Welcome back to the line of fire. So ending the year, starting the new year, we're doing it a little differently.

This time with a message that I preached in 2017 on breaking the stronghold of food, it was just three years into my journey of new living then.

It's now 10 plus years in and keeps getting better.

So we conclude the message today from 2017 on breaking

the stronghold of food. I pray it will be a blessing to you. And you just go to a restaurant and the

portions are massive. I mean the desserts, it takes three people to bring it out, you know,

death by chocolate. Sir, would you like to try our chocolate suicide cake? This is part of our culture. So it's challenging.

It's hard. That's why I said the last thing you'll get for me is any type of condemnation or criticism.

This is challenging. And it's lifelong habits. But I want to tell you that God's grace can help us overcome the stronghold of food,

just like everything else.

If we can talk about God's grace to overcome pornography, God's grace to overcome depression,

God's grace to overcome fear, God's grace to overcome alcoholism,

then we can have God's grace to overcome gluttony.

We can have God's grace to overcome foodtony. We can have God's grace to

overcome food addictions. We can have God's grace to help us live a disciplined, self-controlled

life. And once you do it for a while, wow, the rewards that kick in are wonderful and massive.

And then you don't have the old cravings anymore. You don't have the old desires anymore.

When we do our typical dieting, the reason we fail is because we cut back on the addiction

rather than cut it out.

So you always feel deprived because you're always not having what you want to have,

and you're still feeding the addiction.

When you cut it out entirely, get free from it, and then feed yourself with healthy

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