”Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”Joel 2:12
“The world has yet to see what God can do through someone wholly devoted to Him.”
Our heart is our source of life. If the heart stops beating or if the heart is removed, there will no longer be life in the body.
Our hearts are the source of our spiritual life too. If our heart stops beating for God or if our heart is shut down from receiving Gods love, our spiritual life will suffer and may even die.
A human love relationship is a relationship of the heart – and it is no different with our relationship with God.
Something happens deep within us, in our hearts, when we wholly devote ourselves to God. We are touched and changed forever.
I have stumbled across an old post that I wrote about a 10 day fast that I did. It was 3 years ago, and I really cannot even remember doing it, but from what I wrote, it had a profound effect on my life.
So I would like challenge everyone to join me in a new 10 day fast. I know that life is crazy and we all have things that deter us from making these decisions – but life does not have to cease. My fast allowed me to continue eating fruit and vegetables but cut out all treats like meat, coffee, sugar, salt, alcohol etc.
Let us try and do 10 days this month, sometime – just 10 days. I am certain that it will greatly impact your spiritual life. Just be sure to make a special time for God each day!
Here are somethings that God spoke into my heart last time.
I want you to celebrate me in your whole life.
Find your fullness and healing in me. It is in me. You need to remain in me.
Be changed by my love. Find peace and rest in me.
Come to me. Now is your time to let go and unwind. I will make a minute like an hour. Relax in my presence and receive the waves of my love. Saturate yourself. Come deeper and deeper. And everything else will fade away. Just for a time. For a brief escape. You and me.
Come away with me and hear my voice in an uncluttered environment.
Show others my love and encourage them to go deeper in their love and in their faith.
You are my joyful ambassador on the earth. Feel my love and favor shine down upon you. Feel my love fill you up to overflowing. Live every day in this light and this love and this affirmation.
Such wonderful truths to hold onto.
Such wonderful statements of love. Statements that God wants to say to each one of us as we draw near to him and find peace in his presence.
Let’s commit to fasting together and look forward to a wonderful freshness in our relationship with Him.