Fasting Results
I've been fasting since Saturday night after supper. Any kind of drink is OK. No food. Spend meal times reading/praying. Why? I want to "get aholt of God." I want Him "to walk with me and talk with me and tell me I am His own." I don't know if I've ever had such a sense of God's presence before. I constantly struggle with doubt. So, this is a dedicated time of focusing on Him and trying to find Him.
In addition to my daily TTB reading, I felt compelled to read James. As of now, I just got started. Need to read/study it more.
Here are some thoughts that have occurred to me during this time.
-James defines his identity in light of spiritual relations, not physical. And how he identifies himself: "SERVANT of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ." Servant! Owned one. Worker. Slave. Onesimus.
-What God requires is 100% surrender to Him. Not exactly sure what that means. It means being a doer of the Word. My big new question is, "Which Word?" At the time of James, the Scriptures weren't complete. Should I expect that God still speaks in addition to the Scriptures? Jimmy Dodd thinks so.
-Got to be a doer of the Word. That requires coming to the Scriptures often, and then doing what we find contained therein without equivocation [like that word?]
-(Not from James) My fasciculations are my greatest thorn in my flesh. Constant reminders of my frailty. Evidently incurable. "The messenger of Satan to buffet me." (2 Cor 12:7-10)
In addition to my daily TTB reading, I felt compelled to read James. As of now, I just got started. Need to read/study it more.
Here are some thoughts that have occurred to me during this time.
-James defines his identity in light of spiritual relations, not physical. And how he identifies himself: "SERVANT of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ." Servant! Owned one. Worker. Slave. Onesimus.
-What God requires is 100% surrender to Him. Not exactly sure what that means. It means being a doer of the Word. My big new question is, "Which Word?" At the time of James, the Scriptures weren't complete. Should I expect that God still speaks in addition to the Scriptures? Jimmy Dodd thinks so.
-Got to be a doer of the Word. That requires coming to the Scriptures often, and then doing what we find contained therein without equivocation [like that word?]
-(Not from James) My fasciculations are my greatest thorn in my flesh. Constant reminders of my frailty. Evidently incurable. "The messenger of Satan to buffet me." (2 Cor 12:7-10)
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