Changing your life from the inside out
I always seem to be fighting myself! I know intellectually what I need to do to take care of myself both spiritually and physically. But I always fight an inward battle within myself.
Why do I do what I shouldn’t do and struggle to do what I should do?
Paul expresses it so eloquently:
”For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. “ Romans 6:18-20 NIV
”What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God – through Jesus Christ our Lord!” Romans 6:24-25 NIV
I recently found out from a CT scan I underwent in December 2025, the radiation treatment I received in October 2025 on my neck, some cancer cells escaped my neck and went into my lungs. I can’t seem to win for losing ground! The chemo drug I am currently receiving is causing hand-foot syndrome and extreme fatigue. This is the 3rd series of chemotherapy treatments I underwent in the past 4 years in my fight to kill the cancer. In the process of suppressing/killing cancer cells, other organs inside my body are suffering adverse effects that will have lasting negative consequences I will have to face in my future.
I was watching one of my favorite preachers on Daystar Christian Network, and at the beginning of every new year Pastor Jentezen Franklin preaches for a reset both body and spirit with a fast dedicated to God. The first few days he recommends a liquid fast, followed with the Daniel Fast which follows a vegetarian diet of juicing, steamed vegetables, no red meat for either 10 days or 21 days.
*You can google The Daniel Fast for more information.
This is also the type of diet that cancer hates, for it starves the cancer and kills the cancer stem cells. I started out the first day very shaky and in truth only lasted until mid afternoon as I caved in to my fleshly desires for the western type diet. I was very discouraged. How can I be so weak?!
I realized I cannot make major life changes without Jesus in me to strengthen me. For Christ to strengthen me is through prayer, meditation on His Word, praising Him, and the Holy Spirit removing those old desires.
The following week, Pastor Jentezen Franklin said if you fell off your diet and had that double cheese burger, get up and start over again! I told myself, “Just because I had a set back doesn’t mean that I should give up!” I believe this is the learning process of being disciplined; not to stay stuck in your circumstance but in persevering, determination and in partnership with Christ will bring health and peace to your body and soul.
I will get up and start over again. I have bought a juicer, a hydrogen bottle, I’m eating veggies and fruits, becoming a sprout farmer, and I’m taking supplements. For the times I fail, I know I will overall succeed for as I am in Christ, His righteousness covers me and I become righteous because of Jesus. I will transform from glory to glory, starting from the inside out, including letting go of traditional cancer treatments and embracing the food that God intended for us to thrive. Amen!
Dear Lord, I pray for discipline in my spiritual life to read your Word, be in constant prayer, meditation and praise. Secondly in my physical body to eat the foods you intended us to eat as in the Garden of Eden for health, happiness and strength. Help me to let go of the western diet, by removing those fleshly desires. Amen 🙏
Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Michael, and Azariah. “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.” So he agreed and tested them for ten days. At the end of ten days they looked healthy and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. Daniel 1:11-15 NIV