When someone gives you a prophetic word to fast it will do you well to listen. I had never fasted in my life. I never felt the need to. I never understood why people fasted and deprived themselves of food. Having hypoglycemia also gave me an excuse to not fast either. Or at least I used it as one. My teammates, after receiving a word that we needed to fast challenged me to fast. At first I kept saying no and then it was well I am just going to eat breakfast so that I have some sugar in my system for the day, but my teammate Angie and I talked and I finally agreed to do one whole day. However I told here that she would need to keep me accountable and have a decent snack ready in case I passed out. I really didn’t trust in the Lord to much you could say.
We agreed on fasting on Tuesday. When the morning came I got up early grabbed my ipod, bible and my journal and headed down to my favorite spot to do devotions; AKA the Rancho. Alana had just recently downloaded some worship songs onto my ipod and so I started my day off listen to that. The Lord gave me the words “It’s going to be worth it� and I have now adopted that as one of my phrases to help me get through the race when I struggle. I then just begin to pour out my heart and thoughts into my journal as if I was talking to God. I asked for boldness to say what I needed to say to my team and I asked for the words on how to say them. This took all of breakfast and then the rest of the teams came to the rancho to do devotions together. The words that we read just spoke so much life and encouragement into me. (Luke 12:22-26, Duet 31:6, and 2 Corinthians 10:5)
Soon after that we headed to the garden to work. It was amazing to see how the Lord works. All the jobs we were given that day required little to no energy because we could sit down. Four of us girls were all fasting on this day and our conversations we had just went so deep. I remember saying to them that I loved to work in the garden because my flesh stays busy while my spirit can focus on the Lord. By the time lunch rolled around I was hardly even hungry. Again I grabbed my bible and journal and headed to the rancho. And once again I began to just pour into my journal. I felt as if God was telling me to go back through my journal and so I did. What I came across was a sermon from Pastor Greg that I had taken notes on. It was about snapshots of community and how God wanted community to look like. He then told me to use this to speak to my team. I began to rewrite the notes and asked the Lord for more. He gave me more verses and questions to ask my teammates. I was stunned that this was even happening. That I actually was receiving words for God and that he was using me to convey a message to my team. I would have to be bold and carry it out.
I did just that during feedback. My team was really encouraged by the words after I had said them all. True I was nervous about how they would react, but it was so worth it. By about 9PM I was starving and exhausted and I just crashed. I woke up at 2 AM and dug through my snack bag to finally eat something because my stomach hurt to badly. I had done it though. I fasted for 24 hours and God moved in some big ways for me. I think a may fast again sometime soon, but who knows.
