My name is Christa and I have been set free from the bondage of gluttony!

I am 31 years old and have been in ministry with my husband for over ten years. During our 13 years of marriage, I have had two children and, even though my children are 10 and 11, up until I turned to Jesus through The Lord's Table course for help, even as little as one year ago, I was still carrying the weight I had gained from carrying my children, and then some.

Jesus has always been such an intricate part of my life, I still neglected several things that was hindering my growth in Christ. Food!! It was my focus and answer to everything and I did not even realize that it was a stronghold in my life.

If I got happy, I ate. If I was upset, I ate. If I was with someone from the church, we ate. If I was bored I ate. I think you have the picture. Eating had become more important, and more of a priority to me, than my relationship with Christ. I could not at the time understand this.

I would often wonder why, when I would open His word to read it, that I could not draw satisfaction and excitement from it like I used to. Thanks to His grace and his transforming Word that I found in The Lord's Table lessons, now I realize that I was filling myself up with empty spiritual calories and was already full and stuffed sick, by the time I would open my Bible to be fed.

Through this course, it has taught me so much! It has taught me how to make room for Jesus and His Word to truly become my only source of nourishment, strength and growth. I started 90 pounds ago. I am still being transformed daily, by the renewing of my mind.

Romans 12:2 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. My life is a testimony of the transforming power and Truth found in this Scripture.