For Spirit, Mind and Body

Ok Y’all! We all know our spirits, minds and bodies need this, so let’s get ready. The Daniel Fast begins on Ash Wednesday February 25, 2009 and continues through Resurrection Sunday April 12, 2009. 

Here's the plan: 

We pray 3 times a day, like Daniel. 6 a.m. 12 noon and 6 p.m. (for all who want to pray at the same time no matter where we are, let’s say this is CST (Central Time)

We read a devotional based on Scripture written by FUBU (for us by us, more on this in a sec.)

We put the brakes on anything we personally know is distracting from our purposes in the fast (e.g. tv, internet, hanging out, smack talking etc.)

We eat these:

• Fruits
  
• Vegetables
  
• Whole Grains
  
• Nuts and Seeds
  
• Legumes (I call ‘em beans)
  
• Healthy Oils
  
• Water (some folk drink herbal teas without stimulants)
  
• Herbs, Spices, vinegar (some folk avoid this and use citrus juices with oils on their salads)

We don’t eat these:

• All refined and processed foods!
  
• Dairy
  
• Meat
  
• Sugar, honey etc.
  
• Bread
  
• Fried Foods
  
• Unhealthy Fats (the ones that turn solid)
  
• Anything beverage that ain’t water!

Now to the devotional: we need to compose 47 writings that I’ll post for us. We got a little over a month to get it done, but we have to commit to writing soon so that we know that we will have all days covered. 

Scriptures are posted below.

Format:
Title
Reference Scripture
250 words or so
Close with a thought or prayer

Guidelines for writing: 
pray, study and let the love flow 

Errbody who wants to participate is eligible to write!

Let’s get ‘er going!

Post links to other resources and share any books/readings that have been good for you.

Scriptures for the Lenten Devotional

Here are the readings.  Pick a Gospel Reading and hit me up with the one u have chosen so I can mark it (rbelin@mac.com) or you can leave your choice in the comments section to this post.  We’re hoping to get enough writers to have  two devotionals a day: one for the Epistle and one for the Gospel.  Howbesonever, start with the Gospels and then we’ll be sure to have at least one reading per day. Scriptures in RED are TAKEN!

Date	Epistle	Gospel
Wed Feb 25	Heb 12:1-14	Luke 18:9-14
Thur Feb 26	Titus 1:1-16	John 1:29-34
Fri Feb 27	Titus 2:1-15	John 1:35-42
Sat Feb 28	Titus 3:1-15	John 1:43-51
Sun 1 Mar 1	1 Cor 1:17-31	Mark 2:18-22
Mon Mar 2	Heb 2:11-18	John 2:1-12
Tues Mar 3	Heb 3:1-11	John 2:13-22
Wed Mar 4	Heb 3:12-19	John 2:23-3:15
Thur Mar 5	Heb 4:1-10	John 3:16-21
Fri Mar 6	Heb 4:11-16	John 3:22-36
Sat Mar 7	Heb 5:1-10	John 4:1-26
Sun 2 Mar 8	1 Cor 3:11-23	Mark 3:31-4:9
Mon Mar 9	Rom 1:1-15	John 4:27-42
Tues Mar 10	Rom 1:16-25	John 4:43-54
Wed Mar 11	Rom 1:28-2:11	John 5:1-18
Thur Mar 12	Rom 2:12-24	John 5:19-29
Fri Mar 13	Rom 2:25-3:18	John 5:30-47
Sat Mar 14	Rom 3:19-31	John 7:1-13
Sun 3 Mar 15	1 Cor 6:12-20	Mark 5:1-20
Mon Mar 16	Rom 4:1-12	John 7:14-36
Tue Mar 17	Rom 4:13-25	John 7:37-52
Wed Mar 18	Rom 5:1-11	John 8:12-20
Thur Mar 19	Rom 5:12-21	John 8:21-32
Fri Mar 20	Rom 6:1-11	John 8:33-47
Sat Mar 21	Rom 6:12-23	John 8:47-59
Sun 4 Mar 22	Gal 4:21-5:1	Mark 8:11-21
Mon Mar 23	Rom 7:1-12	John 6:1-15
Tue Mar 24	Rom 7:13-25	John 6:16-27
Wed Mar 25	Rom 8:1-11	John 6:27-40
Thur Mar 26	Rom 8:12-27	John 6:41-51
Fri Mar 27	Rom 8:28-39	John 6:52-59
Sat Mar 28	Rom 9:1-18	John 6:60-71
Sun 5 Mar 29	1 Cor 9:19-27	Mark 8:31-9:1
Mon Mar 30	Rom 9:19-33	John 9:1-17
Tues Mar 31	Rom 10:1-13	John 9:18-41
Wed Apr 1	Rom 10:14-21	John 10:1-18
Thur Apr 2	Rom 11:1-12	John 10:19-42
Fri Apr 3	Rom 11:13-24	John 12:1-10
Sat Apr 4	Rom 11:25-36	John 11:28-44 or 12:37-50

 

Sun Apr 5	1 Tim 6:12-16	Matt 21:12-17
Mon Apr 6	Phil 3:1-14	John 12:9-19
Tues Apr 7	Phil 3:15-21	John 12:20-26
Wed Apr 8	Phil 4:1-13	John 12:27-36
Thur Apr 9	1 Cor 10:14-17, 11:27-32	John 17
Fri Apr 10	1 Pet 1:10-20	am: Jn 13:36-38 pm: Jn 19:38-42
Sat Apr 11	am: Heb 4:1-16 pm: Rom 8:1-11	-
Sun 1 Apr 12		am: John 1:1-18          pm: John 20:19-23

 

See: http://www.crivoice.org/lent1.html

Remember, choose Gospels first.  When they are all selected, we'll go to the Epistles.