BLOG FAST

I will be taking a blog fast and stepping away for a bit.  I have found that technology is great but it has also consumed me.  I am taking some time away while God speaks to me.  I am hoping that when I come back in about 30 days that I will have more material that will challenge and inspire you as God speaks to me.  I will continue to Twitter and thanks for reading.

Twitter name: ryangeiger

Bible Fast

Very unorthodox I know and most of my Baptist friends are probably praying for my salvation as I write this but it was what I felt I needed to do.  They say it takes 28 days to break a habit and so I took 28 days off from the Bible. Why?  Because I had developed a bad habit.

I didn’t do this out of laziness or because I had already missed that much time so I am covering it up by calling it a fast or because I read it in a book and thought to try it.  I did it because my time with God had become an item on a list for me to check off.  I wasn’t hungry for God’s word anymore.  I had become complacent and lacked a desire to dig deep and grow.  Don’t get me wrong I wanted to grow but the desire was not there.  So from March 10 to April 6 I didn’t read the Bible.

Here’s what happened.  My prayer time with God was better than it ever was and it forced me to listen to God through prayer instead of talking at Him.  I began to miss God’s word.  I began to have a desire to go deeper because I felt like I was missing something.  I broke the “checklist” habit of trying to fit it into my day and instead it became what I began my day with.  I have seen things in the Bible like never before.  I have had more passion for the gospel than ever before.  God has challenged me and given me a new vision, passion and excitement that I didn’t have before.

I don’t recommend this for everyone, but it was something that I needed to do for myself.  I didn’t tell anyone because they would all have thought I was crazy and maybe I was.  I just felt God telling me to check my motives about why I was doing what I was doing.  Was I pursuing His holiness or my happiness?  Did I want more of Him or just His blessings?  Did I truly want life change to happen in people’s lives or was it all about numbers?  What God has been doing in my heart I can barely explain but what I do know is that I God wants more of me.