"When you pray, pray first for the Holy Spirit because when you have the Holy Spirit, you have everything."        - Medjugorje April 4, 1985

"You have forgotten that through prayer and fasting you can avert wars and suspend the laws of nature."       - Medjugorje Dec. 2, 1982

This reminder was supposed to go out last evening ahead of today’s fast and is written from the perspective of yesterday. My apologies for the delay and our thanks to our contributors…

Following up on our reminder from last Thursday, recall the very encouraging words that came from Medjugorje on Christmas Day:

“grace is spreading throughout the whole world”

In the past Heaven’s perspective from Medjugorje at specific moments in history has warned us of evil’s treachery on numerous occasions.  So realize these words are extraordinary and most welcome.

What may that grace look like?

Since that message was spoken from Medjugorje, without connecting the dots we felt compelled to speak out to a couple of fellow believers about sin.  This persistent inclination was to conduct ourselves in exactly the opposite manner as Bergoglio has suggested from the Vatican that believers ought to do –

That we should move forward believing scripture meant what it says: we are obliged to highlight when others are jeopardizing their souls by their behavior.

We were dreading having these confrontational conversations with our fellow believers.  We worried the words may end long friendships.  But the Spirit would not let us avoid the assignment. So after praying that the Holy Spirit would descend upon the conversations, we approached the believers in this manner, trying to articulate:

1. Not only do I not want to be having this conversation with you, but I have also been dreading bringing this up. I have procrastinated having this conversation to avoid saying what I am about to say.
2. The only reason I am saying this is because I am concerned about you.
3. I am not judging your soul, indeed your sins may far less than mine. I am trying to do as scripture commands and highlighting a behavior that you may not realize could jeopardize your greatest gift and your greatest asset – eternal life.
4. You may be risking the narrow road where only a few are chosen by your behavior concerning [discuss specific concern] …

To our shock the conversations both went well and in both cases the believers knew they needed to repent and had begun to repent before we said anything.

Perhaps the grace to repent is the grace that Heaven referenced on Christmas day that is spreading throughout the whole world?

Let’s double click on the significance, perhaps the pre-eminent significance of that –

In recent days, the most studied scripture passage on the planet was from Samuel where God’s believers, even though they had the physical presence of the Lord with them in the ark of the covenant … even though they fully believed they would be victorious with the Lord’s presence – were decimated in war.

Tens of thousands of believers were hacked to death, prosperity disappeared, believers were enslaved, and God even allowed His own ark to be taken hostage.

Why did this happen to God’s believers?  And perhaps we should ask why has America been suffering such devastating failures as we witness our nation’s demise?

It was the same reason we see over and over in scripture – because God’s believers would not repent. The most grievous offense? The worship of false gods. Let us be clear – false gods then were like the false gods we today in eastern religions and in the Aztec religion let alone satanic worship that is now promoted publicly in some schools and branches of government.

So … if the grace to repent is pouring over the world, that grace is the foundation to unleash peace and prosperity. 

After repenting, things that seemed impossible to accomplish simply occur and after repenting evil that seemed unstoppable is crushed.

And in the interim, until such graces reach the national stage, similar wonderful graces first flow and are noticeable at the individual level of those who repent and with families.

So, while fasting tomorrow, get up early and give God the first fruits of your day – Your first moments.

He died just so He could see you face to face in paradise.

If you want a real relationship with Him, you have to create face time to be with Him, one on one.

Then let’s ask the Holy Spirit to show us what we most need to repent from and ask for the grace to be able to do so. Let job #1 be for us to cast such recurring sin from our lives so that we will stop offending the Lord.

Thank you so much for fasting with us tomorrow. You will be glad you made the effort for all of eternity.

PS – Thanks to Richard who sent us this incredible picture of the Northern Lights over Sweden that was just observed.  Looks like an angel spreading grace across the world to us!

Why We Fast – Our Core Fasting Intentions

1) We add the new fasting intention of taking back the church from evil. We submit the three-step process to achieve this victory is 1-Repent, 2-Prayer & Fasting and, 3-Imitate our Savior by throwing the evil leadership from the church. We will seek to emulate the Savior in our effort to End The USCCB, an organization that has been devastating to the church.  (“You shall know the spirit by the fruits” - Matt. 7:16)

2) For the Holy Spirit to reign down upon America, renewing our land as the Christian, capitalist meritocracy we were founded to be.

3) For the protection of our police, firefighters, military and their families from harm and that the Lord bless their courageous generosity on our behalf.

4) For the protection of the families who fast with us, and for God’s blessings of abundance upon them and that true to His word, we will be able to witness that He prospered us in famine.

Would you like to learn more about fasting?

We maintain a repository of ideas and information we have learned over the last decade while fasting weekly for America. From scientific studies on the benefits of fasting, to the differences between intermittent dieting vs intermittent fasting, to scriptural references regarding the power of fasting to the history of first century Christians who stated believers are obligated to fast weekly, we hope you will find numerous insights with our free resource located here.

Together let us also implore Heaven while fasting for intentions you have highlighted:

4) For all patriots who put themselves on the front lines in combatting evil and for all of the warriors who are stepping up around the nation to fight for the gospel – May The Father cover them in the blood of our savior,  protect them and their families from evil and bring victory to their endeavors.

5) For priests, ministers and all who aspire to lead others to the Lord, that the Holy Spirit will reign down upon them as at Pentecost filling them to overflowing. 

6) For the Americans jailed after January 6th who were admitted to the Capitol building by the police, and who were not found to have destroyed any property at the capitol yet who have been held captive ever since on our own soil - That God's Spirit will move quickly to bring justice back to this land and free them.

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