Day 16 - Fast 2009

Today I'm doing a sun up to sun down normal fast. It's been a good day and I'm hungry in the flesh, but in the spiritual realm God is my portion today. Just praying this morning there is this overwhelming sense of something turning. I wonder if that's what the children of Israel felt when they left the wilderness and made it to the promise land.

A few months back I wrote it on a piece of paper and it's tacked on my refrigerator; "thank you Lord for bringing me into my promised land". I have that kind of faith that I believe God's word, that the struggles that I've had in the past are over, today is a new day and God is taking me higher than what I've ever been before.

In the natural it doesn't make any sense, but that's usually when you know that it's God. Like Elder Ziegler said, "if it make sense, it's not God". To anyone who doesn't understand it, perhaps it's because you haven't come to know what this relationship is. It's not about religion, it's about a relationship. I can stand with confidence knowing that God is able to do the impossible. If you don't know God like that then I pray that you would seek Him today. In Jeremiah 9:13 it says "you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." He's available to everyone who seeks Him, it's His gift to us.

It's funny, my daughter was playing a word game and it asked what does impossible mean. I told her that it's highly unlikely, but possible and it was the wrong answer. It kind of upset me and I told her that regardless of what the word means to them, we know that God can do the impossible; so impossible isn't impossible when you believe that God can do it. I shouldn't be alive today, but because God can do the impossible your reading my words today. I should be dead two times over, I had multiple blood clots in both lungs twice, but I'm still here, God is keeping me! The doctors told me that I was lucky to be alive, lucky to have had children, etc. I'm not lucky, I'm blessed and that's not arrogance, that's the confidence that I have in God.

I pray that your fast is going well today. After today we only have 5 more days to go. It seems like only yesterday that we started and look how far we've come!

Be blessed and be a blessing to someone today.