14 Prayer and Fasting (deep subject)

Someone once said to me, "I wish I could pray like you, you really know how to pray."

My quick response was, "No, no, no, God just really knows how to answer!!!"

Then I heard that when you pray, don't worry about your choice of words...

'The power of prayer comes from the ONE who hears it.'

We need to realize very early on, that anything we are, have, do...comes from our Father!!!

So as we reach into the Word this a.m. and try to understand what 'fasting' is all about, we need to see what the Father has in mind.  Since several are 'fasting and praying' for you at this time, Greg.

I have always been taught, fasting is to miss a meal or two,  or three, for a day or two or three, it could be a meal you fast, or  nothing of the media for a week, give up sugar for a time, lots of things, along with a big dose of prayer, not a ten minute prayer, but really interceding for whomever or whatever you are praying for. 

  But Isaiah 58 puts a little different spin on it:

He sez: to free those wrongfully imprisoned (could that be physically, or spiritually or both?)

Lighten the burden of those who work for you.

Remove the chains that bind people.

Share your food with the hungry.

Give shelter to the homeless.

Do not hide from relatives that need your help.  (big smile)

* Then you will call and the Lord will answer.

Remove the heavy yoke of oppression.

Feed the hungry and help those in trouble.

*Then you will be known as the re-builder of walls and a restorer of homes.

Doesn't that look like a lot of other scriptures in His Word?

Feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, take care of the widows and orphans.

If you do this unto the least of these, you have done it unto Me (Jesus).

So I think as we pray for you specifically, that we need to get our feet moving, our

wallet open, our home ready for 'company'...and do the simple (hard) things that He commands...Of the commandments, He said  the greatest is to love the Lord with all your heart, and to love your neighbor as yourself.

A little bird told me, God is not going to give you a life

where He is unnecessary!  He wants to use you, me,  all of us--for His Glory!!

When He made us, originally, in the Garden, He made us for companionship, 

for us to walk and talk with  Him.  My admonition is to get into His Word, every day, and consume it...it is health and strength to our bones...and your bones and

heart and kidneys REALLY DO NEED LOTS OF HELP!!!

Hang in, hang on, and we'll see you...here, there or in the air.

(Crayola, definitely, in the Morning!!)

Nanny (aka Marker)