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Deliverance from Fat & Eating Disorders: Power for Deliverance!
Why have so many people not had success in losing unwanted weight? Can weight gain sometimes be unnatural - even supernatural? Could anorexia be linked to a spirit of suicide by starvation? Might bulimia, compulsive eating and food addictions have a common root cause?
This is an eye-opening look at the role food can play as a substitute for the love of Jesus. Most people have no understanding why they overeat, and often live in continual condemnation for not having sufficient will-power to stop. A number have experienced rejection or feel that they are unattractive.
This book reveals dozens of spiritual reasons for unnatural weight gain, often stemming from experiences in childhood, as well as looking at the roots of eating disorders like bulimia, anorexia, obesity & more. You will read testimonies of supernatural miracles!
This is an eye-opening look at the role food can play as a substitute for the love of Jesus. Most people have no understanding why they overeat, and often live in continual condemnation for not having sufficient will-power to stop. A number have experienced rejection or feel that they are unattractive.
This book reveals dozens of spiritual reasons for unnatural weight gain, often stemming from experiences in childhood, as well as looking at the roots of eating disorders like bulimia, anorexia, obesity & more. You will read testimonies of supernatural miracles!
149 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1988
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May 12, 2021
*Rating: 0.5/5 stars*
This review is solely based on my opinions and how I felt about the book, this is NOT hate.
I originally tried to look for other reviewers to see if they had some of this same issues as I did, but it seems like I’ll be the first to type a review about this book on Good Reads.
First and foremost, I’d like to say that the idea behind helping others on how to be delivered from sins and/or certain types of spiritual oppression is amazing, but the execution of it in this book didn’t quite meet the mark. Everything felt way too fast-paced, disorganized, with no details, or proper advice on how to fight the good fight against your flesh. We bounced from case to case only hitting the surface level of a problem, but with no actual details that could one hundred percent help the reader who might be struggling with any kind of eating disorders or gluttony issues. You read about how they call the author’s bookstore to make an appointment, you read about the person’s story of what they were struggling with, how it all began, or what they think the root of the problem may be, and how they were ‘delivered’ in the back room of his bookstore. You never read about the day to day struggle, how much they had to pick up their cross and fight their flesh to ignore the urges of their eating disorders/gluttony issues. You don’t hear about how much they prayed, if they prayed (aside from the ‘deliverance’), how they managed to stay away from temptation while put in certain everyday life situations and/or temptations regarding their eating disorders. The author doesn’t give you step by step, doesn’t tell you how much you should pray without ceasing, doesn’t tell you how to take all these problems in your life to Christ. It almost implies that you need to go to someone that’s Christian to do the deliverance for you. When in reality, if Christ wanted to deliver you it doesn’t have to be in a room full of people or in a back room in a bookstore, He can deliver you in private. I really wish the author emphasized the importance of prayer, the importance of fasting, and the importance of how to fight against your flesh. Gluttony and many eating disorders is not just a one huge prayer and quick delivery fix, for some it’s a long hard battle that they fight with prayer, fasting, and a whole lot of intimacy with the Lord. But this book does not provide any of that, you only read cases that are pretty sad and how he delivered them by rebuking whatever spirit they thought they were being tormented by.
Another huge issue I had with this book was that in every case he wrote about, they were about Women. I’ve known about men struggling with these same issues that woman have in regards of their relationship with food. The author never stated that this book was geared towards only woman, so if a man that was struggling with bulimia, anorexia nervosa, or gluttony issues picked up this book, he would not be represented in any cases that were written and will surely be disappointed.
I honestly felt like the author should have split the book. He spoke more about bulimia and anorexia than he did with ‘fat’ (as he saids when talking about extreme gluttony issues). Again, he gave no details on how to further deal with these types of things later on in life, as life goes on. He doesn’t write about the long haul, of how to really deal with each kind of eating disorder. It was almost all repetition with no proper advice. I felt like he should have went a little deeper and had one book about binge eating disorder and another about starvation eating disorders.
What really made me give it one star:
The way he wrote and thought about overweight people absolutely disgusted me. You can definitely read the difference on how he writes about those struggling with gluttony but are thin and those who struggle with gluttony that are not thin. He repeatedly uses the word ‘gross’ and ‘grossly’ to describe overweight people. He used words like fragile and extremely thin to described those who didn’t struggle with being over weight. It felt like there wasn’t any ounce of compassion. Eating disorders of ANY kind is difficult to deal with and trying to fight against. I thought the author should have worded things a lot better. I will now quote some passages in the book that made me highly upset:
“I have also seen hundreds of cases of people, especially grossly overweight women, who are always on the prayer chair for ministry, for problems with their knees, legs, hips, who would have far fewer problems with their legs if they weren’t carrying so much excess weight” pg 121
“ Margaret, like most grossly overweight people,” pg 123
“I must confess that I didn’t think we’d get them all in. I recalled the time when I had a mother and son come together for deliverance. Both weighed over 300 pounds, and we were literally wedges against the prayer room’s walls. We have since remolded and now have a larger prayer room. I was anticipating with mixed emotions the forthcoming “fat deliverance.” Oddly enough, not one of the women who came for deliverance was what I would have described as fat. A couple were large, but none were even plump, and some where actually thin. But they had the same complaint, “compulsive eating,” which they all considered to be a spirit of gluttony.” Pg 125
In the end, I was left feeling grieved in my spirit and extremely disappointed. If I’m being honest, I picked up this book to receive tips, prayer advice on how to fight the flesh against gluttony/eating disorders, and how to give that part of my problem to God. I honestly do not recommend this book to anyone struggling with eating disorders of any kind. I highly encourage to avoid books like these ones, they seem to do more harm than good.
This review is solely based on my opinions and how I felt about the book, this is NOT hate.
I originally tried to look for other reviewers to see if they had some of this same issues as I did, but it seems like I’ll be the first to type a review about this book on Good Reads.
First and foremost, I’d like to say that the idea behind helping others on how to be delivered from sins and/or certain types of spiritual oppression is amazing, but the execution of it in this book didn’t quite meet the mark. Everything felt way too fast-paced, disorganized, with no details, or proper advice on how to fight the good fight against your flesh. We bounced from case to case only hitting the surface level of a problem, but with no actual details that could one hundred percent help the reader who might be struggling with any kind of eating disorders or gluttony issues. You read about how they call the author’s bookstore to make an appointment, you read about the person’s story of what they were struggling with, how it all began, or what they think the root of the problem may be, and how they were ‘delivered’ in the back room of his bookstore. You never read about the day to day struggle, how much they had to pick up their cross and fight their flesh to ignore the urges of their eating disorders/gluttony issues. You don’t hear about how much they prayed, if they prayed (aside from the ‘deliverance’), how they managed to stay away from temptation while put in certain everyday life situations and/or temptations regarding their eating disorders. The author doesn’t give you step by step, doesn’t tell you how much you should pray without ceasing, doesn’t tell you how to take all these problems in your life to Christ. It almost implies that you need to go to someone that’s Christian to do the deliverance for you. When in reality, if Christ wanted to deliver you it doesn’t have to be in a room full of people or in a back room in a bookstore, He can deliver you in private. I really wish the author emphasized the importance of prayer, the importance of fasting, and the importance of how to fight against your flesh. Gluttony and many eating disorders is not just a one huge prayer and quick delivery fix, for some it’s a long hard battle that they fight with prayer, fasting, and a whole lot of intimacy with the Lord. But this book does not provide any of that, you only read cases that are pretty sad and how he delivered them by rebuking whatever spirit they thought they were being tormented by.
Another huge issue I had with this book was that in every case he wrote about, they were about Women. I’ve known about men struggling with these same issues that woman have in regards of their relationship with food. The author never stated that this book was geared towards only woman, so if a man that was struggling with bulimia, anorexia nervosa, or gluttony issues picked up this book, he would not be represented in any cases that were written and will surely be disappointed.
I honestly felt like the author should have split the book. He spoke more about bulimia and anorexia than he did with ‘fat’ (as he saids when talking about extreme gluttony issues). Again, he gave no details on how to further deal with these types of things later on in life, as life goes on. He doesn’t write about the long haul, of how to really deal with each kind of eating disorder. It was almost all repetition with no proper advice. I felt like he should have went a little deeper and had one book about binge eating disorder and another about starvation eating disorders.
What really made me give it one star:
The way he wrote and thought about overweight people absolutely disgusted me. You can definitely read the difference on how he writes about those struggling with gluttony but are thin and those who struggle with gluttony that are not thin. He repeatedly uses the word ‘gross’ and ‘grossly’ to describe overweight people. He used words like fragile and extremely thin to described those who didn’t struggle with being over weight. It felt like there wasn’t any ounce of compassion. Eating disorders of ANY kind is difficult to deal with and trying to fight against. I thought the author should have worded things a lot better. I will now quote some passages in the book that made me highly upset:
“I have also seen hundreds of cases of people, especially grossly overweight women, who are always on the prayer chair for ministry, for problems with their knees, legs, hips, who would have far fewer problems with their legs if they weren’t carrying so much excess weight” pg 121
“ Margaret, like most grossly overweight people,” pg 123
“I must confess that I didn’t think we’d get them all in. I recalled the time when I had a mother and son come together for deliverance. Both weighed over 300 pounds, and we were literally wedges against the prayer room’s walls. We have since remolded and now have a larger prayer room. I was anticipating with mixed emotions the forthcoming “fat deliverance.” Oddly enough, not one of the women who came for deliverance was what I would have described as fat. A couple were large, but none were even plump, and some where actually thin. But they had the same complaint, “compulsive eating,” which they all considered to be a spirit of gluttony.” Pg 125
In the end, I was left feeling grieved in my spirit and extremely disappointed. If I’m being honest, I picked up this book to receive tips, prayer advice on how to fight the flesh against gluttony/eating disorders, and how to give that part of my problem to God. I honestly do not recommend this book to anyone struggling with eating disorders of any kind. I highly encourage to avoid books like these ones, they seem to do more harm than good.
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