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