F4F | How to Use the Law of Attraction for Weight Loss

The Bible Does Not Teach the Law of Attraction

Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith here on YouTube, and if you've ever been told that you as a Christian can utilize something called the Law of Attraction, you know, to attract like positive results in your life, you know, for like, you know, prosperity, health, maybe weight loss or whatever, yeah, the Bible doesn't teach the Law of Attraction.

Heretics teach the Law of Attraction. If you've ever been taught the Law of Attraction as a go ahead and hit the subscribe button. You've been taught false doctrine. Now, case in point, today we're going to be heading to the YouTube channel of the Barbie girl herself, Terry Savelle Foy, and she explains to us how to use the Law of Attraction for weight loss.

Yeah, so, I mean, if you're like me and you suffer from rotundiness, and, you know, rotundiness is just the thing that you struggle with, and you're tired of celery sticks and carrots and treadmill time and all that kind of stuff, just put it all away.

Yeah, no, you could use the Law of Attraction apparently to fix all that up. Let's check in with Terry Savelle Foy. Here we go.

Terry Savelle Foy’s Promise of Dreams and Catapulted Living

Hey, I'm Terry Savelle Foy, your cheerleader of dreams. Hey, I pray that as you invest in yourself today, you're captivated and you're catapulted to live your dreams. In fact, if.

Right, yeah, because Christianity is all about living your dreams. No, it's not. Christ said to take up your cross and follow him, and that we should expect suffering and persecution and stuff like that.

That's what he said. Apparently, Christianity is now about.

Following your dreams and living your dreams and stuff. Subscribe to this podcast. Just push the little red button right there to get consistent teaching tools and tips to help you live your dreams. Today, I want to talk to you about how to use the Law of Attraction for weight loss.

Yeah. By the way, the Law of Attraction is not found in the Torah. It's not one of the 10 commandments. It's more akin to like Buddhist thinking. It's more like witchcraft. Okay.

Proverbs 23:7 in Context

Law of Attraction for weight loss. This podcast is specifically on the weight loss issue, but honestly, it can be applied to whatever battle you're facing.

Right. Finances, health, you name it. Relationship issues. You could use the Law of Attraction for.

That. Yeah. Fighting a financial battle, a legal battle, a health battle, a marital battle,.

Whatever. Right. I mean, if you're in a legal battle, I mean, have you considered using.

The Law of Attraction for solving your legal battle problems? Yes. The Law of Attraction is simply expressing gratitude for what you want. Gratitude is the key. You know,.

Law of Attraction. What? So the Law of Attraction is just express gratitude for the thing that you want. Oh, Lord, I thank you that I am so skinny. I thank you that I am no longer suffering from rotundness.

Oh, thank you, Jesus. And then voila, you know, it's no treadmill time needed for you.

This is absurd. And basically states that whatever gets in your mind and stays there, you will attract it in your life, that your mind is like a magnet. All right. Now, I'm going to.

Back this up just a smidge, and we're just going to ask the important question, which biblical text teaches this doctrine that, you know, whatever gets stuck in your mind is what is attracted to.

You? The key, you know, the Law of Attraction basically states that whatever gets in your mind and stays there, you will attract it in your life, that your mind is like a magnet. Now,.

Is this in like fourth hesitations? Did you find this in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas?

Where did you find this Law of Attraction? Law of Attraction? Well, as believers, we call it Proverbs 23 .7. Whatever a man thinks in his heart, so does he become. Now, we got to do some.

Biblical work here. If you have a Bible, you can open it. If not, just follow along. So, we're going to head over to Proverbs, what did she say? 23 .7. Now, let me help you out here. We're going to pull this up in the King James Version, which is what she is quoting.

And we're going to note the three rules for sound biblical exegesis are context, context, and context. And, oh boy, is that text small? Every time I change copies, you know, translations, it gets really small.

And so, here it is out of context. As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. See, there it is, the Bible teaches the Law of Attraction. No, no. I mean, this is so duplicitous, it's ridiculous. In fact, really easy to debunk using the three rules.

Now, and we can do this of, we could do this in the King James, but I'll show you it in the ESV as well. Here's what it says just by adding one, one verse before Proverbs 23 .7. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye.

Neither desire his dainty meats, for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. Eat and drink, saith he to thee. I sound like a Shakespearean guy. Anyway, eat and drink, saith he to thee, but his heart is not with thee.

The morsel which thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomit up and lose thy sweet words. I'm going to be performing in the Globe Theatre next week in London. Anyway, so you kind of get the idea, what does it mean, the guy who has an evil eye?

This is an ancient euphemism or phrase talking about somebody who is stingy or jealous or things of that nature. So let's take a look at the ESV. The ESV is a modern translation, and here's what it says in the ESV.

Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy. Do not desire his delicacies, for he is like one who is inwardly calculating, which is a good way of translating the phrase there in the Hebrew. Eat and drink, he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

You'll vomit up the morsels that you have eaten and waste your pleasant words. Now, see, there you go. As soon as you put it into context, you realize, whoa, wait a second, Proverbs 23 .7 doesn't teach the law of attraction, that as I thinketh in my heart, so am I.

So I imagine myself, 32-inch waist, six-pack, abs, really big biceps, and all this and then, you know, it just happens. No, no, it doesn't work that way. And the sad thing is, just put the text in context, and it cleans itself right up, and you realize, whoa, these people out here who are teaching that Proverbs 23 .7 says, whatever I think in my heart, I can have, they are lying to me.

And the reason you would feel that is because, well, they are lying to you. They are deceiving you. They are scratching your itching ears and telling you what you want to hear. The Bible does not teach the law of attraction.

Jehoshaphat, Praise, and the Difference Between Description and Prescription

But let's continue with Terri Savelle Foy here.

In other words, what you think about, you bring about. Well, here's the thing. God will go to work to fight your battles, but you have to express gratitude, praise,.

And thanksgiving. Oh, I see. So God is going to fight my battles for me, but he's kind of like a mercenary. Yeah, so there's God, you know, me, I can fight your battles for you, me God, right? And you go, oh, that's so good.

That's great news, God. I've got to fight the battle of the bulge. I'm suffering from rotundiness. Please, God, come to my rescue. Fight my battle for me. No, no, me no fight. You must praise me first.

This is nonsense. So God's the mercenary battle fighter. And as soon as you give him praise and stuff, then he goes, okay, me, I will go ahead and I'm going to fight for you now. This is nonsense.

Give you proof. I'll tell you about my weight loss issue, but let me just give you.

So to prove it, she's going to talk about her weight loss issue. In order to prove this, you actually need a biblical text. You need passages that clearly say these things, not something like half of a sentence taken out of context from Proverbs 23.

Proof about what I'm sharing today. You know, we see the story of Jehoshaphat in second Chronicles. If you remember the story, armies are coming against Jehoshaphat. He was completely outnumbered and it looked hopeless.

There was no way he could win this battle. So what does he do? Well, the Bible says he sent the praisers out ahead of him. They were bowing down and praising God, expressing gratitude for how powerful and mighty he is.

Okay. So here's kind of the issue. And let me explain it this way. Number one, second Chronicles is a historical narrative. And so you oftentimes people do these weird things with historical narratives.

They take a historical narrative and they take a descriptive text, which is what's going on here. This is describing a battle that Jehoshaphat ended up fighting. And so now you've turned this into a prescription.

And that's kind of the problem. See, this is not an example of Jehoshaphat going, Oh, as I think of in my heart, so am I. So, and I know God is going to fight my battles if I praise him first. See, the Bible is just, I mean, look at the Old Testament.

Lots and lots and lots of battles were fought without the praise band. And they were won. David won a lot of them without a praise band. So what's descriptive here is not a prescription for us. This is another type of twisting of scripture.

So she's ripped a verse out of context, and now she's looking for another story to kind of force this into this thing that she's teaching, the law of attraction, which the Bible doesn't teach. And the story of the battle of Jehoshaphat is not a story about that at all.

Now, the other thing is, is Jehoshaphat as one of the Kings in the land of Israel, he is in covenant relationship with God. And as a result of that, there are covenant promises. And so he's invoking those and utilizing those and taking God up on his promises to protect the land of Israel, protect the Jews of Judea, you know, things like that.

So she's totally ignoring the bigger context here,.

But okay. And their praise confused the enemy. See, the enemy doesn't know what to do.

Yeah. Many praise bands confuse me also. That's a different story. Different episode of fighting.

For the faith. Sorry. When it does not appear that your breakthrough is ever going to happen and you just start praising and thanking God, it sounds crazy. I thank you God that I'm so skinny.

Oh Jesus, thank you for making me thin. I cannot believe that people believe this.

Bible says the enemies actually turned against each other and slaughtered themselves. Listen to.

What Jehoshaphat did. That must've been how bad the praise band was. Okay. I can't stand this. I'm.

Going to kill myself. The solution. He said, Lord, I don't know what to do. And even if I did, I don't have the strength to do it, but my eyes are on you. And he just began praising and.

Worshiping God. And then he said. Right. Trusting God for deliverance because God had actually promised that to those who kept covenant with him in the time of the old Testament.

Hello? Oh yeah. And the armies are coming against me. Well, listen to what the Lord said. He said to him, the battle is the Lord's. The victory is yours. And he won the battle. Now think about it. Jehoshaphat's position was don't worry about it.

Just keep my eyes on God. Now get this ingrained. When you complain, no matter what it is, when you complain, you remain. When you praise, you make progress. See, that's my problem. The reason I've.

Been suffering from rotundness for most of my adult life is because I keep complaining about it. No biblical text teaches this. Okay. I, I'm literally going to explode. Um,.

How much more of this can I endure? Hang on. I discovered personally that one of the ways that we maintain our less than desired bodies is through the words of our mouths. No complaining.

I thought it was by putting food into my mouth. Who knew it was what was coming out of my mouth.

My words. This is crazy making. Focusing on the negative things that we hate about ourselves. It causes us to remain that way. When we're saying things like I hate my thighs. My stomach is huge. I'll never get this weight off.

No matter what I do, I can't lose weight. This cellulite is disgusting. Well, what we focus on expands now.

Okay. I can be blunt. Not only is this not Christian doctrine, I'm pretty sure this is bad psychology as well. I mean, it's, this doesn't even rise to the level of pop psychology. This is like new age nonsensical psychology.

I mean, and notice that she's got just such a simple solution for what many people turns out to be a complex problem. Some people legitimately have slow metabolisms and get kicking their metabolisms into a higher gear becomes more difficult as age sets in.

Oftentimes people have sitting jobs or things like that, or they have other medical conditions that they have to consider or high stress levels. And so she's just basically put all of these complex reasons why different people suffer from rotundness and boiled it down to a super simple thing.

Well, it's just because you're complaining too much. Nonsense. And no biblical text teaches this that she's teaching. This woman is exploiting people with overly simplified explanations to the problem, false doctrine, Bible twisting.

And of course, she travels the world because she's the co-cheerleader for helping people achieve their dreams. Yeah. Buyer beware is the best way I could put it. If you're looking to lose weight, the last person you should go to for helping you with that is Terry Savelle Foy.

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