I fasted… When you hear this statement what comes to mind? Giving up food or something you enjoy?

The church was going on a thirty day fast. I thought this will be easy; I really don’t care about eating anyway. Then I heard God’s voice…”Do you believe that this is what I want?”

What God wanted was what I was afraid to give up. Control, self-control and my will. You see, I had anorexia and struggled for years. I didn’t want to be this way…   It was always in my thoughts. I tried to put walls in place to control the issue. However, when times got tough, the wall would breakdown. I had been crying out to the Lord to take these thoughts from me. God answered me on this day.  I had to give up my will, self-control and go on an eating fast. Trust Him to control every part of my life. My fast consisted of eating three healthy meals a day. Toward the end of the fast, I had an experience that changed my life. I had made my lunch, prayed and took my first bite of the food, there was an overwhelming presence of the Lord, the food was like nothing that I had every tasted in my life, and I had the revelation that I wasn’t feeding my body, but Gods.

The fast that God calls us to is to loose the burdens and bonds.

“Is it a fast that I have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the Lord?

“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:5-6 NKJV