Fasting

In January, I challenged the Harvest Ridge family to join me in fasting and prayer every Monday. The purpose of this fast is to ask God to redeem and restore people to new life in Him.

On Monday, May 18, I was fasting and asking God to bring new people to faith in Him. As a part of my morning devotions, I was reading a few pages from Prayer by Richard Foster.

"When we fast, we are intentionally relinquishing the right given to the human family in the Garden--the right to eat. We say no to food because we are intent upon others receiving a far greater nourishment. Our fasting is a sign that nothing will stop us in our struggle on behalf of the broken and oppressed... Our fasting is part of our wrestling with God. It is part of the birth pangs we endure in order to see new life come forth." (226)

That is my heart... to see new life! If doing without a meal or two can assist a person to come to faith in Christ. I gladly go hungry.

What about you? Will you join me? Would you fast one meal a week to help set the oppressed free?