Day 3, only 18 more days to go! I find that as the day goes by the enemy seems to lurk and try to tempt you in every way. Today is the day that I actually started feeling hungry, but unlike a diet, I didn't want to cheat because if I do, I'm doing it to God and not myself. I love myself, but it's easy to cheat on a diet and go back to it later. It's doesn't feel right to cheat on God, maybe that's just me.
Fasting is unlike dieting because my heart's desire is to please God. I so want to be more faithful, more loving, more giving, more of everything that God wants me to be and the only way that I can do that is by fasting. I need this time of clarity to get focused on God and not on the things of life.
Life will mess you up. We spend more time watching things and listening to music that doesn't edify us; we spend our time trying to make more money to buy more stuff and impress more people but are we really happy? In the end what is our life if God is not the center of it and the most important thing on your to-do list?
I pray that if you have never fasted before that perhaps this year would be different, this year you would take time to put God first in your life. Are you in need of a miracle, do you desire a deeper relationship with God, if you have no peace in your life and your life is so chaotic that you find yourself repeating the days over and over again and you seem to go nowhere, then fast. Fast believing that something will change. The women with the issue of blood touched Jesus because she believed that something would change; believe that God is able to do it and then fast and believe that you will receive it. God knows what you need before you ask for it. And lets be clear, wants and needs are different, so don't think that God doesn't know the difference.
I pray that if you are fasting that your fast is going well. Remember this isn't about you, it's about God. Be blessed and be a blessing to someone today.
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