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Boy has this been heavy on my heart to share with you all. I sense this will impact some of you deeply.
When I was a young believer, I had an older brother that was a spiritual mentor to me. One day he shared with me something that made, and continues to make a great impact on my life. It is the concept of using selective fasting, to discern if anything has brought me under its power. The Holy Spirit, through Paul’s pen, shares this concern with us.
1 Corinthians 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
You see one of the things that diminishes the power of God’s Spirit in our lives, is when we give ourselves over to the control of other things.
Ephesians 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
The Lord wants us to be temperate in how we use things. Temperance being the practice of abstaining from excess. The scriptures do not forbid us from drinking wine. They forbid the excess of drunkenness. An alcoholic does need to fully abstain from drinking, and those that are around them should love them and abstain as well, so as not to cause them to stumble when they are with them.
The idea of selective fasting is to fast from certain things for a time to see what happens. Does abstinence from this thing cause a war within my members?
1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
I by God’s grace have never experienced being drunk. I am not boasting, just humbly grateful. I can drink a small amount of wine, Rhubarb being my favorite, and enjoy it but not struggle in anyway to be given to excess.
My struggle would be more in the area of sweets. I definitely have a sweet tooth. I have to be careful that I use moderation when it comes to them.
Has anything brought you under its power? Can you just cease to drink your favorite drink? Coffee, pop, some alcoholic beverage? How about certain drugs or smoking?
This is something you have to do with the Lord’s guidance. He knows what is controlling you. If you are not very sincere about it then you will not derive much benefit from it.
Some of you seek fulfillment in things like shopping. Would it be a struggle if you abstained from shopping for a period of time?
What about fasting from the TV or different forms of technology? What about not paying attention to any news for a length of time?
You see there is no law in this. This is a spiritual exercise that you walk with the Lord in. If you give up coffee for a few weeks and it was no big deal. You didn’t struggle in the least. Then feel free to continue to use it in moderation. But some of you will struggle deeply and may need to abstain for much longer. But you need to seek the Lord, and receive His direction. The whole purpose of this is to help you be more sensitive to Him, and not be so controlled and directed by fleshly impulses. My hope is that as you learn how to be sensitive to the things that control you, you will come more under the control of God’s Spirit. May God bless you as you seek Him in this matter.
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The Gateway PunditLink FeedMy dad died of cancer when I was in high school. Before he did, he sold the cabin, commercial fishing permit and the Cessna 206. Why? Because when I was 14 and he was diagnosed with cancer the first time, he casually asked me if I would like to stay in Seattle for the summer with my friends, or be in Alaska fishing... My answer had been that I thought it would be cool to stay for A summer, not the rest of my freaking life! Neither of us were the best communicators back then... 3 years later, everything was gone. Another year and so was he.
11 years later, I managed to buy the cabin and fishing permit back, but the plane was long gone. I spent the first two seasons "commuting" between Yakutat and my job at Sea-tac, trying to keep a foot in both worlds. Once our first kid was born, we sold the house and moved to this remote village full time.
Started a guide business from our commercial fishing money and house sale, opened a fly shop in the hangar, bought the hangar (for $10 - the state was going to demo it), sold the guide business to pay to start the fuel business... Some years were good, some were a trainwreck. I grossed $4,000 one year with a newborn and no place to live! I learned that the IRS doesn't let you deduct the cost of buying merchandise for a store until you sell the merchandise, so you pay taxes on profits that don't exist when you did nothing but lose money and rack up debt. What is it? 60% of IRS employees don't pay their own taxes...?
The entire system is rigged against a small business owner, but in Yakutat, the largest employers (tribe and native corp) have a "native hiring preference" clearly stated on their job postings - when the entire enterprise is financed with white man taxes. Same thing for the airport runway resurfacing project. I couldn't be hired because a State of Alaska airport project funded by FAA grants had a native hiring preference. Only one local hire ended up passing their drug test, but by that time the out-of-town construction company had brought in their own work crew. "Local hiring" was just a gimmick they knew would fail from the start. I'd rather have my own business and starve for the first several years. You get used to salmon and rice every day.
There isn't much I would change though. I'm pretty much a permanent member of the "unemployable"... I seem to like telling big potential customers (like Alaska Airlines and the Federal Government) to piss off. I enjoyed telling my fly shop customers to take the mask off, or get the hell out of my store. I don't have vacations, or retirement, or health care. But I do have a lot of fun working side-by-side with my lovely bride and two (now) adult kids. This is a hell of a place to grow old (not grow up) in.
Photo: Skinny me and mini me in front of our little two-room shack on the Alaska/Pacific beach. Running water is the river 50 yards out front, outhouse 100 feet behind. No power, phone, internet or other people within 20 miles. My business is in town, but the cabin is still my home - as it has been for most of my 57 years of life. My wife is very tolerant.
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