Fasting

I will be Fasting from blogging for the following week. This is something that I am doing with my House Group, from having studied Richard Foster's 'Celebrating Discipline'. I felt it was necessary for me to fast from blogging as I have sometimes allowed it to be consuming. I won't be reading other blogs or managing my own.
I'll let you know how it has gone next week.
If you have any experiences of Fasting that you'd like to share I'd love to read them (but I won't of course until next week)!
Love and blessings in Him.
Liz x

Free from the Past

Lord, I thank you that my husband is free from the past through your son Jesus Christ. Father, I pray that my husband is able to discern whether you are prompting him to recall a memory or whether he is hanging on to past burdens. I pray that if there are any negative memories of things past and which have already been brought to you, that he is able to leave them at the foot of your cross.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (King James Version)

17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

His friendships

Heavenly Father, please guide my husband to nurture his male friendships. I pray that he is able to discern which friendships are a good influence.
Please help Lord where there are tensions and where forgiveness is needed.
John 13:34-35

Our Priorities

Lord, help us to keep you first and foremost in our thoughts and actions. Help us Lord to balance work, faqmily, friends and activities, without substituting our quiet times with you.


Matthew 6:33
Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

To be well respected

Father Lord, I ask for your protection on my husband's reputation. I pray that respect for him is well earned & that no one should hold false witness against him.
Psalm 64:2-3
Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity, who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows - bitter words.

A Man of Integrity

Lord, please help my husband to be strong in his integrity for all aspects of his life. I pray that he will always seek your wisdom and not be changing like the waves.


Proverbs 11:3
The integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.

Hold him when in Trial

Lord, you know the heaviness of the burdens that my husband carries and the strain it is for him to go through. Help him Lord to grow from this time so that he can remember how you are always there with him. 

1 Peter 1:6-7 (New Living Translation)

 ⁶ So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while. ⁷ These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.