WHY NOT...?

I'm fasting...immediately. No planning for this one. The Lord just told me yesterday to STOP EATING. SO I'm doing two weeks juice/water. And I invite you too also. I started yesterday. The thing I really like about posting these fasts is I'm held accountable by telling you guys that I'm fasting.

Since Starving for Jesus things have drastically changed in my life. I'm persuing a new path in ministry, I left the church I was at, I may be living in a new state or country in the next few months, I had the most intense spiritual experience of my life while in Alabama this summer! God broke bondages so deep, I could barely take it. Everything God said He would do during the fast, He did, in amazing and powerful ways! I feel like I'm at a new place following Jesus...And its amazing. The stakes are higher now, faith is needed at a new level, and the warfare more intense...but it is sooooo good to progress.

Things have not all been easy. I've seen the sickness of my earthly state. Sins I never paid attention to, have come to the surface, and old temptations are still daily being presented. I've struggled, I've fallen, I've forgotten...However this time, I just went ahead and got back up. Instead of letting my sin consume me, I let the Blood continual wash me, so I can fight another day. The Prescence of the Lord is to good to not be in.

This discipline of fasting is so helpful in following Jesus. I always wondered why my flesh got the best of me, and temptation seemed unbareable. But now I see that one must Crucify the Flesh Daily. Actively kill it. And starving the flesh through fasting is one of the most powerful ways to regain control.