Ammonia is Powerful!

  

Just finished stripping my kitchen floor.   It had a build up of dirt on it.   I mop all the time, but it only gets the surface clean.   The dirt has been deeply embedded from just normal use over a long time.    I have tried so many different products in hopes to avoid using ammonia.  Ammonia smells awful;  burns my eyes, nose, and lungs.  It’s powerful!    Some of these products make great promises to strip the floor clean, but none have worked.  I have spend way too much money trying these products.

This morning, I decided to reach for the ammonia that has been under my sink for a while now.   I knew all along that it would work, but wanted to avoid the pain of using it. (and the smell!)    

During the process, it was grimy!  I had to use straight ammonia, without watering it down, in order for it to work.    You should see my floor now.   So beautiful and clean!   

On a personal note:  I feel that during this fast, I have been in a similar situation.    Some things only happen through prayer and fasting.   I have tried other ways, trying to avoid the uncomfortableness (is that a word?) of fasting.   

When this fast started, I decided to go full out.  (not watering it down in anyway)   I pray that God is stripping me, deep in my core, of anything that is in the way.  In Matthew 17, The disciples were not able to cure the epileptic.  When they asked Jesus why, He told them because of the littleness of their faith. God says that if we have the faith of a mustard seed, we can move our mountains, but the verse after that says: But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

Honestly, yesterday got dirty!   I didn’t feel very good and had a very hard day with Seth.  

Then had a hard time last night with a different situation.   On top of all that, I couldn’t sleep last night, which is weird for me.   It was not fun at all! 

I am believing in the end, even though my struggle has been greater then my revelation, that I am being stripped of embedded junk that would stand in the way of me and God.

BTW, I topped my floor off with “Mop and Glow”!  Boy does it shine!

To God be all the Glory!!

Ruth