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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 2 – Intermediate)
Topic: HUNGRY (01/09/20)
Lamingtons, Sponge cake, Pumpkin pie, Sweet potato pie and Apple crumb pie. The list continued as I downloaded recipe after recipe. The mouth watering pictures mocked my eyes as I felt my stomach groan. As I had no printer, I wrote down each recipe one after the other. This was not the exercise that I should be taking during my time of fasting. I was hungry.

Whenever it was time to fast, my nose paid attention to the aroma of chicken and chips across the road. It would fill the air and envelope me as I walked past the Speers take away. My attention to detail was spot on when I walked past the delicatessen in the supermarket. Whenever I was hungry during the time of fasting, I had photographic memory of food. When the fast would end two weeks later, I knew what the recipe entailed and exactly how to garnish it. When it was time to fast there was a renewed interest in filling my recipe scrap book with new recipes. The scrap book would lie on the shelf for months unnoticed until the annual fast was announced.

Why was the time meant for fasting and prayer the one time I was interested in collecting recipes. I felt like a hypocrite. I was supposed to be seeking God’s face. I was supposed to be hungry for his word. I was supposed to be soaking in his presence. It would take days of prayer before my interest to browse recipes would take the back seat.

What do you hunger for during your time of fasting? Does God’s presence become the last thing that you seek? Does fasting become an exercise of starvation whilst you seek your own interests?

Matthew 26: 41 says “Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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C D Swanson 
01/16/20
Good message, and certainly on topic. A pastor a long time ago told the audience to which he spoke, "fasting doesn't have to pertain to actual food" but can be letting go of "social media" or whatever else a person is "addicted to" in a sense, stopping us from bringing our entire focus on God.

Good job with this.

Thank you!

Blessings~
Debra Brand 
01/16/20
Good job!
Marlene Custer 
01/17/20
Soul-searching question for sure.
Barbara Culler 
01/17/20
So did you ever get an answer? Perhaps it's Satan trying to get you to fail.
Barbara Culler 
01/17/20
PS, I did not know what a lamingtons was so looked it up. Oh it sounds delicious!
C D Swanson 
01/24/20
Lusungu,
This was a fabulous piece, and I knew it'd be noticed by the judges!

Congrats,
Blessings~