DEVYLDERE FAMILY FAST/PRAYER 2011
FAMILY PRAYER TIMES:
MONDAY EVENING, the 3rd and
WEDNESDAY EVENING, before family dinner
FAST: We are leaving what to fast from up to you. Please pray and just ask the Lord if
He has any type of fast for you. The littler kiddos are fasting from sugar and
screen time. For us, the idea is to weaken the pull of the body and strengthen
our spiritual awareness. We are NOT trying to impress God with our
spirituality, but humbling ourselves and seeking HIS face.
How this
came about: Your
dad and I were talking recently about a lack of provision in a church situation.
We concluded, “We need to humble ourselves, call a fast, and focus our energies
in prayer to hear the Lord’s direction…”
and
then we stopped, looked at each other, and realized,
“If
this is the way others should respond, then what's stopping us?”
So
we are asking you, as part of this family, to help us focus on the Lord and seek
HIM for answers and provision which have eluded us. In so doing, we will be wholehearted (hopefully) in our seeking .
We are not just fasting, not just praying. We are putting everything on the table. We are willing to learn and
change. If the Lord wants to tell us, for instance, to move to Bolivia or
Southern California, then we want to hear that direction and respond with JOY!
If
He tells us, “Here is the reason you do not have provision…” we want to hear
this also. Please share with us what HE tells you.
There are links to this blog. One has a partial prayer list. Please add your requests to this, so we can bear one another's burdens.
Another link is part history and part confession of our financial journey as a family. We feel it is very important to provide an honest view of our history. I can guarantee there are details you don't know about things that have affected your life, and may continue to affect us all. Obviously, this is confidential, and we take a risk in putting it out there, but we feel that we owe you an explanation for things that have helped create your world view, and may have cause a lot of pain.
Another link is part history and part confession of our financial journey as a family. We feel it is very important to provide an honest view of our history. I can guarantee there are details you don't know about things that have affected your life, and may continue to affect us all. Obviously, this is confidential, and we take a risk in putting it out there, but we feel that we owe you an explanation for things that have helped create your world view, and may have cause a lot of pain.
