Please help... I have had a bout of awful anorexia. I don't know if anyone remembers me, but I asked for prayer a year ago for my illness, (CFS/ME). The Lord healed me, but after that I started fasting too often, and got very underweight. Now I'm being tempted by the devil terribly, and am suffering constant night terrors, and struggles with overeating. I can't stop eating... This past month I struggled greatly. Please help. Thank you dear brothers and sisters.
Hi Peaceful.
I remember praying for you a year or so ago. I'm sorry for the recurrence of your illness, but am so very proud of you, too. Because you seem to consistently reach out to your spiritual family for support. I am happy to pray.
Father Yahweh, I know that You see your daughter and I ask that You reveal to Peaceful just how much You love her and that You have not forgotten or forsaken her. Yahweh, we love your name... Father... and your Word. I thank You for your promise in Jeremiah 17,
“But blessed is the one (the daughter), who trusts in the LORD, and makes the LORD her hope and confidence! She will be like a tree planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. She will not fear when the heat and drought come. Her leaves stay green, and she will continuously produce fruit! . . . O LORD, if you heal your daughter, then she will be truly healed; if you save her from this compulsion, she will be truly rescued!"
Lord, where else shall weakness find unfailing strength, or sorrow, adequate consolation, or hope, certain fulfillment, or fear, a safe hiding-place? Peaceful Hope - because she trusts You - sends her roots into You! Be faithful to her as You have promised!
I thank You, Lord Jesus, Yeshua! You are our Healer. Thank You for the immovable and finished work on the cross! In Your precious and wonderful name! Amen and Amen and Amen!
Finally my CF friend, 'just to affirm what you already know . . . you are set upon by a powerful compulsion to
feel like you have some real sense of or kind of control in your life.
Here is my hope for you - a positive compulsion that I suggest you seek God's guidance for. This short article puts my thoughts into words well, and the link is at the bottom.
You are loved!
Bible verses about Compulsion to Preach the Gospel (From Forerunner Commentary)
1 Corinthians 9:16
Notice the attitude with which Paul presents his message here: He says that he had
a need to preach
the gospel, that "necessity is laid upon me." He is saying, "I've got to preach this. And if I don't, I'd better hide under a rock somewhere." His approach to preaching the gospel was that lightning could strike at any time if he stopped preaching it. Remember how Jesus started this apostle's ministry—by blinding him out in the middle of the road to Damascus! What Jesus did made quite an impression on him. Paul probably thought about that often—and about what would happen if he stopped doing the charge that had been laid upon him.
So, a true minister feels
a compulsion to preach the gospel.
On the flip-side, he feels a certain doom if he does not. He feels as though, if he tried anything else, he would be a fish out of water. In him would be an emptiness that was not being filled because the ministry of
Jesus Christ is
a calling. To a true minister of
God, it is not just a job done for a paycheck, but a vocation that he feels compelled to do because the truth must be preached. The information cannot remain in his mind. Uncommunicated knowledge and understanding of God's way is absolutely useless to anybody else; it cannot help anybody take even one step along the road to the
Kingdom of God. This is why God gives ministers mouths to speak.
Paul calls it "the foolishness of preaching" (
I Corinthians 1:21, KJV), but God accomplishes a great deal through it. The serious, devoted servant of Jesus Christ must do it. He just must! It is almost like a man who has just walked out of the desert and has not had anything to eat or drink. He feels compelled, obviously, to find something to satisfy his need—particularly to drink. A true minister of God feels this way if he has not preached the truth in a long while. A "pressure" builds up after a time, and if it is not released, it explodes. The truth must be passed on because a compulsion from God Himself drives a true minister to speak the truth.
This may be dramatizing it a bit, but there is a feeling in a true minister's gut to let other people know the truth that he has been given to preach. In a true minister of God, the truth will out, to borrow a line from Shakespeare.
On the other hand, what does the minister get out of it? What does Paul say that he got from it? In verse 18, he says that, when he preached the truth, other people were helped. He was able to preach the gospel in love, without charge. He did not need anything for it personally because he was driven from the inside—not the outside. Thus, it made him feel good—it relieved that God-sent pressure and gave him the satisfaction that he had done his job.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Itching Ears
Compulsion to Preach the Gospel (Forerunner Commentary)
You are loved!