Fasting made fun…..by God
Wow this months kinda slipped away from me a bit as far as bloggin is concerned! Oh well God has been really showin me some stuff so i thought i’d write about it…
…Last week in Fireschool Pastor Tim was talkin to us about Fasting, and I have to admit it wasnt a subject I was particularly passionate about but after the session I went into the House of Prayer to ask god to actually put a desire in my heart for fasting and I lay on the floor and simply prayed, as I lay there I felt God say to me that fasting was simply to substitute the things of this world for the things of the spiritual world.
So to go without food and seek God is to look for the food that Jesus spoke about after he’d been talking with the samaritan woman at the well and he turned to his disciples and said ‘I have food you know nothing about’ the food he was refering to was doing the will of the Father. And to fast and lie on the floor to seek God as David did is to leave behind doing things in the natural and trying to sort everything my way (although there is a time for doing things) and to say God “I need you to do this, in my own strength i can achieve nothing”. All of sudden through this simple revelation but at a heart level, I found in me a desire to fast and I thought well of course I want to lay aside the things of this world and seek the things of God, thats one of the reasons I’m on the fireschool in the first place. I love it when something can seem so dry to you, but when God breathes on it, it becomes really amazing.