Family of God - I trust that your season of fasting is going well. I've been praying for you and asking that God be glorified in and through your life during this special time in our church. Although fasting is difficult I enjoy the intentional empty spaces that it creates. The empty space cries out to be filled...and reminds me that I am a man of prayer (we are a people of prayer) and therefore I turn to the bread of heaven to fill me;
John 6:35 "Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
When that empty space is filled with the bread of life and living water - I am satisfied - I need nothing else - all idols are cast down.
Lastly - remember the kind of fast that pleases God is one that seeks peace and gives to the poor.
Isaiah 58:6-7;
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
In His Peace, Grace and Joy,
Pastor John
