Reprieve
Happy Friday!! For the last 21 days I've been apart of a fast... What is a fast? Glad you asked... To me personally it means to set aside something that I enjoy. A sacrifice. In place of this thing replace it with prayer and time with God. I feel it is like an extra "umph" to my prayers and petition with God. Like shooting a flare gun to Heaven... I am not a scholar and that my friend is the best I way I can explain it in layman's terms. It's not something to treat lightly...Or to get attention ( Jesus teaches against that in Matthew 6:5) It's a personal thing between you and God. At the first of every year of church does this fast together. And we see God move in such a mighty way. He honors our sacrifices. But it's been painful too... At least for me. As I replaced my idol time with time in the Bible and praying there were things in my spirit that were not pleasing to God. Certain things that had...