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What is your first feeling when someone says that to you?  Do you see them Pharisee-like, proclaiming the fact only to be recognized for their own personal glory?  That’s been my tendency because why announce it, right?  Wrong.  In the body of Christ, we should share each others burdens and pray for each other.  How can you pray for someone while they’re fasting if you don’t know they’re fasting?  Kinda hard, huh?  In this prayer and fasting guide Bill Bright said:

By isolating ourselves from the support of other Christians, we will be more susceptible to doubts and negative influences (both human and demonic). We need the prayer shield of our Christian friends and family members to help us continue when we feel alone and when the enemy tempts us to give up Our Lord as he did Jesus Christ.

So, back to the title of this post.  Indeed, I am fasting today.  I’m fasting to get back close to God.  Too long have I just done the things a good Christian missionary should do all-the-while neglecting the very person all of these things are for – Jesus.  Please pray for me as I want to experience the real reason of doing those things… and He does too…

I encourage you that if you’re fasting, make it a point to tell fellow believers so you can be supported.

There’s all the difference in the world between feeling guilty for something and feeling accountable to Someone.
- Andy Stanley

A big weak area in my life is my prayer. I feel I really don’t know how to pray and that’s why I’m hitting the reset button on how I approach it, how I do it, and why I do it. A revamp. I’m dropping what I think I know and am striving to rebuild my whole take on it from the ground up. This sermon by Andy Stanley is helping me a ton. It is the 1st in a 3-part series.

Listen to Andy’s Sermon here.