LOVE Overcomes Hate
Good Morning, Baby Girl,
For a week now, you have delighted in food. Did you deprive yourself of anything? Did you experience hunger or lack? Do you feel like you have been white-knuckling your way to freedom from extra weight and working on being healthy? Have you paid attention to calories, fiber, or how many grams of protein you have had? Have you tracked your water intake to ensure you get enough? Have you paid attention to the man-made path to health?
No.
Have you found enjoyment in eating and companionship in breaking bread? Did you enjoy the large scoop of ice cream with Lauren and Adam, the homemade sugar cookie Annie made and gave you, and the raspberry chocolate Milano cookies you had yesterday with your client?
Go get on the scale.
It has been seven days and you are down seven pounds. You were completely unaware you were losing weight because you were not trying to lose anything.
Don’t be impressed with that number and don’t be concerned if this is a healthy pace to lose weight. Remember that what you see on that scale is simply three numbers strung together.
I don’t want you to learn to delight in food for the sake of food. Food is simply fuel for your flesh. It is neither good nor bad in and of itself. It just is.
Food is no more sinful or holy than you make it. It is substance from the earth as is your flesh. Both are temporary things created to enrich the earth and both are intended to return to the earth; from ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
The significance and value of both your flesh and food is how you use it. Just as food can nourish and strengthen, it can also cause obesity and disease. What goes into the same mouth can either bless or curse the one partaking.
The same is true of the body of Christ - My body, My children. What you collectively take into “the body” can nourish and strengthen or cause spiritual obesity and disease.
Prior to last week, your diet according to all the experts was healthy. It primarily consisted of vegetables, protein, and fruit and you have been walking for an hour every morning five days a week during your prayer call. You were doing everything by human understanding that should have resulted in physical health and weight loss, yet the scale and your pants were evidence that there is more to it.
What were you missing?
Delight = to please (someone) greatly
Please = to cause to feel happy and satisfied
When you are pleased, finding happiness, contentment, and satisfaction in the foods you consume, you are not easily lured by the enemy into overconsumption and dissatisfaction.
Just as I long for you to feel satisfied, the enemy longs for you to experience dissatisfaction because that is where his suggestions hold the most power.
You have three women in your life who are seeking Me for a way out of their home situation. They are extremely dissatisfied. Just as satan took Jesus into the wilderness to offer what Jesus appeared to lack, satan is taking men and women all over the world into the wilderness and holding mirrors up to expose their lack so that he can offer a “better way.” The problem is that his “better way’ leads to death - emotionally, spiritually, and, on occasion, physically.
By the time you told your husband you wanted a divorce in 2021, something deep inside of you felt like it had died - It was your love. Your love for both your husband and for Me had grown so cold it was as though it no longer existed. The lies he offered had taken you so far off the path I have for you that you could no longer see the light for your next right step, and you could no longer feel the warmth of the Son.
The only way to rekindle LOVE for people is to rekindle your first LOVE: your LOVE for Me.
That was a side note. Let Me bring this concept home loud and clear for YOU. As a baby, you loved food! When your belly was hungry you cried and, when you ate, you were satisfied and content. You were not born with a fear of or hatred toward food. The enemy offered you thoughts causing fear around food and you, in your free will, accepted. You harbored the fear of food long enough that fear turned into hate.
When you fear anything long enough, that fear will morph into hate and you will begin to hate that thing. Hate is an emotion that leads to death. Hate begins where love ends. LOVE is the only power strong enough to overcome hate.
To be permanently free from the grip that food, the mirror, and the scale have had on your life, you must renew your mind and learn to once again love food. When you love something or someone, you delight in it or them.
You have learned to delight in My Presence. It appears you’re enjoying the opportunity to delight in food as well. Hang on to that delight with every fiber of your being. When the enemy offers thoughts that come against that delight, out loud, declare the goodness of God over what I have provided.
LOVE you, Little One.
Daddy
Revelation 2:2-4