Sometimes faith seems like a denial of reality, but that is because we are holding on to a reality that is more real than the reality we can perceive with our five senses. ~ Mark Batterson
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God put it on my heart to tell this to someone
God put it on my heart to tell this to someone
God loves you!!!! You are wondering if He even notices you, if He sees your pain, your circumstances, He does!
He is saying to you, “Lean into me, with everything that you have left. Yes, I know you are weary. Yes, I know that it has been a long time since you have seen the sun, but I AM. You are my child and I will make a way. Hold on! Get ready the sun is coming and when it does it is is going to be magnificant!”
When mature Christians go hungry it’s because of this
God is stirring up something in me lately and as a result some things are starting to bug me.
Now for those of you that know me, you will know that I am, for the most part a very positive person, and yet here I am bugged.
But even more than being bugged I am sad.
Why? Because we are supposed to be a people of simple faith!!!!!!!!
We are supposed to be those who are like children. A people who simply believe God!!
And yet we as Christians have chosen to mostly rely on ourselves, resulting in our becoming a people who do not really believe that God could do “Awesome and Amazing Things” through us or through others.
Jesus himself said in Matthew 19:14, “Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to people like these.“
Who does heaven belong too?
Those who simply believe.
Think about it!! When a child is playing outside and they hear the call from their mom “Dinner!” they do not stop and think “hmmm I wonder if I should go inside. There probably is not food there, I will probably look stupid if I go to the table! My friends will think I am a sucker for believing there is food, so I better stay outside even though I am hungry.”
NO!!!!
A Child simply goes to the table and is fed!!!
We need to start believing and then acting on the things that God is putting on our hearts!!!! We need to go to His table and be fed!!!
Come on Christians, God wants to change the world through us!!!!!
But He cannot do that if we refuse to come in from the cold!!!
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A great song for asking God to help you get where you need to be
Why I will not eat for thirty days
“Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”
– Joshua 3:5
I may not know a lot of things, but I do know the voice of my Father God who leads me and guides me and loves me so.
I know that I can trust Him. I know that when He tells me to do something it is because He loves me and wants me to prosper in some way shape or form.
So when He calls me to fast I do not hesitate.
I am no stranger to fasting. I have done three forty day fasts, a few ten days ones, as well as other small ones.
I may do the fasts, but (except for the first one) I have never initiated one that has ever succeeded.
I know it is not that way for most Christians, but if I want to fast for days over an issue I usually last about half a day.
I get so hungry and faint, I feel like I am dying (It’s ridiculous I know).
But when God puts it on my heart to fast…it’s a piece of cake (oh wait that’s a pun…sorry about that).
I have seen such amazing things happen, seen Good open doors, shut them, or just plain heal and restore.
So when He called me to consecrate myself for ministry by fasting for thirty days, even though I was not very familiar for the term, I was ready.
He told me to start on the third day of the third month and to finish on April 3rd. Those days have meaning but more on that for another day.
I am excited to press into all that God has for me in and through this fast. As God puts it on your heart to do so, please keep me in prayer, and know that I am praying for you as well.
I am not eating solid food but I am feeding on the word of God.
And although I do not broadcast every fasting experience I do believe that God has called me to blog about it this time.
I feel as though He is wanting someone to know today that it is His grace alone that gets you through the hard things He calls you to do.
Sometimes when God called us to do something we get so caught up in trying to figure out how to make it happen that we forget that it’s not our job.
We are to come to God like children, not immature, but trusting.
For the most part kids really don’t give a lot of thought to how things are going to, or did, happen.
Christmas morning they are not deeply contemplating how the bearded man got the bike in through the glass fireplace, they are too busy riding the bike for that.
We have to stop allowing ourselves to get in the way of what God wants to do. We have to Trust and obey and let Him figure it all out.
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I Am Trusting God 