21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for our Children and Grandchildren – Day 19 Faith is the Victory!

It's time to step out of passivity into passion, hopelessness to hope and victimhood to victory! The world has been dark for a long time and it has only gotten darker. When we spend our days shrinking back in fear, we put our own lights out. John 1 says, "In the beginning was the Word, …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 18 Wisdom and Revelation

For those who know me, you will be very familiar with today's passage. It's from Paul's prayer for the Ephesians. Even though I wrote a bible study on the book of Ephesians, with an emphasis on praying Paul's prayer for wisdom and revelation, I need this reminder today. It's easy to get busy trying to …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 17 Don’t Give Up!

When I started this 21 days of prayer and fasting, I felt led to put the same challenge out to other parents and grandparents (and g-g's!). The first blog had 150 reads. Day 5 has 55. Day 16 has 10. I know that fasting is hard. But, when I wake up in the morning and …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 16 Rebuilding Ancient Walls

In many of my blog posts, I have covered the topics of breaking curses and ending sinful legacies. Today, we will focus on rebuilding ancient walls of spiritual protection. In order to kill, steal and destroy, the enemy has to tear down our spiritual defenses. When I was in high school, my atheist friend did …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 9 The Persistent Widow

In Biblical Christianity we value the nuclear family - father, mother, and children all in the roles that God lays out for each person. The husband should love his wife as Christ loved the Church and laid his life down for her. The wife should respect her husband. The children obey and honor their father …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for our Children and Grandchildren – Day 8 Breaking the Curse

We have arrived at day 8 of our travail of fasting and prayer for our children and grandchildren. I hope you are prayerfully approaching your fast and what level God wants you to participate in. God may lead you to abstain from junk food and sugar. He may have you fasting 1 meal today and …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for Our Children and Grandchildren – Day 7 Shout! For the Lord has Given You the City!

Mighty fortresses seem impenetrable. Everyone who traveled past the city of Jericho could see how tightly shut up the city was. Jericho was the fortress of safety for Canaan. All of the surrounding towns would have come into Jericho for protection against the massive ranks of Israel's soldiers amassing on the border. The children of …

21 Days of Fasting and Prayer for our children and grandchildren – Day 5 Forgiveness is the Foundation of Freedom

...forgiveness brings peace and life. Forgiveness is casting all our cares upon Jesus, because he cares for us. Forgiveness is releasing someone from our judgement and not allowing their weaknesses or sin to ferment inside of our souls, to make us drunk on the bitter wine of hatred. When we fast and pray, we need to make walking in forgiveness a priority. Cleanse your soul from all anger.

When it seems like our prayers aren’t being answered

We do not need to fear the enemy, including when he seems relentless and our defense doesn't seem to be working. Truthfully speaking, the enemy lost at the cross. He lost the war, but he doesn't like to give up in the battle. How much more should we, who won the war in Christ, not give up in the battle? Why do we say, "Oh well. Jesus won the war, so who cares if we lose this battle?"