Scripture: Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
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About two weeks ago, God spoke to me and told me to stop overeating and He showed me that I had a food addiction. Notice that I put emphasis on ‘had’ (I italicized it) because today, 3.5.2024, I no longer have an addiction to food because God has since healed and delivered me from it and its source (the root of it), thank you Jesus!
Meanwhile, during that time (about two weeks ago) when God showed me that I was overeating and that I had an addiction to food, the first thing I did was acknowledge it, because God was correct (*we cannot fix something that we do not see as a problem). God was so on point; I just had no idea that He paid attention to things like that. I always believed that God was only concerned with things such as, for example, the condition of our heart, mind, spirit… But I see that I was wrong about that.
So, maybe a week prior to God pointing that out to me, I remember that I was eating dinner and I told myself that not only do I tend to overeat (again, past tense now), but that I eat (and snack) at times when I am not even hungry. And what had brought that truth to the forefront of my mind was because I had pretty much finished my dinner (Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes), and I had some more mashed potatoes left on my plate, and although I was full at that point, I still ate the mashed potatoes, and it was so unnecessary, because once I was full, I should have stopped eating. That is the proper thing to do and the healthy thing to do, for we should never overeat.
Thank God that I no longer overeat, and I no longer eat when I am not hungry, and I eat smaller portions during mealtime and I no longer snack as much; and whenever I do have, for example, microwave popcorn, instead of eating the entire bag at one time, now I use portion control and have one to two cups of popcorn. I am so proud of myself, and I will admit that this has not been easy at all, but I know, just as God does, that overeating is an unhealthy thing to do and it leads to obesity and a range of other health problems, and I do not want that, nor does God want that for me (I realized).
God is concerned about all that we do, and He watches all that we do. And God has definitely been monitoring my compliance with the instructions that He gave me to stop overeating and use portion control (eat less at one sitting, even if it requires you to eat more frequently). How do I know this? Because just yesterday, 3.4.2024, when I was preparing my plate and I opened the pouch of rice (Ten-Minute Success Boil in Bag White Rice) to put on my plate, God, knowing what I was about to do (and that was, put all of the rice from that pouch onto my plate) instructed me to only put half of that pouch of rice on my plate. And I obeyed, except that I will admit that I put a little more than half of the rice on my plate (lol). But the next time I eat rice, I am going to strictly adhere to God’s instructions concerning the portion size.
Obedience to what God tells you/tells us to do, I will never stop stressing this, it is so important, because God knows what is best for us and everything that He tells us do, you can believe, that it is for our good.
I do not want to end this blog without mentioning something very important regarding healing and God being a healer:
In the first paragraph, I mentioned that I no longer have an addiction to food because God has since healed me (and delivered me from it). I mentioned ‘healing’ because God knew that I had to first be healed from the thing (the pain) that caused my food addiction and caused me to overeat, where I used food as a band aid, which as we know, band-aids only covers a wound, not heal it.
But God, in all of His awesomeness and out of the abundance of love that He has for me (and you too), He worked on me and healed me from depression and a food addiction, and He will do the same for you! God is so amazing.
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Be encouraged! God Loves you.
Love and peace,
Yolanda Billingslea (Ms. B)
FYI: My Facebook Page name is Yolanda Billingslea (my profile picture has "Unbreakable" across it). Be inspired and encouraged by my daily posts.
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Song: Because of Who You Are – Vicki Yohe
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