40 Day Fast

Exciting things are about to happen here in the blogging world! Recently, I have been introduced to a community of bloggers that have really challenged me on many levels...in many areas of my life. And I am SO excited about participating in the upcoming 40 Day Fast. The general idea is that, starting tomorrow, 1 blogger will choose an issue to fast and pray on for that day, and then write about the experience. By the end of this event, there will be 40 different world issues that this community has learned about and prayed for. If prayer truly has power...and we know this to be true...then we are about to seriously change lives in the world around us, and abroad.

Kat is the organizer of all of this...she is kicking things off tomorrow. PLEASE keep up with this...there is a schedule on my sidebar with links to each of the bloggers that are involved. I have copied Kat's suggestions below of how we can all join together for the next 40 days.

Get Involved
I hope that everyone reading this right now will participate in some way. Here are a few ways you can still get involved:

1. Follow along each day and read about each of the causes.
2. Place one of the logos on the sidebar of your blog.
3. Post a link each day to the blogger who is fasting.
4. Join us in fasting on the 40th day (July 31st).
5. Get involved in one of the organizations mentioned each day.
6. Start your own 40 day fast from your blog.

Pray
Another way you can get involved is to pray:

• Pray that our hearts would break for the need in the world and the need next door.
• Pray that we’d live as though we know that we’re given strength to help the weak, we’re given plenty to help the poor and we’re given hope to help the hopeless.
• Pray that we’d look for need in our daily lives.
• Pray that we’d recognize excess in our daily lives.
• Pray that we wouldn’t despise small beginnings.
• Pray that we’d take a step, however small it need be, to break the inertia of our complacency.
• Pray that people would truly be helped as a result of the next 40 days.
• Pray that the world would seem a whole lot smaller to us after July 31st.

How do you plan to get involved?