Let's have a Summer of Love in seeking the face of the one who loves us by starving our life so we can find real love and life again. Join us with Fast and Pray as we call for 40 Days of holistic fasting from Monday, May 28th to Saturday, July 7. Following Isaiah 58 and Joel 2, this is a call to starve ourselves so that we might see a new Spirit of Love on the face of the earth.

starve your hunger.

Moses fasted 40 days and mentored a spiritual son named Joshua, which means the Lord saves. Elijah fasted 40 days to break off the spell of Jezebel and threw his mantle on a double portion son Elisha, which means the Lord saves. And John the Baptist fasted in the desert and prepared the way for a double portion son named Jesus, which means the Lord saves. Jesus fasted 40 days and came out of the desert "in the power of the spirit " that unleashed the apostolic glory of the eternal Son of God into the earth. It's time to give up our appetites.

starve your apathy.

ap·a·thy 1. absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement. 2. lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting.

HIV/AIDS killed 2.1 million people in Africa in 2006. 1.1 billion people in the (mostly developing) world are without access to safe water. Nearly three billion people live on less than two dollars a day. It's time to wake up.

starve your technology.

The average American home has a television on for nearly eight hours a day, with the average American adult watching nearly five hours of television per day. Teenagers talk on average at least 1-2 hours on a cell phone per day. 30% of all Americans own a portable MP3 player (Podcasting News). $2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn websites sites in 2006 (TechCrunch). It's time to turn it off.

starve your consumption.

North America only has eight per cent of the world's population, but consumes one third of the world's resources and produces one half of the world's garbage. How many things will you throw away today? This week? Imagine the changes that could be made from your "garbage" that could be reused, composted or recycled. Enough is enough.

starve your greed.

If American Christians tithed their full 10%, instead of the actual 2.59%, churches would gain $156 BILLION per year. If churches donated:

$5 billion could help stop the 29,000 deaths a day around the globe among children under 5 from preventable diseases. $7 billion could provide basic education for the world's children. We must share.

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love—a season in 1967 where 100,000 flooded San Francisco to experience the hippie movement, marked by drugs, casual sex, perversion, mysticism and rebellion against God and authority. Despite the outflow of creativity during this time, the purity and beauty of real love was tainted.

It's time we sought real love, wrought with compassion, worship and sacrifice. Through our rich histories, many have fasted and it brought new beginnings. It may have taken 40 years to get us where we are today, but may we seek God for 40 days to seek a new kind of authentic love. It is time to pray. It is time to fast. Starving our hunger, yes. But taking it farther. Starving our apathy. Our technology. Our consumption. Our greed. Our senses. This is a call to 40 days of starvation.

Let's have a Summer of Love in seeking the face of the one who loves us by starving our life so we can find real love and life again.

What would happen in America if for 40 days we sealed the electronic sewer that flows nightly into our living rooms and spent our strength seeking the Lord? What if tens of thousands of fathers and mothers across our nation fasted for 40 days repenting and cleansing themselves of inward toleration of sexual immorality, pornography, addiction to food and entertainment, and materialism? What if they prayed daily for their spiritual and physical children to see them converted to Christ and freed from rebellion, from addictions, depression, and suicide? What if the young generation fasted for 40 days to be cleansed from lust, media addiction, rebellion toward there parents, believing that a double portion of the Holy Spirit would come upon there lives?

What if we are preparing a generation for one of the greatest times in history? And if so, what if tens of thousands of both generations fast together and cry out to God in a Joel 2 moment for great returning to the Lord? What would we see?

Join us with Fast and Pray as we call for 40 Days of holistic fasting from Monday, May 28th to Saturday, July 7. Following Isaiah 58 and Joel 2, this is a call to fast our appetites, our clothing, our possessions and our apathy, so that we might see a new Spirit of Love on the face of the earth.

don't be stupid.

Fasting should be taken with care, especially when thinking about not eating. Some guidelines have been setup to help you out. If you have any further questions, a great resource can be found here.

out of breath? out of ideas?

Fasting for fasting's sake is useless unless accompanied by prayer, meditation, listening—and also action in your surroundings. But 40 days is a long time. We thought we would help by giving you 40 Active Prayers and Ideas to get you through each day. Link to be posted soon.