The God Plan: Daily Inspiration for Victory Over the Scales

By Deborah C. Crocker

Are you struggling with weight loss? Are you struggling with your walk with God? 

 

God wants you to be healthy. 

 

"Most of my life has been weight gain, weight loss, and weight gained again, getting bigger with each failed diet, reaching 241 pounds. What brought the miracle that changed my life was a defeated cry of desperation before God. This cry of defeat was the key to my victory." 

 

In the must-read devotional, The God Plan, Deborah C. Crocker offers daily inspiration for anyone who knows the challenge of losing weight, and who is finally ready to overcome their seemingly never-ending battle with food addiction. 

 

Complete with 80 heartfelt devotions, Deborah shares her candid conversations with God as He guides her (and all of us) into submission to His ways. Seeking and following God's directions, Deborah has lost over 90 pounds, and now experiences a freedom she never thought was possible. You too can have victory over the scales. Your journey to deliverance begins today.

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Deborah C. Crocker
• Release date: Aug 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201270698

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The God Plan

THE GOD PLAN

DAILY INSPIRATION FOR VICTORY OVER THE SCALES

DEBORAH C. CROCKER

Copyrighted 2022 by Deborah C. Crocker

All Rights Reserved.

All scripture is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version NIV, Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society, Used by permission of International Bible Society. All rights reserved worldwide.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!

2 CORINTHIANS 5:17

With no hope, in desperation, I cried out to God for help.

CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Day 1-40

1. To the Struggling Dieter

2. Crying Out

3. Standing Against The Storms

4. The Voice of Accusation

5. Don’t Agree With the Voice of Accusation

6. The Web of Food Addiction

7. Broken Just For You

8. Traffic Light of God

9. Answer to Self-Imposed Prison

10. God’s Gastric Bypass

11. You’re In Boot Camp Now

12. The Gluttony Monster

13. Starting Over In God’s Presence

14. Choose Him

15. Hunger After Me

16. Walking In Faith

17. Being Still at Supper

18. Pleasure in Stolen Moments

19. The Decision

20. Wow, Did You See Her?

21. The Fortune Cookie

22. Chocolate Candy

23. Complaining Spreads Like Wildfire

24. God Gives the Victory

25. Are You Better Than He?

26. Temptation Brings the Joy of Victory

27. Trusting God

28. Look For the Victory

29. I Keep My Promises

30. Lord-Given Freedom

31. Victory in Jesus

32. Feed On The Manna

33. Prayer Brings Victory, Eating Your Anger Won’t

34. God Can

35. Just Trust Me

36. Dogs As Dieting Partners

37. Direct My Steps And My Eating Too

38. The Victory Cake

39. Don’t Give Up

40. I Have Something Better Planned

II. Day 41-80

41. Renewed Hope, Reawakened Hope

42. A Matter Of Choice

43. Starting Over

44. The Mess

45. The Fork In The Road

46. Obey His Voice

47. You Are My Only Hope

48. The Path of Freedom

49. You Will Be Free Indeed

50. Be Still and Know That I Am God

51. I Call You Victory, My Child

52. Don’t Break His Heart

53. Your Way Or His Way

54. Anger, Forgiveness, Compassion

55. Confession and God's Word Of Encouragement

56. God’s Assurance of His Love

57. Is Anything Too Hard For God?

58. Who Do You Love?

59. It’s The Heart

60. The Failed Test and His Focus

61. Eating Out Of Anger With The Scales

62. Obey the Red Lights

63. Letting Go

64. Don’t Be Afraid, For I Am With You

65. Poured Out Heart

66. Finally Past That Number

67. Walk In Submission

68. Here I Go

69. March To Victory

70. God’s Answer to the Ugly Truth

71. Keys to Victory

72. My Hope and My Victory

73. False Comfort

74. The Call of Food Lust

75. Mr. Possum Is Beautiful. You Are Too

76. Clothes That Don’t Fit-Victory

77. Lord, Do I Need A Structured Exercise Program?

78. Water For Life

79. She Got Kicked Out

80. He Is Cheering For You

About the Author

He spoke to my heart words of love and encouragement along with His instructions for my eating

INTRODUCTION

Most of my life has been weight gain, weight loss, and weight gained again, getting bigger with each failed diet, reaching 241 pounds. What brought the miracle that changed my life was a defeated cry of desperation before God. This cry of defeat was the key to my victory.

For over 41 years, I’ve struggled with different diets hoping to reach my goal. It never happened, my success rate was zero, and I developed a failure complex. Why should I even try? It won’t work. Maybe I was just meant to be large. I was born with a fat gene. I have low thyroid and low metabolism. It's useless to even try again, became my attitude.

I remember always being a chubby girl who preferred reading over sports. Due to my lack of co-ordination, I was always among the last to be chosen for teams. Mother tried to supervise my eating hoping to help me. I learned how to sneak food, hide food, and specialized at eating in secret. Mother loved sweets and enjoyed cooking these delights. Therefore I had plenty of practice at sneaking food. I remember eating six cinnamon rolls at one sitting.

As a newlywed, I could eat whatever I wanted without supervision. My husband and I would meet each other after evening shift at the convenience store to select our late night snacks. What fun that was, love and food.

Through two pregnancies there was a weight gain of over 60 pounds and toxemia each time. The morning before the birth of the second son, I weighed 254. After both births came more diets.

I considered eating enough to be 100 pounds overweight to qualify for a gastric bypass, but was afraid of surgery. It would have taken only 25 pounds at that time. I thought of smoking to lose weight, but my husband threatened divorce if I did. Forget that option.

Throughout the years, more diets with short-term weight loss followed by long-term weight gains. The conclusion was, Maybe I’m supposed to be this way. I focused on being a nice, giving people pleaser so others would like me. Then the weight wouldn’t matter. Wrong. I had no self-respect and saw myself as undeserving. None of my other accomplishments mattered for all I could see was this failure in my life.

In 2011, our church started a Celebrate Recovery Program for recovering drug addicts and alcoholics. This is a 12-Step program that focuses on Jesus Christ and the principles of His Beatitudes for deliverance. They wanted to serve supper at the meetings and I volunteered as the cook. Week after week, I listened to their testimonies of God’s deliverance from their addictions. I was still feeding mine.

I tried working with an addiction sponsor and accountability partners only to experience more failure in my attempts. Food was my source of comfort and pleasure to survive the pressures of life. I was in complete bondage to food addiction.

Then the scales said, 241, most of my clothes didn’t fit, and I had one blouse left I could still wear. With no hope, in desperation, I cried out to God for help. I asked Him if I needed to go to a professional counselor since I could not stop eating. He spoke to my heart. I am your counselor. Come to Me.

So every morning I had counseling sessions with God. We discussed what I ate the previous day and what I should not eat. I failed a lot, but He spoke to my heart words of love and encouragement along with His instructions for my eating. With God’s help I have lost 87 pounds without dieting, pills, or surgery. God’s purpose was to renew the mind and change the heart, not the diet.

This devotional book has some of those counseling sessions. This is the most freedom I’ve ever experienced. This same freedom is available for you. Jesus said He came to set you free and give you abundant life.

God's blessings of victory to you,

Deborah

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guide you with My eye.

PSALM 32:8

He has a plan of success and a future of freedom just for you.

PART I

DAY 1-40

Jesus Christ came to give us abundant life, not a defeated life standing in front of the refrigerator, the food pantry, or on the scale.

TO THE STRUGGLING DIETER

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

JOHN 8:36

Do you begin each day with a new resolve to stick to the diet that will finally be the answer? Are you burned out on diets that promise victory but never deliver? Have you wondered, Will I ever lose this weight? Is there any hope for me? Have you decided, I was born this way, so why fight it?

The Presence of God is the answer to all your struggles, even with weight issues. He loves you with all that He is. He has a plan of success and a future of freedom just for you. He cares about every detail of your life, even to every bite of food you eat.

Use this book as a tool to begin your own counseling sessions with the Great and Mighty Counselor. As you seek His Presence, listen for His voice to speak to your heart. Seek His guidance about food, follow His directions, and begin your journey to break free. He will bless your obedience. Choose to do it today.

Jesus Christ came to give us abundant life, not a defeated life standing in front of the refrigerator, the food pantry, or on the scale.

His purpose is to give all His children freedom and victory, for He is victory. He is your source. Run to Him now to reach your finish line for He is holding your victory in His hand.

Food For Thought

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My loving eye on you.

PSALM 32:8

So do not worry, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we wear? But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.

MATTHEW 6:31, 33

Chew On This

I wrote Day 1, Day 2, etc. on my calendar. If I messed up, it was back to Day 1 until I had 40 successful, consecutive days of eating only three meals a day with no snacks. Once I put happy face stickers on my calendar for every successful day. The colorful stickers helped me focus on my successful days. Stickers motivate children; me too.

CRYING OUT

THE BEGINNING

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

PSALM 107:6

Lord Jesus, I don’t even know what to say. How did I get here? Why did I keep eating until I hit this number? Insanity describes all my actions—at least those about food. I don’t know where to turn or what to do. You have talked to me about my gluttony many times before, but here I am at 241, my biggest ever. You’ve shown me mercy and grace beyond my comprehension. I have asked for forgiveness over a million times, and You were always there, ready to forgive me. I don’t know why… I have tried all sorts of diets, including accountability partners, only to fail them all. And here I am, admitting yet another failure.

I really don’t want stomach surgery. I don’t like surgery. But I do like the results I see on others who had stomach surgery. Lord, we both know that with the way I overeat, I would bust out the staples and be an example of gastric bypass failure. It seems that every method I have tried in order to stop my overeating has failed.

I know You are my only hope. I’ve lost my battle in the war