Today was the first day of my Daniel Fast.  This is the second time that I’ve done this fast, this time I plan to be more successful!  Hey, we all fall short sometimes! J

When I first learned about the Daniel Fast it was through my church Mt. Zion, and we were doing a corporate fast with the whole congregation.  This time I’m doing it completely on my own (well, I convinced my boyfriend to do it with me), also coinciding with Lent.  While doing any fast you have to have a reason or a purpose for fasting. 

This year my theme is Love, Peace, and Hope.  I know, it sounds a little cliché but that’s what I’m praying for.  While I complete my journey I’ll be using my handy dandy, Bible App on my iPhone.  It’s absolutely AMAZING!  It allows you to follow a daily reading guide for if you want to read the bible in a year, if your lonely, also if you want to learn scriptures about Love, Peace, and Hope.

Today’s scriptures about love were:

                                1 John 4:16 (MSG)- We know it so well, we’ve embraced it heart and soul, this love comes from God.

1 John 4:20-21 (MSG)- If anyone boast, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar.  If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see?  The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.

That is POWERFUL!!!  You have to love people if you love God!!!

Signed,