So thanks to the suggestion of my blogger friend who writes under the blog A Real Food Lover (Please check her out by the way) I am not doing a 30 day fast but a 40 day fast. Why 40 days? Well it was brought to my attention that God uses 40 a lot in the Bible, it’s one of his numbers. Just a quick google search (what did we do without google!?) I found a great site talking about 40 in the bible, read it here but here are some of my favorites.
Significance of 40 in the Bible (all info here is from http://www.40day.com/40_in_the_bible.html):
- It rained for 40 days and 40 nights when God wanted to cleanse the world and start over.
(Gen 7:12 KJV) And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. - Moses was on the mountain with God for 40 days (TWICE)
(Exo 24:18 KJV) And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. - The Israelites spent 40 years in the wilderness, one year for each day they explored the Promised Land.
(Exo 16:35 KJV) And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. - Jonah warned the City of Nineveh they had 40 days until God would overthrow the city. The people repented in those 40 days and God spared the city.
(Jonah 3:4 and 10 KJV) And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. - Jesus fasted for 40 days in the wilderness
Mat 4:1-2 KJV) Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. {2} And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered. - Jesus was seen in the earth 40 days after His crucifixion
(Acts 1:3 KJV) To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: .
So obviously 40 is significant to God. I have some things in my body that need healed, and I believe that God will heal me using his created fruits and vegetables. I believe that God is faithful and true and he wants to heal his people.
Last time I fasted for a week I ate nuts and seeds. This time I’m not, just juice and fruit and vegetables. I do have to confess that I wanted peanut butter SO bad last night, funny thing to crave but I didn’t give in. I was really tired today, groggy and kind of foggy. I’m currently working on my second quart of juice for the day and just got back from wonderful walk. I had so much energy on the walk I was surprised, but near the end I was ready to be done. Other than that I’m doing well, a bit of hunger pangs but they will go away when I finish the juice. I still want nuts very badly, but I think it is good to deny our flesh things too. I pray God works in my life, my body and my spirit in these next 40 days.
