The Biggest Loser

Sunday, 6th September 2009

It's the 4th week in a row for us to attend NewCre because Ps Reuben has not been preaching.

The worship was led by Darlene Zschech and Hillsong. Ps Lawrence said she's going to be a grandma in 3 months' time :-)

Then Ps Joshua took the pulpit. My wife and I had listened to one of his midweek sermons on Healing and Financial Breakthroughs, during which he mentioned that one day he would share about how he had lost weight supernaturally -- without the need for exercising and dieting.

So it was really God's provision that he spoke about this this very day! I used to be 50kg in my teens and had a 26" waist. But since then, I have let loose and am now 76kg with a 36" waist. At 1.7m, that puts my BMI at 26.3 which means I am overweight. I will need to lose at least 6 kilos in order to be in the normal range. Friends who have not seen me for some time will inevitably comment that I had put on weight, lots of it, in fact :-(

During the sermon, Ps Joshua sang a song that was made popular in the 1980s by a group called Bad English. It is a love song sung by a guy to his sweetheart, but Ps Joshua changed the word "baby" to "Jesus" and voila!




Here are the lyrics of the song (as modified):

Sometimes I wonder
How I'd ever make it through,
Through this world without having you
I just wouldn't have a clue

'Cause sometimes it seems
Like this world's closing in on me,
And there's no way of breaking free
And then I see you reach for me

Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in,
I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you, Jesus
And everything's alright,
everything's alright

When I see you smile
I can face the world, oh oh,
you know I can do anything
When I see you smile
I see a ray of light, oh oh,
I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, Jesus when I see you smile at me

Jesus there's nothing in this world
that could ever do
What a touch of your hand can do
It's like nothing that I ever knew

And when the rain is falling
I don't feel it,
'cause you're here with me now
And one look at you Jesus
Is all I'll ever need,
you're all I'll ever need

Chorus

Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in,
I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you Jesus
And everything's alright,
everything's alright

So right...


The sermon made a lot of sense -- it was a revelation! It is when we behold Jesus as smiling at us that we get transformed into that same image from glory to glory.

There is this reality TV show entitled "The Biggest Loser" where severely horizontally-challenged people go through a tough regime of exercise and diet to lose as much weight as possible. Well, I am hoping to be the biggest loser, so to speak, without the need for exercise or diet.

After the sermon, I went boldly into the throne of grace and asked Jesus to give me the right desires for food so that my weight will drop to a more respectable 70kg within the next three months and I look forward to testifying that He has made it come to pass. Stay tuned :-)

May those same friends comment instead that I have lost weight instead. Amen?