DO YOU LOVE ME? (Legalism Versus Obedience) – Part 4

On June 19^th, 2020 – my wife (& best friend) Jenn McDuffie and I began a new chapter of our lives, which has led us both to experience the single greatest revival of our lives, the of the restoration of all things that were lost and true witnesses that He alone is making all things new and showing us great and mighty things that we did not know!

We seriously thought we were only signing up for a diet / weight loss plan to lose weight. We had no idea we were in all reality beginning the greatest adventure of our lives – which if you really know us – then you know – is neither an exaggeration or hyperbolic expression and is actually a really HUUGGGEEEE statement!

We had no idea whatsoever what we were actually about to experience was a direct-answer to many, many prayers & fasting and personal revival and the best health either one of us have ever known over most of our adult lives! We have better sustained energy, vitality, and health today than we’ve ever had as a married couple over the last 12 years. Hallelu-YAH!

I began to write this series of obedience versus legalism in March 2011. I had no earthly idea when I wrote the first short article that I would later write two more articles in this series in March 2012 and February 2017 – respectively. Neither did I ever think there was anything more worth writing about the subject of “choosing life”…

…because I honestly, foolishly thought that I had exhausted the subject! I did not know that, “THE BEST WAS YET TO COME & IS STILL YET TO COME!” And that the biggest missing “piece-of-the-puzzle” of my personal journey in pursuit of the truth was going to be revealed by our decision to say, “Yes!” to a “diet plan” my wife’s childhood friend introduced us to in the beginning of June 2020.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORICAL CONTEXT

At the time we began our personal health journey we were both very obese and the heaviest either of us had ever been in our lives. We tell people we had put on the “Covid-19”, the “Fresh-men 15” & all the teens in between! LOL! But seriously, my wife had lost her dad unexpectedly in the summer of 2019. Then my sister, Suzanne – was missing for more than 100 days and Jenn greatly helped to look for her and coordinate the search effort – until we received the news her remains were found on March 7^th, 2020. *

Of course, that was the time all the craziness with the constant C-19 fear mongering began to take over everything and the world was turned completely upside down! Shortly after this devastating blow, two of our daughters completely turned their backs on the one true faith delivered once and for all to the saints and began practicing “the craft” of their mother.

During this season, they both completely cut us off and we were also cut off from any contact or meaningful relationship from our firstborn granddaughter (whom we had practically helped raise for almost three full years and carried all around the world with us)! Needless-to-say, Jenn and I were very broken by all these “sudden” losses we experienced over less than 12 months of our lives.

Shortly after we began our “diet”, I began to notice I had much improved energy and then after 30 days we had lost a combined total of 55 pounds! In less than 90 days we had lost a combined total of 100 pounds and as I am writing this, we are down a combined 190 pounds weight lost forever in less than 8 months! Somewhere along the way – I had an epiphany of understanding – I had never experienced!

(Update – 230lbs. total! – as of 11-22-2022)

THE TREE OF LIFE – IS REVELATION FROM ON HIGH

I received a revelation from on High that I had NEVER experienced before! It was a revelation of LIFE! It was a revelation from the Word of Life, by the Spirit of Life and Life Himself! For the first time in my life, I finally understood that…

EVERY single decision I make in the thoughts I choose to think in my life is either for life or death and is presently producing a harvest of blessing or curse.

EVERY single decision I make in the words that I am speaking are either life or death and are presently, actively producing a harvest of life or death – blessing or curse in my life!

EVERY single decision I make for what I am doing with my time and life (or even not doing with my time and life) is either for life or death and are presently, actively producing a harvest of life or death – blessing or curse in my life! EVERY single decision I make concerning what I eat and drink is either for life or death and is either presently, actively producing LIFE and health in my body or DEATH and decay.

I have read, memorized and quoted the following Scripture for most of my life and I NEVER understood what it meant until this season of my life. I was deaf, blind and dumb – with little to no understanding!

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the esteem of Elohim.” ~ 1Corinthians 10:31

Here is my personal testimony – which I have shared very publicly in recent days…

MY HEALTH JOURNEY

They say a picture is worth a thousand words…

The guy in the top picture (on the right of my wife was pretty comfortable with choosing death on a daily basis – it’s the way he was taught… – by his family first, by his community of faith, by his schools, by his government, by his community where he lives, by his daily media consumption & by his doctors .

Literally, almost everybody in that guys life taught him how to choose death by their words & actions and poor health & sickliness were the result. I mostly felt like poop 5-6 days a week – even as a teenager!

Then one day in early June a total stranger came into my life by divine appointment and taught me how to choose life in every single decision I make. He was a stranger to me before – but now he is becoming one of my closest and dearest friends – Jason Haire

He has coached me and taught me the spirit of choosing LIFE in every single choice I make! He introduced me to the guy on the left! His life and example is the reason I decided to become a health coach and “pay it forward”!

One of the greatest take-aways of the journey my wife and I have been on the last 2 & 1/2 years is we are both on a journey of learning the spirit of choosing life in every life decision that pertains to this life and the life to come! The law of blessings & curses and sowing & reaping are literally in the DNA of every single choice we make throughout each day! Everyday, we get to choose LIFE or DEATH!

I have a great vision to share this journey of renewed health & life & love & freedom with the whole wide world! First with my Jerusalem, Judea & Samaria and then to the uttermost parts of the earth!

CHOOSE LIFE!!!!!!! CHOOSE FREEDOM!!!!!!!

It would be my greatest honor to be your personal health coach and to share with you freely what I received freely and thus loving my neighbor as myself and fulfilling the commandment!

FREE! FREE! FREE! 100% FREE! FREE! FREE! *

Did I mention it’s free? * Did y’all know I really, really love that word FREE and it’s my absolute favorite word in the English language??!!!

I want to be your personal health coach! Whether your skinny or fat, healthy or unhealthy, need to lose 15 lbs or 150lbs – EVERYONE needs a heath coach! I want to help you level up in your health and take it to the next level!

My personal health coach Jason Haire did not charge me a dime to coach my wife and I over the last 30 months! * In ONLY 30 weeks we have lost 190 pounds (combined) FOREVER and we have received a renewed lease on our health and our life and our love life and our ministry life and EVERYTHING that makes life worth living! I literally owe this man my LIFE!!!

I am FOREVER grateful to Jason and since he coached me for FREE – I have decided to pay it forward and do the same for YOU!
Contact me today and I will schedule a brief personal health assessment and short explanation of our health program via a telephonic interview with you and I promise you I will not charge you a dime NOW or FOREVER for the honor of coaching you as Jason coached me!

* You only pay for the food you eat!

Freely I have received and freely I give what I have been given!

I don’t count calories.

I don’t count points.

I don’t count carbs.

I don’t prep food on Sun. and reheat all week.

I don’t weigh myself daily.

I don’t do juice cleanses.

I don’t cut out macro nutrient groups.

I don’t work out like crazy.

I don’t believe in miracle drinks or pills.

I don’t just eat salads and chicken!

I DO believe that your body can do the work naturally if given the right environment to thrive.

I DO believe that I create the right environment by what I put into my body and how I treat it.

I DO believe the habits I’ve instilled are sustainable.

I DO believe that success in this journey doesn’t include deprivation.

I ALSO BELIEVE that at some point there is no EXCUSE. Either you want to do everything it takes to make it happen or you don’t! I BELIEVE with all my heart that you too can get the same results! I BELIEVE that if you trust me, trust the process, and give it your all you can achieve anything you want. I know what’s possible because I’ve done it myself. So my question to you is… are you ready? You can see the results in this picture. Thank you to everyone who has celebrated with me along the way. I couldn’t have done it without you all!

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QUESTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION, DELIBERATION, MEDITIATION & SALVATION

If I “Choose Life” – what am I NOT choosing by default?

If I “Choose Death” – what am I NOT choosing by default?

If I “Choose Life” – then who am I following?

If I “Choose Death” – then who am I following?

If I choose death, e.g. processed white table salt, processed white baking flour & bread, processed white sugar (which is scientifically proven to be a more addictive and deadly drug than crack cocaine), battery acid cleaner (i.e. Coca-Cola), etc., – then I am not choosing life am I?

If I am presently, actively “choosing death” can I honestly say I am eating and/or drinking to the esteem, honor and praise of the Most High El of Israel?

If I am presently, actively “choosing death” in what I eat and/or drink can I honestly say I am following the Giver of Life, according to the example given us by the Word of Life made flesh, as revealed in the Scriptures of Life and taught by the Spirit of Life?

CONCLUSION

On June 19^th, 2020, I honestly thought I was only starting a diet program for my wife and I to lose weight – together. I had no idea the real purpose of our journey was for us to learn “the mystery” of the ages…

Every single choice we make is “the seed’ which contains the DNA of the harvest we will always and eventually reap. No farmer on the face of the earth will answer, “I do not know” when asked what kind of food crops they expect to harvest. They ALL know exactly what they planted in the ground and they all know exactly what they are going to harvest!

My wife’s father Sydney Norwood was a fifth generation Arkansas farmer. I would say to him, “Dad, if anyone should understand living faith and the law of sowing and reaping it’s all the hard-working men and women who slave to produce our food supply all over the world.” What I spoke was the truth – however, I was mostly completely ignorant to what I was saying.

Today, I truly understand that ALL my thoughts today, ALL my words today, everything I do (or don’t do) today and ALL that I eat and drink today – will produce a harvest of life or a harvest of death – a harvest of blessings or a harvest of curses. The author of the letter to the Galatians says it this way…

“Be not deceived; Elohim is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” ~ Galatians 6:7-9

Every choice has consequences! The consequences of everything we think, say, do, eat & drink are 100% self-evident to ourselves and to all those around us. The command to, “Choose Life” is the entire message of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation!

Before the fall – “Choose Life!” –

“And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” ~ Genesis 1:28

“And Yahweh Elohim took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” ~ Genesis 2:15

When the eternal marriage covenant was codified, placed to music and proclaimed by Moses to “the goy” children of Israel in the plains of Moab before they crossed into “The Promised Land” – “Choose Life!” –

“For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in Heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to Heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love YHWH thy Elohim, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and YHWH thy Elohim shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love YHWH thy Elohim, and that thou mayest obey His voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for He is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which YHWH sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” ~ Deuteronomy 30:11-20

After the restoration of all things – “Choose Life!”

“And He shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of Elohim and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” ~ Revelation 22:2-3

“And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if Yahweh be Elohim, follow Him (“Choose Life!”): but if Baal, then follow him (“Choose Death!”). ~ 2Kings 18:21

Whom are you following presently? Whom will you follow forever?

AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE

Though none go with me – still I will follow

I’ll go with Him, with Him – all the way…

I shared this message about the simplicity of “Choosing Life!” as a guest speaker at a local assembly’s mid-weekly Bible study in S.W., Florida. May you blessed in your hearing!