Aren’t you pleased God is a good God?

Our good God has planned out for you the blessed and fruitful journey of a lifetime!

Are you walking in it?

Are you living your best life?

When Ezra and God’s people were setting out on a new journey they fasted and prayed and committed it to the Lord.

There, by the Ahava Canal, I [Ezra] proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions” (Ezra 8:21)

Yesterday we prayed our prayer of commitment, today we have begun our fast.

Do you want to know the secret of making it a success? Read the verse again and notice these words… “that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions”

As we commence a new fast we are also entering a new year, fasting is one way by which we humble ourselves and secure God’s protection on the journey of this year – not just for ourselves but for our children and all our possessions.

Prayer and fasting is a sure-fire way to ensure our prayer life moves from one of reacting to crisis to one that prevents crisis.

Corrie Ten Boom said it this way:

“is prayer your spare tyre, or your steering wheel?“

Today please pray for the following:

• For the church family to know God’s presence and power as they pray and fast
• For the church to know divine protection every day of this year
• For the church to experience a huge increase in the number of those giving their lives to God this year
• For the church to know divine health and healing in us and all the members of our families this year
• For the church to know God’s blessing on all our possessions this year – our homes, the buildings we use, our personal cars, our corporate minibuses, everything.

Have a blessed day, see you tomorrow,

Craig