A person can just panic the first day without water or food. However, this likely isn't very useful at all in one's survival.
However, in 1983 I personally chose to go without water or food in the wilderness to talk more clearly with God by being somewhere remote in the wilderness to fast with no water or food for 4 days and 4 nights.
The first thing that happens is your mind screams "You cannot survive this! Eat Something or at least Drink some water. You cannot survive this! What are you doing?"
However, for me this was a spiritual vision quest where I was requesting God to talk to me and give me answers about my life for praying and fasting without water or food for 4 days and 4 nights like native Americans have done in vision quests for thousands and thousands of years.
What did I learn?
I learned that human beings are entirely different than I thought before I did this fast.
Many beliefs people have about themselves are not true. Instead they are bluffs and not useful to have these beliefs at all and could get them killed in an emergency (a food or water emergency).
I also learned that I was strong in ways I hadn't really considered before and weak in ways I hadn't fully considered before.
However, I realized I was strong in completely unexpected ways too.
Then 2 days in on the 2nd night the visions began.
The one that relates to this blog the most was I turned into a Golden Dragon as big as a house and I breathed fire on everyone I met. But, I was terrified that these people would die from my fire from my mouth. However, instead of dying they all smiled and became enlightened and this lengthened their lives.
So, with this vision God was encouraging me to help people in person and to write about how to survive better here on earth by Blogging continually since 1999.
So, when I did this vision quest the Internet didn't even exist yet. But, somehow God saw this coming and prepared me to write online.
Then I had asked God to give me the Leisure to Practice which is a sort of Buddhist term for praying for the time to pray 24 hours a day because I knew I could help myself and my family and the world if I had this time to pray for everyone including me and my family.
So, in 1998 God gave me a heart virus and I was forced to retire then at age 50.
This (just like many things God does) was terrifying in it's own way.
However, when I believed I was dying the morning I woke up and my lips were blue in the mirror I called my son to pick me up and take me to the hospital because I could barely feel my arms because they were so numb.
Then while I waited for him to take me to the hospital the angels Appeared to me in the living room. the White light angels surrounded me and spoke in unison: 'You are not going to die! Your life will get better now!"
They kept repeating this over and over to me until every cell in my body believed believed what the angels were saying. But, also I have a human mind just like you and though I wanted to believe this it sure felt like I was dying.
However, the angels have been coming to me regularly since I was 2 years old when they healed me of whooping cough so I didn't die then.
So, I understand God wants me to stay alive a long time and to do his work on earth that he has trained me to do ongoing 24 hours a day.
So, the Vision Quest mostly taught me a lot about what my future would be at some point in the future.
So, when I believed I might die when at Stanford University hospital on a gurney there I promised God if I didn't die I would start a blog to praise God and I did and I have had one or more blogs continuously since then since 1999 in June when I recovered from my heart virus then in May.
So, the point is that my vision quest of no water and no food while praying straight for 4 days and nights led to me writing this for you right now.
Not eating or drinking anything for 4 days and nights completely changed my life in many different ways.
By the Grace of God
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