Kim Plummer’s Testimony
I praise GOD Almighty for rescuing me through The Weigh Down Workshop. The message of wholehearted obedience and complete devotion to GOD alone turned my entire life around. Like so many people, I had been overweight all of my life. This is truly the only thing that has ever worked. Throughout high school and college I tried just about everything, but mainly turned to obsessive exercise to try to control my weight. Driven and desperate to get the weight off, I would walk over five miles a day, everyday, and then do aerobics. My life was rearranged and controlled by when I was going to get to exercise and it was miserable. There was a period of time when I couldn’t wear regular shoes because I would walk until my feet bled. I would drop weight fast but quickly realize that my heart was still so empty. My weight had changed but my heart had not. Even though I had been in church most of my life, I did not know to run to GOD to fill me up. Eventually, I would return to the food and gain back everything, plus more. Not only was I exchanging the god of food for the god of exercise, but my heart was full of pride, self-focus, gossip, moodiness, and an attitude of anti-authority. I was taking anti-depressants and simply living seemed like a burden. A pill did not make life better; it only made it worse. I had taken GOD’s temple and turned it into something offensive. I was trapped in my own rebellion to GOD. Every other page in my journal was a plea to GOD for help.
Praise GOD that in HIS great mercy HE answered my prayers. “In your distress you called and I rescued you…” (Psalms 81:7). I praise HIM for HIS servant, Gwen Shamblin, and her willingness to stand up and tell the truth about who GOD really is and what HE expects from HIS children. For the first time in my life I have been taught “how” to lay down sin. Not only was I told that I could lay it down but that I must lay it down. It’s the best thing anyone has ever said to me because it saved my life. Eating within GOD’s boundaries is so fun. HE has allowed me to lose over seventy pounds, without exercise. Now if I’m given the chance to exercise, it’s enjoyable, not a means of control. I don’t need anti-depressants because everyday HE allows me to live is a joy and a delight. There simply aren’t any bad days. Through Exodus Out of Egypt, Weigh Down Advanced, and Rise Above, I have learned to run to GOD for everything and from that HE has become my Everything. In Rise Above, Gwen says that “GOD has created us to feel incomplete…GOD wanted us to feel empty so that we could look for HIM and perhaps find HIM.” GOD is jealous for you and longs to be Everything to you. HE will not allow food to fill your heart or exercise to save you. Truly, there is nothing better than being inside the will of GOD!!!
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