Beginning The Daniel Plan

Jason Content

Daniel Plan • Sermon • Submitted 4 years ago

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Rasining a Few Pounds

Today im going to revolutionise your life

But you have to do one thing, stay tuned all the way till the end to find out how your life can change massively

Today is going to be poinient day for you.

Day of Change for you.

Start of Lockdown

We were all thinking about Toilet Roll but non of us really thought about the possiblity of increasing our net worth.

We were thinking about how to work

How to look after the kids

How to use Zoom, like a crash course in Zoom happened all at once.

Yet none of us thought about the weight we have put on over this period of time

Well now lockdown is done

We at REC have a solution for you

A healthy Diet that sorts out not just your weight but also your health, your mental health, your fitness and your spiritual compass

So whos coming on the journey with us over Six weeks to shed off the pounds, be alot happier, and also finish with a new identity and an all round positive kick to life.

Whos coming on the Daniel Plan with us?

Because if Lock Down Two comes along we will be ready to kick its but.

Our Bodies

We all learn in school how our organs in our bodies are all connected

Like the heart cant run if the Brain and the Lungs are not working

You cant walk if your back is crooked

Yet the thing we were never taught is how different compartments of Life in connection with our body has an effect on the following things

How Successful We Are

How Rich we we are

How Happy we are

How productive we are

Yet when you see what you eat, what you read, how you move, and how you reflect

And you look at these things and analys them you soon start to figure out whats going on in your body in what you eat is affecting your wellbeing.

Is like a Car, all parts of the car have to work in order for it to run, or at least be safe on the road.

Thats what were going to look at over the next Six Weeks and the end result that we are aiming for is a better you.

A more healthier you,

A more happier you

A more Centred you

A more productive you

And maybe a more wealthier you.

My Journey to the Daniel Plan

Here is my Story on how I got to the Daniel Plan.

In my Job its very stressful running a Church, Running a foodbank, looking after people and coming up with fresh ideas every week to speak on.

It can be taxing to my body and my mental health.

My diet was bad and I was depressed, I was anxious, I would not sleep very well every night.

I was awake most nights around 3am just thinking of all the issues that has to be solved or work that had to get done.

My relationship with God was good but I took the responsibility away from him and was running with the batton of responsibility myself.

Yet in my prayer time I was groaning and moaning out to God on why I always felt rough.

Why I always got a Cold or never had enough energy

Or Felt Sad alot

Well he gave me this verse which started me towards the Daniel Plan Journey.

2 Chronicles 7:15–17 NLT

My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy—a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart. “As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

When I read this verse in 2 Chronicles I thought to myself wow thats amazing

God hears all our prayers because the bible mentions much later in a letter to paul that we are now the Temple of the Holy Spirit

Do you see what God has done here?

He has moved in with us, his moved into our bodys only if we let him though.

Our bodies are essenitally what was to the Isralites the Temple of God.

We are meant to be Holy and set apart

Yet what that means for your life today is this:

God listens to your everyword

All your hurts

Your Pains

Your heartaches

He hears them all he has promised to do so.

It means that he wants to be so intimate with us that he doesnt just hear your words but he also feels your pain.

There are some of you here today where you have had pain beyond measure

Emotionally

Physically

People have said to you I understand what you are going through

Yet you scream in your Head you dont understand

Yet God the Father the one that spoke with Saul about this temple in 2 Chronicles feels your pain and hears your every prayer.

What a hope is that yet not only does he hear, feel and see this.

He also wants to fix this

You see we have a relationship with God that is a restorer, his a fixer he restores us and fixes us

He fixes our every problem, physical, emotional or even spiritual.

Psalm 145:13-15, 18

Some of us have huge loads on us, known as lifes problems

Problems some of you have never thought about being fixed.

Problems you have lived with most of your life

He can fix all those

He is so close that if you call on him through a relationship with Jesus, he will anwser.

Then I heard him say to me personally, its time to cleanse the temple and do a Daniel Plan

So I begun and over the next six weeks I will share my own stories and others about how great this plan is.

Already I have come to a realisation that I thought it was just about my diet and food yet it has been soo soo much much more. My depression and anxiety has gone

A peace has come over me

The peace of Christ

I am so happy and I feel healthy too.

My own life is being restores back to me.

How Does the Daniel Plan Work?

The Daniel Plan is Based on Five Elements keep tuned in now you dont want to miss this.

These Five Elements give lasting change, not like some diets that come and go and we lose wate but then we put it back on. We also dont have long last better mental health only whilst going through the diet do we feel better about ourselves

Yet when we hit a target weight thats it the cycle begins and in about a years time your back at square one finding a whole new diet.

This isnt like that, this could be for you a lifestyle.

Its also free to do not going to cost you much just your time

How those past diets dont work for us:

They make us rely on will power alone to get us through the diet

They give us the wrong motivation to pick a target weight and go for it doesnt bring long lasting change.

Then unless we pay more money and attend a class we have to pay for there is no community aspect your out on your own.

Not with this, this will change your life keep focused now need you to follow along with me.

How the Daniel plan is different to all other diets.....

1. We put our motivation else where

Remember earlier how I talked about the way of life is like a car you need all the parts to work for you to work at your ample amount.

Well the Daniel Plan helps to face the truth about yourself, your relationship to God, your relationship with Food, and your relationship with others.

It esentially fixes all your relationships over the next forty days, your life is going to change massively.

Not only will you feel healthier, eat better richer food but you will also start to have great relationships going on in your life.

You will also begin to figure out who you are and how you can get rid of that empty feeling inside.

You know the one that niggles at you when the world around you goes quiet.

Your not going to truly change your life until you dig down, and find out the truth about your life and Gods purpose for it.

So when we change our motivation and put it in Gods direction and seeking the true purpose for our life.

This will then help us when we have bad days on this plan.

Your body will rebel yet God has you and can help you to bring it inline.

Were able to trust in God that he has got us doing this plan together with him and our community.

Psalm 116:7 NCV

I said to myself, “Relax, because the Lord takes care of you.”

This is a great line to pick up when you have bad days on the plan and we all will just like anything in life their will be good days and bad days.

So thats our Faith Part Sored

2. Relationship With Food

Now believe it or not Scientists say we all have relationships with Food.

So like with every relationship we have we have to make wise choices.

You wouldnt make friends with a mad man.

Yet we make friends with bad food, like junk food.

When you think about it like this its crazy.

As you then start to make wise Choices with food, you will begin to change into a new person.

And we are here with you helping you make those wise choices with food, on a 40day eating plan.

Literally we are going to provide you with recipies, help encouragement, all you have to do is follow along follow the plan and you will begin to change your thinking and make better choices with food.

The Daniel Plan is the only plan that when you look at the ingredients on the packet you will begin to put the items back on the shelve, and say no to it.

Real, whole food that comes from the earth - food that was created by God - heals, while processed food created by man from factories harms.

There is even scientific evidence to sugest, that processed foods like to cancer, diabities, obesity, arthritus and mental health issues like anxiety.

3. Fitness

Be Honest - What do you think when you hear the word Fitness?

I know myself I cringe a little voice in my head goes no

Then another says we can skip that part dont worry.

Well on this plan we cant skip this part.

It helps us to get moving and helps our mental and physical health

Yet you only have to do some exercises for around 10 to 15 mins a day.

Again we have you covered on this and there are simple exercises you can do to help you.

If your really keen on working out you can always do the Joe Whicks workouts in the mornings.

Its all to help your body grow and change and get stronger.

4. Is It True?

The Focus aspect of the Daniel Plan is all about

helping your mental health

This part of the plan has really helped me

The techniques used to say to your mind no thats not correct to be built on Truth and not lies.

Where certain bible versus help you renew your thoughts has really helped me.

To take hold of your thoughts

According to a research conducted by the National Science Foundation around 80% of our thoughts are negative and 20% are positive

So dont worry about negative thoughts you are not alone in having bad thoughts.

Yet the daniel plan teaches and helps you to confront bad thoughts

One aspect that I have found helpful from this plan is the Is It True? approach and I will be going through that on week four of our Journey through the Daniel plan so dont miss it.

5. The Gift of Loving Community

Being engaged in a community like us at REC will improve your health and not just physically but mentally to.

One of the reasons why the Daniel Plan has helped thousands of people to succeed in a healthier life style is because it is done in community.

Scientists have said Our Social Circles influence our health and even more our DNA, we are more likely to be overwieght if our friends and family are also over weight.

At the same time we are more likely to exercise if our friends or family also exercise.

Also the opposite is true, if you find a community that puts healthy habbits into you, you will then begin to influence your friends and family to become healthy.

You essentially dont just help yourself doing this plan but you also help others around you that are close and dear to your heart.

Wrapping it up

That essentially is the Daniel Plan in five steps.

Over the next six weeks were going to do this plan together

Were going to encourage one another help one another

and Grow Together

In so doing, we will all become Healthier, happier more purpose driven people and we will truly be on the road to living our best lives.