I have noticed that little “thoughts” have been trying to creep into my soul. (Not my spirit, my spirit is created in the image and likeness of YHWH. Nothing can creep into my spirit.) Because I have been so busy doing life according to my purpose I have not payed attention to the little things.
I am not fasting for a miracle or even a blessing. I really don’t know why I am fasting other than I need to do it.
I am fasting NOT FASTING & PRAYING. Normally I fast and pray however it seems foolish FOR ME because I am always talking to YHWH. It’s more like, I am FASTING AND FOCUSING.
It is a public fast because I am blogging about it. I normally don’t tell people when I fast because it is a private matter between me and YHWH.
I am sharing my fast with people because churches have manipulated fasting. I have never attended a church in which a declared “corporate” fast was carried out by the entire church; it is not a corporate fast. People get caught up in Daniel Fast, Esther Fast and whatever other type of label they want to add to it. It is difficult to go to a job everyday and abstain from food, your body needs the nutrients.
I believe, it is more important on FOCUSING on the word of YHWH than it is what you did or did not eat. However, there are times when food becomes a distraction.
MATTHEW 6:31-34 (KJV)It’s the bills! It’s money! That is why we go to work! That is why I sell stuff and try to improve my skills so that I can make more money. BUT GOD….
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
It is back to school time and parents are sacrificing one thing to make sure that their child has all the things he or she needs to start the school year off right. Yeshua said: “Take no thought!” But you do.
We think about the bills, the needs, the food because we know what is not in the bank account.
This year I eliminated over TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN DEBT! I finally paid off my student loan and the seven thousand plus debt I owed in back taxes from a previous marriage was forgiven! The blessings came because I WAS OBEDIENT. If it takes obedience to open the doors to my blessings then I want to obey!
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (KJV)In order to obey I must think like YHWH thinks. Eloheem does not think like we think (Isaiah 55:8-9). I did not ask ABBA for the money to pay those bills; I had prayed for a way to pay them, and others, years ago and then moved on. Part of obedience is casting your cares and not taking them back!
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
1 PETER 5:7 (KJV)How cool is that? We give all our problems to YESHUA and He takes care of it! But this is not what I have been doing. I have not been worried but I have not been giving my problems to Him either.
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
For the record: Complaining is not the same as casting.
I AM NOT EATING meat. No biggie right? No meat is easy for me.
I AM NOT putting a time stamp on HOW LONG I WILL FAST.
I AM NOT establishing WHAT I WILL GIVE UP. I suspect tomorrow will be a SOCIAL MEDIA FREE day since this blog has to go up today. It is possible that I could be on a water only fast; a “pure” fast.
Today, I started a fast because I need to make sure my eyes were on YHWH and not man. I am fasting because I need to make sure that I am trusting HIM with all of my heart and soul as demonstrated by my casting my cares on HIM. I am fasting because there is increased confusion in the world and some of that confusion was getting into my life and I need to nip it in the bud.
MATTHEW 6:16-18 (KJV)Yeshua said: “When you fast”, fasting is personal. It really isn’t something we should advertise. It is in obedience that I go public with my fasting, not to brag or tell someone they are doing it wrong.
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
written by Marsha L F Randolph
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