Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, Who is in you, Whom you have received from GOD? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor GOD with your body." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
Overeating is simply terrible for our hearts along with the rest of our bodies and is definitely not what
GOD desires of us. Eating until we are full (overeating) results in the formation of bad internal fat.
The medical term for this is
visceral adipose tissue (VAT or abdominal obesity).
Oozing from this harmful VAT, there are many toxins that cause inflammation to occur throughout
our bodies especially in our blood vessels. All blood vessels, joints, muscles, and organs are damaged by this
process. The medical term for these toxins is
pro-inflammatory adipocytokines (PIACs). Our bodies are
essentially being destroyed by a constant state of internal civil war when these PIACs are around so that
we have aches and pains, our blood pressure is up and down (more up than down), we have trouble either
concentrating or remembering things, we have difficulty sleeping, our cholesterol is elevated, and we are
starting to have type-2 diabetes (or already have it along with heart disease).
Yes, we now know it is wrong for us to overeat (eat until we are full) and yet we keep doing it. This is
a compulsion because we are doing something that we know to be harmful. Yes, this is also a loss of free
will. When there is a loss of free will, we are no longer able to freely choose to do what GOD desires
of us especially when we essentially reside in HIS blessed feed lot.
This loss of free will is a work of satan, who is the source of the lie (hunger is bad and means we are starving) that has
wounded the hearts of our souls thereby keeping us from becoming Jesus' latter-day disciples. With this lie in our
hearts, we are compelled to think and act like Esau, whom GOD hates.
If you are also smoking tobacco products (or doing other bad things) to kill your hunger in order to keep from overeating, you will
also need to learn what is required to stop smoking (or to stop doing other bad things)
in order to become healthier (hungrier) to lose the VAT.
Please consider using the following script to do good work so that GOD would possibly want to help
you overcome your compulsion to overeat. You have my permission to freely copy this web page without
any modification for personal use or to direct others to this page so that they may also receive
HIS help so that they could also become disciples of LORD Jesus Christ if they so freely choose. For
non-believers, there is an alternate script
that the Holy Spirit may guide you to use.
Part A -- Easy
Mission: Informing Christian friends that GOD is blessing you right now.
Christian friend (standard southern greeting): "How are you?"
You (smiling): "GOD is blessing me right now at this very moment in time ! ! !"
Part B -- Challenging
Mission: Teach your Christian friend how to know whether GOD is blessing him/her right now.
Christian friend (intrigued by your reply): "How do you know?"
You (earnestly): "GOD has taught me this by what is written in Luke 6:21. Do you know this verse?"
Christian friend: "No. Would you please tell me this verse?"
You (hopefully with sound effects from your stomach): "Blessed are you who hunger NOW...
for you will be satisfied."
Christian friend: "You are hungry right now ! ! !"
You: "Yes, by doing what GOD desires, especially eating less, down to the right amount,
which is by HIS design."
Christian friend: "What is the right amount?"
You: "An omer (Exodus 16:16), which happens to be 32 ounces of food per day. This is the
2PD-OMER Approach."
Part C - Bonus
Mission: Get your Christian friend to laugh by showing him/her where the problem is.
Christian friend: "Thank you for sharing. Good bye."
You: "Be hungry (Deuteronomy 8:3)."
Christian friend: (Laughs and smiles upon realizing that the problem resides in the heart and will need
to do as you are doing to become absolutely convinced in the mind that "hunger is wonderful" to overcome
the compulsion to overeat while waiting for the necessary "change of heart"
that will depend on GOD).
Know that the more convinced you become, the more convincing you will be.
It is after you become absolutely convinced in your mind that hunger is wonderful because it is from GOD
(Deuteronomy 8:3) that the time becomes right for GOD to give you that
"change of heart" which will make
everything in your life more right.
"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9)
Only the LORD can understand our hearts and purge the deceit from them.
"With man this is impossible, but with GOD all things are possible." -- LORD Jesus Christ (Matthew 19:26)
Amen.
"My LORD and my GOD!" -- Disciple Thomas upon seeing the risen LORD Jesus Christ (John 20:28).
When HE purges the deceit from your heart, it will be your responsibility to
protect your heart from being
trashed again by those who remain deluded. Afterwards, you will be clothed with the Holy Spirit,
Who is the Power from on high, thereby making you one of Jesus' latter-day disciples fully equipped and armored
to do the good work that GOD desires of you. In the Holy Spirit, we, who are Jesus' disciples (either Jew or
gentile), are hungrier than ever and would flee from GOD the Holy Spirit like Jonah did if we did not know in our
hearts that our hunger is wonderful, because it is from GOD (Deuteronomy 8:3).
Are you wanting to give thanks and praise for this message?
Laus Deo!
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