Days 7 and 8. Still going.
Although, it is getting tougher. But in a different way.
It is easy to lose focus. What it seems my flesh is doing now is trying to convince me that I am only doing this to lose weight. Yes, I am obviously losing weight, but that IS NOT the reason I am fasting. I am not an experienced “faster” nor have I done it a lot. I think one of my problems is that I am not in the Word enough….I spend a lot of time praying, but with my job and different things, it is easy to get side tracked or have my mind off of God for long periods of time….. I just cannot be praying constantly.
This opens doors for the enemy to come in and begin to tempt me. Not tempting like normal tempting…..it’s different. It’s more like when you are tempted with sin, not that I am sinning cause I am not. But the temptation to break my fast RIGHT NOW is like a sin temptation. It’s strange, but I am thankful I am going through it. My prayer is that this experience will make me more able to deal with temptations when they come after this is over.
I need prayer too. Please pray that God helps me stay focused on what this is for…..cause it is easy to lose sight of it.
I am also seeing things about me change. Which is another PRAISE report. Yesterday at church something happened that would have normally sent me bouncing off the walls in a rage…..but it happened, and I was like, “Oh well Lord…..you got it.” I mean what else could I say? So often we sit around freeking out about things we simply cannot control. Your Bible says to not be anxious for anything and let tomorrow worry about itself. I tell you what, if I can get just that much out of this, it has been an overwhelming success.
I am also finding myself more easily into the presence when the conversation of God comes up. A lot of times I let the world and life get so much in the way that when someone wants to come to me for advice or looks to me for Godly answers, I tend to get nervous cause I am not “prepared” to be the “mega-Christian” I am suppose to be….lol. I was ministering to someone the other day and everything flowed perfectly. I pray that what I said helped the person I was speaking to……but I can only trust God that they did.
I am probably going to break my fast Saturday or Sunday……..not sure yet.
~jfm3~
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