I Am Asking For Gods Guidance

January 11

I am starting this year with fasting and prayer. Our church starts each year with a corporate 21 day fast, and I have participated each year. This year is a little different for me. I want God’s direction for my life. The thing that is heaviest on my heart is what to do with my life. So many options, but I don’t know what is best. It would be easy for me to get really busy and fill each day with good and productive things. I do not lack opportunities and ideas. But, I do not want to simply stay busy; I want what is best. I want to be on a mission with God. I believe God has been preparing me for something; I am just not sure what. So I am seeking God. He knows the plans He has for me. (Jer 29:11)

Fasting and prayer is a spiritual discipline that deepens your relationship with God, drawing you closer to Him, increasing communication and revelation. I want the blessing, anointing, and favor that is released when I fast and pray. When Jesus walked on this earth, before he ever started His ministry, He went to the desert to fast and pray for 40 days.

After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.

Matthew 3:16-4:2 NASB

When Jesus was tempted, He told the devil that man does not live on bread alone, but on the very word of God. It is God’s word that I wish to live by. It is a way to share in His sufferings deliberately. Food is a small thing to sacrifice. Jesus sacrificed His life for me. He laid down His privilege so that I could exchange my life for His. He came that I could have life and have it abundantly. So I will put down my fork and pick up my bible and prayer. I will draw near to God, and he will draw near to me.(Jam 4:8)

Ephesians 1:18 is my prayer.

I pray that the eyes of my heart may be enlightened in order that I may know the hope to which He has called me, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people,

I don’t want to ask God to bless my plans; I want to know God’s will for my life. I am not asking HIm to join me: I want to join Him.