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Praise God!� Praise You, God!� I do not know if you are
like me, but I am so excited this morning!� No matter how bad your week has been or how
tough your day has been already, are you not glad that you are alive and that you have
your fingers, your toes, your health, and you can breathe?� So praise God!� Praise
God that we are alive today, and that is a lot.� I want to let you know that you are
watching �You Can Overcome� through Remnant Fellowship TV.� Today�s topic is �Recipes
for Weight Loss,� and if you are the first time with Weigh Down Ministries, we are the
oldest faith-based original weight loss ministry that is teaching you how to turn to God instead
of turning to food, and filling up with God.� There have been many copies out there; I see
them all the time, but they got it from here, and from here are the testimonies, and God
has given us much fruit here, and I praise God for that.
����������� So the principles that are taught here apply to any unwanted
addictions � drugs, alcohol, and tobacco as well as emotional strongholds like anger
or rage, envy, depression, ***.� Lusts of any kind can be eradicated so that
you (guess what?) can float, feel light and not feel down.� Nothing gets you down.�
You can have a whole new life.� ����������� I want to
let you know that greed...� I have been following this forever since Weigh Down started
thirty years ago.� Greed for self and selfishness, self-centeredness, is the biggest deterrent
to living a godly life.� It is the biggest roadblock to walking behind the footsteps
of Jesus Christ, and Weigh Down Ministries is dedicated to helping you and to helping
all the people.� I do not care what your background is.� In fact, I want to say another
shout out to the gal in South Africa who was looking for a book.� We are sending you
a book.� I do not care where you are, if you cannot get the materials, we will get
it to you, no matter who you are or what you have been through, to see that you have a
choice through Jesus Christ, that you can overcome.� And you can have a whole new
life, just like all these testimonies you have been seeing.�
����������� Now, I want to, though, acknowledge that there is a war
for your soul.� You are a prize to be won, and there are forces that would have you enslaved,
lies that hold your mind back.� The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans chapter 12, and let me
get this for you and start this day off right with a scripture here from the Apostle Paul.�
He said in verse 1:� �
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God�s mercy, to offer your bodies as living
sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God�this is your spiritual act of worship.� (Now
listen to this!)� Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind.� (The renewing of your mind!)� Then you will be able to
test and approve what God�s will is�his good, pleasing and perfect will.�
����������� Today we are going to spend a little time on physical
recipes, but it is recipes for the soul that we are going to talk about, and you can start
over.� We are going to do it today.� We are going to get in there, and we are going
to eat less food, and we are going to get it right for God and go through the suffering
that He has called us to.� So to start with, right now I want to introduce our co-host,
Candace Anger.� Give her a hand for joining me.� Come on up sweet, dear sister.� I
love you so much for your energy and everything! ����������� CANDACE:�
This is a blast!� Well, I have today�s tech tip, so okay, this is very exciting!�
Well, first of all, we love all the comments that are coming back and emails that are coming
in about spiritual things.� We also want to know, will you please email or comment
if your video drops out or if you are having any tech problems.� Just let us know how
it is going.� As you are watching this, let us know how it is going, and then if you
are watching today and your video drops out but they can still hear the audio, the tech
guys are saying to just wait for about twenty seconds, and that video should pop back up.�
For some reason if the video does not pop back up, they are saying just hit the refresh
button.� So just hit the refresh button.� So it should be fine.� Just do not give
up!� ����������� GWEN:�
Don�t give up!� ����������� CANDACE:�
Yeah!� ����������� GWEN:�
The tech guys were explaining yesterday that the computer is trying to connect you.�
Instead of you putting high, medium or slow speed on and choosing for yourself, that the
computer is, and sometimes it will just kick it out, but the audio should keep going.�
Hang in there, and in twenty seconds if it does not come on, just start it over.� You
will get it back.� Or after the show, ten minutes later literally, watch it again, and
I recommend that.� It will be on remnantfellowship.tv.� Thank you very much.
����������� CANDACE:� I love that you are doing the show today,
because now I can go back and watch the show all week, getting myself ready up till Thursday.
����������� GWEN:� Watch this before you eat your Thanksgiving
meal.� It will help.� So okay, let�s go over some of the correspondence that is
going on. ����������� CANDACE:�
Definitely!� Oh my goodness!� I would say last week, well it just changed my life
as far as getting off a plateau.� There were so many people out there who it really,
really changed; so can I read a couple of these?
����������� GWEN:� Please read them.
����������� CANDACE:� Okay.� This is very exciting, so okay, well
Michelle from Facebook lost four pounds so far this week.� She says it is truly exciting
and that she is just feeling good and staying focused.� Demetria from Facebook is now
down twenty-two pounds since starting Weigh Down.� She said finally she reached her
wedding weight, so now she is going for her weight when she was in her twenties.� God
is awesome, she says.� ����������� Now there
are a lot of these from Facebook.� Debbie from Facebook says, �I am celebrating and
praising God for a breakthrough on Friday.� I really feel like God has taken control of
my eating, not having as much of a struggle waiting and stopping.� I know the testing
in the desert isn�t completely passed, but with my focus completely on Him, He will get
me through this.� ����������� GWEN:�
Absolutely!� Debbie, just keep going for it!�
����������� CANDACE:� One thing I love about Facebook, too, is there
are so many people there on Facebook who are just going after this that if they want to
share it with a friend, I mean, you think that there are three thousand people on Facebook
coming to Weigh Down, and if they share it, imagine six thousand people having the pure,
meek... ����������� GWEN:�
Well I believe that God blesses you with your weight loss when you reach out.� I can tell
you that probably the number one reason that I kept going was because I kept reaching out,
and I did not want to be a hypocrite.� So there is something about that God forces you
into reaching out and not just trying to do this on your own but reaching out and helping
others, and then at the same time it helps you.
����������� CANDACE:� I love it.
����������� GWEN:� It works!
����������� CANDACE:� You have always said it gets you off yourself,
and this is a beautiful thing.� Joanna from Facebook said, �I praise the Lord today
for twenty pounds lost so far in just one month.� The Lord has been graciously faithful
to me as I am obedient to Him, listening for that awaited growl and giving Him the glory
for the victories won.� I have a �praise the Lord� party every morning!�
����������� GWEN:� Oh, that is beautiful!� I am joining you.�
I am there too.� It is every morning.� I guess every morning I get up and it is new
every morning, but I still just cannot get over God�s attentiveness.� I cannot get
over this relationship.� I cannot get over that we are able to any of us talk to Him
at all and be alive.� So I have a party every morning too, Joanna.
����������� CANDACE:� Sherry, also from Facebook:� �The You
Can Overcome� talk show has been such a blessing.� I have broken through my plateau
and am so excited, not only for that, but now my husband is doing this with me, and
that is an answer to prayer.� ����������� GWEN:�
That is awesome!� Thank you.� But how many...� I mean, I know that there are a
lot.� Let�s do one or two more.� ����������� CANDACE:�
Okay. ����������� GWEN:�
I just praise God for all this, because honestly it was more than we could count.� The show
is doing something; it is worth you staying tuned.�
����������� CANDACE:� Well, there are a couple of specific testimonies
where people are really staying focused during the travel times or during these holiday times.�
So there are two here.� Theresa on Facebook said, �We had our Thanksgiving dinner this
evening, and I do believe it was the first time ever that I did not stuff myself and
only ate very little.� It was amazing to fly above the pull, and I am so thankful.�
����������� GWEN:� One success story.� Somebody has already
celebrated their Thanksgiving; that�s good! ����������� CANDACE:�
Katie traveled.� She said, �Thank You God and Gwen for this program.� Four days
in New York City, and I obeyed hunger and fullness, and my little plateau broke too.�
Now I am fifty-six pounds down.�� ����������� GWEN:�
Who is that?� ����������� CANDACE:�
That is Katie on Facebook. ����������� GWEN:�
Oh, goodness, Katie, that is so exciting!� ����������� CANDACE:�
Then Lisa from Tennessee:� �Praise God, I have lost eleven pounds since the show last
week.�� Eleven pounds since the plateau lesson!� �Romans opened my heart and gave
me understanding of my stumbling block. ����������� GWEN:�
Okay, then we are sisters, because Lisa, Romans is what did it for me when I kept going, �God,
are You sure?�� Everybody keeps saying you do not have to obey.� Everybody keeps
saying that, and the fact is that scripture is what totally not only showed me that is
exactly what God wants, but how to do it.� So praise God for that!�
����������� CANDACE:� That is beautiful!� Well, there are many,
many more. ����������� GWEN:�
Okay, well why don�t we tell them about staying tuned, because there is a give-away
at the end.� We don�t have to tell them what it is...
����������� CANDACE:� Okay, you have to stay on to the end, but
we do have a very wonderful three-step plan to get you through the next two months.�
You are going to have no worries.� And we have some special for that too, so if you
stay on to the end you can take advantage of those, today and this week, so we are very
excited about that. ����������� GWEN:�
I like surprises. ����������� CANDACE:�
Me too! ����������� GWEN:�
I like surprises.� Okay, so Candace is going to be here today to take your questions.�
Please send your questions in about any kind of cooking for your family or being around
food, exposed to food, how to avoid these temptations and get through this season of
days that the world calls holidays.� I call them �holy days,� because that was the
original term.� Holiday puts it into something where you get to binge, and �holy day�
means the day is about God, not about you.� So we are entering into the celebration of
Christ and other things that people celebrate, but today�s topic is that.� It is weight
loss.� It is �recipes for weight loss� instead of recipes for weight gain.� All
of these topics, by the way, are being inspired by you, so you might as well get on there
and put your questions in so that you can not only get an email but also get maybe a
whole episode devoted to your subject.� ����������� Okay, well
how do you, then, how do you cook and fix food and keep it off?� Well, how do you
approach this whole season of the year and not gain weight from all the abundance of
rich foods that you are seeing, you think one time a year, especially when you visit
family and everyone is expected to eat.� Let�s start with answering this with talk
about expectations and pressures and all these people who you think are going to make you
eat food or put pressure on you to eat on this Thursday.�
����������� Well, it can also be more testing when the whole family
gets together.� You know that.� I mean, a lot of times people do not see each other
that often, and you get there, and there is just a lot going on.� You know that � family
dynamics.� No doubt that people love to feed people.� I know I do.� It is just
natural.� I love to cook, and I love to feed people, and you can actually hurt people�s
feelings if you do not ever try their food or acknowledge their food or praise God for
their gifts of cooking or whatever, but there is something enjoyable inside a person that
loves to cook and loves to give.� So there is a natural thing to have a recipient.�
However, the Bible teaches us to love God first and then man, in that order � God
and man.� ����������� So what
about God�s feelings?� He commanded us not to destroy the body, and over eating is
the single most-related factor to death.� It causes cancer, and I have said this for
the last thirty years, and it has never been more true, because we are getting more obese.�
Obesity � overweight � is the single most-related factor to cancer, heart disease and diabetes
and much more.� Also, think about all the joint problems and the inactivity, which leads
to many other maladies.� So God�s feelings are first.� He is the One hurting, because
he is the One who has to sit there and watch you destroy what He has made, whether it be
through food, alcohol, tobacco or ***.� All of them destroy you.� Every single one
of those greedy things will be your own demise.� So, now the Bible says to fear God.� Don�t
fear what men think.� ����������� Now, you
can both obey God, and not hurt feelings.� How do you do that?� Well, you go back.�
Number one, this is what I did when I was first learning to eat like this.� I would
go to the back of the line.� You know how we put the food out?� That is usually how
it is served.� And you go through...� Well, you have got this big group of family
members.� Go to the back!� Every time there is a cafeteria line, or a line going
through, go to the back, and then everyone is filling their plate.� Watch what they
do.� The average person is going to think, �This is the last time I am going to see
it.�� They are going to fill their plates high, and then once they even get in the line,
I can guarantee you the attention is not on you; it is on that food.� So their mind
is already gone off you and onto the food.� So do not think that people are thinking about
you � they are not!� Then when you come to the table last with less food, just do
not bring attention to yourself.� Ask them how their food is.� It will not be noticed.�
People are focused on their own plate.� By the time you get there, they are in there
eating and looking down and feeding themselves.� Sadly enough, many will not look up until
the third serving.� So they are not going to be looking at you.
����������� This gives an opportunity to carry the conversation and
make sure that it is uplifting.� So that is what your mind can be on, like guiding
the conversations in there.� I do not mean controlling it, but you could, like, ask people
how they are doing.� You can find out different things that they have been doing, and then
also you can jump up and serve others.� Just be looking at their glasses, and looking
and say, �Oh, you need a napkin?� Let me get you a napkin.�� �Oh, did you
need a fork?�� You know, �Oh, let me pass you the salt.�� �Who needs some
more to drink?�� So keep the glasses full of ice water, and be the servant.� Be the
servant and pray and get your mind ready for only the bites that God wants you to have.�
Plan ahead so that you are good and hungry.� Serve yourself an average serving, but only
eat until you are satisfied, and then stop.� Just stop.� You do not have to make it super
obvious and tell everybody, �Hey, I have a small amount, and I am not eating anymore.��
You know?� Just move the food around and stop, but then know that what you are going
to be doing with the food so that you do not panic is that you are wrapping it up.� You
are taking it home.� ����������� Then use
the other part of your energy to comment on the food, how good it was, just praising God
for somebody to cook it and get the house clean and serve it.� So you use that time
to just praise God and rave about the cooking or get a recipe or something like that so
that you have accomplished both.� You have obeyed God, but you have encouraged others
and you have not hurt their feelings.� So now, if God allows someone to notice, then
here is what you need to do:� you need to be prepared to testify about how you are a
part of a thirty-year-old ministry that teaches you how to lose weight.� And let the chef
know, again, how wonderful everything tastes and how tempting it is but that you have learned
how to eat it in smaller portions, and then you will eat again later and that when you
learn to eat regular foods, because that is what the diet is about, it then makes it permanent,
and you never have to go on a diet again.� Well, that should prick their attention, but
a lot of times it does not, so then everybody goes back to talk about football or whatever
they are going to talk about.� ����������� There are
some people who want to know more.� �I want to know more about what you are talking
about.�� Then you teach them about God and say, �Oh, you can turn to God to fill
up all these emotional needs that make you eat.� Then if you turn to Him, He will fill
up the heart, and the heart calms down, and then you do not feel like you have to binge.�
So you are turning to God to calm the heart so that then you are in control, and get His
personality, His Spirit inside of you.� ����������� Now, how
much of the environment has to do with your heart, and how much of it has to do with your
overeating?� Well, obviously it does help.� I am telling you right now, it does help to
have the right environment.� But just as one who is addicted to *** should stay away
from bad internet sites or they will only be putting a log on the fire, it is best when
your heart is young in this so that you are not going to subjugate yourself to too much
food.� So in the beginning of Weigh Down you will notice that we try to get the food
out of the house, or the tempting foods, getting the foods out of the house that, like, started
your binges at night.� But at some point in this, you are going to have to know that
you cannot change the environment.� You are going to have food all around you, and
you are going to have to change this and this, your mind and your heart, not to care unless
you are hungry.� ����������� It is not
the food that you need to make behave.� You cannot control your environment for the
rest of your life.� You would have to stay home.� You cannot control it.� I do not
want that.� That is not natural.� That is not what thin eaters do.� That is not
what people who are free to obey God do.� So what did that scripture say in Romans chapter
12?� It says, �Do not conform to the world.�� So you do not have to conform to the world.�
They are all overeating this weekend, and you do not have to do that.� How do you
not conform?� What did it say?� What did the scripture say?� It said, �By the renewing
of your mind.�� �Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God�s will is...�� But look at that.� He is calling you to be a living
sacrifice.� That is verse one:� �In view of God�s mercy...�� We have had
mercy.� We have had grace to be saved.� You know, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice.�
So when you are the servant at the meal, then you are the living sacrifice, and then you
have denied yourself essential indulgence, and everybody is wondering how.� Well, you
can go on and tell them that you prayed before you got in there, and you did not just do
this in one day.� It is hour by hour and day by day.� You are being transformed.�
����������� Let me tell you one thing else that transforms your mind,
that did mine.� You have so many eating occasions left.� You can eat Thanksgiving
food every day for the rest of your life.� I mean it is not one time a year.� There
are turkeys out there.� There are turkeys out there, and there are great recipes for
all kinds of things.� You are not going on another diet.� It is your own fault that
you are going to go back to your little stinkin� diet of hay and styrofoam or whatever you
are eating, and we are not doing that!� That is not what we are doing here.� When
you keep mixing dieting with Weigh Down, it does not work.� Now I want you to know that
you can do exactly what I have done.� Watch this little home video from yesterday.�
I decided at the last minute to drag the camera crew over, because I was in there cooking
away, and I did not have any desire to eat any of it.� So watch this.
����������� VIDEO CLIP OF GWEN AT HOME:
����������� GWEN:� Hello everybody, we are here at my kitchen,
and it is one of those weird times, because I do not get to cook a lot, but I love cooking,
and I love serving other people, and we are here at this Thanksgiving time.� So I will
show you what I have got here going.� I am just cooking some sausage here to put into
this cornbread stuffing, which is a southern dish.� And there is orange cranberry salad.�
It is just delicious, and it is just cranberries that I have washed, and then you take an orange
and then just cut it all up, and then some granulated sugar to taste, and it is delicious.�
It is great with a turkey.� I have got a smoked turkey coming.� Of course I have
got all kinds of goodies here.� There are sweet potatoes which make a beautiful casserole
with pecans in it.� This is your old-fashioned green beans, and I definitely did put some
bacon fat in there and butter and salt and pepper.�
����������� How is it that I am cooking these things and I am eating
these things and I am not gaining weight?� It is because I am not going to over eat,
and I do not want it anymore.� In the beginning I did want it a little bit more than I do
now.� Of course in the very beginning I was ravenous for food with head hunger all
the time.� But when I made that decision that I am making this food for other people,
I am going to make a pecan pie here later tonight, it is for someone else.� And if
I get hungry I get to eat some.� But do you know what?� I can have this stuff all
year long.� I mean, we are not asking you to diet.� We are asking you to eat regular
foods every day.� You can eat this stuff every day for the next year if you want to,
in small amounts.� So I have been over here sipping on my diet Coke, because I am thirsty
and I am hot.� It will kind of cook me off, but I have no desire to eat this, and I want
to stay empty.� I want that energy.� I want that energy more than a binge, because
do you know what would happen if I binged on this?� I could not walk!� I would be
so tired!� Right now, I want to go play with the kids when I get done with this.�
I want to live!� I do not want to die!� I want to live, and there is something about
getting down to your right weight where you have so much energy you will never want to
go back.� ����������� Now, as
you are approaching these days...� We are going to go over this more during the show
today, but you need to know that there is nothing wrong with you, that there is nothing
stopping you, that this is all a choice.� You mothers out there or fathers who are cooking,
you are going to have to be around food, but the fact is that it is not your food, and
it is not at all your food, unless your stomach is growling.� You can get small amounts,
sip between bites, eat a small amount and then wait till hunger again.� Who cares
about the food!� All these days are supposed to be named �holy days.�� And these
holy days are for God.� They are not for a binge, so you cannot do it anymore anyway.�
to get to the point that you can be around it but not desire it.� So I am going to
continue cooking so I can get this done so I can go play.� See you later!
����������� END OF CLIP ����������� GWEN:�
Alright, now you can do this too, and a life of energy, I can guarantee you, is so much
more fun than a life...� Isn�t it Candace?� ����������� CANDACE:�
That is a purpose to walk into a house, like you were saying, to be able to serve.� A
purpose where food is not your purpose anymore, and that is what I learned, and I love it.�
����������� GWEN:� We have to cook it sometimes, and it is fun,
but it is not our love anymore.� Okay, well, I want you to know that we have some guests
here.� I know a woman who has taken Weigh Down who was able to successfully open up
a chocolate truffle business called Nashville Chocolate Kitchen, and during these years
has never gained weight; in fact, has lost weight during that.� So I would like for
you now to welcome right now the dear owner and sister in Christ � Miley Barcus.�
Come on up, girlfriend!� This is so beautiful and so sweet, and I just...� This is just
Very beautiful!� And there is the team of the people who have all done Weigh Down.�
����������� MILEY:� I did my first Weigh Down class in the late
1990s.� I am not sure exactly what year it was, but it has been a good twelve or thirteen
years ago. ����������� GWEN:�
Well, that is a good amount of time. ����������� MILEY:�
Yeah.� It changed my life for sure, ten million times over.
����������� GWEN:� I can tell you that I happen to be one of
those who has purchased a lot of your recipes � not recipes, but your chocolate, and served
them and that type of thing, and it is amazing!� It is very rich, just like any of my recipes
that I have handed out.� It has got the real deal in it and all that, but you all
were around this every day.� In fact, the smell is so fabulous!� When you walk anywhere
near that, it is just absolutely amazing!� So how did you keep your weight off, being
around that environment of that much good food all day long?
����������� MILEY:� Well, like you were saying earlier, there
was a time in my life where it really called my name, and I was afraid to have one M&M
in the house, let alone be surrounded by hundreds of pounds of chocolate all the time.� So
having gone through Weigh Down and putting those principles into practice, I definitely
enter every cooking occasion first with prayer.� To this day I think it is more and more humility
with each passing day of putting this into practice, and I do not think that I have arrived.�
Always there is a fear of going back.� I do not want to go back to that misery of being
enslaved to food, so I definitely enter each situation with a lot of prayer.�
����������� GWEN:� Humility, what a key to entering the Kingdom
of God!� I can tell you that every time you ever begin to just think you do not need
to cling onto God every minute, something is going to happen.� And the older I get,
the more all I want to do is just cling every hour onto God.� So prayer and what else?
����������� MILEY:� Every day I am in the Word.� I am starting
off the day in the Word.� I am starting off the day on my knees.� I learned that
from you through these classes and through church, crying out to God, crying out for
help and wanting God.� I have experienced God enough now that I want God more than I
want the chocolates.� So putting the truth in.� I do utilize Truthstream daily, practically.
����������� GWEN:� Candace, tell people who are new, what is
Truthstream?� What in the world is Truthstream? ����������� CANDACE:�
Truthstream is amazing!� It is a subscriber program where you actually get access to an
entire data base of videos and audios that you can use from your cell phone or from an
Ipad or your computer, wherever you are.� So I would walk into Miley�s shop to go
buy some chocolate, and you would hear...she would have her computer on, and you could
hear Gwen�s voice.� And in there when you go onto Truthstream, you can type in any
topic you want to, because many of us came into Weigh Down with not just weight loss.�
You can type in weight loss, marriage, parenting, anger, last ten pounds, plateaued, struggling,
eating disorder.� Whatever you type in will pull up these audios and videos.� Then if
you are not sure what to watch, you can just look at the �top watched� or the �recommended.�
����������� Now another thing on there are three radio �stations�
that play continuously, so if you are not sure what you want to watch, you click on
one of the radio stations, and the one just has praise music.� One is a relationship
channel where no matter when you click on it you are going to just hear things about
relationships.� There is one that is just the basic...you are just going to hear about
the basics.� But what Miley was saying, what I think all of us feel who have been
in Weigh Down for a while is that you have got to have the truth, no matter how long
you have been in there listening to it all the time.
����������� GWEN:� It is not intellectual information.� I have
said that all along.� If you are transforming the mind or if you are transforming the heart,
if you get the mind going, it transforms the heart.� And the heart cues the mind to want
to go there, but the whole thing is spiritual.� It is not physical.� It is a spiritual thing,
and God has made it to where He was always going to be needed.�
����������� What if you could just like take one class and you
would be over with?� I mean, but it is not like that.� It is food for the soul, so
you were eating that food instead of chocolate or chocolate cakes or whatever it might be.�
And no matter how tempting they were, if you were not hungry, you did not eat it, right?
����������� MILEY:� That is right!� Definitely.� I have the
privilege of getting to work with like-minded people.� However, if somebody does not have
that, certainly they have come across now an army of like-minded people that they can
connect with.� But that is another key. ����������� GWEN:�
It did help, did it not, to have the whole office all doing Weigh Down all in the same
mindset?� Because you all would like, you would look over there, and even though Jill
was cooking all this or Lisa was in there or whoever was in there, you did not eat.�
You did not eat. ����������� MILEY:�
No!� No.� It truly was not on my radar.� There was a time that it very much was.
����������� GWEN:� Oh please, yes.
����������� MILEY:� So staying connected to like-minded people
was huge, too.� We would stop and pray, and again, I know that everybody does not
have that available right at work, you know, that you get to work with like-minded people.�
But to even throughout the day, maybe a lunch hour to connect, but that was a big key too.�
But in my mind I would be thinking about the job at hand, who this is going to...� This
stuff is very much being prayed over.� Yes, we definitely see ourselves as servants.�
����������� GWEN:� Okay, I did not know anybody, and I am in
college, and I am learning to stand in the back of the line.� This is college information,
and that was not yesterday, by the way, if you are just tuning in.� But anyway, I remember
I loved cooking all along, because I started in fifth grade.� Okay, well I am making
pecan pies, and I would not take a bite of it but just to give to other people, you know,
by that age, and that was the foundation of this whole thing, is that it is not there
for your indulgence.� It is for someone else.� Then you are full.� You are so
happy, and you see the smiles on their faces when you pass out that Nashville Chocolate
bag or whatever it is they are buying.� And they are all excited.� It is like giving
candy to a baby.� It is exciting to see their face, and that is more fun than binging
and then going back and looking at your face in the mirror and going, �Oh, no!� What
have I done?�� Is it not more fun? ����������� CANDACE:�
It is.� The joy!� The joy comes in, and it is so much fun!
����������� GWEN:� The consensus here is it is more fun!
����������� CANDACE:� It is.� Yeah!� I cannot even imagine what
it feels like to binge eat.� I mean, I do imagine what it feels like to binge, because
I remember that feeling so well, and I never want to forget it, but it is just not worth
touching the food when God has not said.� To feel that guilt feeling afterwards, I hate.�
����������� GWEN:� And you have kept yours off for how long?�
����������� CANDACE:� Ten years now.
����������� GWEN:� Okay, ten years.
����������� MILEY:� Ten years.
����������� GWEN:� Thirty years.� You know, and we are not
special.� We just follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ.� It is amazing that this is
the answer.� All along, Christ was the answer.� Now, I am not talking about a weight loss
program that adds Christ or Bible reading or something like that into a diet.� Dieting
is awful, because it makes you keep focusing on the food, but God started Weigh Down, and
all of these things that are going on with you and all this whole TV show is God.�
It is not us, I can guarantee you.� It is not us.� So everything that we are doing
is God trying to get through to each of us.� Bless His heart!� I mean, the amount of
work that He is investing in all this, I mean, how much love does He have, to keep giving
us a way of escape so that we do not over eat?� He is going to give everybody a way
of escape come Thursday, or before when you are cooking.� He will give you a way of
escape.� I know when I heard the children playing upstairs, it was like, �Let me hurry
up and get out of here,� you know.� I want to live.� I do not want my life to
pass me by, and I do not have enough energy, because every time I have too much or whatever,
I am too tired. ����������� CANDACE:�
It feels awful. ����������� GWEN:�
It does.� Then you get behind in your housework, and then you get behind on phone calls you
need to make or your work.� Then you get behind on raising the kids, and then you get
overwhelmed, and then you think, �I cannot do this!� Life is too hard!�� No, start
over.� Do not get overwhelmed, and get in there and just start it over and get up and
do not overeat.� Then your day is twice as long.� Then it is kind of like...�
Oh, that is what I wanted to talk about.� Okay, that cued me, because like you said
earlier, you go, it used to be that way, and it used to be for you, and it used to be for
me.� Okay, do you remember back when it filled up our day?� And the reason why people
get sad...� They write in and go, �I don�t know if I can do this.�� Or the rich young
ruler said, �I�m sad.�� You know, because he had great possessions, and God
said to give it all up.� But here is the thing, is that it is a lie that it is sad.�
The food is over rated, and it is a lie that it is your friend, your comfort, and it is
filling up your day.� A lot of people are simply scared of boredom.� It literally
is like what they do to reward themselves that day, and it fills up a segment of time.�
So we need to be about like what� you are saying, service.� You have got children,
but you are working this job to make some extra income for the family.� Candace, you
could stay home, but you are working, serving the Kingdom, you know, and God, and your time
shifts over to something that is higher ground, right?
����������� CANDACE:� Yeah!� In one of the classes you said, too,
to make a list of all the things you need to get done.� Then every time you want to
go eat, you said go do one of those things off the list.� So I made a big list.�
You know, I was making a big list for Thanksgiving to keep my hands busy.� You know, I was
thinking about that.� Like, �Play a board game.�� �Go throw the football outside
for the kids.�� The kids are always like looking for the next thing to do, because
they are inside.� They do not care about the food, so they are inside like trapped
for the day while everybody...or whatever.� So I was thinking about that today, because
when I did Breakthrough I wrote down like that one drawer that I cannot open, and all
the clothes that have the holes, you know.� ����������� GWEN:�
But lists � lists, I have got my Ipad here, and I have a whole note thing, and I have
got private and personal or whatever, but it is a list, and at the top it says, �Life
is going to pass you by if you don�t get like one, two, three, four, five done.��
One thing that is on my list is, it is private and personal, but I will share it with you
all, is that I have got written on there to make sure that I am giving to the widow and
the orphan in their affliction.� Because there is something about life, and that may
not be first on your mind.� But this week it is going to be spent...� I have already
identified people who I want to take food to, and in fact it is already in process,
and I love reading...� ����������� If you are
hurting, I will probably spend some time trying to reach out to people who are out there hurting.�
You do not need to be hurting.� There is a pile of accountability partners and people
who are dying now, because they have got more time, because they are not eating food and
they are not running after food.� We have got these people, these volunteers and these
people who work here and people who go to church who have so much time on their hands
now for giving.� They want it to be giving, because they have found it is better to give
than it is to receive, and that is one of those tricks out there.� So it is a trick
that you think, �What am I going to do with my time if I am not into *** every
day?� What am I going to do with my time if I am not into *** after women or men,
or whatever it is?� What am I going to do with my time if I am not *** after food
all day and then rewarding myself with a big party at night with food?�
����������� There is a world out there, but I can tell you that
it is more difficult at night, because you are tired, and you have not got your list
made.� Make your list in the morning, but then get your list and put it out there and
read it.� Put your list up on the walls.� Put them everywhere.� But working with people,
praying more, your knees should have callouses like the men of old.� They said that when
they would write in �Foxe�s Book of Martyrs� or whatever, they always described these holy
men as having callouses on their knees.� How about that?� Praying for everybody else,
thinking about other people�s needs.� Make a list.� Do not make this holy day
(not a holiday!) holy day...� In fact, while I am thinking about it, I want to invite you
to tomorrow night, explaining how in the world Thanksgiving came about.� It was not an
ordained thing from the Bible and was done by Presidents, really, and was sometimes somewhat
of a distraction away from the things that God has ordained.� But my take on how it
really should be spent and what we should be doing in the fall.� That is tomorrow
night at 6 p.m. central time.� Be my guest tomorrow night.� Be here and...
����������� CANDACE:� You can come right here to RemnantFellowship.tv.�
I think they will have a direct link and can come right at 6 o�clock it will take you
right in live. ����������� GWEN:�
Right.� I invited people to a wedding.� If you missed it, it is on You Tube, and it
is about love.� You may not recognize me; my hair is up.�
����������� CANDACE:� It was a life-changing sermon that Saturday.�
I recommend everybody go watch it. ����������� GWEN:�
I want to go back and watch it.� It is coming from God.� It is not me.� It is not about
me, and it is not for me.� This whole thing is about God.� I do like life not being
about me, and it is about God and Jesus Christ and service.� Then look at you all transformed.�
It is beautiful!� Just beautiful. ����������� CANDACE:�
Praise God! ����������� GWEN:�
Did we get any questions? ����������� CANDACE:�
Yes, there are a few here.� One of them is from Tammy in North Carolina, and she said,
�When I finally get around family, I lose Jesus as the focus and hunger and fullness
as focus.� Is there a quick trick or something I can use in the moment to bring me back to
focus?� ����������� GWEN:�
Oh, okay.� Well, I am going to kill two birds with one stone on this one.� People
have been asking me what is around my neck.� But okay, I want to tell you that you can
use all kinds of things.� You know, some people wear a ring that is inscripted, or
they have something.� But the Jewish people, when I studied a lot of that, what they would
do is they would wrap things in tassels.� Tassels would stand for, I think if you go
back to Numbers 15 where you go back and read it, and God had them put tassels everywhere,
and these tassels...of course, this was out of horsehair, but it could be out of anything,
but these tassels are to remind you of God�s commands.�
����������� A lot of times, either it is in my purse, or in this
particular case, I carry around with me scriptures that transformed my life.� One was a lady
who just left it for me.� I was on a book tour, and she actually just walked up and
put this little necklace around my neck, and inside it was a tiny little thing, but in
it is Habakkuk 2:2:� �Then the LORD replied:� �Write down the revelation and make it plain
on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end and will not prove false.� �� In these end times...and this was important
to me, because I knew that God was saying I am to write this stuff down.� And that
is what we are doing.� We are archiving all this stuff.� But in my time on my list,
always, every week, is to get in there and see how the Lord is leading and to write it
down.� Now, if I am with a crowd or I am in a tough situation, I can look down or touch
this.� Or it could be a ring, you know, or I have got rings with crosses on them.�
It could be a little bracelet or it could be for men, something down in your manbag
or something that you have got written.� I love, also, on the phone, to let things
pop up.� And you could have it where it is planned right at that time.� I love that
reminder!� ����������� MILEY:�
I set my phone hourly.� A lot of times it will be a one-liner:� �Stay focused!��
�Pray!�� Or a scripture that God gave me that morning.� And that morning I will
line it up for the whole day to go off at every hour, and then I will just look down,
and it definitely... ����������� GWEN:�
It steers your day back onto what you need to be doing, and that is what this is all
about, is steering the day back to where God is number one, and I am telling you that I
am slow enough and I am like distracted enough and all that where I would be staring the
wrong way if it were not for listening to the right music, getting a call or encouragement
from the right Saint.� The world is trying to get you.� Hear me!� Satan is alive
and well, and he is desperate to get you on the wrong path and to keep you sitting at
home the rest of your life overweight till you die and are buried or you get cancer,
heart disease or diabetes, which is inevitable, by the way, because overweight causes it.�
It causes that.� It causes mutation of cells.� It causes all your organs to go down, and
it causes high blood pressure and heart disease.� It is obesity.� You have got to turn around.�
You have got to get your life back to God.� Satan wants to leave you there.� We do not
want to leave you there.� We are servants of the Most High God, and we know that God
loves you and has a better plan, and I am telling you, this is fun.� It is so fun!�
All of it is so fun, and I love all of you so much.� Keep writing.� Bring a friend.�
We need more love in this world, and we need more obedience to God.� It is the most left-out
thing in the world, and here is the place you can count on every week to find it on
�You Can Overcome.� ����������� Before we
close up, let us bring up your coworkers.� All do Weigh Down, and all remain thin, and
everybody is thinner than they were when Nashville Chocolate started.� Come up!�
����������� MILEY:� These are my very best friends.� Ruth Beld,
kitchen manager and den mother, Lisa Peters, kitchen workers, and I call her �chocolate
evangelist.�� She gets out in the community and sells for us.� Jill, lead baker extraordinaire,
and major weight loss � eighty pounds? ����������� JILL SMITH:�
Almost ninety. ����������� MILEY:�
Almost ninety!� Ruth lost sixty and Lisa twenty.�
����������� GWEN:� Can you hold up the mic and say, �Lisa Peters�
etc. ����������� LISA PETERS:�
I am Lisa Peters, and my weight has been off for twelve years.� Forever changed and very
grateful. ����������� GWEN:�
I love you!���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ����������� RUTH BELD:�
Ruth Beld.� Sixty pounds off for nine years, and I am incredibly excited and so in love
with God.� Thank you. ����������� JILL SMITH:�
My name is Jill Smith, and I have lost now almost ninety pounds going on ten-and-a-half
years and praising God every minute for this truth.
����������� GWEN:� Jill is in the middle of huge, unbelievable
wedding cakes and cakes all the time.� It is unreal what she is constantly cooking,
and it is unbelievable � unbelievable stuff.� So this is letting you know that you can do
this.� So yes, Candace, any other announcements before we go?
����������� CANDACE:� Yes, just a few, so can I unveil our quick
three-step plan? ����������� GWEN:�
Yes, here we go! ����������� CANDACE:�
So here is your three-step plan for the next two months.� This is going to get you through
the next two months, and then in January you can be this light for God.� You are going
to do a class plus Truthstream, plus you are going to get a weight loss partner.� If
you are brand new to any of the classes this week, you can get those classes for ninety-nine
dollars.� So you are going to do a class for nine-nine dollars, then Truthstream for
the next two months to get you through this holiday season, is going to be half off of
that month.� So it is normally $24.99, so you get it for somewhere around ten dollars.�
Then we will get you a weight loss partner who will take you and email you � an accountability
partner.� You can send them every day what you are eating, your food log, your weight,
what you would have done different, what does Gwen say about this?� What did Gwen show
you about this?� ����������� GWEN:�
I praise God that you joined us today, and until next week I want to let you know that
through Jesus Christ �You Can Overcome!�� Praise God! Yay!�
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