God moves in the craziest ways!

I have been in the process of praying and fasting during this time. I have fasted many times in my life, but this time, my husband and I decided to try the Daniel fast together for a week. Our little boys even fasted 1 day a week from a special treat to pray for God’s plan in our lives. (I love that our boys can learn to experience God at a young age.)

Anyway, I made my list of things I wanted to see God do in our lives through this. So far . . . WOW!

Fasting and prayer works! Don’t ever doubt it.

My biggest prayer was to see God set my husband free to forgive someone who hurt him in the past. He has been so torn over this. He informed me the other day that he contacted this person and told him that he forgave him. He told me that he knew he wouldn’t be “free” until he did.

I never expected him to actually contact the guy. You could have knocked me over with a feather! Let me tell you, I could shout!! I sit here with tears in my eyes barely able to see the screen and my fingers are trembling as I sit and think of the awesome power of God!!!

Now my next prayer to be answered . . . for this church to explode with God’s power!!

I can’t wait for the day to come when we are walking into the church and cannot even stand up because of the spirit being so strong in there that we just fall to our knees in worship!!!

God is great and greatly to be praised!!!!

I started the 21 day fast last Wednesday.

That night when I went to bed, God woke me up and I was a little “aggravated” as I don’t like to get woken up. I pretty much just was like “What do you want, let’s cut to the chase.”

I felt a drawing to my dresser drawer and for me to open it up and look for something. I did it, but thought to myself, “This is stupid, there isn’t anything in here. I will go get my Bible instead.” But I still felt like the drawer was where I needed to look.

This was around 3:00 a.m.

I looked through papers and then flipped to one in particular. On the back was an address of someone from another state so that I could keep in contact. On the other side was a flyer from their church.

But at the bottom was a phrase that hit me like a ton of bricks.

It said, “Forgiveness means the person who hurt you doesn’t have to pay.”

I know what God wanted from me. I had been holding unforgiveness towards someone for over 2 years and it was time to let it go and be free. I thought I was holding them in a prison, when in reality I was the one in the prison.

I was woken up again last night at the same time. I emailed the person but don’t know if they will ever read it or ever see it. I hope so as I lost contact with that person a long time ago. I emailed them what I had been feeling and gave them the saying from the paper and also quoted them a line in The Lord of the Rings.

Theoden [recovering from imprisonment by a spell]: Gandalf.
Gandalf: Breathe the free air again, my friend.

It is nice to know that I am no longer in that prison and that it’s not that big a deal anymore.

Unforgiveness is truly a prison in which people need to be set free from. It is hard to deal with but I die daily to this and will need to remind myself. It is great what God is doing.

Also, my family is struggling this month financially wondering whether or not we would make ends meet because my wife is injured and out of work. We had already decided we were going to tithe no matter what starting in January. Of course, we didn’t know “no matter what” would be like this. I was really wondering how it would work, but it has worked so far and we have been able to make it. We will trust God to make it the rest of the month and the rest of the year.

Can’t wait to see what happens next . . .