Challenge

I was listening to Brad Bessent who is a pastor at a church in South Carolina this week.  He was preaching on praying and fasting from a sermon series from last July 2011.  I have never fasted before and when he challenged his church to a 40 day prayer and fasting time I was getting interested in it.  The challenge was to do the following things for the next 40 days:
1. Pray for 60 seconds every hour.  (he suggested setting an alarm on the hour)
2. Pray for 60 minutes straight at least once a week. (not 60 minutes during the week but at one time)
3. Do something nice for someone else for at least 60 seconds an hour.
4. Fast from something on a consistent basis for the entire time period.  He gave a few examples like one day a week he drank nothing but water the entire day or add fruit and nuts,  he said some gave up all sweet/sugar items, basically it should be something you think you can't live without, not like brussell sprouts or something.
5. Witness to at least one lost person during the period.
I think this would be hard to do but I am going to try it for the month of February.  I want to challenge anyone who reads this to join in and see what happens when we follow and concentrate on God for an entire month.
I have been looking at the weather in Mongolia and man is it cold there.  There is going to be a heat wave Thursday it's going to be -9 (yes that's minus 9) that's the warmest day in 2 weeks.  the lows are   -40's (yes that's another minus) not sure what you would wear in that weather let alone sleep in a Ger.  Google Mongolian Ger and you can see one, it's a fancy tent.  I can hardly wait to go and tell the Mongolians about Jesus.  Continue to pray for the people and us as we continue to work towards going in August.  I will have enough vacation saved up by August to take 2 weeks off and they said it was not a problem, so good news there.  Things just keep lining up and working out so far to go.

Doyle, Kay & Abby