Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Why so dry?

As part of the fast, I sacrificed tv and worldly music for 3 days. I have been listening to gospel radio stations only and have not seen the news or my favorite tv shows. I have been primarily listening to sermon broadcasts since gospel music simply does not touch my spirit. I have made an observation about radio sermons since my last worldly fast ten years ago. At that time, the charismatic church movement was big and megachurches seemed to be popping up everywhere! Pastors who I had never heard of were delivering sermons that taught and inspired me to want to learn more and dig deeper to understand God's Word. Now, there has been a change in the spirit of radio broadcasts. The pastors who were big ten years ago seem to have faded into the sunset. Radio broadcasts have become dry and leave me thirsting for a REAL sermon that delivers the word of God with some enthusiasm!

I am rethinking giving up tv because I realize that there may be television broadcasts of sermons that I am missing. Though I am fasting in the physical realm, I am realizing that I need spiritual manna in the form of God's Word. I am reading the Bible and praying daily, yet my soul is not being fed. I am not criticizing the radio sermons of today but I must receive the Word in a form that is nourishing to my spirit and soul. I need the Living Water not a dry cracker in this desert fasting experience!

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