31 Days Thanksgiving and Praise - Day 29

"6No, this is the kind of fasting I want:

Free those who are wrongly imprisoned;

lighten the burden of those who work for you.

Let the oppressed go free, and remove

the chains that bind people.

7 Share your food with the hungry,

and give shelter to the homeless.

Give clothes to those who need them, and

do not hide from relatives who need your help".

Isaiah 58: 6-7

Today Papa, I am thankful for the refreshing, yet strict discipline of the increased practise of FASTING in my life this year..

I am thankful for fasting has and continues to help me to take my focus of things of this world and focus on you, and in doing so, making me humble hence bringing me much closer to you, making 2 Chronicles 7:14 a reality. It reads "Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. "

I am thankful for fasting for it helps to loose bonds of wickedness and release of un-forgiveness as described in Isaiah 58:6, which reads "[Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke?"

I am thankful for my increased discipline of fasting this year, for it has helped me to see who I really am within, has broth forth repentance and release from past and hidden hurt and grief.


I am thankful for fasting, for it reminds me to share my food with the hungry and give shelter to the homeless, as commanded in Isaiah 58:7, which reads "Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless."

I am thankful for fasting for it reminds me to give clothes to those who need then and be available to those who need my help, as commanded in Isaiah 58:8, which reads "Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help".

I am thankful for my increased fasting for it has given and continues to give me physical and spiritual benefits. During fasting my body has been healed physically from toxins and spiritually it has helped me slow down during my hectic lifestyle to hear and listen closely to God.

So, today dear Papa, I come to you with my basket overflowing in thanksgiving for my increased fasting and praying this year. I am thankful for encouraging and teaching me the in depth meaning and importance of fasting and praying, even when everything seemed perfect in the natural.

I am thankful for the relief I get through fasting. I am thankful for the breakthroughs, the blessings, the insight and wisdom you bestow upon me when I humble myself through fasting.

I am thankful that when I humble myself through fasting, you draw me nearer and closer to you.

Father, I pray that my basket of thanksgiving for fasting is acceptable in your sight today. Be glorified in my thanksgiving and honored in my praises today. In Jesus name I pray... Amen.

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, HERE IS YOUR INVITATION

WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL TO THE LORD FOR THIS VERY DAY?

I invite you to present your basket filled with thanksgiving, wrapped up in praise at the masters feet today; making him famous as you glorify his holy name.

Much Love
Remi Banjo
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