Concord Church

                                                                                   Forty Days of Prayer  and Fasting

The entire church body of The Concord Church will fast and pray during the Lenten Season. This time of fasting and prayer will begin on Ash Wednesday, February 6, 2007 and will end on Saturday, March 22, 2007. The entire church body will petition God daily between the hours of 6 a.m. and 12 p.m. or 12noon to 6 P.M. OR 6 P.M. TO 6 A. M.  We will fast and petition God concerning our personal spiritual growth, our families, community, and nation.

  The Holy Spirit, through prayer, will direct your individual time of fasting and abstaining. Fasting is a spiritual discipline that will increase your prayer time, and will also enhance your relationship with God. Fasting is a time of bringing the body under the control of the Holy Spirit on a consistent basis. Instead of receiving physical gratification of food substance and various other activities, we become very aware of the substance and power of the Holy Spirit. As our prayers intensify, God will satisfy our physical and spiritual needs. As we pray, we will become aware of our dependence on God in all areas of our lives, and our relationship with God will strengthen.

   Pray and ask the Holy Spirit to help you know when your individual time for fasting and prayer should be. This is an awesome time of unity and focused prayer in the life of our church and in your spiritual growth and relationship with God.

  Food For Thought

 

If you are under a physician’s care, follow his/her instructions. And, as with all nutritional and exercise programs, it is recommended that you consult your physician prior to beginning.

 

Suggested Guidelines

 

• Increase prayer time. Fast and pray at least 2 hours and 40 minutes everyday, read, and study the word, meditate or just be still.

 

• It is important to drink plenty of REAL cranberry juice on a regular basis, to help flush the kidneys.

 

• Fresh fruits and vegetables are important. 75% of your diet should consist of vegetables either steamed or raw.

 

• Suggested exercise programs: Daily stretching and deep breathing. Walking at least 30 minutes per day, three times a week.

 

• Limit excessive social telephone calls, secular TV, radio, books, magazines, computer games and video games.

 

• Avoid sugar, salt, fat and fast food.

 

• Exclude and abstain from smoking, drinking, drugs, and caffeine.

 

• You may eat skinless chicken (poultry) and fish.

 

NOTE:  The entire church body will fast every day Monday-Saturday from 6 a.m. to 12 noon OR NOON TO 6 P.M. OR 6 P.M. TO 6 A.M. This does not include your choice any additional hours of personal of prayer and fasting. Sundays are not included as “fasting” days but will be utilized for focused prayer as provided in the prayer guide.

 

 Day 1 Ash Wednesday

February 6-Wednesday

Read -Romans 12: 10

 

What is God saying to you?

 Day 2

February 7- Thursday

Read- Hebrew 11:6

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

  Day 3

February 8- Friday

Read –Genesis 17:9

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

  Day 4

February 9- Saturday

Read –Hebrew 13:17

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

  Day 5

February 11- Monday

Read – 1 Corinthians 4:2

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

Day 6

February 12- Tuesday

Read –Exodus 33:11

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

Day 7

February 13- Wednesday

Read-Psalm 84:11

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

Day 8

February 14- Thursday

Read-Jeremiah 17:7

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

Day 10

February 15- Friday

Read-Galatians 1:10

What is God saying to you?

 

 

Day 11

February 16- Saturday

Read- Exodus 15:11

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

Day 12

February 18- Monday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

Day 13

February 19- Tuesday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

Day 14

February 20- Wednesday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

Day 15

February 21- Thursday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

Day 16

February 22- Friday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

Day 17

February 23- Saturday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

Day 18

February 25- Monday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

Day 19

February 26- Tuesday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

Day 20

February 27- Wednesday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 21

February 28- Thursday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

Day 22

February 29- Friday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

 

Day 23

March 1- Saturday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

Day 24

March 3- Monday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

Day 25

March 4- Tuesday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

Day 26

March 5- Wednesday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

Day 27

March 6- Thursday

 

 

 

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

Day 28

March 7- Friday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 29

March 8- Saturday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 30

March 10- Monday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

Day 31

March 11- Tuesday

 

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

Day 32

March 12- Wednesday

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

Day 33

March 13- Thursday

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

 

Day 34

March 14- Friday

 

 

What is God saying to you?

 

 

 

 

 

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