Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Jennifer Jill Schwirzer
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00091C
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00:14 Welcome back, this whole program we have talked about
00:18 throughout your life that the devil himself sets up these 00:22 strategic charges and will try to take you out. 00:25 With Jennifer we looked at how he did that in her home, 00:29 how he did that in elementary school, her abuses even at 00:32 the hands of children that were around her, how he did it 00:35 in high school, in her journey through the New Age stuff, 00:39 and even how he did it as she stepped 00:42 into the Christian Church. 00:44 As she found some relief with her relationship with God 00:47 and all of a sudden she is surrounded by people that are 00:51 just saying she is not good enough so she tried to 00:53 starve herself to death. 00:55 Now Jennifer I just want to say I am so grateful, 01:00 you know God never gives up on us, He never stops, 01:04 you know I love the book 'The Hound of Heaven' that 01:08 I will never let you go, and your heart was underneath 01:12 all that damage was seeking after God? 01:14 Yes that is right, yeah absolutely. 01:17 He allowed me to go through that for a period of time, 01:20 I think He knew it wasn't quite time yet. 01:22 I wasn't quite ready, I was still in a place where 01:25 I thought my own fixes were going to work. 01:27 So what I would like you to talk to somebody that is 01:30 sitting out there, talk to two different groups. 01:32 First I want you to talk to somebody that is sitting out 01:35 there that is still lost in all that, that is maybe 01:38 starting to break denial, to start to feel a sense of wanting 01:42 to be well but they are dying in their eating disorder. 01:45 I want you to talk to them and then people that they love. 01:48 People with eating disorders love? Or the people 01:52 that love people with eating disorders? 01:53 Okay, I've got it. Alright if you are struggling with 01:57 an eating disorder, I could really expand that to be any 02:01 method of self fixing but let's focus on eating disorders. 02:04 If you are struggling with that and you think that, and 02:08 this has been a method that you have used to help yourself 02:11 because of some kind of emotional wound you suffered 02:16 maybe as a child, or maybe a lack of good bonding with 02:20 your family, or maybe a feeling of loneliness or 02:22 depression, if you have used this to try to deal with 02:26 that, to heal yourself from that and you have found that 02:29 you have actually gotten worse as a result and that it has 02:32 not gotten to the root of the problem, God isn't done yet. 02:35 God is still working on you and actually there is 02:38 a purpose to all of this, He is bringing you to the end 02:40 of your rope and once you are at the end of your rope 02:43 you will be willing to jump into His arms basically. 02:46 Then if you know someone who has an eating disorder, 02:50 try not to focus on the problem, this is a person 02:53 you are dealing with, don't let them in your mind be 02:56 defined as a problem because they are much more than 02:59 a problem, in fact they are a work in progress and 03:02 they are perfect in Christ the Bible says. 03:05 So address them that way, see them through the eyes of 03:08 Christ, see them as a completed human being and a healed 03:11 human being in Christ and they will start to become what 03:14 you believe they are. - exactly! 03:16 So remember that God knows who you are, He knows what 03:20 you have done to try to fix yourself, He knows that at 03:24 the end of the day I am still as damaged as I have ever 03:27 been and if you just say out loud, and say out loud 03:31 today, God take it from me I can't do this anymore. 03:35 It's not working and then don't trust 03:37 your feelings at all. 03:39 I'm praying you don't trust your feelings. 03:41 Let God through the Holy Spirit leads you to every next 03:44 step, grab hold of somebody and get some help, get 03:47 in a group, call someone, call us if you need to. 03:50 Just get well and until next time always remember that 03:53 God is crazy about you and me too! God bless! |
Revised 2014-12-17