Letting God Fill My Empty Places

I feel God leading me to post about a wonderful experience I have had this week. I am a little hesitant, but I am going to go ahead with my blog……….about fasting.

I don’t feel that fasting is something we need to let others know about or certainly not brag about, but I want to share my experience with you because I want others to realize how wonderful it is when God shows us just what HE can enable us to do. What a wonderful experience fasting was for me yesterday. It was the first time I have ever fasted and I didn’t quite know what to expect. I did it in response to a challenge from my pastor amd I am not sure that was the right reason. However, now I know that God used Bro. Wayne to motivate me to experience this. I guess I really thought it was going to be a big physical thing  (what with going without food for 24 hours!)  But, honestly, that was the most minor part of it for me.

From the time that I woke up yesterday, I could feel God’s presence in such a wonderful way. I feel God’s presence in my life daily and of course during the hard times of my life. But, this was different. This feeling was different than anything else. It was as if God took away my desire for food and put a desire for a closer walk with Him in its place. I felt such peace all day long. Even during the times that I would normally have been stressed, I felt that peace. I also felt a real reverence about it. I felt so humbled by the realization that God fills all my empty spaces even as I feel my empty stomach.  I really didn’t want to talk or joke about not being able to eat because I didn’t want my focus to go to the food thing. I think the people I was around felt the same way and I could sense that they were having a good experience too.

Bro. Wayne had asked us to focus on someone who was lost during our fasting time. I had a couple of people on my mind heavily and prayed for them that they too would feel God’s urging during the day. I prayed for the young man that is going through a very hard time, both physically and emotionally. He has a family that needs him and a God that wants him to come to Him for help. My prayer is that, in his desperation, he will seek the Lord. And we know, that the Bible tells us that we will find him when we seek him with all our heart! I also had a single mom on my mind. She is a very fun loving person and seems to be enjoying life to the fullest, but I sense that she is not as happy as it appears on the surface. I don’t know if she has ever given her life to Christ, but my prayer is that she will if she hasn’t. If she has, then I pray that she will seek a genuine personal relationship with Him so that her life will be complete!

In addition to praying for those people I was also seeking God’s help with my yoga retreat I have been preparing for. I want it to be much more than a physical experience. I want it to spiritually uplifting and I want all of us to come away feeling renewed by the presence of our loving God. I would like to ask that you pray for our retreat in that way too. It is tomorrow, September 30th at Shakertown. I will probably be writing about our experience in a later blog.

I am so thankful that I have a Lord who keeps working with me and showing me new and wonderful things! I pray you feel Him working in you as well!

Until next blog, keep the faith, enjoy your family, stay fit and of course, have fun!

Ps. 81:10
   I am the Lord your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt;
   Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.