Prayer and Fasting

In Bible study we are talking about prayer and fasting.   I think it is always important to "remember" the very personal things the Lord has done in my life, especially when I'm in a teaching situation.

 God gives us blessings to minister to our lives, but also to share what He has done. 

TESTIMONY

I remembered a sweet moment during a time of prayer and fasting with a team of people which included my sister and her hubby when they were  in Uganda with their family.  There was a group of us that are involved in the ministry that they were there serving in at the time.  

We NEEDED God, we needed His hand and His direction.

   So a few of us from this side of the world and several of them serving on the other side of the world decided on a certain day of fasting and then a conference call that we could all join in on and pray together.

It was in the midst of a busy time for all of us, so we coordinated the conference call prayer time.

  We were all literally meeting to pray from all over the country and all over the world.  

Pretty cool to use technology that way.  That was the extent of it...we didn't compare notes on what days or hours or meals we were going to fast....we simply agreed to pray and fast and join together at the appointed time.

As the distance would have it, the time we were meeting to pray was night time for us, and morning time for those in Uganda.   It was one of those times when we were praying about some serious things in our personal lives and also in the ministry we were all connected to.

As we gathered together, to join in prayer we were feeling fragile and tired from the circumstances and those of us that were facing the end of our day, were also physically tired and hungry, it was time to rest.  As we began to talk, Justin, my brother in law asked how everyone was doing and how our day of prayer and fasting went, and we all kinda let out a moan I think.  It had been a DAY if you know what I mean.  Justin replied with something that just was so beautiful...he said these simple words, 

"Ok great, we will take over from here".  

They were just starting their day, they were fresh,  and it just sounded so beautiful that we could rest easy knowing that God had placed His body all over the world and that while we rested other parts of the Body would continue to bring our very urgent needs before God.

 I will never forget those simple words, it was soothing to my soul.  Sometimes we just need to say to someone, "Ok great, we will take over from here".  That is why we serve in a Body of Christ .  The Church is so important, we can't do this on our own, we weren't made to do it alone. 

 We were made to "take over from here" sometimes and other times let others "take over from here", and trust the Lord to work through His entire Body.

It's important to have prayer partners, it's important to pray and to fast, and it's just COOL that God, as a bonus, in this particular situation would allow us to join together, and let the prayer and fasting time go longer because we were connected to a body with 10 hours difference.  :)

*These pictures have nothing to do with that time...just fun pictures of some of the people that were involved.*