In His Image Testimony: Renee

When I started this study 60 days ago, my dear Lord and Savior, my Papa, found me in captivity to binging, eating to fill the void I had felt all the days of my life (at least all of them that I can remember), a slavery I had been in bondage to for over 20 years. With my weight going ever higher, then making my god another diet pill or wonder drug or miracle system just to end up back worshipping food as my god. He also found me in bondage to idolatry and something I never thought I would be a slave to; infideltity. Papa has blessed me over and over and over through this study showing me the truth of where I thought my treasure was and where it actually has been all the time. He has blessed me with redemption to the point that I am in awe. He has brought me to the point of finding it detestable to continue in my lukewarm faith. Through His Spirits work in this study, He has shown me that to really believe, I must believe all of Him, all of Who He is, not just the pieces that are convenient to me. Through His sustaining grace, I have found freedom from the chains of excess food and the scale as well as idolatry and infidelity and I am resting in His peace, under His wing. My Jesus loved me enough to save me on the cross so many years ago and showers me with more love in desiring to not leave me in my broken state, He is chipping away at the sin and the shame and showing the true me, the being "transformed by the Spirit" me that is coming out from underneath all the sin. I can now say with full confidence, that Papa does "know the plans He has for me...plans to give me hope and a future". Jeremiah 29:11