Pentecost Fast
About two months ago the Lord gave me an idea. I was thinking about the day of Pentecost and the way God poured out his spirit and gave birth to to the church. And this is the thought the Spirit put in my heart: you can't plan Pentecost. I've been praying for God to do something unplanned and unprecedented in my life. And prayer is way God does that! So I decided to do what the early believers did: pray for ten days.
Oswald Chambers said, "Let God be as original with others as he was with you." So this blog isn't "prescriptive." It's "descriptive" of the way I'm approaching the next ten days. I hope it models and inspires other NCCers to seek God with a new intensity and tenacity! Here is my game plan for the next ten days.
I'm going to fast food and go on a liquid diet. I'm also going to fast my "work outs." I just feel like I want to turn meal time and exercise time into prayer time. I think food is a gift from God and working out is a great way of taking care of the Temple. Those are good things. But I feel compelled to give those things up for the next ten days. I also try to read through portions of Scripture during my seasons of prayer and fasting. Last summer I did forty days of prayer and I read through the entire Bible. Leading up to this Pentecost I read through the gospels. During these next ten days I'm going to blog my way through the book of Acts.
I haven't had this kind of spiritual anticipation in a long time. I can't wait to see what God does.
Lord, I pray that you would do unplanned and unpredented and uncontainable and unexplainable things. I believe that everything traces back to prayer. I believe the prayers that we pray during these ten days may well chart the course of our lives individually and corporately for the next ten years. Guide us by your Spirit I pray. As the disciples said, "Teach us to pray."
Oswald Chambers said, "Let God be as original with others as he was with you." So this blog isn't "prescriptive." It's "descriptive" of the way I'm approaching the next ten days. I hope it models and inspires other NCCers to seek God with a new intensity and tenacity! Here is my game plan for the next ten days.
I'm going to fast food and go on a liquid diet. I'm also going to fast my "work outs." I just feel like I want to turn meal time and exercise time into prayer time. I think food is a gift from God and working out is a great way of taking care of the Temple. Those are good things. But I feel compelled to give those things up for the next ten days. I also try to read through portions of Scripture during my seasons of prayer and fasting. Last summer I did forty days of prayer and I read through the entire Bible. Leading up to this Pentecost I read through the gospels. During these next ten days I'm going to blog my way through the book of Acts.
I haven't had this kind of spiritual anticipation in a long time. I can't wait to see what God does.
Lord, I pray that you would do unplanned and unpredented and uncontainable and unexplainable things. I believe that everything traces back to prayer. I believe the prayers that we pray during these ten days may well chart the course of our lives individually and corporately for the next ten years. Guide us by your Spirit I pray. As the disciples said, "Teach us to pray."
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