Livin’ On H2O!

Water.

It’s literally my all-time favorite drink.

It has three forms: Solid. Liquid. Gas.

It helps in digestion and helps to remove impurities from your body through different organs.  It gives lubrication to the body.  It’s essential. 

My mentor, TT, just did a 40-day water fast.  That’s right.  FORTY days of water only so she could fully depend upon the Lord.  During her last three days, I joined her.  I wanted to be there with her through the end when I knew it would be getting tough.  I also had a lot of other things I wanted to bring to the Lord during that time. 

Things Revealed to Me:

I once had a swimming shirt that had H2O: 2 Parts Heart, 1 Part Obsession.  If you took a science class, you’d know that’s the chemical formula for water.  It takes a lot of heart to go 40 days of just relying on the Lord.  People might call you obsessed.  But is God worth it? Absolutely.  Even during my three days, people might have thought it was a bit odd.  But I was able to have extra time to spend with the Lord. 

When my stomach started to grumble the first day, I thought about all the starving kids and the people I’ve witnessed on the race begging for money and food and prayed for them. I prayed for countries–for their economies, for their land, and for growth of crops.

By the second day, my stomach was used to not having any food.  I again thought of the people on the streets…to the ones that don’t eat for days.  It becomes natural to them. It becomes normal to feel this way.  We went to our host’s house for a picnic and I watched everyone eat. I helped prep the meal the day before.  Thankfully God graced me with the ability to still be around the food and not think much of it.  I realized it’s really the company that made the difference, not the food. 

By day three, I could start to feel my energy dying.  I woke up and was up for a few hours, and then went back to sleep for a few hours.  I had also just started to get sick the day before I started this fast.  Because I hadn’t been eating, I didn’t want to take any medications.  I was fully relying on the Lord to take care of me during this time.  My prayer times consisted of praying for others, but also over my own body.  God gave me strength because on this day I lifted over 100 pallets over a fence and felt great doing it. 

I broke my fast Saturday, a little before noon (TT’s AM).  I was happy because my stomach was starting to hurt this day.  I prayed through this morning though as the hours crept in for TT to have her first taste of food again. I prayed for it to be sweet–like the taste of heaven–like that milk and honey “sweetness”.  

God showed me so much through this time.  Although it was only three days, it’s the longest water fast I’ve ever done.  It was beautiful.  I drank lots of water and feasted on the LIVING water–all three forms. God. Father. Holy Spirit. 

I experienced God as my solid ROCK and FOUNDATION.

I experienced Jesus as a liquid, filling every space that was empty within me.

I experienced Holy Spirit as a gas: not seen, but felt every day.  

Are you ready to experience the LIVING WATER?  Are you ready to give ALL of your heart (double it even!) and be obsessed?  I promise this water is the best.  When your body is filled with this water, impurities leave.  Your life will be lubricated.  You will overflow with joy like a fountain.  You will have peace like a river that passes all understanding.  You will have love as big, deep, and wide as an ocean.  This water will never run dry…and you will never thirst again.