I heard someone speaking/preaching/sharing on the subject of fasting and they said specifically what to fast for. That struck a chord inside of me and I sought Holy Spirit. He shared with me what fast, how many days and to take daily communion during this fast. I called the local Christian bookstore where I usually get my communion sets and I was informed they no longer sell the amount you need. They changed their store practice to only buying the amount of already packaged sets. The problem being, I hear Holy Spirit when He gives me direction and it it is not for the amount of pre-packaged communion sets I am now in disobedience with Holy Spirit. Why did they change this? Holy Spirit has ways to speak to me like get 17 or get 5 etc. and they used to let me purchase them. I think once I even needed like 37 of them and they sold them to me. What's a gal to do now? I went to a local store and purchased a package of saltine crackers (which I normally do not keep in the pantry because they have yeast in them or I will buy if a recipe calls for them.) I also purchased some juice too. So for daily communion I would take a saltine cracker and break it as I prayed and drank the juice that I prayed with for communion. Are you starting to follow this story now. Crackers I do not normally have in my pantry are now there to help sustain me during my time of need with food poisoning.
Last week I had a pretty bad experience with food poisoning. The last time I wrote on my blog I was pretty cold earlier in the evening and sat in a chair and fell asleep with my wind breaker still on after walking that early evening. When I woke up I then wrote on my blog and I felt pretty cold so I turned up the heat register temperature. I went to bed and even turned on an infrared space heater to bring more warmth in the room while I slept. It was around 5AM I got up from it being too hot in the room and shut off the infrared heater and went back to bed. Around 6AM I woke up and oh my gosh, I had vertigo pretty bad, I began to perspire and nausea and vomiting occurred. I had to actually hold onto the bathroom sink so I would not topple over from the dizziness. I slowly walked back to get my phone to call in to tell them I was sick and not coming into work that day. The vomiting and dizziness continued on through the day. I was not feeling good at all to the point I did not even call my children to let them know I had food poisoning until dinner time or around then.
I laid flat on my back and the only time I would get up was if I had to vomit, even at that I just kept a receptacle by the bed and then would rinse it out until the next time it was needed. I know you are probably thinking to yourself she is telling too much info when it comes to vomiting, I am sharing that so you know how bad it was. I was getting cold and asked Holy Spirit please help me get to my sweater to put it on, He did. I asked to help me walk to get my crackers, ginger ale and water/water pitcher to keep in the bedroom, He did. I really did not know what to do because no one was around to help me or get these things for me. I prayed a lot and a long time in the Holy Ghost while I laid there in bed. I remembered hearing Bob Jones say in a video I saw that dizziness is witchcraft. I also heard James Goll say pain behind the eye is also witchcraft. I had the headache also. So with my head under the covers I sought the Lord and Holy Spirit showed me to do some spiritual warfare in the 2nd heavenly and I did. Sometime in the mid afternoon I had my head under the covers again to keep warm and I was shown a vision or I used to call them when I first started seeing in the spirit I would call them "bleeps" because I did not know back then how to describe them other than that. I am praying to get healed and I see something totally different in regard to what I was shown. I was at a persons home that I have never been there before and I was seeing this take place. It was outside on the front lawn. There were steps leading up to the front door but this took place to the right of the steps on the front lawn (if you were coming down the steps that is.) I saw white marker stones that were oblong in shape on the grass and they went across the lawn. In front of each white marker stone (sort of like a tomb stone marker flat in the ground at a cemetery but no writing was on the stones.) In front of each white stone was a person kneeling in white clothing/robes they all knelt in unison in front of their white stone and the next thing I knew they all stood up together in unison and were standing shoulder to shoulder with no gap of space in between. I heard my Father in heaven say, "Saints of Old."
I then asked in this experience moment can I have that too and He responded to ask for it and I would also get the same and so I did. Then it ended. One of my children responded to a text message and said no more sipping ginger ale but to switch to sipping water only not mixing the both of them. I obeyed and it was maybe 2 more times I vomited and then it subsided. You know our Father in heaven cares about us right? Holy Spirit showed me how to try and get up each time I had to get up to test the dizziness aspect. I would sit up halfway in bed then if ok I would sit all the way up. I would then take my legs and place them partly off the bed if no dizziness I would then take them all the way and slowly stand up and walk very slowly. That was the dizziness test I used. Later that night it was somewhere between 10:15PM-10:20PMish I noticed a black circular in shape object on the carpeting. I slowly got up and discovered it was a large spider with lots of legs. I grabbed a shoe and slowly bent down and wacked it twice saying you are not going to get me. I then walked slowly to retrieve my hand held vacuum to vacuum up the disassembled parts. Once again God took care of me with insight through Holy Spirit knowledge/wisdom.
I was able to do a few errands on the weekend but with caution because if I turned my head a certain way too quickly I didn't want to get dizzy again. I heard the night before Sunday to get up and go to church on Sunday. I was to take a blessing offering to a minister that was preaching that I had the honor of serving with their ministry when the tornado struck Nashville last year. I was able to get up and do my ironing along with baking cherry/blueberry & apricot oatmeal fruit bars that morning before heading to church. Why bake? Well, I could not walk or even drive to take my rent to the leasing office so I called them to see if they would be able to come and pick it up from me. They did and I am telling you the kindness and great customer service where I reside is so wonderful. I have a grateful heart and sometimes I show thanks by baking. I took the dessert to them on Monday along with a heartfelt note of thanks.
So, I am at church and Holy Spirit has me write a note of thanks in the notecard I brought with me to church. I already went to the bank the day before and He showed me the money to place in the note. Not to put it in the offering but to hand it to him in person. I had to wait for the right timing to do so. The lady next to me wanted me to give him money from her also. I told her that she should go and take it to him as a blessing. So as we are talking I then asked the minister if it was ok that my friend wanted to also give money and I went and retrieved it from her to give to him. I motion the pastor to come over I had a question. He came over and sat with a few of us as we shared. Mind you, I am the only one wearing a mask at this time even though we were distanced apart in seating so it is a bit muffled when I would speak (I do like this mask I ordered because it is hummingbird/tropical print material.) At 1 point I take the mask off and they seemed to be a bit thankful now they could hear what I was sharing. Well, as the conversation goes ... one thing shared was a confirmation of what me and one of the ladies prayed and I saw months ago, it just may be coming to pass or into fruition. I was brought all that way to church not just to bring an offering but to get confirmation isn't that amazing how God works. I safely went and safely returned back home even after church.
So, the other day I stopped at another local Christian bookstore and guess what? They sold me the amount of communion sets I needed to finish this fast and I can continue to get my communion sets there anytime they are open. I wanted to bless this store owner so I also purchased Rose of Sharon anointing oil. As I was there and we were sharing she then showed me a song she wrote and gave me a copy of it. Not only did she give that to me but she also sang the song for me. Is that not God, yes it is. She said it was ok if I shared the song with the readers of my blog so I will.
Concluding thought ... I participated in a webinar today and one of the near the end thoughts shared was the importance of fasting and prayer and then taking communion during the fast. Hello, confirmation I was doing this all along. He also said this statement that really sticks with me, "God cares about what you care about." So true, so true. You do know He cares about you right?
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