Day 5: I never realized the height of the physical benefits of a fast until my recent research. When your body takes an extended break from food it goes into cleansing mode. Usually our bodies are busy digesting food, but without that extra work during fasting it is able to clean house by removing built up toxins, healing old wounds and building new cells. The detoxification affects our colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, skin on a large scale when we fast.
I felt good waking up this morning. I woke up to go to a one on one bible study with a dear friend, and had no problem waking as I'm normally dragging myself to get out of bed. My day went well until the late afternoon when I crashed with my last client. My kidneys were in pain and I could feel the detoxification happening. It was a pretty powerful sensation.
I continue to thank God for the opportunity to give to him in a different way than I normally do.
Psalm 28:7: "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him." During this fast, I asked Jesus to start revealing to me issues that I am to deal with. Things are rising to the surface that are testing my strength. I can only rely on Him to deal with things that are out of my control.
Jesus,
I pray for your grace and support for me to follow through with the things that are coming to surface. Help me understand things unknown, and give me direction to follow Your will.
Amen.
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