Back from my fast!

A week of solitude, prayer, and worship. A week of no distractions, just time spent with my Lord. An amazing week where God taught me more than I ever thought possible.

At first, it was so hard to get into the routine of spending at least an hour in quiet time with God (something that I had promised to do for seven days). I sat there with my Bible open, unsure of where to start or what to read. I didn't know what to pray, what words to say to Him. I felt awkward and lost. I wanted so badly to be close to Him, to feel His presence and hear what He had to say to me. I was getting desperate when half my week had passed and I still didn't feel any better. I still felt far away from Him, and that discouraged me. Wasn't the whole point of this week for me to get close to Him?

Well, wouldn't you know it, the Lord answered my prayer! Sunday night came around and I decided to spend way more than the alloted one hour with Him. I wasn't going to set any time limits, nor was I going to half-heartedly pray and read my customary three pages of the Bible. I was going to get into it with all of my heart. And what a blessing that turned out to be! :)

God promises that if we seek Him with all our heart, we will find Him. The key word there is all our heart. He doesn't want us to go through the motions during the day and then say a few words at night before we go to sleep. He wants all of us.

There's so much more that I learned during my week that I could write a novel about it. But for now, it is enough to say that I've emerged from my fast a girl even more after God's heart, and dedicated to spending more time with Him.