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The night I went on-line to find a Weigh Down Advanced class I was literally days away from contacting a psychiatrist for anxiety and depression. I was approximately forty pounds overweight and extremely sick of myself. I was eating enough for five people and secretly desiring the drugs God had rescued me from years before. I was abusing over-the-counter medicines so I would sleep constantly. I was truly at my lowest and I knew I was dying. “The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears” (Psalms 18:4-6).
I can’t thank Him enough for hearing and answering me after the way I have treated Him. I have always been one of those people that was all-or-nothing. Either I was being “bad” or I was trying my best to be “good.” This made for a miserable life. I used to think it was a curse to be this way, unable to find the “balance” in my life, but later God showed me that I was designed this way for a reason…to show me that it is all or nothing with Him too! It is either total obedience to Him or rebellion to Him, either Heaven or Hell. It is that simple.
He first led me to the Weigh Down message three years ago when we were living out of state due to a job assignment my husband Chris was on. I heard and loved Gwen’s message. I lost all my weight but my heart did not change because I was still focusing on myself and my will. After coming back home to Florida we joined a new church and I slowly began to get away from Gwen’s teaching. I lost contact with the other people in my group and slowly went back to my old ways. After awhile I truly became seven times worse than I was before I went through Weigh Down. I started trying to do Weigh Down plus exercise, diet pills, etc. I was totally miserable, more than I have ever been in my life because those seeds of truth were still in me. I felt tortured by my sin because I had heard the truth, thus the depression and anxiety set in and took over. The first time I spoke with my Weigh Down Advanced coordinators and saw the orientation video, I felt as if I were being FED for the first time in years! I felt like I could breathe. I drove home crying and praising God. My husband and I are convinced that this is the only way to live! I am so grateful and I want to thank God by being completely obedient to him for the rest of my life.
Because of Gwen’s God-given message and my obedience I have lost my extra weight, the depression is completely gone, and in those rare occasions when anxiety tries to pop up, I can beat it down knowing that it stems from a self-focus and a desire for horizontal peace and approval. PRAISE GOD for revealing this to me!!!
I am thrilled to be with people who are truly like-minded and who not only want to do things God’s way, but who know they HAVE to do things God’s way. When you completely surrender to Him and realize that His approval is the only thing that matters, you get truly FREED UP!!! Knowing that you absolutely cannot go outside of His boundaries is an awesome feeling. Keeping your focus on God’s will and holding each other accountable IS THE KEY!!! It is so FUN and PEACEFUL living for GOD and doing EVERYTHING HIS WAY!!!
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