Jan 22 - An additional thought as the fast approaches its end

An additional thought for today — day 17 of the 21-day Isaiah 58 fast.

As I was praying today I came to understand how much I’m looking forward to Sunday morning. I also realized that the reason I’m anticipating Sunday morning is because I want a pancake from our 8:30-9:30am Break-Fast at the church. I’m also salivating at the various lunch choices that are running thought my mind. What hasn’t been on my mind enough is a celebration of all that God is doing in our lives as individuals and as a church. I’m looking forward to food; I should be looking forward to the breakthrough we have been fasting and praying for. Ok, this is a little more of a confession than simply a thought. This may simply be my own confession, but there might be one or two our there who are dealing with the same thing. I must not lose focus. I must not step down from the thoughts of heaven to the thoughts of earth. My diet will eventually change when the fast is over. The question is whether I will have changed by the time my diet does. Will our church be different than when it started? Have I simply been depriving myself of food or am I really fasting and praying. God has us all in a process, let’s not sidestep or lose step now but allow for a complete work of His Spirit.

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Amen. (Jude 24-25, NKJV)

— Pastor Merril