Discovering gluttony is a sin! Yikes!

In 2002 I began this journey to loose about 200 plus pounds, I was so heavy my scale could not actually weigh me until I'd been on the first diet for about a month. What made me begin my journey was not the fact that I was so hugely over weight, but that I was convicted about the sin of gluttony. Yes, its a sin to over eat, at least that was my initial idea of what gluttony meant. Now I know much more, as God has shown me verse after verse about the sin of gluttony. Do a word search and you will be completely amazed at how much God hates this sin, its one of the 7 deadly sins for good reason! Its going to bring death to you spiritually and physically if you continue to live with a gluttonous behavior! (See the Bible for details, search Biblegateway.com)

So I began to obey God and try very hard, and fail many times, to control myself, not be a glutton, change my eating habits via two diet programs,add regular exercise etc, etc. I did over 7 years to date loose 167 pounds. Praise God, its Him, NOT me!! Fast forward to August 2009, when I began to cry out to God for help with this 18 month plateau of no weight loss. I've tried everything I've learned along this journey to get off this plateau, all to no avail. Oh, I might loose 1-5 pounds, but then back they'd come! Then came Monday August 3 when my daily quiet time with God gave me the following wonderful insights straight from the God of Heaven! I hope it will encourage anyone reading this as it has me, to God be the glory!

Romans 6:12 "Therefore", which refers back to verses 10-11 which says we are dead to former sinful life and former sins (for me gluttony was on my mind), "do NOT LET SIN REIGN in your MORTAL BODY, that you should obey it in its lusts."

What is gluttony but simply obeying the lusts of the flesh!... OH WOW! I thought, what victory this can bring! I use to think "I want to eat_________, so I will eat it!"

The powerful way to overcome this terrible habit of gluttony and sin, is to instead think,
"I am hungry ? What do I have that's good for my body?" This lead me to realizing that many times I am not truly hungry, but just wanting to taste something because its yummy. But what is that? That's giving into my fleshy lusting for food, that's the sin of gluttony! What a revelation this has been for me as daily I go around doing just that! I've caught myself so many times, and actually thrown the food from my mouth to the trash. I hope now that I don't even put it in my mouth!!

Then that same day I read in Numbers 11:4-15 which only confirmed all I'd gotten from Romans 6. Verse 4 in Numbers says they (the children of Israel in the desert now with Moses) "yielded to intense craving..." regarding the foods of Egypt and all their wonderful flavors. (yes, it really says that, look it up!) The result of this yielding was for them to cry to Moses for meat. But notice they YIELDED to the CRAVING= intense fleshly desires just like it says in Romans 6!

I thought OH WOW GOD you've given me the formula to overcome this once and for all with your help!

To receive VICTORY over Gluttony ,which is ANY intensely fleshly desire try the following!
1) IGNORE and PRAY THRU THE CRAVINGS, but TOTALLY NEVER GIVE IN!
2) REBUKE CRAVINGS as they are only flesh/body desires= sin!
We rebuke sickness,evil spirits, all sorts of things, why not rebuke this too?!!

To GOD be the Glory for the victory He will give us all if we can follow these words!