I went searching Youtube again for healing testimonies through Jesus. This time, my mission was to find personal experiences of people who were healed from eating disorders. My mission was easy – I found these three ladies’ inspiring testimonies in short time! Per their experiences, you don’t need to learn CBT for eating disorders, nor go to an expensive and time-consuming program, nor take psych drugs. It is truly amazing how God can heal completely and transform lives.

God freed Sam from her eating disorder

Growing up a tomboy, Sam was only around four years old when she first began to play soccer. Her love for sports pleased her father, who was a sports enthusiast. He pretty much became a second coach for her.

However, they started “butting heads a lot” due to sharing the same streak of stubbornness. The situation escalated from verbal abuse to physical fights, and Sam began to fear her father, noting that “he turned into a man who I didn’t know.”

Angry, confused, and bitter, Sam turned to substance use to cover up the bad feelings. Despite this, she was still able to maintain a connection with her father through sports.

Before starting college, Sam made an effort to clean up her life and get right with God. In college, she continued with soccer, fearing “if [she] lost soccer, then [she would] lose [her] dad.” Then, she sustained a serious injury. It was after that that her eating disorder began. Sam would work out and not eat. Finding her diet an area of her life that she could control, she disregarded the concerns of others around her.

One night, Sam quarreled bitterly with her parents. They had gone to her room, wondering why she separated herself from them. She unleashed her anger on them regarding the abuse she had sustained from her father when she was younger and the fact that her mother had not intervened. Later, she became sick and vomited blood, which led her worried mother to pray for God to “wake her up” regarding her eating disorder.

When she went to sleep, Sam had an interesting dream. In the dream, she appeared to be inside God’s throne room. When she tried to approach God, black figures would impede her movement until they overpowered her and pulled her into the floor. When she awoke, she suddenly realized that she really had an eating disorder.

Sam ended up doing a 5 month stint in an eating disorder clinic. She noted that she “was the only person in the program that had been there for the first time; all of the girls that [she] was in there with – it was their third or fourth or fifth time being in the program.”

The eating disorder program did not bring Sam freedom as she had hoped. Freedom did not come until she attended a women’s conference at a church, desperate for God’s help. She got in line for the altar call, and one of the pastors touched her cheeks. Sam experienced a vision of a beautiful young woman wearing a white dress and a crown of flowers. She wondered why God was showing her this person, and God responded, “That’s you.”

Sam was amazed that that was how God viewed her. During her testimony, she said, “And so, I got up, and I can tell you honestly from that day, I have not struggled with eating disorder. I haven’t even struggled with the thought of it.” Sam has since reconciled with her father and even led him and her sisters to get saved. She graduated from college with plans to become a teacher.

Bryanna Nadiope was delivered of her eating disorder by God

After an unspecified traumatic event at age 11 or 12, Bryanna began an 11 year battle with an eating disorder. She struggled with feeling unworthy unless she got smaller. In high school, her feelings for herself had turned into “shame and disgust.” She restricted food intake and exercised for hours. The obsession with losing weight sucked the joy out of her everyday life.

The symptoms of Bryanna’s eating disorder went up and down in severity over time. By college, she had drawn closer to God and had improved. However, when some life events happened that challenged her sense of control, the eating disorder came back with a vengeance. Her feelings of helplessness, self-hatred, and self-disgust were so intense that she wanted her life to end.

A friend pointed out that she had made an idol of her disorder. Ashamed, she pleaded with God to heal her of the eating disorder. At some point, she considered that maybe her condition was “just a thorn in [her] side” that she would have to live with vis-a-vis Paul the apostle. Upon watching a testimony of someone who got healed of her eating disorder, she vowed to spread her testimony too if only God healed her.

Eventually, Bryanna lost her faith in being healed and became resigned to her condition, concluding God would help her handle it. Her story did not end there. Upon finishing a work day, she was looking at herself in the bathroom mirror and had an unexpected experience. At the time of her testimony, she recalled, “I was flooded with such – with such peace and love for myself. It was like a rush. It’s something that I never felt, that I don’t remember feeling since I was a little girl. Just peace. And I knew, I knew I was healed. I didn’t look at myself in disgust. The pressure to lose weight was lifted off of me… I could look at myself with love, with the Father’s love, something that I never thought I would ever do in a million years. I never thought I would ever come to love myself. And it’s been two months now, and I’ve not struggled with any eating disorder, anything, any tendencies, any habits… I can say firmly, in my confidence and boldly, that God healed me.”

Michelle Clark found the solution for her eating disorder by building a relationship with Christ

Though she received Jesus at an early age and attended church regularly, Michelle “didn’t come to understand grace,” “was very legalistic,” and “believed in a really far, distant God.” Lacking that personal relationship with God, she strove for perfection but ended up “feeling like a failure.”

The first signs of her future eating disorder appeared at puberty when she was not happy about putting on weight. At some point, she began to basically perform things for God with the expectation that He would fulfill her desires in return, like correcting her eating problems and granting her an idolized romantic relationship.

By her mid-twenties, Michelle grew frustrated with her efforts at trying to please God, in part because she never could never perform right and also because she did not get the things she wanted from God. She gave up and “started doing whatever [she] wanted.”

Spiraling into a bad case of bulimia, she turned to support groups, books, and a secular psychologist for help. None of these were able to fix her eating disorder.

Then, Michelle found a new church that “taught the gospel correctly.” There, she was taught about grace and “that Jesus loved [her] at [her] worst… and “wasn’t disgusted by [her].”

The result was that Michelle started drawing closer to Jesus and seeking a relationship with Him. She took counsel from a pastor’s wife, worshiped God, read Scripture, and listened to sermons.

A gradual transformation began to unfold as Michelle shifted her attention onto Jesus. A year later, she no longer purged. She testified, “Once I focused on Jesus and I looked at Him, He fixed it…. Through changing my focus to be on Jesus and getting the satisfaction for my soul through Him… I didn’t need to use… the food anymore.”

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