Who Is First?

You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below." Exodus 20:4 NIV

Lord are you first or have I chosen another? You see I have put other things before God for so long I don't even know how to consistantly put Him first. So I have to fight to keep Him first everyday. It is not just something that happens automatically. It takes work. It is also not about how I feel. Emotions are fickle..... Happy one minute and sad the next.

I am choosing to put God first and glorify Him in my body and in my life.

I fasted today breakfast and lunch and I ate too much at my dinner time meal. I feel stuffed. I pray that tomorrow when it is time to eat dinner that I am able to practice self-control over what I eat. I pray that my desire will not be to over eat. Lord I pray that you will get at my heart and heal it where it hurts. Lord show me why I ate too much...in the name of Jesus! AMEN

An Encouraging Testimony

Here is a testimony from The Lord's Table....

My love of food has kept me in bondage since I was a very young girl. I used food to comfort my loneliness and sooth my pain. What was used to cover pain as a child, ended up causing pain all through my adult years. I had been controlled by food every day of my life.

Along with food, other addictions came in to my life. All were self-destructive. When I accepted Christ in my life in my thirties, God started freeing me of some of the other things in my life.
Most of them fell away so easily, and I thought for sure He would deliver me of food issues. I cried out for many years to be freed from the bondage food had on me.

When I saw The Lords Table website address in the church bulletin, I was interested. At first I was angry, because I thought I am a Christian and I spend time with God every day. Well I learned fast I was not really seeking the Lord the way the course suggested. I started turning to
the Word, and looking there for Christ, and God really opened my eyes to his truth.

I had always been a "feeling" Christian. Did I feel God in my prayer time? Did I feel God during worship? Well, I soon learned I was overlooking the way God wants to speak to me through his Word. I was always frustrated, because I really didn't know how to get anything from the Word. Well, the one thing I have been blessed with through this course is my new relationship with the Word of God. Reading and meditating on His Word does fill that hole in our hearts and, as a by-product, food has much less pull on me than before.

I thank God for showing me my sin, releasing me from the bondage of food, and bringing me closer to Him. I now seek to eat in a way that pleases the Lord, and it is a constant learning of His ways to eat, not my old way of eating anything and everything. I know if I keep looking to Him, He will strengthen me to live in this new way with food as a fuel and not a lover.

Through The Lords Table, I have gone from 188 to 168 pounds and yesterday, my last day of the course, I was able to wear a dress to my niece's wedding that I wore to my daughter's wedding. Only God could have helped me do that.

Beginning weight: 188 Current weight: 168

Paige Stahley

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Matthew 6:25--KJV

Feasting on God

So many days I went to food instead of the Lord when I was hurting, lonely, afraid, bored, happy, sad, frustrated, etc. Food was my friend. It felt so good going down. It made the emotions go away for a moment only to find that a short time later the emotions returned with a vengeance. Then I would eat again. It has been a cycle my whole life.

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels." (Psalm 81:10-12)

I cried out to the Lord over and over again. I could never stay on a diet for any length of time. I had been trying to "diet" in my own strength and I failed time after time. I gave in to my desire to eat again and again. God gave me over to my stubborn heart and allowed me to eat and eat until I was often physically sick. I did not fully realize that the Lord was after my heart. His desire is to change me from the inside out! Hallelujah! I have learned that He wants me to put Him before anything else in my life. Even food. The biggest desire of my life is to grant His desire. I am His beloved daughter and I long to be close to Him.

"Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts." (Jeremiah 15:16)

I am learning to feast on the Lord by sitting at His feet and listening to His voice as I "open wide my mouth so that He may fill it with His word".

Under the Power

1 Corinthians 6:12 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.


This scripture is profound for me because even though eating is lawful, I have allowed myself to be brought under the power of food. I have allowed myself to try to fill and empty soul with food when the only One that can fill an empty soul is Jesus Christ.


With God's help, I have started to make new choices...It is not about what I eat. It is about why I am eating. I no longer wish to eat for any reason other than true hunger. If I am not hungry I will not eat. If my soul is hungry I will choose to feast on Jesus Christ.


John 6:53-58 - 53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."

The Lord is Good

Tonight I sit in the presence of the Lord and I long for the words to tell Him really how good He is. There are really no words to articulate to Him how good He is. He never leaves us nor does he forsake us. He is good. How can I tell Him just how good He is. I say yet again that the Lord is good and His mercy endures forever and ever. AMEN