Hanny's Personal Journal Saturday August 20, 2016
By: Hanny Lynn Stearns
Fish N Loaves Ministries, Inc.
“Multiplying God’s Word Around The Globe”
It is indeed a new day. A day of revelation. Yesterday I was
planning to have a “once a month treat day” for eating. At church last night I
heard a message about the Lord being for me as we continue in the series. As I
listened to Keith I realized that the enemy had been tormenting me about the
eating. Thank You for that revelation Holy Spirit! As I got home, I knew that
the spirit of torment had been lifted. There was healing in the service. The
Lord was showing me how the enemy will torment me whether I am eating right or
not. Anything to make me feel bad and to focus on the food rather than Jesus.
Denny said last night that as I go along I will not even
talk about it. It will be no thing anymore. I quit talking about the scale. So
today as I got up and had breakfast I had more than I usually do. We plan to go
out to dinner tonight and that will be lovely. But here is what the Lord just
showed me in my time of worship with Him. I can follow my food plan when I am
at home, and I can even have a sandwich and bean chips, for example, if I count
the calories for the day. Not that I would eat that every day. I will always
want to watch carbs. No big deal. But going out to eat will be just a blessing
to order what I want and then go back to the food plan when I am at home.
Rather than following a regimen of “eat all you want” one
day a month, just eat whatever when you are out for a special occasion or
holiday and have self-control in those situations. Enjoy myself and the people
I am with. I am free from torment. I am free from bondage. I can be like I was
all those years growing up. I just ate and went about my business. I did not
think about food. When the enemy comes to try to make me focus on it or feel
bad I just need to say the word out loud in faith till he gets his ugly butt
out of my face. I know it will work.
The Lord reminded me of that on the way home from church. I
really felt the oppression going to church, and I really felt the freedom
coming home. My life is about so much more than food. I will always follow a
food plan at home most of the time in my life. I will always exercise and take
really good care of my body – the temple of Holy Spirit. But I will not ever
live in bondage to food again by allowing the tormentor to have domain for one
more minute in my life. I don’t have to carry any troubles. Jesus said, and I
was reminded at church last night – “do not let your heart be troubled.”
The minute I sense that my heart is feeling troubled for any
reason, I need to go to the Lord in prayer. I need to get His wisdom about the situation
in prayer and then I need to do what He says. When I am doing what He says, I
am in the middle of His perfect will at all times and I am safe. When I do what He says I will see miracles.
In His presence is exactly where I want to be.
And the Lord said to me:
“If My people would get a hold of this with everything in
their lives, they would walk in complete freedom every day. Many will not apply
their hearts to wisdom. In My presence is fullness of joy. In My presence there
is no bondage – only love. In My presence there is freedom. Freedom from fear,
worry, doubt, oppression, obsession, anxiety, stress or any other kind of
trouble. The more people stay in My presence, the less they will cave in the
tactics of the enemy. In My presence there is perfect peace. There is safety.
There is joy. There is love. It’s the only right place to be.”
Psalm 16:8
I have set
the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
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