Waiting to Be Found

-Heather Weismiller


Jentezen Franklin said in his book, The Fasting Edge, "People may think those who fast, pray and seek God's face are fanatics but it's not nutty to go without food for a set portion of time to know God better.  What's nutty is settling instead for a mediocre, lukewarm relationship with Jesus."

You may not have a very good Christian walk right now or you may think it is going really well, but from experience I can tell you it will be even better if you fast.  When you fast you are choosing God over food for a set period of time.  The whole time you are fasting is like a time of worship to God even though you may not be "worshipping" every minute.  Also, you should try to choose God over other free time activities.  Every time you choose Him, it honors Him.  "Them that honour Me I will honour," said God once to a priest of Israel.  And then Jesus said in the New Testament, "If any man serve Me, him will My Father honour."  And thus He tied in the old with the new and reavealed the essential unity of His ways with men. (Tozer)

If there is even a fluttering of interest in your heart to fast, I am praying that you will do it.  Don't let the fear of being seen as "nutty" turn you away.  Seek Him again, and again, and again.  He is waiting to be found by you.