you can take your dishes from familiar, satisfying and delicious; to healthy, life giving, and delicious, without taking away from their familiarity and satisfaction. I’m going to give you some simple swaps and blessing bombs that you can apply to any meal to take it to the next level

Over and over I see people trying to loose weight or get healthy, trying different diets or meal plans, and having some success, but not seeing lasting change, because inevitably they go back to eating the way they used to, to the familiar. We are creatures of habit, we are drawn to the familiar. Yes we can break old habits, and create new ones, but that is hard work , and often not successful.

So let’s try something different, let’s start by introducing something new into the familiar, make a simple ingredient swap that makes our old favourite just a little healthier, add some blessing filled ingredients to take the life giving benefits of that meal up a notch. And as we do so, bit by bit, our old familiar favourites will be transformed. They will still be our old favourites but they will have become blessing filled Super foods, that will provide health and wellness to our bodies.

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Here are some recipes for you to try:

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0a2xwPmjP8PkbUcoGkWCYESuA#Comfort_Food_Recipes

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Today we’re diving into comfort food, and who doesn’t love to do that! Sometimes, we need to feed our soul, rather than our body, sometimes we just need something sweet and creamy, or salty; sometimes we need something chocolatey; or that food that takes us right back to when we were young, to that safe place where the world was full of wonder. Sometimes our emotional health needs to take precedent over our physical health. 

Comfort Food means something different to all of us, it can be personal, familial, and cultural. But one thing it usually is for all of us is high calorie, high fat, high sugar and/or salt. But let’s face it life would be pretty miserable without it. And this can be a source of conflict, anxiety or guilt for those of us who are trying to eat for blessing a benefit, who are looking to loose weight, or take control of our emotional eating.

Today I’m going to give you the tools you need to transform your favourite comfort foods into blessing filled super foods, that will provide health and wellness to your body as well as your soul, by defining what your comfort food is, looking at the food addictions that may be in play and how to deal with them, and giving you ingredient swaps and recipe hacks that will transform your comfort food.

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 To keep tack of the types of foods your eating, why you're eating them and the effect they’re having on your body, mind and emotions you can down load The Good Way Food Tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vVKD6vxtJ8hvZzyebjMXH2dt_0HunVY_JqeLcxyyrbk/edit?usp=sharing

Did you know that you can choose blessing? Well I’m here to tell you that you can! Today I’m going to share with you a secret from the word of God, that most believer’s are unaware of; today I’m going to share with you how you can know which foods carry the blessing of God, and give life and benefit to your body, so that you can choose God’s blessing even in the food you eat. And as an added bonus, I’ll be sharing recipes for 3 easy, delicious, plant-based, comfort food, meals with you + a bonus, guilt free dessert recipe.

I used to use food as a form of comfort, but also as a way of beating myself up, because of how I felt about myself; but that was never what God intended for me. God’s desire and intent is that the food we eat is a blessing to us and brings life, healing and length of days.

So you can choose to walk in blessing, or you can choose not to.  You get to choose to eat differently, to eat foods that God gave as a blessing, and receive the health and wellness benefits in your body.

But the choice is yours.   

Here are the recipes for 3 easy, delicious, plant-based, comfort food, meals + a bonus, guilt free dessert recipe.

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0a2dGYzu5QTlC9J4stW0QMP0g#Comfort_Food_Recipes

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there’s a meme gong around on social media that says, “You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy, or fake”? Like many things that are said in jest, there is an ocean of truth behind this saying. We live in a society where what was once eaten only on special occasions like birthdays, vacations, or celebrations is now our staple diet. Where the foods we predominantly eat are fast foods, junk foods, or convenience foods. And then we wonder why we feel sick, depressed, fatigued, and inflamed. In this episode we’re going to look at the relationship between the food we eat, how it’s grown and processed, and our physical and emotional health and wellbeing.

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Have you ever found yourself at the bottom of a tub of ice cream, or packet of chips, and wondered how you got there; or found yourself eating whatever is in front of you, because you know you need to eat something, but don’t have the time or energy to make yourself a “proper” meal.  Do you find yourself, at 2:30 in the afternoon, realising that you haven’t eaten yet, and grabbing a candy bar , or protein bar, to tie you over until you can eat a meal, which ends up being drive-thru fast-food on the way home because you’re too hungry and tired to wait til you get there. I know I have! Guilty on all counts!

In this episode I’ll be sharing with you 4 keys to help you move from mindless eating, in all it’s forms binge eating, emotional eating, comfort eating, or fuelling, to eating for blessing and benefit.

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As I’ve met with believers, right across the globe, from many different churches, and walks of life the thing I’ve been astounded and dismayed by is how many of God’s people are dealing with illness, disease, and debilitating conditions; and how many of these conditions could be minimised, controlled or even removed from their lives, through very achievable lifestyle and dietary changes.

Today I’m going to give you 5 practical steps that you can start to use right away to reclaim your health, and grow your wellness; we’ll be looking at: Food and water, Movement, Reconnecting with nature, Fasting and prayer, and Rest.

I know what it’s like to feel constantly sick and tired, to deal with infections, allergies and sensitivities to common everyday things, and the interesting thing is that when I found what worked it wasn't  treating my symptoms, but rebuilding my bodies ability to heal itself. So let’s get stuck in and look at the five ways that you can do that too.

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Let me ask you another question; Why aren’t we walking in the fulness of the reality that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the living God that raised Jesus from the dead, dwells in us? 

Why aren’t we seeing people healed as we pass by?

Why aren’t we seeing Pubs being turned into places of worship and hospitals being emptied by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The answer is this; The problem is not with the gift, with what we’ve been given, the problem is with our mindset, the paradigm that we live and think and function within, the paradigm of this fast paced, consumer society that has divorced us from our intimate relationship with the food we eat, the natural world around us, and God and each other.

Bit for most of us, we need to take things one step at a time; and that’s where the journey back to Eden comes in, and why it’s important. 

We need to get back to Eden not because it’s the final destination, but because it’s a milestone along the way to the fullness of the kingdom reality that is our birthright in Christ.

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God wants us to live from a place of His abundance, but we can only do that by positioning ourselves to receive, by showing ourselves faithful to God and His purpose and plan for us, through consistently, day by day, and moment by moment, living by His principles that He has set out in scripture.

We never lose by giving our all to God, He will always out give us.

 When we step out of that place, no longer positioning ourselves to receive what God has for us, He calls to us, reminds us that we need to keep ourselves positioned to receive, but if we continue ignore the nudges of the Spirit, and continue in our own strength we will eventually start to see the lack.

But the moment we recognize that we are not where we need to be, we can realign ourselves. Get back on track.

 And this is what The Good Way is all about.

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