Eddie and Martha Marie Smith

Many of the contestants have found life change from their success of losing weight.  Some have lost tens of pounds.  Others have lost more than 200 pounds in the short 4 months they have been a contestant. 

We learn from doctors and medical specialists that extra weight keeps us from good physical health.  Any excess can be a hazard to our health and quality of life.

This past year God has allowed Martha Marie and I to shed ourselves of excess things, thoughts, mindsets, and attitudes of thought, word, and deeds that have held us back from our relationship with God.  Working on our spiritual disciplines through studying the Word, prayer, and solitude has been our spiritual excercise to shed ourselves of excess.

What is your excess that can be thrown off that will help you to run the race for Jesus?

Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Luke 9:25
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Whoever loses his life has found it….

Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

I want to be the biggest loser of myself and biggest gainer of Christ!

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