When you fast (The Blessings of Fasting)

I had felt The Lord calling me to fast and pray last week and so I decided on a three day fast.
When God's people fasted and prayed in the Bible, He always poured His blessings out on them and answered a lot of the prayers.
I was very excited to see this happen during my time of fasting too!
Though it was uncomfortable to be hungry and weak for those three days, from the moment I started the fast, I felt an anointed peace fall over me. Satan still tried to attack me with anxiety but it's like I was better able to see where it was coming from and God kept giving me quiet assurance.
Let me tell you, I don't understand why I haven't done this sooner! Good really DID pour His blessings out on me!
First, I had been praying for my husband to seek the things of God over the distractions of this world. The second morning of the fast he came to me and asked how my fast was going. I was very hungry at the moment and laughed a little, then replied, "it's...going.." but then he told me he could see a glow about me and that he was sure the fast was working for him too! He said he'd gone running that morning and had some time with God and that he'd asked God to give him more of an eternal perspective! Wow, God is Amazing! That is exactly what I had been praying for!
Then, later that same day, my sister texted me and asked how my fast was going. I told her it was going very well so far and that Adam said that he could feel the fast blessing him too! She texted me back, "I can too"! What a great blessing!!
Throughout the fast, God would wake me to pray for my family and the people I'd written down on my list. I believe He has not only answered those prayers but He also revealed a lot of different things about my heart through the process.
It is a humbling experience to be hungry while everyone around you is eating and I think I needed that lately.
One of the things I prayed for was that God would use Rachel to His Glory from a very young age on.
Let me tell you how he's already been answering that prayer!
A day after the fast, I was shopping at a local department store and all the clerks were saying how cute Rachel was when God led me to share the story of Him promising her to me before she was born.
Normally, I think I'd have been more hesitant but I actually just started telling the clerks about it, half expecting them to think I was crazy.
One of the very sweet ladies working there said she had goosebumps and asked me which Church I go to and to pray for her. I felt led to exchange info with her and invite her to come check out our Church. I know God touched her heart in that moment and that He will bless her! =)
So, that's another prayer answered already! God DID use Rachel to the Glory of His Kingdom ALREADY and she can't even carry on a conversation yet!
Glory be to God, for He is so Faithful!!! =D

Matthew 7: 7-8
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."

Ps. There was a big, beautiful rainbow in the sky when I got home this evening! =)

Pss. Hahaha! =D There was another even bigger and brighter double rainbow just a few hours after the first one! And if you've read my post on my baptism, then you know how much I LOVE them!! ;)