In hopes that liberation will replenish and testimonies will come from a result of this blog...

Have you ever had the overwhelming guilt from ingesting food at the thought you would gain an ounce or made yourself so sick from eating that you had to purge your insides or were so stricken with fear of gaining weight that you could not swallow anything but air? There is a good chance you have faced one of those scenarios and if you haven’t I can assure you some of your close friends have. An eating disorder can come from the most innocent dieting rituals. Simply trying to take care of your body or preparing for the spring break trip coming up in a few weeks. I cannot imagine that many people would purposefully set themselves up for a life-threatening condition. Females may wake up determined to look better and lose weight but it is harder to come across a young girl who said she woke up one morning and quit eating to take on a chronic illness. We all want to look good but the thing I have found after seeing so many friends get married is that skin and bones is not your answer to walking down the aisle to get married. Girls of all shapes and sizes get married and they marry good looking people. Just go to the mall and look around you.

Saturday night I picked up a newspaper and saw an ad for National Eating Disorder Awareness week which was actually last week. As soon as I saw the ad the Lord told me to write a blog on eating disorders and girls were going to be supernaturally healed as they read it.

If you are dealing with unhealthy eating I am not sure of the cause or hurt you may be facing right now. I do know that just as Esther, in the Bible, you have been called for such a time as this and you were made in the image of God. Jesus created you perfect. Literally perfect.

I pray you receive a God given desire for food and peace to eat healthy. I break every lie of the enemy over your mind and call you blessed, holy and righteous. You have been set free and I declare the freedom and love of God to overwhelm you. Jesus loves you because He loves you and He made you. Feed and take care of your body. You have the mind of Christ. God has perfect plans for your life and you will walk them out. There is nothing you have done that is too big for God’s grace to take care of. You are healed and never again do you have to fear food or weight gain. I speak righteous eating and a holy hunger on the inside of you in the name of Jesus.

Be blessed and receive all that God has for you,

-Keeli Fawcett

*Please seek help if you are in need of medical attention or counseling. If you do not know who to contact in your area please let me know and I will be happy to see how I can help you!

Image: a physical likeness or representation of a person. A little girl twirls, dances, dresses up and takes care of her baby dolls. She runs to the mirror as soon as she puts her tutu and hat on to see how beautiful she is. In that moment the reflection she sees is not simply her but Jesus in her. Childlike faith allows the little girl to see the beauty in her eyes and how she was so perfectly made. As time goes on we so easily forget those reflections we once saw and we begin the search for imperfections in our own life. The mirror once brought joy but as time goes by we so often allow the mirror to pinpoint the frizz in our hair or the blemish on our chin.

This way of life is contradictory to the heart of Jesus. The more time we spend with someone the more we replicate them. Watch a teenage girl find a new group of friends in middle school and in no time you will notice her buying the same brands and wearing the same makeup as her “best” friends. It is a natural development that we take on the look and personality of those around us.

There is no question that Anneli is mine and Jonathan’s little girl. Not only does she look like us but she acts like us. Her dad plays the guitar so she plays the guitar. Her dad loves chocolate so she loves chocolate. Her dad hangs his sunglasses on the collar of his shirt so she hangs her sunglasses on her shirt. The examples go on and on. She spends time with us therefore she is like us.

Being made in God’s image not only means that we look like Him but we also act like Him. There is no denying that we are Anneli’s parents and there should be no denying that we are God’s children.

I believe when the enemy looks at us he sees Jesus because we were made in His image. We may not have the same skin color or hair color as Jesus but we are a representation of Him on earth.

Anneli has been saturated in the practice of God’s presence. When we pray, she folds her hands. If we ask her if she wants to pray, she never says, “No.” If she needs prayer, she will grab one of our hands and put it on her head. When we worship, she worships. When music plays, she lifts her hands and dances. When someone sings, she sings. When someone plays an instrument, she wants her little uke to play with them. When someone needs healing, she will pray for them and they get well. Your ministry is your family. Your mission field is your address. What happens behind the walls of your home will change the lives of countless people outside of your home through your children. Your love is not a face you put on for your church gatherings. It is a genuine manifestation that thrives and overflows from family. Before you show the image of God to the nations, be like Jesus in your living room.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” --Genesis 1:26-28, NIV

-Keeli & Jonathan Fawcett