21 day fast (day 10)

January 10th, 2016

Its a new year and I have gone 10 days with no social media! And let me say for the record this is not easy. Just last night I saw my instagram app on my phone and said no!! then all the sudden before I realised I was scrolling through and I threw my phone and was like NOOOO!! what happened?? My body and flesh are more in control that I realized.

I will tell you I only made it 5 days with the strict diet , for me it just seemed impossible. I have always been a very small person but that doesnt mean I dont eat. I actually eat a lot and I am a glutten at many times. Just becasue people are small doesnt mean they cant over eat and even have a food addiction. Its actually worse becasue I can over eat all I want and nobody knows but me. After I made it the 5 days and stopped of course I felt defeted and like I was a loser and always quit everything, even though I am still not doing social media and really digging into the word of God I still felt just dumb. Through this though God taught me while I was reading the bible from a verse , Titus 3:3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. In that God showed me that food has always been a very real pleasure of mine. I've always been able to eat when and what I want and not really have any consequenses. Ive never had to watch what I eat and untill now I didnt. It hit me hard when I knew that in that area I had just given way to my flesh and what it wanted. God wants me to be self controlled in all areas of my life and especially where food is concerned. Overeating is a sin!


I want what comes out of my life to be pure!! Pure love, Pure Joy and Pure goodness from the Lord. Its like a bottomless piggy bank. You put in a penny, a penny will come out. If you put in Gold and silver that will come out. If I am constantly giving into the want of my flesh....music, tv, social media, food...sonner or later... or now, the flesh will take control just like when I said no to instagram and before you knew it I was scrolling and didnt even know what I was doing.. We have to be very controlled in our lives and while we live as such fleshy people that way the spirit has a way to seep out. Dont clogg up your spirit with your flesh leave room for some nicely brewed up holiness.

The thing that really just stinks sometimes is that we have wings that are just not attached to us yet. Our spirit knows that one day they will be on us and we will have ultimate freedom from our grounded earthly bodies.Sometimes I get a glimpse of what pure joy it will be to be with my Heavenly Father and its amazing but then I focus on my earthly problems and filling my passions and desires and often forget I will have wings, I will be free, this is not my home. If you have ever seen that movie Maleficent you know when she got her wings back she burst forth through the clouds with unlimited possibility. I kinda feel and know that's how we will be when we get to our eternal home... finally free from the anchor of flesh to hold us back..we will have our wings!! also just to clarify I don't think we will be angels its kinda a metaphor that one day we will be free from our struggle and we wont suffer anymore because we will be who we are created to be and not held back by the flesh...

Grace and Peace be with you all on this lovely Friday..

Sarah

21 Day fast (day 2)

December 31^st 2015

21 day fast (day 2)

BEING A CHRISTIAN IS NOT EASY ( whoever told you that is a liar)

It’s been a tough one I’m not going to lie, for one my body is craving sugar like nobody’s business. I want to put things in my mouth all day long especially when I make things for the kids that I don’t get to eat. I’ve never enjoyed a fruit smoothie so much. It’s funny because I’m not starving myself I’m just demanding my flesh to eat what I tell it to which most of the time isn’t what imp use to. Some of the things God has shown me today is that submitting your flesh is not just a 21 day thing it’s a lifelong thing, something that a follower of Christ should do on a daily basis. Don’t watch that movie, don’t listen to that song, don’t be angry at your husband, don’t yell at your kids, don’t run away from your problems and bury yourself in your social media. It’s a constant war with yourself. Being a true follower of Christ is not easy people it’s so so so hard  sometimes but yet it’s so rewarding and we get to experience the God whose love transcends all understanding and in turn gives us peace and joy and hope for an eternity in heaven. We get to cheat death people do you hear what I’m telling you. It’s hard to stand up for Christ but then I ask myself why would I base my whole life and do things like fast stuff that I like or even love on a lie? But that’s what some people think this is all a fake thing. Sometimes I want to say to those doubters do you think I’m that dumb to give up my whole life and who I am…. on a lie? No thank you!

WE ARE NOT READY FOR THE EVIL THAT IS COMING

Another thing God showed me today is that we are not ready for the evil that is coming and is already here. Paul warns us in Col 2 see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophies which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of their world rather than on Christ. He warns believers not to confuse true doctrine with the heresies that abounded in the Colossian church…this heresy described is very persuasive it is based on (human tradition) instead of divine revelation. This elitist, intellectual group possessing unusual intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, relates to a worldly philosophy with the practice of ceremonial rituals. Can you think of some ceremonial rituals that are considered to be perfectly normal but end up deceiving you and taking you captive?  The Gnostic idea that Jesus never existed as a genuine human being but rather had a phantom or angelic spiritual form which contradicts the reality of Jesus as both divine and human.

Col 2:18-19 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen: they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinew, grows as God causes it to grow...

Paul also tells us Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!

1^st Thessalonians 5:6 so then let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.

I think it is time for me to wake up and see the evil and face it with the power that raised Christ from the dead face to face and stand up so that on the day Jesus comes back I not asleep but waiting and eagerly ready!!

*just me*

21 DAY FAST (day 1

December 30^th 2015

I started a fast for 21 days and today I made it….one day down 20 more to go. I’m hoping to reconnect with God on a more intimate level and feel super close to him. I’m definitely hungry but as I was eating a not so good salad today for lunch I was thinking ok I’m filling my belly what’s the difference if it is great tasting or not so great, and the Lord quietly whispered it’s not the fact of being full its giving your flesh the taste that it wants. He wants to be the taste in our mouths the sweetness on our tongues. I am going to try with the Help of God to submit my flesh completely in the area of food, music, TV, and all social media ( only to submit my blogs there will be no scrolling), also exercising each day for 21 days. I know it will be beneficial it’s only been a day and I already hear the voice of God so clearly. I mean if you think about all the miracles that happened in the bible days you also have to think about the fact that they couldn’t go get a taco at any time of the day, they couldn’t totally veg out on the couch with your favorite tv show, they couldn’t scroll the social media for ungodly amounts of time and focus on other people’s life and not your own, they were completely and utterly sold out to God! They read the word a lot and they prayed continuously just like the word tells us... and we wonder why there were miracles. Well I’m putting myself and my flesh to the test…21 days of the spirit and we will see on this journey how God reveals his self to me. I hope for your encouragement and prayer through this.

*Just me*