Ten Days at a time, One Day at a Time....

I've been praying for months now, on & off, about something I read about waaaaaaaay back, somewhere on someone's blog...

...it was someone who was working on staying raw, as well as detoxing, & also shedding their excess weight...

...first they fasted ten days, then were 100% raw ten days...

...I believe that this is how the Lord wants me to spend the next 100 days...50 fasting, 50 days 100% raw, 10 days at a time...starting with fasting, to accelerate the detox I need in from the junk I've been eating, & also to prepare my flesh nature to stay raw 100% without struggle...

...my mind & heart are prepared & committed, but my body has been rebelling a little...time to remind it that it ain't the boss!!!

I've been wanting to return to regular fasting for awhile, but have hesitated due to concerns about how thin my hair has become (fasting for longer periods can cause/accelerate this)...

...I haven't been able to fast for longer periods of time for many years, but remember that I only shed hair from it before after some 3 week fasts I did, & quite a bit after some 40 days ones (water only)....so ten days feels totally feasible from that perspective....

In the past, I actually found it easier to fast than to eat with moderation & self-control, but now that those issues are healed in me, it's only been the fact of my physical limitations that have hindered my ability to return to to fasting...

{...yet I know that fasting is extremely healing......even the Bible states this...}

...yet much as I need more physical healing/detoxing, my main & first purposes are spiritual...there are many things I need to be praying about, & fasting enables me to more effectively put all else aside, & draw near to the Lord, & seek Him more wholeheartedly for His will...

These are my favorite verses (a whole chapter, actually) on fasting, & contains the reference to fasting bringing healing...

Fasting that Pleases God

“Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.

Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways,

As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.

They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God.

‘ Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen?

Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’

“ In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,

And exploit all your laborers.

Indeed you fast for strife and debate, And to strike with the fist of wickedness.

You will not fast as you do this day, To make your voice heard on high.

Is it a fast that I (God) have chosen, A day for a man to afflict his soul?

Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, And to spread out sackcloth and ashes?

Would you call this a fast, And an acceptable day to the LORD?

“ Is this not the fast that I (GOD!) have chosen:

To loose the bonds of wickedness,To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry,

And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;

When you see the naked, that you cover him,

And not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then your light shall break forth like the morning,

Your healing shall spring forth speedily,

And your righteousness shall go before you;

The glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer;

You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’

“ If you take away the yoke from your midst,

The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul,

Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,

And your darkness shall be as the noonday.

The LORD will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought,

And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden,

And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Those from among you Shall build the old waste places;

You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;

And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,

The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

“ If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,

From doing your pleasure on My holy day,

And call the Sabbath a delight, The holy day of the LORD honorable,

And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,

Nor finding your own pleasure, Nor speaking your own words,

Then you shall delight yourself in the LORD;

And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,

And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.

The mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

Isaiah 58

Wow! Isn't that beautiful, powerful, inspiring, & convicting, all at once?!!?

I'll be feasting on the Word of God, & His powerful, transforming Holy presence!

{Even better & more fulfilling than even the best raw food!!!}

I'm so excited for the dawning of the new day, & this new beginning He's led me to!!!

What are you called to do the next 100 days?

Wanna join me?

Pray about it!

~Anastazia~