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Today I’m 30 lbs. lighter, off all
prescribed and over-the-counter medications for asthma, high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, anxiety, depression, back pain and allergies. My health is
restored, my spirit renewed!
 On
December 16, 1960, only a few days before Christmas, I tragically lost my
father, I had just turned six years old. Back in those days, losing someone
by death was not something discussed or treated, especially for a child.
My life just moved on.
It wasn’t long afterwards that I was given a new Daddy. He was very
different from the first. Truth is, I don’t even remember my real father.
The life I knew before was never going to be the same again. I had to learn
to adjust to a new authority. I didn’t fair very well at all. No one
knew.
By age 10, I was a full-blown compulsive overeater, dreadfully addicted to
sugar! My comfort was in my food and the “high” that my body needed to keep
from submersing in a sea of depression. Food became my best friend. Although
I was never heavy in my younger life, I battled the next 40 years in this
raging war of addiction. What I did know was that I was miserable in this
relationship with my “secret” friend. I never confessed it to anyone so how
could anyone help me? I remained in my own world of deception and shame.
In November of 2004, God lead me to Setting Captives Free ministry. I began
an online course called “The Lord’s Table”. This 60-day course was designed
to help break through the bondage and idolatry from food. Within the course
was a plan to water/juice fast one day per week. Truthfully, I didn’t see
how this would help me. The idea of fasting from my emotional “lifeblood”,
food, was almost incomprehensible, After the 4th weekly fast, I had
found victory in making it through.
After the completion of The Lord’s Table, I had begun to see the light in
controlling, but not breaking compulsive overeating. I understood how I had
chosen to allow food to separate me from God. I now believe I had trusted in
food more than my Savior. My heart was broken by this revelation, as God had
planned it to be. It was then that I stumbled upon Freedomyou. Was it an
accident or coincidence to have found this ministry? No, I knew it was a God
Thing. His plan was unfolding.
Having no sick time left at work, I determined to fast! I knew I could make
it 1-2 days. Was it possible for me to fast for 3 days if need be? Maybe 4
days? I was not confident in myself to think I could make it any longer;
however, the Lord obviously knew my fears of and had other divine plans. Not
long before, I had shied away from committing to a 20-day fast with The
Lord’s Table – Part II, believing I could never do it. Giving up what I
loved most (eating) was not conceivable. I was about to be thrown head
first out the window of my spiritual comfort zone!
Had I had been told what was going to come, I would have certainly fled;
however, through God’s miraculous grace my 2-3 day fast turned into 25 days.
It was on day 3 of me fast that I heard God speak, Judy, now trust Me…I
will carry you through! I will be glorified in you. Like a little child
reaching for the arms of its Daddy, I held mine up high to my Abba as He
swept me under His Wings! I then felt a comfort that I had yearned for since
the death of my father. I was safe once again.
There was no denying that my heart was ready for the journey of my life! I
realized that there was no way I would have anything to do with controlling
this fast. My fear was far too great. What I soon discovered was my God was
even greater! His words, “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the
world!” took on a new meaning. At the same time, my partnership with
Freedomyou developed. With the wealth of information on the site along with
the spiritual and prayerful support from the forum partners, I made it
through. I experienced a lasting victory from compulsive overeating that I
suffered all those years.
Today, three extended fasts has done its work.
I’m 30 lbs. lighter and off all prescribed and over-the-counter medications
for asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, anxiety, depression, back
pain and allergies. My diet is now void of red meat, wheat and gluten
products, dairy, white sugar and white flours. The sugar demons have found a
new home somewhere else! My health is restored, compulsive overeating broken
and my spirit is renewed!
I never knew life could be so good if only I allowed God to control it. Now
it’s my passion to not only enlighten those who remain ignorant of this
incredible blessing from God but to minister to and encourage those who are
just like me. If only I had someone to enlighten me a long time ago.
Thank you Jesus!
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