by Jonathon Mills
Last Friday during worship I felt like this was very important and timely.
The Lord had impressed on me the words “soul affliction” on my heart. I originally thought it was a negative thing or God was dealing with something in my heart but I looked it up in Scripture and it lead me to Isaiah 58.
I want to let the Scripture speak for itself as I believe it has a different relevance to each of us for where we are at with our lives and our walk with God. Spend some time to read and meditate on it.
I believe God is saying that Prayer AND FASTING moves God not just prayer.
From what I read and God impressed on me was that it was a time of denial of our fleshly wants and desires towards His Spirit leading. The Spirit has to rule our mind, will and emotions. I believe He is taking us into a process of us yielding our natural ability towards the rest of His indwelling Spirit. We are all at different places in our walk with God and he is a kind, patient God but I believe Scripture makes it clear.
Romans 8:5-6
5 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
We have to understand there is a clear distinction between Light and darkness. We have to choose for ourselves if we want to walk in Light or in darkness (Spirit or flesh) and we can only do this if we depend and rely on God over what we can do.
Please understand that He is not a cruel, sadistic God. We can never forget we have the promise of the Helper to guide us and lead us. He is 100% for us.