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This weekend celebrates Christ’s suffering and resurrection.   Jesus took a cruel and painful punishment, suffering hell for me.  Isaiah 53:5 is, “But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.  He was beaten so we could be whole.  He was whipped so we could be healed. (Holy Bible, New Living Translation, 1996, 2004, 2007).   Through His pain and resurrection, I am healed from my sin.  Now through Him, I can quit sinning.  I do consider it sin to eat food my body does not need.  I am powerless to stop eating excess food on my own.  With Christ, I am delivered from this urgeRead More →

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I occasionally have a desire to stuff food down my throat as fast as I can. I am not eating because of hunger.  Stuffing food into my body never satisfies me.  My body does not need this food, but I have a spiritual need only God can fill.  I avoid overindulgence by turning to God to meet this need.  During the times I have given in to this urge, I do not enjoy the food I gorge on.  I use food to meet a need only God can fill.  Since food never fills this craving, I continue to overeat. Only God can satisfy these deep spiritualRead More →

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For many years, I turned to food to help me with problems and celebrate good times. I now realize how deeply ingrained my food habit is. I occasionally forget that God is my answer instead of food. For a long time, I excused minor slips. I believed since I was “good” most of the time, it was okay to sometimes rely on food instead of God. These excuses kept me from believing that God can help me eat only what my body needs at all times. I must believe that He can keep me from eating excess food. As long as I think I am powerless toRead More →

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Sometimes I feel as if the world is against me and my struggle to eat just what my body needs.  I am stressed, so my natural response is to grab food.  Someone brings cookies to share at lunch or donuts to enjoy in the morning.  My busy schedule makes it hard to plan healthy meals.  When I am down, I feel like giving up. Food was once my answer to every problem.  I am on a journey of replacing this reliance on food to dependence on God alone. I realize there is an enemy likes my dependence on food. Food prevents me from reaching out to GodRead More →