WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:01.673 [SPEAKER_00]: So there was one day in your life. 00:01.713 --> 00:09.601 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know when it happened, but at some point in your life, or maybe it's been your whole life, you came into agreement with the Spirit of Glutney. 00:10.081 --> 00:12.844 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know it sounds ugly and horrible and terrible. 00:12.864 --> 00:15.407 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're like, Kim, I didn't sign up to be gluttonous. 00:15.467 --> 00:17.009 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't sign up for this demon. 00:17.389 --> 00:19.952 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes our ancestors sign this up. 00:19.972 --> 00:28.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Like sometimes the uns and uncles who walked in that thing 00:29.157 --> 00:31.701 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we came into agreement with it as adults. 00:32.001 --> 00:34.084 [SPEAKER_00]: We might not have realized it, but we did. 00:34.585 --> 00:38.511 [SPEAKER_00]: And so at some point, we gave ourselves over to that spirit. 00:38.871 --> 00:41.054 [SPEAKER_00]: And then that thing has been in the driver's seat. 00:41.415 --> 00:44.119 [SPEAKER_00]: It's why you feel tempted to eat all the time. 00:44.520 --> 00:46.743 [SPEAKER_00]: It's why you don't have self-control. 00:47.223 --> 00:51.750 [SPEAKER_00]: It's why you feel trapped in like you're in a food prison and you can't get out. 00:52.211 --> 00:53.072 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why. 00:53.423 --> 00:56.667 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the God's Perfect-sized show where faith meets fat loss. 00:56.947 --> 01:09.342 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host Kim Jong-Way, the author of God's Perfect-sized, and a former food addict turned food-free to coach, tune in every week to be encouraged and empowered towards your goals for weight loss and victory in Christ. 01:10.082 --> 01:11.864 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the God's Perfect-sized show. 01:12.225 --> 01:13.747 [SPEAKER_00]: I do want to talk to you for a second. 01:13.947 --> 01:16.630 [SPEAKER_00]: You, the one who this is your first time visiting. 01:16.610 --> 01:23.902 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen, you have found a place where you can sit back, relax, kick your shoes off, and get the help and the healing that you need. 01:24.322 --> 01:36.542 [SPEAKER_00]: I like to think of the God's perfect size podcast as a place where you can come and find your healing, where you can grapple with the things that the world tells you is shameful, you feel embarrassed because you eat out of control. 01:36.860 --> 01:45.529 [SPEAKER_00]: your pant size has ballooned or your food cravings have increased through the roof and you just don't know what to do. 01:45.569 --> 01:47.772 [SPEAKER_00]: Your home, this is that place. 01:48.092 --> 01:49.073 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no shame here. 01:49.093 --> 01:50.455 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no condemnation here. 01:50.915 --> 01:53.118 [SPEAKER_00]: As a matter of fact, we try to do the very opposite. 01:53.458 --> 01:55.380 [SPEAKER_00]: We try to build you up in your most holy faith. 01:55.420 --> 02:01.787 [SPEAKER_00]: We try to deliver you Jesus so that you feel loved and supported and seen and cared for. 02:01.767 --> 02:04.733 [SPEAKER_00]: by his perfect love and mercy. 02:05.094 --> 02:09.242 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a place where you're gonna learn about how to fight from a different position. 02:09.643 --> 02:20.485 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna tell you about what to eat or while I am gonna tell you that you should eat whole foods that God created, but other than that, this is not about your diet and exercise regimen. 02:20.465 --> 02:22.527 [SPEAKER_00]: This is about taking your life back. 02:22.908 --> 02:26.772 [SPEAKER_00]: This is about being delivered from the stronghold of food addiction. 02:27.192 --> 02:29.655 [SPEAKER_00]: That stronghold at the root of it, there's an enemy. 02:30.036 --> 02:31.718 [SPEAKER_00]: An enemy who was holding you fast. 02:31.858 --> 02:41.909 [SPEAKER_00]: And so this podcast was created because back then I didn't have the tools to understand that I was playing in Satan's playground and that he was the one who was in control. 02:42.209 --> 02:44.031 [SPEAKER_00]: He was the one who was in the driver's seat. 02:44.472 --> 02:49.257 [SPEAKER_00]: And so this podcast is here for you to bring you 02:49.237 --> 02:54.365 [SPEAKER_00]: If you are a bloodbought born again and belong to Jesus, then the enemy has no claim on you. 02:54.726 --> 02:56.729 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's actually what we're going to talk about today. 02:57.110 --> 03:00.255 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to take a look at a tale of two kingdoms. 03:00.695 --> 03:02.198 [SPEAKER_00]: These two kingdoms are at war. 03:02.598 --> 03:06.705 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason this matters for you is because oftentimes we 03:06.685 --> 03:08.588 [SPEAKER_00]: only know the physical realm. 03:08.648 --> 03:13.314 [SPEAKER_00]: We only know the kingdom of this world, the rules of this world. 03:13.494 --> 03:14.836 [SPEAKER_00]: This world that we're born into. 03:14.876 --> 03:16.498 [SPEAKER_00]: This is what we know best. 03:16.879 --> 03:24.729 [SPEAKER_00]: But once you become a born again believer, you're translated into a new kingdom with new rules, new leadership, new reign, new authority. 03:25.149 --> 03:30.837 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I want to teach you how to fight from that position, from the kingdom of God. 03:30.817 --> 03:40.049 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is how I know we are living between two kingdoms, because in Colossians chapter 1 verse 13, actually let us back up to Colossians 11. 03:40.350 --> 03:54.389 [SPEAKER_00]: And it says, May you be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 03:54.409 --> 03:56.031 [SPEAKER_00]: Now listen to this y'all 13. 03:56.011 --> 04:06.747 [SPEAKER_00]: He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son and whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 04:07.188 --> 04:08.790 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you hear that language? 04:08.810 --> 04:17.263 [SPEAKER_00]: This is talking about how we have been taken from the kingdom of darkness, and we've been transferred into the kingdom of his son. 04:17.803 --> 04:21.529 [SPEAKER_00]: And so kings and kingdoms and all of these, 04:21.509 --> 04:27.859 [SPEAKER_00]: regions, they have leadership, they have authority, they have power, they have their own set of rules. 04:27.879 --> 04:30.664 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we know what it looks like to live in the world. 04:30.744 --> 04:42.543 [SPEAKER_00]: To live under the world's system under its authorities, its kings, its princes, and if you're in the United States, its presidents, and its governance, like we know what that looks like. 04:42.563 --> 04:44.867 [SPEAKER_00]: And oftentimes when we are 04:44.847 --> 05:00.162 [SPEAKER_00]: operating in the kingdom of God, even for your weight loss, like operating in the kingdom of God, we have a split mindset that we're operating still by the world's rules, even though we've been transferred in the kingdom of the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. 05:00.663 --> 05:13.335 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what we have to stop and realize is let's take a minute, let's breathe for a second and realize that these are actual kingdoms 05:13.315 --> 05:26.034 [SPEAKER_00]: And these kingdoms exist and thrive because they are structures, they are governances, they are set up so that we come in and operate in the way that they have decided we should operate. 05:26.515 --> 05:29.940 [SPEAKER_00]: And the problem is, once you become a born again, believe. 05:30.020 --> 05:36.269 [SPEAKER_00]: Or once you become born again, through the blood of Jesus Christ, through your confession that He is your Lord and Savior. 05:36.309 --> 05:40.015 [SPEAKER_00]: And you lay down your the rights to your life and you give them to Jesus. 05:39.995 --> 06:02.492 [SPEAKER_00]: Once you do that, you no longer belong to the kingdom of this world, and it's crazy to think about the fact that you could still be on this planet, on this rock, in this space, but yet your authority, the one who rules and reigns over you is in an unseen realm, in another kingdom. 06:02.472 --> 06:04.535 [SPEAKER_00]: I know that's hard to wrap your mind around. 06:04.615 --> 06:06.637 [SPEAKER_00]: It's still hard for me to wrap my mind around. 06:06.978 --> 06:11.924 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't even have the full understanding, the full depth of what this means. 06:12.264 --> 06:14.647 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I do know, I will share with you. 06:14.988 --> 06:15.889 [SPEAKER_00]: And here's what I know. 06:16.670 --> 06:24.900 [SPEAKER_00]: When we come to this weight loss journey, when we come to this place of saying, I'm fed up, I give my body to Jesus. 06:25.321 --> 06:27.163 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to eat to glorify Him. 06:27.447 --> 06:29.450 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to come out of this food addiction. 06:29.470 --> 06:31.012 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to come out of agreement with it. 06:31.393 --> 06:37.181 [SPEAKER_00]: We know to do that, but what we don't realize is, now we have to walk by the spirit. 06:37.522 --> 06:40.846 [SPEAKER_00]: We have to keep in step with the Holy Spirit. 06:40.866 --> 06:44.051 [SPEAKER_00]: The way that the world does it, we know what that looks like. 06:44.331 --> 06:48.017 [SPEAKER_00]: You say, I want to lose the weight, and then you go and you do the physical thing. 06:48.397 --> 06:49.819 [SPEAKER_00]: You go and get a diet plan. 06:50.180 --> 06:55.227 [SPEAKER_00]: You go and you get an exercise regimen and you start down that path. 06:55.645 --> 06:59.471 [SPEAKER_00]: And while those are great tools, that's not where we start. 06:59.832 --> 07:01.054 [SPEAKER_00]: I've said it a million times. 07:01.194 --> 07:04.720 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not where you start because you actually can't get free. 07:04.780 --> 07:06.162 [SPEAKER_00]: And here's why. 07:06.202 --> 07:08.185 [SPEAKER_00]: So there was one day in your life. 07:08.225 --> 07:13.013 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know when it happened, but at some point in your life, or maybe it's been your whole life. 07:12.993 --> 07:16.118 [SPEAKER_00]: you came into agreement with the spirit of gluttony. 07:16.579 --> 07:21.967 [SPEAKER_00]: And I know it sounds ugly and horrible and terrible and you're like, Kim, I didn't sign up to be gluttonous. 07:22.027 --> 07:23.589 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't sign up for this demon. 07:23.970 --> 07:26.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes our ancestors sign us up. 07:26.534 --> 07:30.580 [SPEAKER_00]: Like sometimes the aunts and uncles who walked in that thing, 07:30.560 --> 07:38.258 [SPEAKER_00]: fed us that way, taught us that way, modeled it for us, and then we fell in line with it, and then we came into agreement with it as adults. 07:38.579 --> 07:40.683 [SPEAKER_00]: We might not have realized it, but we did. 07:41.165 --> 07:47.860 [SPEAKER_00]: And so at some point, we gave ourselves over to that spirit, and then that thing has been in the driver's seat. 07:47.840 --> 07:50.664 [SPEAKER_00]: It's why you feel tempted to eat all the time. 07:51.084 --> 07:53.307 [SPEAKER_00]: It's why you don't have self-control. 07:53.768 --> 07:58.314 [SPEAKER_00]: It's why you feel trapped in like you're in a food prison and you can't get out. 07:58.755 --> 07:59.335 [SPEAKER_00]: That's why. 07:59.376 --> 08:04.502 [SPEAKER_00]: So the enemy has taken us captive and remember, these things are, this is not a judgment against you. 08:04.943 --> 08:06.385 [SPEAKER_00]: These things are common to man. 08:06.765 --> 08:07.867 [SPEAKER_00]: Sin is common to man. 08:08.187 --> 08:10.551 [SPEAKER_00]: And so if somebody says, well, I don't do that. 08:10.871 --> 08:12.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm better than that. 08:12.393 --> 08:15.417 [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, all they're telling you is, that's not my sin. 08:15.877 --> 08:16.978 [SPEAKER_00]: Their sin is something else. 08:17.099 --> 08:18.140 [SPEAKER_00]: That's all they're telling you. 08:18.560 --> 08:20.983 [SPEAKER_00]: This just so happens to be our struggle. 08:21.344 --> 08:23.366 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we're going to deal with where we are. 08:23.726 --> 08:25.749 [SPEAKER_00]: These principles will help anyone struggle. 08:26.129 --> 08:26.970 [SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing. 08:27.571 --> 08:32.897 [SPEAKER_00]: If you start with the diet and exercise, you're only manipulating the leaves on the tree. 08:32.977 --> 08:36.522 [SPEAKER_00]: You're only manipulating the external, the physical. 08:36.882 --> 08:42.028 [SPEAKER_00]: You're only doing what the world is telling you is acceptable for weight loss. 08:42.008 --> 08:49.519 [SPEAKER_00]: And remember, the enemy is the ruler of this world, even Jesus said it in the book of John, I believe it's in John chapter 14. 08:49.960 --> 08:56.950 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus says that the ruler of this world is coming and is now near and so he's going to stop talking from that point forward. 08:57.291 --> 09:03.460 [SPEAKER_00]: So the ruler of this world is the one who set these things in place and tells everyone. 09:03.440 --> 09:10.171 [SPEAKER_00]: that you can only diet and exercise, you can go to a doctor, you can get prescriptions, and those things aren't inherently bad. 09:10.231 --> 09:11.392 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what I'm saying. 09:11.453 --> 09:15.739 [SPEAKER_00]: So hear me, what I'm saying is, that's not the beginning. 09:16.100 --> 09:18.223 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not where you need to start. 09:18.243 --> 09:20.306 [SPEAKER_00]: There are different rules in the kingdom of God. 09:20.807 --> 09:27.117 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason these things will not work for you or for anyone else is because they only manipulate the physical. 09:27.958 --> 09:31.624 [SPEAKER_00]: Your addiction is thriving in a 09:31.604 --> 09:34.328 [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy is the one holding the keys. 09:34.728 --> 09:37.352 [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy is the one who has taken you captive. 09:37.773 --> 09:40.917 [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy is the one pulling the strings behind the scenes. 09:41.358 --> 09:46.965 [SPEAKER_00]: And so he says, yes, go ahead and do what everybody else is doing because this is his system. 09:47.086 --> 09:50.050 [SPEAKER_00]: He set it up and you won't actually get free. 09:50.430 --> 09:52.053 [SPEAKER_00]: He needs you to stay bound. 09:52.153 --> 09:55.477 [SPEAKER_00]: He needs to keep you captive in this area. 09:55.838 --> 09:57.941 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it mean that you don't belong to Jesus? 09:58.241 --> 09:59.603 [SPEAKER_00]: That's not what that means. 09:59.583 --> 10:05.518 [SPEAKER_00]: but it does mean that you are playing by the enemy's rules in this part of your life. 10:06.260 --> 10:07.864 [SPEAKER_00]: You're still playing by his rules. 10:08.365 --> 10:12.416 [SPEAKER_00]: You've been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. 10:12.817 --> 10:15.263 [SPEAKER_00]: So what does the kingdom of light tell you to do? 10:15.428 --> 10:23.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, when you hop over into Ephesians, it tells you that you have to take up your armor, that you have to warfare against the enemy in a different way. 10:24.179 --> 10:36.053 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you start to warfare against the enemy in a different way, even when it comes to your weight loss, even when it comes to finding your food freedom, when you warfare against the enemy, 10:36.033 --> 10:40.781 [SPEAKER_00]: you are warring against powers and principalities in unseen places. 10:41.261 --> 10:45.388 [SPEAKER_00]: So this food addiction is thriving in an unseen place. 10:45.849 --> 10:47.051 [SPEAKER_00]: Now what does that mean for you? 10:47.151 --> 10:49.274 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you realistically get this done? 10:49.314 --> 10:54.042 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to enter into that unseen place through prayer. 10:54.022 --> 11:03.914 [SPEAKER_00]: Through prayer, you have to enter into that unseen place, recognizing that it does exist, then going through prayer because your prayers can travel everywhere. 11:04.195 --> 11:05.696 [SPEAKER_00]: They go behind enemy lines. 11:06.117 --> 11:08.500 [SPEAKER_00]: So you pray in that unseen place. 11:08.520 --> 11:09.962 [SPEAKER_00]: You pray by the Spirit. 11:10.102 --> 11:15.068 [SPEAKER_00]: We're taught to pray, not just in the physical, but we have to pray. 11:15.048 --> 11:17.471 [SPEAKER_00]: we are both physical and spiritual being. 11:17.511 --> 11:20.355 [SPEAKER_00]: So we have to also pray in the Spirit. 11:20.375 --> 11:25.060 [SPEAKER_00]: If the addiction is thriving in the Spirit, you've got to pray in the Spirit. 11:25.401 --> 11:27.944 [SPEAKER_00]: And that just means you're praying, not your prayers. 11:28.364 --> 11:30.587 [SPEAKER_00]: You're praying by the power of the Holy Spirit. 11:30.988 --> 11:40.920 [SPEAKER_00]: It's as simple as saying, Holy Spirit, give me the words to pray so that I can pray effectively for myself about this 11:40.900 --> 11:45.245 [SPEAKER_00]: and then you pray based on what you're hearing the Holy Spirit tell you to do. 11:45.665 --> 11:47.988 [SPEAKER_00]: You're most likely not going to hear an audible voice. 11:48.408 --> 11:52.472 [SPEAKER_00]: You're most likely going to feel a desire to pray in a particular way. 11:52.973 --> 11:55.936 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's how you start to pray by the Spirit. 11:56.397 --> 12:00.061 [SPEAKER_00]: And as you pray by the Spirit, you pray what Holy Spirit is leading you to pray. 12:00.601 --> 12:10.772 [SPEAKER_00]: If Holy Spirit is leading you, he shows you a memory of maybe a childhood trauma. 12:11.309 --> 12:12.552 [SPEAKER_00]: follow that train of thought. 12:12.934 --> 12:26.652 [SPEAKER_00]: If you've always come to that train of thought and stopped because it's too painful, the memories too harsh, the memories too traumatic, you have to ask Holy Spirit to give you courage to press into that memory, go into that place and pray. 12:26.885 --> 12:34.102 [SPEAKER_00]: why because that place could have been a place of trauma and that's where the eating issues started for you. 12:34.503 --> 12:41.279 [SPEAKER_00]: So whatever, not that this is everyone's example, but that's just one example of how Holy Spirit might lead you to pray. 12:41.680 --> 12:43.645 [SPEAKER_00]: For me, he took me back to my childhood. 12:43.979 --> 12:46.904 [SPEAKER_00]: Reminded me of the words that my father had spoken over me. 12:47.244 --> 12:49.548 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd spoken a word curse and said, I'd always be fat. 12:50.048 --> 12:51.731 [SPEAKER_00]: And in that day, I was a little girl. 12:51.771 --> 12:53.674 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't recognize that it was a word curse. 12:53.714 --> 13:02.528 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't recognize that he was speaking a word over me that would land so hard in my soul that I would identify with it for decades after that. 13:02.508 --> 13:13.066 [SPEAKER_00]: It was only when I started praying by the Spirit that that memory came and then I had to walk through that memory with God and say, Is this when I started eating out of control? 13:13.426 --> 13:23.503 [SPEAKER_00]: Holy Spirit taught me that that was about the time I started eating out of control because I believed what my father said and I had to come out of agreement with those words from my father. 13:23.483 --> 13:26.688 [SPEAKER_00]: and I had to come into agreement with the words of Jesus. 13:27.129 --> 13:29.473 [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's where my freedom journey started. 13:29.773 --> 13:31.336 [SPEAKER_00]: So now back to your situation. 13:31.756 --> 13:43.956 [SPEAKER_00]: If Holy Spirit takes you all the way back to a memory or to a situation, a time, a place, or even gives you a memory of not even your own, but maybe your grandmother's and then she taught. 13:44.206 --> 13:51.123 [SPEAKER_00]: your mother how to eat that way and then your mother taught you how to eat that way Holy Spirit showing you that this is a generational sin. 13:51.644 --> 13:59.503 [SPEAKER_00]: So you have to come to that place with the Holy Spirit and say, I renounce this agreement that my family had with eating out of control. 13:59.643 --> 14:00.325 [SPEAKER_00]: I renounce it. 14:00.895 --> 14:06.246 [SPEAKER_00]: I ask your forgiveness God, I reject it utterly, and I ask you to bring healing to me. 14:06.767 --> 14:09.732 [SPEAKER_00]: I will no longer be slave to what my bloodline agreed to. 14:10.293 --> 14:21.756 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus, I am asking you to set me free from this, and then it doesn't mean you're going to magically wake up skinny tomorrow, but it does mean you're going to start walking it out by the spirit, and that journey is hard. 14:22.225 --> 14:23.187 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to lie to you. 14:23.348 --> 14:23.789 [SPEAKER_00]: It's hard. 14:24.210 --> 14:35.037 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the place where rubber meets the road and where you have now you have now cut off access from the enemy from that generational sin and you've separated yourself from that sin, but now you've got to walk it out. 14:35.417 --> 14:39.728 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you've got to get up and walk by the spirit and this is a long journey. 14:39.708 --> 14:43.353 [SPEAKER_00]: I almost said it was a long treacherous journey because it felt treacherous to me. 14:43.713 --> 14:52.564 [SPEAKER_00]: Like when I woke up that next day, I was free, yes, but it felt even harder because the enemy was trying to get me back, so he tempted me at every turn. 14:53.025 --> 14:56.429 [SPEAKER_00]: But at every opportunity, I just kept crying out to the Holy Spirit. 14:56.850 --> 14:59.713 [SPEAKER_00]: I would get up and I would say, Holy Spirit, what do I eat? 15:00.074 --> 15:00.755 [SPEAKER_00]: How do I eat? 15:01.095 --> 15:02.377 [SPEAKER_00]: How do I eat to your glory? 15:02.697 --> 15:04.840 [SPEAKER_00]: And he didn't change the food I was eating at that time. 15:04.940 --> 15:05.901 [SPEAKER_00]: He eventually did. 15:06.100 --> 15:09.567 [SPEAKER_00]: But at that time, he was just teaching me how to walk by obedience. 15:09.587 --> 15:12.854 [SPEAKER_00]: He was teaching me how to take baby steps by obedience. 15:12.874 --> 15:17.162 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I would get a subtle thought of you've had enough so put down the fork. 15:17.182 --> 15:18.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd still be hungry y'all. 15:18.565 --> 15:23.335 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd be right neckling that fork and shaking like, I'm still hungry, God, I can't put the fork down. 15:23.635 --> 15:27.383 [SPEAKER_00]: I would say, God, I can put the fork down if you help me. 15:27.363 --> 15:36.087 [SPEAKER_00]: It feels impossible in my flesh, but I am operating by your spirit, Holy Spirit, give me courage, give me strength to drop the fork, and I would drop the fork, and I would leave the room. 15:36.208 --> 15:42.385 [SPEAKER_00]: I would scrape the plate and leave the room, because if I were left in the room too long with that plate of food, I was going to finish it no matter what. 15:42.365 --> 15:49.137 [SPEAKER_00]: and so by the power of the Holy Spirit, I started baby stepping my way out of this addiction. 15:49.457 --> 15:54.947 [SPEAKER_00]: I started baby stepping my way out of this prison that the enemy had crafted for me. 15:54.967 --> 16:03.462 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what it looked like realistically in the spirit, I was leaving those kingdom principles that this world had in place. 16:03.442 --> 16:11.858 [SPEAKER_00]: And I started operating in the kingdom of light, in the kingdom of Jesus and doing things the way He would have them done in His kingdom. 16:12.379 --> 16:22.378 [SPEAKER_00]: And all of the things that Jesus had me doing directly opposed the enemy, directly opposed the rules that the world had said would work. 16:22.358 --> 16:28.766 [SPEAKER_00]: It all directly opposed it, and so I started living in the space of the kingdom when it came to eating. 16:29.187 --> 16:36.977 [SPEAKER_00]: I started living in that space of talking to the king of the kingdom of Jesus and asking him, how should I live? 16:37.037 --> 16:37.678 [SPEAKER_00]: What should I do? 16:37.738 --> 16:38.479 [SPEAKER_00]: What should I eat? 16:38.880 --> 16:40.262 [SPEAKER_00]: How should I move in this space? 16:40.542 --> 16:41.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Do I even go in this space? 16:42.164 --> 16:48.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I started living by the the Lordship in the new kingdom that I had been translated 16:48.953 --> 16:52.238 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, this is a kingdom of two worlds. 16:52.719 --> 16:55.664 [SPEAKER_00]: Your weight loss is in limbel between two kingdoms. 16:56.045 --> 17:00.812 [SPEAKER_00]: You're a believer, but you're still operating in the principles of your old kingdom. 17:01.273 --> 17:08.265 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to scooch yourself over and start operating by the principles in the new kingdom, or you'll not find your freedom. 17:08.826 --> 17:15.737 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not gonna find your freedom, because the enemy is not like you can go to the old kingdom and say, 17:15.717 --> 17:17.642 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm dieting and exercising. 17:17.903 --> 17:18.925 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to let me go. 17:18.945 --> 17:20.529 [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't have to let you go. 17:20.570 --> 17:21.833 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nowhere to go. 17:21.853 --> 17:23.136 [SPEAKER_00]: You're in his kingdom. 17:23.517 --> 17:24.680 [SPEAKER_00]: Those are his rules. 17:25.161 --> 17:27.347 [SPEAKER_00]: You're abiding by his will. 17:27.445 --> 17:38.141 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got an exit, exit stage left, you've got to exit out the door, leave his kingdom, move yourself over to God's kingdom and start doing what that kingdom says do. 17:38.161 --> 17:42.567 [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy doesn't let you go because you say, you simply said let me go. 17:42.587 --> 17:50.139 [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy lets you go when you stop partaking at his table and you leave his kingdom and then you move over to a new place. 17:50.159 --> 17:53.183 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you walk through the doors of the kingdom of heaven, 17:53.163 --> 17:55.688 [SPEAKER_00]: the enemy has no authority there. 17:56.049 --> 17:59.094 [SPEAKER_00]: The enemy cannot be God over there. 17:59.615 --> 18:00.858 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not His kingdom. 18:01.399 --> 18:09.374 [SPEAKER_00]: You're let go by default by being transferred from this kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Jesus. 18:09.875 --> 18:13.602 [SPEAKER_00]: If you go back and pick up old kingdom principles, you play by those rules. 18:13.835 --> 18:14.776 [SPEAKER_00]: like that's how it works. 18:15.237 --> 18:25.492 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you stay in the kingdom of Jesus and do what he's telling you to do and you walk by the Spirit, you will not gratify your desires of this sinful flesh. 18:25.512 --> 18:26.854 [SPEAKER_00]: That's what scripture teaches us. 18:27.154 --> 18:28.256 [SPEAKER_00]: You just won't do it. 18:28.756 --> 18:32.662 [SPEAKER_00]: And so start doing what Jesus is telling you to do. 18:33.043 --> 18:41.074 [SPEAKER_00]: Get your Bible out, dust it off, read it, figure out what does this journey look like for me in the kingdom of Jesus. 18:41.054 --> 18:45.665 [SPEAKER_00]: What does being led by the authority of Jesus look like in my weight loss journey? 18:46.127 --> 18:53.224 [SPEAKER_00]: What does it look like in sound like when I start yielding to the voice of Jesus rather than the voice of temptation and my flesh? 18:54.065 --> 19:07.761 [SPEAKER_00]: when you start answering those questions, when you start obeying Jesus, when you start walking by the Spirit, keeping in step with the Spirit, just allowing the Holy Spirit self-control to guide you, you're gonna find your freedom. 19:08.322 --> 19:12.146 [SPEAKER_00]: There's so much more that I wanna tell you, but I want you to start here. 19:12.507 --> 19:14.329 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't start with the diet and exercise. 19:14.669 --> 19:15.530 [SPEAKER_00]: That will come. 19:15.991 --> 19:20.496 [SPEAKER_00]: I promise you that will come, because there's even bodily exercise in God's kingdom. 19:20.516 --> 19:23.059 [SPEAKER_00]: There is caring for your temple and God's kingdom. 19:23.039 --> 19:28.866 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're going to do it God's way, but you can't just pick up an exercise if you're still in chains. 19:29.367 --> 19:34.833 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't run around the kingdom of God and be locked up by the enemy. 19:35.073 --> 19:36.655 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the shackles are still on your feet. 19:37.236 --> 19:38.137 [SPEAKER_00]: Start with the shackles. 19:38.698 --> 19:47.208 [SPEAKER_00]: Break those off through warfare and coming against the enemy and breaking off the ties and the lies that have kept you bound, then you can run. 19:47.268 --> 19:49.030 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can eat. 19:49.212 --> 19:54.600 [SPEAKER_00]: then you can glorify God with your body, but only then you've got to get your freedom first. 19:55.081 --> 19:58.446 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to renew your mind and be set free by the Word of God. 19:58.807 --> 20:03.655 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to be set free in your spirit and then you can find success. 20:04.155 --> 20:07.120 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can have victory over temptation. 20:07.100 --> 20:14.092 [SPEAKER_00]: then you can turn your fork down and say, I've had enough, then you can walk by the spirit effectively. 20:14.513 --> 20:20.243 [SPEAKER_00]: What's keeping us bound is that we're starting in the wrong place because the world told us that's where we should start. 20:20.624 --> 20:21.386 [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, my love. 20:21.546 --> 20:22.848 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to start in the spirit. 20:23.229 --> 20:28.939 [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to break off the hold of the enemy so that you can do the things that God is telling you to do. 20:28.919 --> 20:35.730 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you're going to live and operate by the kingdom that you truly belong to, the kingdom of Jesus. 20:36.111 --> 20:37.594 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's where your success is. 20:38.094 --> 20:39.937 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray this episode has blessed you. 20:40.478 --> 20:42.321 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray that it builds you up in your faith. 20:42.642 --> 20:49.273 [SPEAKER_00]: And I pray that you shatter every shackled the enemy has placed on you and that you run in the spirit. 20:49.253 --> 21:05.216 [SPEAKER_00]: that you find your freedom and you overcome and then my prayer is that you would turn around and you would teach someone else this truth because there are a lot of people out there struggling with this issue and you have been given the keys to the kingdom. 21:05.276 --> 21:11.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I need you to make copies of those keys and share them with others who are feeling trapped and bound. 21:11.225 --> 21:19.717 [SPEAKER_00]: I pray blessings on you, and I can't wait to see you by the Spirit, rejoicing and running and free in the name of Jesus. 21:20.138 --> 21:22.160 [SPEAKER_00]: I love you, and I'll catch you in the next episode. 21:22.401 --> 21:22.661 [SPEAKER_00]: Bye. 21:23.382 --> 21:27.568 [SPEAKER_00]: But God's perfect size six week community study is now available on Amazon. 21:27.888 --> 21:28.369 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right. 21:28.549 --> 21:34.818 [SPEAKER_00]: So grab your besties, form your community, combine faith, and find victory for food freedom and Christ together. 21:34.998 --> 21:36.861 [SPEAKER_00]: Grab your copy on Amazon today.