That’s right- I’d love to chat it up with you and your friends… that’s why I’m giving away a conference call today. See below for details. But first, we must process some things together.
Am I old?
I laughed out loud at Jamie L’s comment yesterday. Oh my heavens, I think I AM old. She said, “…On a side note, what is an Izod? It sounds like a jazzed up ipod.”
I feel certain, if you don’t know the wonders of the Izod shirt, you are too young to remember the delights of Bob Barker, Calvin Klein jeans jumpers, whale belt buckles, Pappagallo purses with button on covers, and Rick Springfield’s ‘Jessie’s Girl.’
Sigh.
Precious Jamie… an izod is a polo shirt with an alligator emblem. And I never even made the connection of how closely it sounded like an ipod… which I still don’t own. Yet another fact making me feel as old as the cassette tapes I’m still holding onto though I have no tape player.
I was just getting the hang of CD’s when they all turned into downloads.
Is 41 old?
Another comment I got yesterday, touched my heart in a deep and familiar place. That place that says, “If you read this, you will change and change is hard… so don’t read it.” I know that feeling. There are things I put off reading for that very reason. Five years ago I could have written this comment by Jamie…
“Can I tell you that Made to Crave has been in my cart on Amazon for weeks now, but I’m scared to death to hit the checkout button. I know I need it, and I really want it, but what if I fail? What if I’m one that can’t overcome this weight issue? It is my fears and insecurities that are a distraction for me.”
Precious sister, Made to Crave is a space of grace for your tired soul. The goal isn’t the amount of weight you need to lose- the goal is discovering peace- physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Once you discover nothing tastes as good as peace feels, the journey becomes less and less about food and more and more about God.
Psalm 34:8 asks us to, “Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.”
That’s all Made to Crave is… an invitation to discover truths that will free you from the mental exhaustion of trying and failing over and over again.
It’s not a quick fix plan to beat your tastebuds into submission. It’s positioning your soul in the center of God’s truth. There you will discover where your strength ends, His begins.
And in His strength is where miraculous victories occur.
Today, we are replaying on demand, Week 2 of the Made to Crave webcast. You don’t want to miss it. Even if you saw it the first time around! Today, we’ll learn crucial truths from Dr. Chilton and my pastor reminds us, “We don’t have to worry about letting God down because we were never holding Him up.” Now that will preach to my soul all day long!
And it’s ‘Tell a friend Tuesday!’ Which means we want you to tell your friends about the FREE webcast on demand all day today at www.MadetoCrave.org and then leave a comment below about who you told.
One commenter will be chosen to win a phone call I’m giving away with you, me, and your friends!
Oh think of the fun we’ll have chatting it up about life, kids, Made to Crave, and maybe even the delights of the 1980′s.
Maybe you could even help usher me into the modern age of the ipod. Or, maybe not. I feel certain as soon as I learn all about the Ipod, it will be replaced by some new technology situation… like the jazzed up ipod called izod.
I have told so many people about Made To Crave. Today, I told a friend, who has expressed an interested in the MTC study, about the webcasts. Thank you for this opportunity and all you do!
Still chuckling over the izod vs. ipod comment. But HEY! Sweet sister, you don’t find answers if you don’t ask. Thanks for giving us ‘oldies but goodies’ a wonderful smile today!!!! I want a Kindle, not an ipod!!!!! And looking forward to our second session tomorrow evening. Am getting great feedback from those who attended last week. Thank you Jesus!
Your site was shared with my by my dear GF Denise V. I in turn shared in on my FB which I thought may reach more. I’m grateful for your heart and your authenticity. I’ve know for YEARS that I’ll start on Monday tends to bleed into more than just my dieting. Getting my focus off of food and onto God……Craving Him instead of food and pretty much how many other things that are niggling their way in. I’m deeply moved and can’t Praise God enough for this message. Somehow, there’s something here that I’ve always known…deep in my heart….but now it’s in words before me. I needed this. And thanks for the giggles….IPOD….IZOD….and who DIDN’T love Rick Springfield??? Oooh how I wanted to be Jessie’s Girl!! I had big hair too!! LOL Thank you all!
I’ve been away at the hospital today, enjoying the birth of my new grand baby. A precious girl who I pray grows to know and love this sweet Jesus we talk of. I thought I would check your blog real quick before heading off to bed…your post brought tears to my eyes. I promise I will hit the checkout button on my Amazon cart tomorrow, because “grace for your tired soul” is exactly what I’m needing. You are a treasure, sweet Lysa!
Well Lysa, at 41 years of age I pulled the trigger on a new life! I have known for quite some time that I was supposed to stop eating sugar and flour. I have been trying to “manage” it for so long with portion control, but I am an addict and portion control does not work. A small amount of sugar just means I want more and more. A few weeks ago I bought your book and The Lord confirmed through your words that this is the course of action I need to take… trying to focus on the food and manage it just won’t work. God has worked on my heart and I am now listening. I have been sugar and flour free for 5 days now. It is the grace of God that I have had no cravings, no headaches or any withdrawl symptoms. I am thankful… so thankful and humbled that as I took that first step and made that commitment HE stepped in and paved the way. I am also HOPEFUL for the first time in many, many years.
Thank you for writing this book and thank you for sharing yourself. God is blessing your obedience and I am finding freedom through Made to Crave.
I told all of my facebook friends.
Lysa, I just had to share this with you.
First, thank you for writing Made to Crave. I’ve had it for a month or more and have been too scared to get started until now. I’m overwhelmed with how amazing God is right now. I can barely put my thoughts together!
My book club read your book, What Happens When Women Say Yes to God, last month. This is where my journey began. You gave us five questions to help discern when God is speaking to us. I’ve felt God impressing on me the need to make a change in my eating habits. (But I’ve failed so many times, I ignored it-I ignored God.) One of the question was, Is God reaffirming what He said in other ways? Well, that would be a BIG, RESOUNDING YES!
I’ll try to be brief. God has reaffirmed that I need to make this change in so many ways it blows my mind. Right now I am reading, One in a Million by Priscilla Shirer, for my book club. If you haven’t read it, please do. If there’s ever a book that goes with yours it’s this one! God reaffirmed his words to me over and over in the book. Our ladies group is doing Beth Moore’s Bible Study, David: Seeking a Heart Like His. Last night in sections four’s video, Beth told us to Wake Up. God spoke volumes to me during that video. Then this morning I was reading the Jewelry Box blog on the Going Beyond website and read these words, “You can’t expect to consume the known, obvious, death-defying alternatives of this world and still be alert and awake to what God is doing around you, what He wants to accomplish in you, or how He can bless you with a genuinely productive, satisfying, fulfilling life.” BAM! Talk about a wake-up call!
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing your story with us. Thank you for rebroadcasting the webcast for those of us who were too scared to watch them when they first came out. I stared the DVD’s and Bible study today. I’ve started my journey. I am Made to Crave God and I’ll be made to RAVE about it when I’m done. I think it’s time to do a little positive Raving about God, don’t you?
Made to Crave!
Made to Rave!
I pray 41 is not old! It is just on the middle of our climb!
On thing you said really hit home today. I have prayed many times today to have God carry me. It has been one of those days. Well in you lesson you said we were not letting God down because we never held him up. That is so true. We are held up by HIM – What a gracious wonderful presious gift, something I forget often. May God bless you and your “CRAVE”.
My bible study is currently doing “What happens when women walk in faith”, our 3rd Lysa TerKeurst Bible study. God is changing lives. Many of us are also following along with your made to crave webcasts. I have told my Bible Study of 18 women to watch. We would LOVE a conference call.
Gosh, hope I’m not too late to this party! I would love to speak with you and have my three closest friends chime in via phone. We’ve all done the MTC and fee like it made a huge spiritual difference in each of us.
Thank you for the verse in Psalms 34:8 I needed a new verse for this week to put in my memory verse spiral and this is the one. The Lord is soooooo much better than anything on this earth I could consume.
I told all my Bible study gals and a few others
Lysa – I had to laugh. Age is so relative. I’m a retired teacher and I remember when the Jellies became a fad and I had to stop my 5 year olds students from wearing them since the playground mulch would get in their shoes.
Oh, Lysa! Many of us are MUCH older than you…
I only dreamed of owning an Izod – and I’m not sure I want an Ipod! Oh how times change.
Thanks for the laughs!
You are so NOT old! I’m with you sister – Izod! The classic shirt of high school. I’m turning 40 this year. We’re still very young!
Lysa,
I’ve just read your Tuesday blog and saw myself in the same place as the woman with her copy of Made to Crave in her Amazon shopping cart. Only my situation is even worse. I have my copy of MTC and it’s been sitting beside my favorite chair for 2 months now. I know in my heart I need to read it but something had kept me from it and I have now recognized it as my fear of failure. Failure to loose wait and failure to measure up to what God wants me to be. I look in the mirror and can’t believe the heavy woman staring back is actually me. I was thin the majority of my life but as I hit 50 it’s all been down hill. I’m at my all time heaviest other than when I was pregnant with my children. I’ve blamed it on hormones and age, when in reality it’s my own physical weaknesses that draw me to the wrong things. I have a growing relationship with my Lord, but know it could be so much more vibrant than it is. Please pray for me! I feel so ugly inside and out. I know I need to accept who I am in Christ and not my physical appearance. You’d think that the grandmother of 8 and soon to be 10 would get over herself wouldn’t you. I so want to be healthy and spend my grandparent years running and playing with my little ones. Please God help me to be the woman you want me to be! Spiritually first and physically second. Thanks for listening (reading) Lysa.
Lysa,
I’ve just read your Tuesday blog and saw myself in the same place as the woman with her copy of Made to Crave in her Amazon shopping cart. Only my situation is even worse. I have my copy of MTC and it’s been sitting beside my favorite chair for 2 months now. I know in my heart I need to read it but something had kept me from it and I have now recognized it as my fear of failure. Failure to loose weight and failure to measure up to what God wants me to be. I look in the mirror and can’t believe the heavy woman staring back is actually me. I was thin the majority of my life but as I hit 50 it’s all been down hill. I’m at my all time heaviest other than when I was pregnant with my children. I’ve blamed it on hormones and age, when in reality it’s my own physical weaknesses that draw me to the wrong things. I have a growing relationship with my Lord, but know it could be so much more vibrant than it is. Please pray for me! I feel so ugly inside and out. I know I need to accept who I am in Christ and not my physical appearance. You’d think that the grandmother of 8 and soon to be 10 would get over herself wouldn’t you. I so want to be healthy and spend my grandparent years running and playing with my little ones. Please God help me to be the woman you want me to be! Spiritually first and physically second. Thanks for listening (reading) Lysa.
Wow-I’m with you Jamie-only I just finished “Made to Crave” and while part of my agreed with every single chapter, part of me recoiled. I remember 8 months away from turning 40 I vowed to ‘get my excess weight off by the time I’m 40.” Well, guess what, it’s now 6 months before I will be 50 and I not only haven’t lost the 40 pounds I vowed to lose 10 years ago, I’ve added another 20. Mercy! The thought of staying in this miserable place terifies me as much as life without my comforts of chocolate and sweets. I read your book and thought, “This won’t work for me.” Ironically, I am slated to co-facilitate the DVD small group version of “Made to Crave” in April at my church. Yikes! How can I facilitate something I’m scared to death of??