Day 1: Beginning of Spiritual Warfare

Lemme just start with saying that I have smoked for the last 10 years of my life. Upto a pack, to a pack and a 1/2 every day. And I want you to know that I have chosen to set aside cigarrettes for the next 30 days of my sacrificial fast. I work at a bank in a bad part of Dallas, and as I was on my way to work this morning with out smoking a cigarrette, I began to plan the rest of my day and how it would go. I figured I would still go at 11:00 on the dot for my smoke break but instead of smoking I'd spend sometime with the Lord. I figured I'd go grab lunch and bring it back to the Bank and eat it and then spend some more time with the Lord instead of smoking the rest of my lunch....anyhow.....Little did I know that satan already had his plan devised to try and stop me from my fast. Because to day for the first time in my four years of being with the Bank....we were robbed, had a bomb threat w/evacuation, and we had 1 delirious person that I had to escort out of the bank after we had already reopened for service after the robbery.
I'm not quite sure what that may make you think, but I know what it makes me think....

Is that First of all
:THANK YOU TO WHO EVER PRAYED FOR PROTECTION OVER THE CHURCH BODY WHILE FASTING (because spiritual warfare is not going to stop and satan wont quit till he keeps us from getting that spiritual closeness fasting brings!!

also Second:
we must have satan shakin in his boots cause the struggles that we are facing while fasting seemed pretty tough and if satan went through that much trouble to try and make us not fast we MUST BE AWAITING something pretty extroidinary at the end with God and with each other as a church body!!!!



CHURCH it's only day one imagine how we will be refined through this fire at the end!!!!!! WOOOO-HOOOO!! Im excited!!!!!!

pray:
Please refine us through this fire,
please refine this church body through this fire, and God please refine me in this fire,In your mighty name Jesus, Amen!!
sing:
IN the name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus we have have the victory...In the name of Jesus, In the name of Jesus .....satan will have to flee!!!!