God is calling me to start this blog entry with a word from Him. You ready? Here goes….
“My daughter, I want you to tell my people to fast. I want to send a healing to the body of Christ. Only those who have been seeking me with their whole hearts will receive this healing. Tell my people to pray for this healing that comes directly from me. I also want them to watch the things they eat. Not everything is good, and not everything is meant to be consumed by those who trust in me. I have called them out each individually and set them apart from the world. I don’t want them to partake in what the world offers. I want them to seek heavenly gifts that come from me. I have an abundance that I want to share with the body of Christ, but they must first be ready. Prepare them my child, there is much work to be done.”
Wow!!! I absolutely love getting downloads!!! Hearing a rhema word strengthens us in our faith and gives us clear direction in which way we are to go. So let’s get into the text, it’s important to break down each principal God has given so that we have a clear understanding of what’s expected of us.
“My daughter, I want you to tell my people to fast. I want to send a healing to the body of Christ.
God is calling us to a seasons of fasting. Notice I said “seasons”. Fasting is an ongoing thing and is in no way a one and done thing. Here are some benefits I’ve personally experienced through fasting:
• Healing within my body. Fasting has healing principals within itself. It is like a reset button for your body. Fasting improves the functionality of your body as a whole. God intended for its to fast for our benefit and for His. I am not a doctor but here’s a source that can give you detailed information on the benefits of fasting.
• Clearer discernment of the voice of God. Before I started fasting, I wasn’t able to discern the voice of God…. like at all. Then I read the book “Discerning the Voice of God” by Priscilla Shrier, learned listening prayer, learned to properly fast, got more intentional with my prayer life, remained patient, and BOOM…. I started to hear the voice of God. Without fasting, I was leaving too heavily on my own flesh. Without fasting, I was too selfish to hear from God. I wasn’t denying myself. God CHOOSES when He is ready to be heard and it’s only when He feels you are ready to receive His word. If you have a hardened heart or are too caught up in yourself and your own fleshly desires, it’s going to be pretty hard to hear from Him. You’re guarded in a sense from hearing from Him because you have to be in the right POSTURE. Fasting helps with that. Humble yourself sis, you owe it to yourself and God.
• Fasting taught me how to deny my flesh and lean on my faith. When you are not eating, it is easy to ONLY think about food and the drinks you want. When you take those out of the picture, what or who do you have to turn to? God!!! “But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ” Matthew 4:4 NLT
When we learn to feed ourselves with the word of God we actively choose to follow God with our whole hearts. Something powerful takes place when we make the choice time and time again to show God our faith and to allow Him to work miracles through us.
• Fasting intensified my prayer life. Once I started fasting, I started hearing back from God audibly. Of course after that, my faith increased dramatically. I wanted more. I wanted to know the heart of God and to understand His plan for my life. As a natural added gift of my faith, my prayers began to shift. I’ve never been a strong prayer warrior if you’d asked me before my awakening. But as a result of actively seeing results of my fasting and prayer, naturally I began to shift my prayers from the mindset of “prayer is just something I’m supposed to do as a Christian” to “I know and believe this is going to happen because of my persistence in prayer. I know God works, I’ve seen it.”
Only those who have been seeking me with their whole hearts will receive this healing.
Why does God specify your WHOLE heart? Because He doesn’t want you to be lukewarm or double minded. “But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!” Revelation 3:16 NLT There are 39 verses that specifically speak on wholehearted living. God wants you to make a choice. Do you choose Him or not? I heard a story once that puts it perfectly. The way I recall the story is: the grim reaper approached 3 men whose life clock had ran out, and told them that they had to make a choice between going to heaven or hell. The first man chooses heaven and is taken to heaven. The second man chooses hell and is taken to hell. The third man chuckled to himself slyly and keeps his mouth shut. He thinks to himself that he has surely outwitted the grim reaper. Two seconds later he finds himself also in hell by default. He looks at the grim reaper surprised and argues that he shouldn’t have to go to either because he didn’t choose heaven OR hell. The grim reaper explains to him that when you don’t choose God, hell is the only alternative, there is no in between. Unfortunately, the last man is also taken to hell. If you don’t choose God, you are by default of Satan. There is no in between. Make your choice and be sure about it.
“Tell my people to pray for this healing that comes directly from me.”
Sometimes we don’t receive because we don’t ask. James 4:2 NLT tells us “You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.” So when God said “Tell my people to pray for this healing that comes directly from me”, He wants us to have it but in order to receive it we must first open up our mouths.
I also want them to watch the things they eat. Not everything is good, and not everything is meant to be consumed by those who trust in me.
God has been speaking heavily with me on this lately and He really wants us to have more self control when it comes to the things we crave and eat. A lot of the foods (mostly in America) have so many additives that they are no longer healthy for us to eat and are actually set up to harm our bodies and keep us habitually in need of the health care system. It was all designed for us to fail sis. But God wants us to eat more pure and natural foods that He originally gave us. I encourage you to look into the teachings of Dr. Sebi to learn more on God’s original gift to us through food. I’m not saying to switch your diet completely but learn to be guided more closely to God’s intention. The Bible gives an important teaching in Romans 14 (the whole chapter), but I would also say to seek God in what He specifically intends for you.
I don’t want them to partake in what the world offers. I want them to seek heavenly gifts that come from me. I have an abundance that I want to share with the body of Christ, but they must first be ready.
God is separating the wheat from the tares and a shift is going on in the world as we speak. The ones who truly have made the decision to follow Him with their whole hearts, He has something in store for you that is going to more abundant than anything our tiny little minds can think of. He is separating us from worldly thoughts, worldly beliefs, and worldly living. What the world offers is temporary and weak compared to what God wants to give us. Worldly pleasures soon fade away and are truly worthless in God’s eyes. He is leading me to Revelation 3:15-18 NLT which says, “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. So I advise you to buy gold from me—gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich. Also buy white garments from me so you will not be shamed by your nakedness, and ointment for your eyes so you will be able to see.”
I encourage you to make your decision today to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If you do not know Him just say these simple words, “Jesus, I accept you into my heart as my Lord and Savior. I repent of my sins, and ask you if you would forgive me. I believe that you died on the cross to save me. I surrender my life to you, Jesus. Use me as you seek fit. Amen.”