Today I began seven days of fasting and praying for my difficult conversation coming up. I don't know how much to disclose, how much to push, how much to question and challenge, and how much to surrender. I think there are very good reasons to have an honest, direct conversation and there are very good reasons to remain mysterious and abide by the Love Must Be Tough principles. So I need more wisdom now than I did ever before. Some of my dear friends are willing to fast and pray with me, and I am so grateful! One of my friends just sent me the following. Day One, bring it on!
From a friend:
This devotion is my prayer for you:
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.
May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
—1 Thessalonians 5:23
Excerpt from (http://utmost.org/prayerful-
Do we believe that God can fortify and protect our thought processes
far beyond where we can go? “. . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son
cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If this verse means cleansing
only on our conscious level, may God have mercy on us. The man who has
been dulled by sin will say that he is not even conscious of it. But
the cleansing from sin we experience will reach to the heights and
depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is in the
light” (1 John 1:7). The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ
will feed the life of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by
God with the miraculous sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit,
soul, and body can be preserved in pure uprightness until the coming
of Jesus-no longer condemned in God’s sight.
From another friend:
Oh Juliet,
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