God's Little Miracle Book: Fasting Prayer

God's Little Miracle Book: Fasting Prayer

Fasting Prayer

I grew up in the church but had only heard whatever snippit the pastor chose to preach on that Sunday. Besides, I didn’t speak King James so the Bible was always hard to understand.When I was about 30 I decided to buy a Living Bible and read it through, Genesis to Revelation, even if it killed me; and I was pretty sure it might. After all, if I called myself a Christian, I better know what the book said.It was a real revelation to me when I got to the part that said, “And when you fast . . . ” not if. Me? Fast? As a kid, I never thought much about fasting. My Catholic friends talked about it some, but it was never part of my practice. I figured that was something monks did. I decided I’d give it a whirl.At that time I’d wanted to play the autoharp. I borrowed one from my friend. When I played it, it sounded akin to cats on the back fence in a fight. A friend at prayer group said if you fasted you needed to have a stated purpose for the fast. Maybe I could make this my purpose. I’d ask God to help me learn to play the autoharp.The first day of the fast was terrible. My stomach growled. I though about food all the time. On the second day, my stomach gave up and decided no food was on the horizon. As I prayed and practiced the autoharp, I began to see certain cords like C, F, and G seemed to work together pretty well.I broke my fast at the end of the third day. By then, I had figured out some of the other patterns. I could actually play a simple chorus; not as quickly as it should go, but at least I picked it out.My family bought me an autoharp for Christmas and I continued to learn to play. To this day I’m no accomplished musician, but I can play simple choruses.Over the years I’ve fasted for different purposes. God never fails to teach me more each time I take time apart with Him.I still haven’t figured out how fasting prayer works. I just know it does.

Go Back Buttons

Remember when computers had "go back" buttons? It would automatically take you back to a previous date and wipe out all the bad stuff you'd loaded on your computer.

God has a go back option. It's found in I John 1:9. It reads, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

That's not all He does. He removes our sins as far as the east is from the west. Psalm 103:12 says, "As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us."
I'm so glad He didn't say "as far as the north from the south," because we would eventually run into them again. If we go east around the whole globe, we never meet west at some point, so He's saying we'll never meet up with those sins again.

So, all we have to do is admit our sins to Him and He will cleanse us and make us right with Him. Now that's good news!

Back At It!

The day I turned in my final proofs to my publisher, I prayed, "Well, what's next, Lord?" Within three days I had a line on six more miracle stories to write. Sooooo, I'm hard at work on God's Little Miracle Book III.

For a peek at the available ones, check out:
http://tinyurl.com/6wzrfdy Barnes & Noble

http://tinyurl.com/cgfvr38 Amazon.com

Featured in Blog

Carol Newman featured me in her blog this week.
www.angelinyourinkwell.com/

Whispering Prairie Press Blog

I'm the featured writer this week on the Whispering Prairie Press blog. We'll be teaching at the upcoming conference at KU's Edwards Campus 12600 Quivira Road, Overland Park, KS on Saturday July 23. Go to this blog to learn more about it.

The story featured on the blog is one of the stories from the new Miracle Book I'm working on now. Check it out at http://kcvoices.blogspot.com/2011/07/mystery-of-jerome-by-sally-jadlowguest.html

I'll be teaching at the Whispering Prairie Press Creativity Writers Conference on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at the KU Edwards Campus, 12600 Quivira Road, Room 110, in Overland Park, KS, on "How to Write Inspirational Essays."

If you care to join us, go to www.kansascityvoices.com for a registration form. If you have further questions contact MLKwriter@yahoo.com .