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Soul Challenge Two: Summer Indulgence

·      In our first challenge last month you were challenged to consider some type of summer fast.

·      For details on that challenge go back to the home page and check out the link entitled “We’re on a Mission from God". 

       In this month’s challenge we are going to play off our first change of fasting, and in fact, if you are having trouble considering a fast or lack the motivation, this month’s challenge might help. 

        View the video below to find out this month's Soul Challenge.

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       Thank you for watching, I hope you will consider to serve your soul with this month's giving challenge. 

        Here are a few ideas to consider with this month's challenge:
    

     1) Involve your family or friends. Especially explain to your children why you are fasting from certain activities or expenses and make sure you include some time of prayer to thank God for your ability to give.

      

      2) Your fasting from a certain summer indulgence does not have to be all at once (i.e. a couple meals here, a movie there, an ice cream run to Whitey's, or a StarBuck's latte can all add up pretty quick). Take the amount  of money it would take to pay for certain indulgences and then set it aside. Once you have reached your $100 goal (or whatever goal you decided) your fasting from indulgences is over and you can give that gift to God.

      3) Remember the purpose of this is to remind ourselves and others not to worship the things God created, but to worship him. In other words, worship the creator not the creation.

  

      Finally, I recommend the following devotional book to use as a part of your prayer time during your summer fasting,God's Psychiatry--Healing for Your Troubled Heart, by Charles Allen

The following is a little teaser from the book...

God tells us not to do wrong, but there are some things we want to do, right or wrong. So we create a God who doesn't care what we do. We think of the God of the blue skies, majestic mountains, and lovely flowers, but turn our backs on the God who said, "Ye have robbed me in tithes and offerings" (Mal. 3:8), or the God who said, "whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6:7). It has been well pointed out that Christ was not crucified because he said, "Consider the lilies, how they grow," but rather because He said, "Consider the thieves, how the steal." (C.Allen, p.60).

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