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I know many are participating in your church's fast and prayer month or 21 days of fasting and praying. Today as it is the middle of the month, I know the enemy is pushing to give it up! Or maybe you even just feel weak and really want to have that slice of Pizza for breakfast! Maybe you already ate it and are feeling guilty.
First of all do not do it! You can keep on keeping on in this fast, stop and pray right now! Then remind yourself this is supposed to be hard. It would not be a sacrifice of fasting if it were easy. Trust God to help you through the rest of your fasting and realize He is with you. Allow God to transform you and bring you the answer to the prayers you are praying and trusting Him to bring. Have faith, and stay strong!
And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him. Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect. Because of the privilege and authority God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us. Romans 12:1-3
Now before you get caught up in the fact that Paul is not talking about fasting, I want you to know it was just what it made me think about when I read it today.
So for today we will pray for focus and faith to fulfill the fast!
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the chance to build our faith in prayer and fasting. We ask that you would give us the strength to continue in Your Word, and prayer daily in the place of the objects we are fasting. We give them up to You as a sacrifice as we do our bodies as we gain our strength not from food but from our faith in You, give us the encouragement in the Word that we would have received from You, or whatever else we may be obtaining from for this time of fasting, Lord help us to up hold our vow to do the right thing according to Your Word given to us personally today. In Jesus' name...