We are called to community! There is no way around it. Jesus said, "you cannot be my disciple if you do not carry your own cross and follow me. Luke 14

A disciple of Jesus breaks bread. Every day [the disciples] continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes...Acts 2:46  Breaking bread requires commitment. Sometimes it requires extreme commitment. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer...Acts 2:42

"For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Matthew 18:20

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Western Christian churches today mark Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, the traditional 40-day period of fasting, prayer and penitence before Easter.

To observe the day, many Christian churches hold services during which the foreheads of the faithful are marked with the sign of the cross with ashes made from last year's Palm Sunday branches as a sign of repentance and reminder of mortality.

When God has placed a dream inside you that only He can make possible, you need to FAST and PRAY. Jesus fasted in the desert. He was tempted by the same voice that had so cunningly whispered to Eve. Yet Jesus responded, "Man shall not live on bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." (Matthew 4:4) The Word of God sustained Him through forty days and nights without food. The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way. How much more should fasting be a common practice in our lives?

I want to encourage you to commit to Biblical fasting as we continue in the prayer series.  When you obey the Lord, He will reward you!