By Michaela Gordoni
FULL HOUSE actress Candace Cameron Bure knows her body is a temple for the Holy Spirit, which is why she’s intentional with all of her actions.
“We may be the only way that another person who doesn’t know Christ encounters Christ that day, through me, through my body,” Bure said recently on her podcast. “Whether it’s through my words or my actions, just doing something kind or smiling or giving a compliment to a stranger, that may be where they see Jesus. Where they see God in a day.”
The Teddy Bear Award winner loves knowing that her body helps others know Christ, and she honors Him through that.
“Like, how incredible is that?” she said.
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A former bulimic, Bure previously recalled on her podcast how God spoke to her about her body through a dream she had.
“I wake up from this dream one day, one morning, and God just vividly showed me that I’ve been like Balaam, and I’ve whipped my body,” Bure said with tears running down her cheeks. “I’ve spoken to it so harshly, so mean: ‘What are you doing? Why do you look this way?”
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“Why are you fat?… Why can’t you be like every other body?’” she continued. “… And it was like this amazing revelation in my life, and the weirdest story out of the Bible that God spoke to me about how mean I’ve been to my body, and yet I just never saw it that way.”
She realized that God designed her body, and it is beautiful in its own way.
“It was so enlightening for me, and I was so grateful to God for sharing that with me, and since that time, it’s given me a whole different perspective of how I think about my body,” Bure shared.
In another podcast episode, Bure shared that because she now treats her body like a temple, she takes care of it.
So, “why would I feed it garbage? Why would I not eat good foods for me? Why don’t I exercise?” she said.
“I never had the connection at those ages that the Holy Spirit dwells inside of me. Like that’s the temple part…but it was such a thin definition for me of what the temple was even within my Christian walk,’ she shared.
Today, Bure says she is glad she is using her body as God intended her to use it, as a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit.
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