FASTING AND PRAYER

Fasting and Prayer has been a major event each year since I quit my job at the end of 1984. When I realized that the Lord was asking me to step out into the unknown, the question remained exactly when I should quit. I decided to take some water into the mountains and fast and pray for three days to get the answer.

On the morning I was to go, it occured to me that after I quit the job, I would no longer have a daily routine, that each day I would have to get directions on what to do that day. So I decided to start this day, before going into the mountains.

The Lord had me get out a paper, and began to dictate a list of things I should do. I ended with a list of some 30 items, mostly paying bills, writing letters, making phone calls, and such. I complained to Him "This is a listo of very worldly things, Lord."

He replied "I am a very worldly oriented God."

Since then I have had a new appreciation of how He really cares about the smallest things!

It took me most of the three days I had taken off work to complete the list, and I never made it to the mountains. Now I schedule at least one week away per year. This year I nearly missed it, so am getting it in on the week before Christmas, in Bali.