Fasting Life

We have set aside this week (June 4-11, 2006) as a week of prayer and fasting here at the Lancaster Vineyard.
Please join us by setting aside some time to pray.  Please also consider fasting (going without something from your typical routine) in order to refocus on God and his heart for each of us, our neighbor and our world. When we fast: we declare our dependence on God for our all, we retune ourselves to seeking first His Kingdom and seeing it expand in the world around us, and we also are transformed in ways under the surface which we can’t fully explain.

This does not mean you have to go all week without food!!  It may mean you fast from food for a week, a meal, a day, etc.  It may mean you fast from media for the week.  It may mean you fast from that 2 pm candy bar you grab out of the snack machine.  It may mean you fast from reading the paper in the morning in order to spend time in prayer.  Maybe you fast from video games or the internet.  Find something important to you that you spend a chunk of time and attention doing each week and set it aside to refocus on God.

Attached to this email is a Word document which includes both a Focus point about God’s character for each day this week and a Prayer Focus for each day.  If you do not have Word, you can also access a .pdf file through this link:  http://www.lancastervineyard.com/weekofprayerandfasting.pdf

Thank you for considering joining us this week as we seek our God, as we refocus ourselves on Him, and as we lay down our own kingdoms to focus on seeing HIS KINGDOM come in more fullness in our lives, in our families, in our church, in our neighborhoods, and in our world!

Seeking the King together!

Jerry