The 50 Day Prayer and Fasting Challenge

The fifty day challenge was born of a desire to see our nation return to its roots – trust in God to bring us security and to prosper our people:

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:13-14

Our land needs a healing from the sin it carries everyday: injustice, death, hatred, greed, lust, and more. Everyday, as we try to engage in life, we wade through the musty smell of the sin which we have perpetrated on our land including polluting our resources, denying help to those in need, and becoming overly judgmental.

However we ended up in this situation does not matter, what matters is returning to humility and to prayer and to seeking the face of God while turning away from these sins that sicken the heart of God and that damage our relationship with Him.

In the midst of this economic downturn, I fear how readily our nation has turned towards our government for help and how readily our government rejects turning to God. There was a time in our nation when our leaders would call the nation to prayer and fasting, but the day has past.

We have made an uncomfortable bed in our pride and greed. We as a nation must return to God and seek Him and find out His desire for us.

We really need to turn to God now:

• To restore our passion for His creation as we seek new ways of becoming environmentally conscious without sacrificing the health of our citizens
• To renew our desire to help the poor and restore the exploited
• To let the heart of God capture our hearts as we seek to rid ourselves of sinful desires that have slowly eroded our ability to govern ourselves
• To begin acting with wisdom remembering that God does not give us a spirit of fear but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:7)
  

What we need are fifty days of fasting and praying. Each day will represent each state. In fact, we should have each state hold a fast so that each day is covered. For example, people in Georgia cover day one, Alabama covers day two, Florida day three and so on until all fifty states have participated in the fast and have prayed.

If you like this idea, email your friends and leave your comments. Maybe we could start this by March and even get government officials and others to sign on. Thanks!

More information is being compiled and should be released tomorrow!