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My name is Ruth Kubichar and my deliverance testimony began when I gained sixty pounds during my first pregnancy. Everybody returns to their pre-pregnancy weight, right?! Not me. It was a struggle. I could not get past the first twenty pounds. About this same time I began to read the Bible for the first time in my life. I read it from cover to cover and believed every word. It filled an empty hole in my spirit that I never knew existed. There was only one problem: no one could make sense or explain the hard parts like Romans, 1 John and Revelation. As my spiritual walk with God began, I could not get enough of “church”. I had such a passion to find God and understand His words, but my life was full of sin. Since my zeal for God outweighed my sins, it (sin) was never addressed over the next twelve years as I searched for the answer to life.
I had been a dieter since I could remember, all the way back to middle school. I had been a compulsive exercise-aholic. I also tried those pills that speed up your metabolism. Taking them took me from a borderline size sixteen to eight, but the minute God convicted me that my body was a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corn. 3:16-17), and I gave the pills up, my weight quickly escalated back up because I had not had a permanent heart change and I still loved the food. As I watched the first Weigh Down promotional video, I knew this was different than anything else I had ever tried in my life and the only hope or way out of this situation was through the power of Almighty God. I could not wait to get to class each week to learn what Gwen Shamblin, the founder of The Weigh Down Workshop, would teach us. There were no special foods, no counting calories, no exercising. You could eat chocolate, cheese, and butter. I lost twenty pounds in two sessions.
God also began to open my eyes to other sins in my life, besides my gluttony. He revealed pride, an unsubmissive spirit, a controlling attitude, ungratefulness, bad attitudes, greed, lack of trust, conceit, anger, hatred, self-indulgence, an anti-authority mentality, jealousy, bitterness, a contentious spirit, gossip, slander and hardness of heart. I learned I had to change these behaviors if I wanted to line up with the Word of God. The problem was that I waffled. Some days I was good, some days I wasn’t so good, and some days I just stunk.
I had been able to participate and lead the Exodus Out of Egypt series at the church I attended at the time. The main target of this program is heart change, and weight loss is a fruit of that change. The Weigh Down Workshop introduced its Exodus from Strongholds series a few years later. This program evolved as the result of thousands of testimonies similar to mine where God was healing people in other areas of their lives as well. I was so excited to teach Exodus from Strongholds, but, three years later, I could still not get the church leaders’ approval to do so. The weight loss program was widely accepted, but no one wanted to address obedience, righteousness and holiness, which is what Exodus from Strongholds was more pointed in addressing. Those subjects were too controversial for a growing church.
At the same time, I noticed others who were gaining their weight back besides me. I thought I had been doing great, but I was lying to myself. Satan is so crafty. He leads us to believe we are fine when, in reality, we are in his clutches all along. “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God” (1 John 3:9). I was now attending every special event I could at any and all churches in the surrounding cities, still searching for God. When was this vicious cycle going to end?
A few years later Weigh Down Advanced was introduced. Under the urging of a dear sister in Christ, and through much testing to see what I was willing to give up for God to attend this class, I enrolled. In week one Gwen explains passages from 1 John. I was touched deeply in my spirit and knew for the first time in my life that this was what I had been looking for all along. However, I continued to buy into Satan’s lies up to week five. God really shook me up. Half the class was over, and I hadn't lost one pound. I had NO FEAR of the Lord God and what He has the ability to do to me for disobedience/continual sin. I was putting myself above God, calling the shots in my life instead of following His lead. What an abomination to the God who created me. I was slapping Him in the face.
I set my mind to eat within the boundaries of hunger and fullness, and, when tempted, fight with all my might to say “no”. I pursued my Weigh Down Advanced homework diligently and attended another Weigh Down Advanced session. My weight loss was seventeen more pounds on top of the other twenty that finally stabilized. I also began to have lunch with the other women in the class. I noticed that being among others that have a similar attitude enabled me to keep my own obedience in check much more easily. During this time I chose to attend Remnant Fellowship.
Even though I am smaller than I have ever been in my life, that is nothing compared to the relationship I now have with God. On top of that, He has provided me with a group of like-minded believers who live for His will alone, and give little consideration to their own lives. It is our responsibility to share what we have learned with people like you, who know something is wrong but just can’t put their finger on what it is. Please heed the call of the voice of the Lord, line up all the Weigh Down teachings with the Word of God, and never look back!
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