when you start to listen, He starts to speak...

After 7 days, 10 skippd meals, 168 hours logged off from the internet, 4 night watch and 1 dawn watch i attended...

I am officially breaking my fast... [over a bucket of Chef Tony's Original popcorn... Waaaahh... I wonder how bad my stomach will ache tomorrow?? (Good thing my boss offered that I take the day off... Ohhhh, thanks to US Holidays!!!)]

7 days of spending time with the Lover of My Soul is equal to 12 pages, back to back, of words, verses, reflections, application and prayers. That's a lot to compress in one blog entry. :) But I have a handful of one-liners collected in this period.

Here are my take aways:

1. God never meant for our duty to replace our devotions.

2. "My spiritual drought ended, but this taste for the majesty of God only made me thirst for more of Him." - John Piper

3. "Reveal those things that I do which doesn't give glory to you."

4. Fasting reveals the very thing that control our lives.

5. "Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, 'I do not need God today.'" - The Arena of prayer, Ben Jennings

6. Be Still and Still Believe

7. Instead of saying, "God, I have a big problem" say: "Problem, I have a BIG God!"

8. "The son had gone down, evening had arrived... I had forgotten God." - AJ Heschel, when he failed to pray for one day

9. Once you compromise, you are denying yourself of God's Best.

10. "Eighty-six years I have served Christ, and He never did me any wrong. How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?" - Polycarp, a bishop of Smyrna who died a martyr because he never compromised his beliefs

CCF prepared a 7 day journal to assist us in this prayer and fasting week. Each day is a study of the letters written to the seven churches in Revelations. The main points of the letters are to remain focused on God, keep the fire in our hearts burning for the Lord, repent, repent, repent and be faithful whatever the circumstance.

I just want to share that it was such an experience in seeking God. I have never felt more closer to Him than I do now because of this. I can never fully describe it. But now that this event has ended, I just pray (and please help me pray) that this fervor will not end. I just want to remain like this...

"Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you..."
-James 4:8a