A Dream Year

Today was indeed a big day for me. This day, I broke my fast. The 7-day journey with God made my body weak but it lifted the strength of my spirit to greater heights. Before, I thought that Christians are just exaggerating when they say that the emptier your system gets, the more sensitive to the voice of God your spirit becomes. I mean how can you even focus when you're mind is occupied with hunger? How can you concentrate praying when you're distracted by the grumbling of your tummy? It just doesn't make sense. But true enough, there are far more wonders that science can't simply explain. When I read the Bible, it's as if I can actually hear God speaking His very words. My love and fear of the Lord was intensified. I felt Him nearer and the picture of Him got more vivid. And it made me crave for more. It's just hard to express that supernatural feeling.
Only in your weakness will you recognize God as the provider of strength. Only in your emptiness will you experience God's fullness. Only in your frailty will the power of God be exposed to you. This season of prayer and fasting made me realize that just as how the body fades when we turn away from food, the spirit fades when we turn away from the Word. We need to eat to prepare ourselves for hours of work ahead. The same way we need to fill our spirits with the Word in preparation for the mission that God has called us to accomplish.
2010 was certainly my breakthrough year as a Christian. That was the year of remarkable realizations and revelations. And I declare by faith that things will get even better this 2011. It's about time to claim the gifts that has long been stored in heaven's warehouse. And surely, this year will not have enough rooms for these presents.
Like an architect designing his dream house, I am designing my dream year. I have laid the foundation through prayer and fasting. I will raise it with bricks of righteousness. I will fill its ground with marbles of humility. I will shelter it with roof of faithfulness. And I will paint it with layers of love and passion. So it will be pleasing to the Lord when I invite Him in. And in His delight, may He stay inside.