Fasting and staying faithful

I was having leg pain for days and days and it was a horrible deep ache I could not get rid of. I don't know what was causing it and it was freaking me out. I already have so many issues, and that added to it just made me miserable beyond words. I prayed for healing... But what came to me was that I was poisoning myself with the food I was eating... I already knew it and I was already wanting to start a juice fast, so on Sunday evening I just fell into the fast. I don't know if that makes any sense, but it was gentle and easy. I had been wanting to do the juice fast and I'd been putting it off and putting it off because I thought I needed to get all the food and get rid of all the bad food in my house and all of that and I put it up for too long in my opinion. 

The fast I started that Sunday evening was just a switch to drinking water, hot tea, iced tea, and clear broth. That's all I had to work with at that point.

I was very concerned about how I would do on it, because I had read that people that fast get headaches and they're exhausted and all that. Having Epstein-Barr, I'm already exhausted all the time, so I was concerned. But I prayed about it and went forward. 

What I noticed was this -

I did not feel hungry. That was shocking to me.

I found myself with a refrigerator door opened on more than one occasion and realized how much of a habit that is.

I am a zillion percent a sugar addict, And even up to the day of writing this I have not once craved anything sweet. I have added honey to my tea because I don't like bland flavored anything. I also got some organic monk fruit powder to use for things like that. I haven't craved any chocolate or any solid candy or anything along those lines.

On the third day, I did get a slight headache. I actually think it was allergies/sinus related. But then, when I drank some broth and added a little tiny bit of rice, it went away! 

2 days ago (4 days after faithfully fasting in this way), THE LEG PAIN WAS GONE. I don't know what that was about, but due to back and foot issues, I'm pretty sedentary, so it wasn't from overexertion. I was thinking maybe it was my heart or I had a blood clot but it started out in the left leg thigh and by the next day it was all the way down the left leg, and by the third day the right leg was affected. It was a very deep, deep ache that I can't even describe. I believe I was (obviously) healed of the leg pain, maybe because I was being faithful in trying to do my part to allow my body to heal. Needless to say, I am praising God for healing them. They've been fine ever since I woke up without the leg pain that day - and I didn't report that I didn't have the pain until the following day just to test and be sure it didn't come back. I kind of doubt sometimes and I guess I've shouldn't, but it's been hard earned and it is automatic.

"No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it." – 1 Corinthians 10:13
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