Day 20

   The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow or death Light has dawned.  Matthew 4:16

   Journal Thoughts:  Take some time today and go back to read your journal entries from the start of the fast to this twentieth day.

   What do your journal entries tell you about your own personal journey these last three weeks?

   Take a moment & journal about the breakthroughs you have experienced or key things the Lord has shown you during the fast.  Spend time in prayer and thanksgiving.

   Looking back over the past journal entries I see that if we are looking for the Lord in everything we will see Him in everything.  Even sadness & disappointment.  I want to take every moment captive and use it as a learning experience in growing in the Lord.  In Hosea 4:6 it says..my people are distroyed for lack of knowledge.  I am seeking wisdom, knowledge, understanding and direction from the Lord for my life and my family.  I am in a process, seeking the Lord and listening for His voice and guidance in all I do.  He knows my hearts desires and He knows me better than I do, so I trust that His way is the right way.  Isa. 55:9 says "As the havens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

  Prayer Focus:  Laborers into the Harvest Field...journal says:

   God said, "Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possesion (Psa.2:8).  Jesus told us, "Ask the Lord of the harvest, therfore, to send out workers into his harvest field"(Matt. 9:38).  Focus your prayers today on these 2 key instructions from heaven.  Cry out for the lost and the hurting, the poor, the addicted.  Ask Him to send missionaries, ambassadors of His Word, into the earth.


   Lord, I pray and call all your laborers into the harvest field.  Those who are or aren't saved.  You know each individual person and thier calling.   I pray people will seek your will for themselves and thier families, as do I right now.  I pray you will use me and my family to our fullest for you.  I thank you for all the laborers already working in the field, especially those working with our youth.  They need to see people on fire for the Lord.  I praise & thank you in Jesus name, Amen.