Fasting: Days 3-5

One thing that is completely amazing about this whole fasting thing has been the fact that I haven't been really hungry. My mind really wants food, but my stomach hasn't really felt hungry. I have felt extra tired and a little weakened, but I'm doing great.

Before I had my final meal prior to the fast, I prayed that God would strengthen me with this meal like He strengthened Elijah. In 1 Kings 19, Elijah was depressed and suicidal. Jezebel wanted him dead and he wanted to just give up and go to the Lord, but the Lord had other plans. Elijah went to sleep under a broom tree. Broom trees are known to be breeding grounds for scorpions. Living in that environment, Elijah would have known this. The idea would be, anything warm blooded sleeping near a broom tree would be surrounded by scorpions through the night for warmth. When he woke up in the morning, the scorpions would be frightened and sting him. But on this occasion, an angel woke Elijah up and obviously saved him from the scorpions. The angel gave Elijah a meal. He ate the meal and went back to sleep. He wasn't getting the fact that God found his life precious. The angel woke him up a second time and gave him another meal. Then verse 8 is what I prayed for myself. "So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God." Many people read this in a way that believes this meal gave him enough strength to not eat or sleep for 40 days. And not only that, be he walked in the desert for those 40 days of not sleeping or eating. That's pretty fantastic! I prayed that kind of strength over myself and I have definitely seen the results.

Mother's Day was one of the days that I fasted for. During pray before our morning service, I saw an angel in the corner of the room. There were four other adults and three kids (including my daughter) in the room with me. The angel pointed to my pastor and then he pointed up towards heaven. He pointed at another, then he pointed down. After pointing to the third person, he pointed side to side. He finally pointed to his heart after pointing to the last person. I took this as these four people were to lead the prayer time in our service. Our pastor was to pray for people that God was going to exalt, lift up and even give visions of heaven. The second person was to pray for people that God was going to bring low and humble and not necessarily because of sin. The third person he would use to pray for others to be sent out for missions. The final person was to pray for people to have revelations of the Father's heart.

I told these four people about what God wanted to do. We decided to not tell the people what each person represented so that people wouldn't choose the person with the anointing they wanted. We decided to let the Spirit guide the people to the right individual to pray for them. We had such amazing time of prayer and the people were used so strongly.

I also had the strongest confirmation about my angelic visions that I've been having. All of my confirmations up to this point have been subjective. That's good enough for me, but God is great and wanted to show me and everyone else that this is the real thing. When I saw the angel in the room, he also pointed at my daughter Taylor who was sitting in my lap at the time. He then held up his hands like he was holding her up as an offering to the Lord. I knew that is what he was doing for the other children in the room as well. I knew the Lord wanted me, and all of the parent's to offer their children to Him this morning. Since it was Mother's Day, I knew this was a message He wanted to portray especially to the moms. I mentioned this to the pastor and his reply was a confirmation to us both. The sermon that he had prepared was about parents offering their children up to the Lord. He even had this printed on a handout! He was pretty nervous because that's not a normal Mother's Day sermon. This vision was a confirmation to him that he was doing the right thing and it was a confirmation to me and to others that the things I've been seeing are from the Lord. What a blessing! What a Father!