#291: Will You Trade Your Comfort Food for The Comforter?

Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

Authentic Intimacy®

Relationships, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Are you a sugar addict? Do you run to the pantry each afternoon to get you through your day? Do you turn to Starbucks for a little stress relief? Today Juli & her guest talk about how fasting from sugar (or whatever it is you run to) hones our hunger for Jesus, the only One who can break strongholds in our lives.

Guest: Wendy Speake

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0:00.0	Hi friends, this is Linda Dillo. And I'm Yvette Mar. We're going to let you get to your new Java with Julie episode in just a minute. But first, Linda, I have to read this sweet email that we just received. This woman writes, I have had this podcast on in my car every free moment I can find and have been able to share episodes with numerous friends and clients.
0:21.6	I'm a licensed counselor and I've found your ministry to be refreshing and very much needed in my own life,
0:28.6	as well as the type of counseling I do with women and couples around the issues of sexual brokenness, betrayal, and infidelity.
0:35.6	Yvette, I think this is exactly what you and I have found.
0:40.6	We love sharing Java with Julie with so many other women because everybody needs it.
0:47.3	Well, you and I both know that this podcast is worth sharing.
0:51.8	This is how the ministry grows.
0:53.5	It reaches more and more people.
0:55.6	And it also grows as we give financially. And that's why I want to encourage you to prayerfully
1:04.2	go to God and ask him if he would like you to give a donation today to help sustain this very important work.
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1:21.3	This is for all the work that he is clearly doing through this podcast and through this ministry.
1:31.2	Okay. clearly doing through this podcast and through this ministry. Hello there. This is Julie Slattery and thanks for joining me for Java with Julie.
1:36.5	This podcast is an outreach of authentic intimacy, a ministry dedicated to reclaiming God's
1:42.2	design for sexuality. Our conversation today at first glance might seem like an odd one to have in the middle of the Christmas season.
1:50.0	I'm talking with Wendy Speak, who began an annual 40-day sugar fast.
1:55.0	Last year, more than 15,000 people joined her online in an effort to stop running to sugar to get through
2:02.3	the day and to begin running to Jesus, to fill emptiness, to comfort sadness, and provide strength.
2:09.3	You know, we all have things that we run to instead of Jesus. When these things, or even people,
2:15.4	take his place in our lives, we will miss out on what he has for us.
2:20.2	In my conversation with Wendy, we'll talk a little bit about what it means to fast, why we do it,
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