Sunday, April 5, 2009

Why I started

Why did I embark on a forty day fast? I had issues with several areas of my life. Some of these issues were recurring ones and others were stuff that sprang up in the past few years and needed to be settled. My principal issues had to with finances. We were dealing with huge debt with my husband because of challenges in his money management business.

We had made a few wrong choices and trusted the wrong people and as a result were thrown into a monumental debt from which only God could pull us out. We knew what line to follow in our business to get out but we no longer had the capital to enable us toe that line.

My own business wasn’t doing so great either; I was selling an average of one ticket a month as against a minimum of five a day. Our kids were all healthy but you cannot raise five children on water and prayers alone. We needed money, lots of it and fast too. Our investors were calling us like crazy and my husband was almost out of his mind with worry

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Prologue

This blog has been started for a specific reason; to record my experiences during my fortyday fast. I started a forty day fast a few days ago and I decided to record my experiences, including my challenges, triumphs and everything related during this period. Why am I doing this and not just keeping a diary? Well, I am keeping a diary for my self; but I also feel that someone out there could benefit from my experience and of course they can not have access to my diary. I would have appreciated this type of blog when I was about to start, but if it existed, I did not know about it.

Why fast at all? And if you must fast, why forty days? There are many questions associated with this issue and since I am no expert I cannot answer them all. However I can talk about why I am fasting and why I chose to fast for forty days. Some of the answers will come as the days go by and I promise to share as they become clearer; because to tell you the truth, it is not all clear yet but as the LORD speaks to me in the coming days I will let you know.