Breaking Food Addictions
Father, help me to understand this wondrous vessel you have fashioned for me to
use and for your Spirit to dwell in – my body. Teach me to understand that you have
endowed it with an innate knowing of what it does and doesn’t need as well as when
it needs it in order to function at its maximum performance. Help me recognize when
my unsurrendered soul is trying to use this wondrous vessel to help it blot our need
and pain. God, I now choose to issue that edict to every part of my being: I will no
longer be like a puppet responding to the pulling of whatever string my
unsurrendered soul might use to try to control me!
Lord, help me to return to eating for sustenance and energy only. Help me to
recognize hunger as the reason for eating and cessation of hunger pangs for the
reason to stop eating. I know I have overloaded and abused the systems of my body
by requiring it to constantly digest food. I have allowed myself to become both the
abuser and the abused. O God, forgive me and help me to return to your truth and
your wisdom for my body.
I bind my body, soul and spirit to your will, confessing that I know I have not been
doing what’s best for me to do. I loose from myself all wrong attitudes about food. I
loose wrong emotional reactions that I have formerly used to validate eating comfort
foods. I loose my soul desire to stuff my body in order to dull my senses, when it is
reacting to reactivated pain. I choose to separate the needs of the normal physical
functions of my body from the unnatural neediness of my soul.
I bind the inward parts of my body to your will and purposes- my stomach, brain,
nervous system, as well as everything else you’ve created within me, Father. I bind
the inward parts of my soul’s belief system to your will and truth, Father. I bind myself
to your truth, and I loose wrong ideas I have accepted as “truth” from man’s ideas
about good and bad food.
I loose self-justification, self-desire, self-deception, and self-denial that I have
allowed my soul to layer over my unmet needs- keeping you out. Forgive me, Lord,
for using food to try to take the edge off the drives of these needs, rather than letting
you close so you can meet them. Forgive me for using food to medicate and even
drug myself when the pain of unhealed hurts seemed too much, too overwhelming.
Help me to seek the food of freedom, healing, joy, and peace that fine-tunes and
streamlines my life – the spiritual food in your Word. In Jesus’ name AMEN.
Cindy Cocklin / Liberty Savard
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