Pray for strength and guidance

I have a prayer request, and I don't know exactly how to explain it. We all have sins that we battle, fall back into, and then regret having fallen back into. Mine is gluttony. I battle it daily. Some may try to call it a disorder or an addiction, but what it is, to me, is sin-gluttony.

I battle and win for months at a time, and then I fall back. I am not strong enough on my own, and obviously I have not yet truly given it over to God. Though I imagine that I have repented and turned away, obviously I have not. These are things I need to do.

Please pray for me.

I hope I have not said anything offensive or wrong. Along with food, I am also known for my ability to stick my feet slap in my mouth.

 

Thanks, y'all.

 

Funny you should post that today! Ever have one of those days in which everything you say seems to be the wrong thing? That's been my day thus far lol!


I truly do thank you all for the prayers. Please keep on.

During prayer last night, I realized some thing. In the last year, through prayer and hard work, I've lost 70 pounds. People would ask me how I lost the weight, and I told them the honest truth-eat right, exercise, and pray pray pray pray. That is when my troubles began, when I began to openly and shamelessly give the glory for it all to God. I think that the devil doesn't like it when we glorify God, and I think Satan is throwing all he can at me right now to shut me up.

Knowing this gives me the motivation I need to carry on. So carry on I will. It also helps knowing where this barrage of attacks is coming from.

Just so y'all will know...this is not about me wanting to look better! I am happily married to a man who knew this was an issue for me, and loved me anyway. It's not about wanting to fit in or look like a super model. This is about me over coming this sin. Every time I indulge in this sin, I know I'm hammering those nails-He died for this sin (and all of my others, too.) It's also about insurance. We can't afford health insurance for me. And it's about wanting to be there and be healthy when my now 8 year old graduates high school, college, gets married, and makes me a granny. It's about wanting to be healthy to retire with my Mr. Wonderful and go do whatever tickles our fancy.

...And it stands in the way of me serving Christ. I've been asked so many times to please join the choir at our church, but I won't. I can't. How can I stand up and sing to people when my sin is so blatant? It would make me a hypocrite, wouldn't it?

Sorry-I don't mean to go on and on and on.

Please continue to pray for me. I'm just a flawed human, after all. A flawed human with athletes tongue