This quarantine has had me pretty mellow. It’s actually very weird, if you know me. I’m an outgoing person, I love to get out and do things. I work from home, so breaking out of these four walls is sometimes needed for my sanity. Hearing about this virus would normally worry me. Hearing about stores being closed, would normally freak me out, but I’ve just been at complete peace and calm during it. I’m not worried, I simply and fully trust God. I know God has a purpose in this and He will allow Romans 8:28 to come to life by the end of it.
Everyone hearing about the quarantine at first seemed like ok, it’s all good, we can do this! As a few days pass, we keep finding new things to do or getting stuff done from our list. Now, the last few days, I see a lot of people are getting to the point where they may be over it. They want to get out and really go somewhere, it’s starting to get tough.
Tonight I was thinking about it all and I can’t help but relate this to fasting. When you start a fast, you’re excited about it, you’re ready, you know it’ll be a sacrifice but you’re ready to do it. A while in you’re still doing ok and pushing through. Then a little more time passes and it starts to get rough, you're hungry, your stomach is growling and you almost feel sick. In that moment in the fast, is one of the most vital moments. You either cave and start eating or you do what you came here to do and that is keep that sacrifice going, get on your knees, press into God, open up His word and pray through those hard times. That’s the beauty in fasting, you don’t quit in those tough times, you press in harder and allow God to really show up. Then something beautiful happens, you gain a new energy, an endurance to keep going on the fast. Your stomach calms down and you’re filled with strength and you’re lit up.
I feel like we need to treat this quarantine as a fast. In those moments it starts to get hard, the moment you get bored or begin to feel over it, press into His word. Remember we are in this moment and in this season for a reason. Dive into His word until He fills you with that new energy, let Him give you the endurance you need to make it through this time. Don’t miss a moment.
I don’t know about you but when I fast, I come out stronger, I come out with a light, with clarity and full of the Holy Spirit. Treat this as a fast, it is basically a fast, only it’s not a self deciding one, it’s a forced one. What’s so cool about it, is pretty much the whole world is in this same fast. So imagine just how powerful it could be, if we all choose to turn to Him through this, cling to His word and allow Him to dig up the junk in our lives and birth something new in each of us through it all. This is something none of us have gone through, why not allow it to change us for the better? Allow it to change you from the inside out.
I’m hungry for what God is doing and about to do. I’m ready for Him to change me. How about you?
“Create a new, clean heart within me. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires, ready to please you.”
Psalms 51:10 TPT
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
Romans 8:28 NIV
“God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.”
Ephesians 3:20 MSG
“Trust GOD from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for GOD ’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t assume that you know it all. Run to GOD! Run from evil! Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life! Honor GOD with everything you own; give him the first and the best. Your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over. But don’t, dear friend, resent GOD ’s discipline; don’t sulk under his loving correction. It’s the child he loves that GOD corrects; a father’s delight is behind all this.”
Proverbs 3:5-12 MSG
Love,
Lynette
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
Romans 8:28 NIV
“God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.”
Ephesians 3:20 MSG
“Trust GOD from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for GOD ’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track. Don’t assume that you know it all. Run to GOD! Run from evil! Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life! Honor GOD with everything you own; give him the first and the best. Your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over. But don’t, dear friend, resent GOD ’s discipline; don’t sulk under his loving correction. It’s the child he loves that GOD corrects; a father’s delight is behind all this.”
Proverbs 3:5-12 MSG
Love,
Lynette
