Well the 3rd day has come and gone, it was much better today!! I went into the day from the moment I woke up thinking how hungry I will be throughout the day. In the back of my head I’m thinking how I could cheat and how nobody would know. A couple things about this thought: First, how stupid of a thought is that? I mean really, come on who really cares, who would I be hiding it from? ME? I could walk away from this today and honestly nobody would even care. In my head I went back to a time in my life when I did a 30 day fast, nothing but water for 33 days. It was an AMAZING and life changing time for me. I remember about a week into this fast, I was going to cheat and eat something in secret and nobody would know. As I sat in my car in the parking lot of a store fighting this urge, the Lord gently spoke to me about this. He said that my entire life has been like this, I would do everything I desired to do in secret and it would affect nobody in my life if they didn’t know about it. He first let me know that HE see’s it and knows it, but even deeper he let me know that everything I do in my life, in public or in secret affects those in my life.

If I am in California and my daughter is in New York, my actions affect her physically and in the spirit. I had a hard time understanding this thought but as I struggled through it, it started to make sense to me and as I walked back through my life I could see it. Over the course of my life I have done some pretty stupid things and just about all of them were done in secret. There is NO secret life at all period!!

Secondly, I started this thing with 3 goals, Body, Mind and Spirit. So I was reminded what about the spiritual part of this 30 days? What are you going to do? I’ve read it, I’ve preached it, I’ve taught it. What can I do?

Prayer!!! Pray for my family, my friends. Pure and simple. Here is what I came across this morning:

¹⁴ When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, ¹⁵ the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.^{[f] 16} I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. ¹⁷ Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. ¹⁸ And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. ¹⁹ May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Ephesians 3

My hope is tomorrow to expound on these scriptures