Hi Kirsty
You know, it's funny I always expect to hear loud and clear from God when I fast and pray, but it usually turns out to me feeling slow and sleepy. The last time I did a three day fast, I knew what it means, when the Bible says "I humbled myself with prayer and fasting" because it took me down a notch or two. I was pretty full of myself, until I'd been without any fuel for a few days!
then I tried a three day fast this past spring and got sorta sick, with pounding heart, dizziness, etc. so I haven't tried going completely without food since then. This eating lunch only is working for me, because I don't get too wacked out, blood sugar wise.
Anyway, I belong to a small group that meets in the VA chapel on Sundays. We consider ourselves a mission to the vets, and to homeless, esp. if the homeless are veterans. ha! There is a group of like-minded (that is, Anglicans from the mission out of Rwanda...yes, I am a missionary from Rwanda!
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) well, we are few and far between, but the liturgy is important to us, as is the truth of Scripture, and the sacraments of baptism and communion. That is to say, we want to walk along the paths that generations of worshipers have walked, but not abandon the truth.
So, there is a network of such believers, and we have been asked to pray and fast every Monday, as we seek who we will affiliate with... should the SLC group be under the Colorado pastor/bishop, or should we affiliate under the group in Boise?
Before we went to Boise, I had already been thinking I wanted to give up my lunches for two weeks, and was ready to start that on Monday, but during my walk, I knew that I was to eat ONLY lunch, and give up breakfast (thus giving myself less distraction and more time for morning prayer) and dinner (which opens up the evening for prayer and contemplation).
So, I started on Monday, and i'm going for two weeks, unless the Lord leads me to keep on with it until we all meet again in October. I will fast this way (eating only lunch) every Monday until we do meet in Oct.
I'm not hearing much, but my prayers are that the leadership will hear loud and clear, what is the direction we are to go? And, praying for the person who is leading the SLC group is the biggest part of it all. And my hearing may sharpen, as time passes and I leave behind the pull of pure appetite.
I feel like Jesus, who said His food was to do the will of the Father! ack. But i can also feel my flesh coming under the discipline of this. I passed on kettle corn today, and didn't dip into the cashews or the candy at Junk Food Client's home on Monday. Saying "no" is good for me
I'm thinking God will honor your desire to forego food. Don't let yourself get tied up, though. I mean...usually in the past if i have fasted for three days, somewhere in the second or third day, I have had a bowl of brown rice just to strengthen myself. And hot cross buns are a traditional Lent food, because many people fast during Lent, eating only a hot cross bun in the evenings, to sustain themselves.
May God give you direction in this.
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