8 Hours In!

The fastest eight hours of our famine have come and gone. As we turn now torwards one of the harder stretches I wanted to share with you some prayer requests and some verses to be thinking about and praying through. First, a passage all about food, fasting and holiness (I have highlighted a few points:

“Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread,
12 and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

16 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Now for the prayers:

be praying

• for The 71s, the awesome band who is coming to lead us tonigh, the concert starts at nine, but they will be getting here sometime after five.
• for set up of the church today, that we could have everything ready for tonight (more on this later in the day).
• for all the youth participating in the fast, that their righteousness might be seen in Heaven, and that God would provide them the daily bread they need today in a form they are not used to.
• for all the hungry in the world
• for Jenny Mason, our missionary to Gautemala who is preparing herself to be a faithful minister to poor and hungry there.
• for God to do amazing things in the lives of our young people today and tonight.