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DELIVERANCE: Obesity

THE APPESTAT

DEFINITION OF "APPESTAT"

The appestat is the appetite control center in the hypothalmus gland in the brain. It is regulated by the blood level. Compare it to the thermostat in your house. When the air cools off, the furnace comes on until the temperature cuts off the thermostat. That's the way the appestat works, except that our junk-food and high-sugar diet has "broken" the appestat. God needs to repair it by readjusting the set-point. God uses you to do that by the laying on of hands and by your command.

SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF THE OBESITY PROBLEM

Fat people are often harrassed by the following:
1 Addiction to sugar, fats, salt, junk foods, etc.
2 Gluttony.
3 Caffeine.
4 Craving for unwholesome drinks (ale, beer, bourbon, brandy, champagne, soft-drinks, wine, etc.).
5 Craving for unwholesome foods (pork, shrimp, catfish, etc.).
6 Morbid hunger-hunger experienced shortly after a meal which results in bulimia.
7 Inheritance bonds.
8 Deception of overeating (lust for food).
9 Anxiety or insecurity.
10 Fear of not getting enough to eat in the presence of plenty.

Overnutrition of the body is often accompanied by undernutrition of the spirit and soul. People get fat, bloated, and often forget their God as the Israelites did! Science cannot solve this problem. That's obvious. But God can!

Almost nobody in Christendom has had the vision of the devil's sneaky plan to destroy health, wealth, and happiness through diet manipulation. That is why Christians are overeating, overfed, and overweight. MILLIONS are headed for beds of affliction accompanied by high medical bills. They have not stopped to think how this affects God's marching army, His supply of soldiers, in these last days.

See obesity as a destroyer, a killer. Gluttony maims! Millions will attest to this fact. Abnormal excesses result in specific diseases that destroy the body, the soul, and the spirit. See yourself as a partial answer to this problem.

SUGAR - THE INFLICTOR OF GREAT PUNISHMENT

A noted doctor said, "Sugar is the greatest scourge (a whip that inflicts great punishment) that has ever been visited on man in the name of food." He believes that it should be outlawed as a poison because that's what it is. It has perverted our appetites and ruined our internal organs. It is supplying the perfect food for cancer, heart trouble, diabetes, soft bones, pancreatitis, kidney disease, liver disease, sticky blood platelets, dental caries, and increases our desire for coffee and alcohol. He suggests that when you substitute dextrose and any other kind of sugar, it is comparable to exchanging a rattlesnake for a cobra as bed partner! 
Endocrinologists agree that sugar destroys God's relative balance of the glands and nervous system. These are the glands which produce and secrete hormones into the blood or lymph, to all parts of the body.
Sugar upsets the balance and produces a hyper-secretion of hormones comparable to what you get with taking drugs and artificial hormones. In addition, it is addictive.
One of the most damaging things is that it causes the appetite control center to go helter-skelter. Sugar is devoid of any nutritional value (except calories), so the cells do not get the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, protein, etc. that they need.
When you ingest sugar, the "sugar glands" go to work telling you to eat more food so that your cells might have a chance to get the missing nutrients for which they are looking. Your pancreas works harder to provide more insulin. It tells your brain to have you eat more sugar because it cannot slow down fast enough to keep from throwing you into a coma. So, you receive double damage -- you eat more junk and your glands keep working to tell you to give them more nutrients! 
A noted doctor says that we are headed for nutritional obliteration. The devil loves it! God hates it! It was never His plan for man to destroy himself through poor nutrition.

Excerpt from "Handbook for Healing" by Charles & Frances Hunter
(Copyright 1987)

 

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Last Updated: June 24, 1999