Fasting

Grateful for Fasting. At one time in my life I would have laughed if you told me I would say that someday.

Over the past few weeks we have seen miracles happen because of Prayer, Priesthood blessings and fasting.

Yesterday my wife and I fasted for our nephew, (who was mentioned in the previous post) as well as his parents.

Last night right before I fell asleep his mom posted the following picture of him.

 

That smile made my day and the fasting done for him all worth it.

I know that fasting if done correctly can have power in our lives. I believe that in order to fast correctly you need to have a purpose for the fast, start and end with prayer, and make sure that you are donating a true fast offering to the Bishop each month. I don’t think you have to donate the money from the fast if you do an extra during the month but then again what could that hurt.

Several years ago in a Priesthood leadership or a High council meeting I herd my Stake President say that we needed to double our fast offering. In a follow up meeting he said that we needed to make our fast offering be triple the amount we normally would give. (I asked him about it almost a year later and he cannot remember saying that, so guess it was personal revelation to me).

I thought ok and started to pay triple the normal about I was giving when counting the two meals. We had already incre4ased it to double the amount when asked. I did this for 3 months then mentioned to my wife that he had asked us to go triple. She said, “Ok but that is going to be hard for our financed” I just smiled and said “We have been doing it for the last 3 months.” She said “ok, keep going”

We have been doing that for several years now and I can truly say we have been blessed.