100 Days to Freedom from Overeating: Daily Devotional

By Tyndale House Publishers

Enjoy having practical advice and hope for those struggling with overeating in this beautiful daily devotion. Support your own or a loved one's journey with this devotional that's designed to help do the hard inner work when it comes to your health. This book is packed with:

• Daily devotions on recovery from food fixation
• Thought-provoking personal questions and practical applications
• Powerful prayers inspired by Scripture
• 5-minute devotions with further study options

When it comes to focusing on your health, it’s not merely about calories, exercise, or diets—it’s about your spiritual and mental health as well! In this devotional, you will read powerful Bible verses, encouraging devotionals, inspirational quotes, and prayers—all focused on finding freedom from overeating. It will be an opportunity to work with the Lord to heal your pain, redirect your thoughts, set healthy boundaries, and discover the path that God has intended for you.

The Devotional on Overeating That Tackles the Mind, Body, and Spirit

A lot of guides and handbooks for overeating and food compulsion ONLY deal with dieting or the psychology of healthy boundaries. But this devotional also tackles the spiritual aspects of struggling with food. Enjoy 100 daily devotions you can read in just minutes on these topics:

• Behavior—Mindful Eating, The Mirror, Gut-Brain Connection, and more!
• Psychology—Stewarding Well: Your Brain, All Good Versus All Bad, Managing Expectations, and more!
• Spirituality—Lead with Praise, See the Unseen, Spiritual War, and more!

Having an unhealthy relationship with food has become the norm in our culture. Ads for new diets, workout regimens, and medical procedures bombard us at every turn. The desire to make changes to our bodies is common. We want to feel comfortable and confident in our own skin, and God wants that for us as well.

Key Features of the 100 Days to Freedom from Overeating Daily Devotional

Choose to spend the next 100 days finding freedom from overeating. 100 Days to Freedom from Overeating is the latest in the New Life Devotions series by best-selling author Stephen Arterburn. The scriptures you will read—the devotionals, quotes, and prayers—will begin to change the way you think and feel. Key features of this devotional are:

• Full color
• Simple daily format, covering 100 days
• 100 need-to-know topics (like Peaceful Eating, Gut-Brain Connection, Spiritual Transformation, and more!)
• Key verses, quotes, and refreshing devotions
• 100 prayers for everyday use
• Makes for an excellent repeatable study

In the 100 Days of Freedom from Overeating devotional, readers will be renewed with a deeper sense of confidence as they are led to experience the powerful, transforming effect God's love has on their health.

Perfect for:

• Individual study
• Prayer groups
• Discipleship
• Small groups
• Support & recovery groups
• Church library
• Chaplaincy or prison ministry

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Release date: Nov 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781496482037

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Day 1

God Offers Freedom and a Purpose

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.

Ephesians 3:20

In a world full of uncertainty, it is easy to feel discouraged and fearful. You can begin to live in ways that make you feel as if you are just surviving. If you are desiring freedom in your life, God is here with you! He wants to help you live life to the fullest!

Ephesians 3:20 is so encouraging as it opens up with heaven’s promise that God’s supernatural ability transcends your weaknesses as well as your wildest dreams! The beautiful part is that by his power at work within you, you get the opportunity to work together with him. He loves you so much and has created you for a unique purpose. More than anything, he wants you to know you are valuable, loved, and known.

Today, take a moment and imagine yourself living in freedom from overeating, releasing whatever may be holding you back. If you begin to think that is impossible, be at peace, because it is by God’s mighty power that you are healed and transformed. Your job is to trust God and work with him.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

Christine Caine

Hope itself is like a star—not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

Charles Spurgeon

That wild and precious life of yours matters—to God and to the world. Not a drop of it is wasted. Your work matters. Your gifts matter. Your tears matter. Your pain matters. Your joy matters. Your hopes matter. Your dreams matter. Your successes matter. Your failures matter. Your relationships matter. Your memories matter. Your childhood matters. Your past matters. Your future matters. Your present matters.

Beth Moore

For Further Reflection

Psalm 29:11; Jeremiah 29:11; Zephaniah 3:17

Today’s Prayer

Dear God, thank you for loving me and for creating me. I trust you with my life. I trust in your ability to see beyond what I can see for my life. Give me the courage to place all of my trust in you. Thank you for the hope you give me every day. Amen.

Day 2

God Loves

I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the Love of Christ.

Ephesians 3:17–18

Many of us walk around with a false idea of what God’s love is. But how we know, understand, and experience God’s love is directly tied to our ability to trust that he is good and has our best interests at heart.

Sometimes because of past experiences, we see God as angry, harsh, or judgmental. At other times, he may seem distant or uncaring. Nothing can be further from the truth! The God of the Bible is full of grace and truth. He is kind, good, faithful, gentle, just, wise, and patient. In order for true lasting changes to occur, we must be willing to forgo our preconceived ideas of who we have thought God is and be willing to paint a new picture of God’s love in our lives.

Ephesians 3:17 contains the phrase rooted and established in love. Generally, roots run deep into the ground and receive water to help a plant grow. If we are rooted in God’s love, we can stand strong in faith, knowing that God’s love is a constant stream sustaining us through both the mountains (joys) and the valleys (sorrows) of life.

Instead of trying to find comfort in food, we can find comfort and feel secure in God’s love for us.

Though our feelings come and go, God’s love for us does not.

C. S. Lewis

We are chosen, loved, prized, wanted, and believed in by a father who is perfect in every way.

Louie Giglio

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.

Max Lucado

For Further Reflection

Psalm 103:8; Lamentations 3:31–32; 1 John 4:10

Today’s Prayer

Dear Father, thank you for being a love unlike any other! Please help me to stay rooted in you and grasp the fullness of your love in my life. Help me to open my heart to receive your love. I pray that I will be able to share your love with the world around me. Amen.

Day 3

God Satisfies

You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing.

Psalm 145:16

Have you ever sat down and reflected on what you truly desire? What makes you feel fulfilled? Rarely do we take the time to quiet ourselves and reflect on this question. Not only do we have basic human needs—food, water, and safety—but we also crave something deeper to satisfy us. We crave love—a connection, a sense of purpose, and a feeling of belonging.

When Jesus met the woman at the well, she was living in shame and was hiding. He knew her private life and he desperately wanted her to know his love for her. He said, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life (John 4:13–14).

Like the woman at the well, you have a story for being the way you are. Maybe you run to food to satisfy an unfulfilled need or desire. Jesus wants to meet you in the middle of your story and reveal himself as the giver of abundant life. Regardless of where you feel empty, he alone can satisfy, and he promises to do just that—and more.

Make friends with your needs. Welcome them. They are a gift from God, designed to draw you into relationship with him and with his safe people. Your needs are the cure to the sin of self-sufficiency.

Henry Cloud

Practice saying no to the things that are not good for you, and over time, you will find it easier to do.

Daniel G. Amen

God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.

Billy Graham

For Further Reflection

Psalm 103:1–5; Isaiah 58:11; Jeremiah 31:25; John 7:37–38

Today’s Prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for your love and truth that you freely give. Thank you for having compassion on me and for causing me to feel worthy. You are the giver of all true life. Amen.

Day 4

Reaping What You Sow

You reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Galatians 6:7–8 nrsvue

One of the most difficult yet life-altering decisions we can make is to take responsibility for our own emotions and behaviors and allow other people to do the same for their emotions and behaviors. Some of us take on too much responsibility for the emotions or behaviors of others while others do not accept enough. As a result, we often become negatively affected by the imbalance.

Motivated by what we believe is love, we try to make life easier for others or we try to save them from the natural consequences of their actions. While we may feel as if we’re doing these things out of love, what we are actually doing is living out our own anxiety or our need to avoid conflict and uneasiness.

The most loving decision is to allow the other person to feel the positive or negative consequences of their own behavior. This can only occur when we decide to change our own part in the pattern of behavior.

The good news is that we can change our behavior—including how we treat food. We take back our lives by changing our mindsets, choices, and reactions. When it comes to what we eat, we should not be shocked when indulging in fast food or late-night binges does not result in weight loss. Our behavior is our responsibility and we will reap what we sow. But each day we have the gift of a new opportunity to decide what to eat and how best to take care of our bodies. Daily, we must choose and do what is best.

If I overeat, no one else gains weight but me.

Henry Cloud

You cannot change what you are willing to tolerate.

Craig Groeschel

You are not a victim. You can control your reactions. You do have a choice.

Caroline Leaf

For Further Reflection

Proverbs 11:18; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Galatians 6:4–5, 9

Today’s Prayer

Dear God, thank you for giving me the freedom to choose what can bring me life. Please forgive me when I sow to my own flesh. I ask that you help me sow things that are eternal and in the Spirit. Give me wisdom to know the difference. I ask these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Day 5

What Do You Seek?

You will seek me and find me

when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

What is the first thing you think about when you wake up? If we wake up thinking of the food we want to eat that day, that food will be on our mind all day until we get it! Many of us want to hear from God, but every day we do not wake up thinking about him or seeking him. According to Matthew 6:19–20, Jesus talked about storing up eternal treasures in heaven. He shared that where our treasure is our heart will be. What you seek the most becomes your treasure, and this ends up defining you.

The Gospels describe an instance when Jesus was at Mary and Martha’s house. Martha was busy with chores and preparations while Mary sat at Jesus’ feet, listening to him. Jesus said that Mary had chosen what is good. As believers, we can be like Martha and get so caught up in doing many things for God that we end up prioritizing those things over seeking to be still before him.

Consider, then, the thing you seek the most, and make it time with God.

Meet Me in the early morning splendor. I eagerly await you here. In the stillness of this holy time with Me, I renew your strength and saturate you with Peace. While others turn over for extra sleep or anxiously tune in to the latest news, you commune with the Creator of the universe. I have awakened in your heart a strong desire to know Me.

Sarah Young

Don’t let past mistakes keep you from seeking God.

Billy Graham

The heart is the beginning and the end of all our spiritual and bodily actions and, generally speaking, of everything we do in our lives. It is, therefore, the heart whose attention we must carefully focus on God.

Brother Lawrence

For Further Reflection

Psalm 46:10; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:38–42; James 4:8

Today’s Prayer

Dear Lord, I ask that you would help me have a heart that seeks you every morning when I wake up. That my eyes will be open to see what you see, and that my heart may break for what yours does. Amen.

Day 6

Jesus Is the Bread of Life

I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

John 6:35

The Old Testament story of God delivering manna to the Israelites in the desert is