Do you believe that God is for you or against you?
What you believe about God has a profound effect on your health.
Christian author Dr. Timothy Jennings makes this amazing quote:
“Recent brain research by Dr. Newberg at the University of Pennsylvania has documented that all forms of contemplative meditation were associated with positive brain changes—but the greatest improvements occurred when participants meditated specifically on a God of love.
Such meditation was associated with growth in the prefrontal cortex (the part of the brain right behind our forehead where we reason, make judgments and experience God’s love) and subsequent increased capacity for empathy, sympathy, compassion and altruism.
But here’s the most astonishing part. Not only does other-centered love increase when we worship a God of love, but sharp thinking and memory improve as well. In other words, worshiping a God of love actually stimulates the brain to heal and grow.”
I have proven this true in my own life.
When I struggled with emotional eating at 240 pounds, I believed that God was against me – even though I had said the prayer of salvation 9 years earlier.
I saw God as angry with me and out to get me.
So I gave God His due on Sunday, but had little to do with Him Monday – Saturday.
Now I know that my false view of God was born from a lie – just as Adam and Eve believed the enemy’s lie about God and changed their relationship with Him forever.
Fear became the dominant force in their lives, not love.
Their fear caused them to hide from God. Most of mankind has been hiding from God ever since!
I hid from God emotionally too for 9 years after saying the prayer of salvation.
It was only when I attended a Christian women’s conference back in 2001 that God showed me His love in such a personal way that I started believing God was for me.
Once I believed that God loved me and was for me, the process of healing began. I began to trust Him with my pain and started turning to Him when I was hurting emotionally rather than burying my emotions under food.
As a result, I lost the excess weight and overcame emotional eating!
As long as you believe that God doesn’t love you and is against you, you’ll keep on running from Him emotionally too.
But in the following article, you will learn how to turn things around with a simple practice that takes just 15 minutes a day.
You can do this!