THE GOD FAST: read & understand

Who/What is the main influence in our lives?

Think of it. Out of the television programs we watch, the music we listen to, the books we read, the computer sites we visit, and the friends we have.... what percentage is biblical?

Should we be leaving the evangelism only to super Christians? ---Waiting for our co-workers and that lonely older man in the coffee shop to ask just the right questions so we won't be outright rejected?

Somehow I've connected these two lines of thought in my own life. Biblical reading is the fuel for my joy and steadfastness and every time I choose to intake all other forms of entertainment I believe that it can equate to an eternal loss. --- I'm not talking about the actual film or song BUT the fallout/consequences that result from NOT using that time to fill myself with God's holy word.

What wrecks my prayer life? - - - A lack of purity. Selfishness. Pride.
What does the average song/film/book/etc preach? ----> Everything that is opposite from the fruits of the spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, and Self Control. Are you surmising that you will go through hours of these programs and come out unscathed?

PLUS, as if it weren't hard enough, these same influences have crept into mainstream Christianity and can be purchased at your local Christian bookstore or from a list of Amazon recommendations.

Filter everything through God's Holy Word. I'm going to go on a strict diet/fast soon where I jump into God's word and nothing else. I'm wondering if, at the end of it all, if I will see the world differently. Will I actually be able to walk in what God's word calls me to do? What He calls me to be? Ignoring what mainstream Christian leaders think and instead running wholeheartedly in God's word?

Pray for me friends. This is not radical. --- This is exactly what God's word calls us into.

Philippians 3: 7-14

⁷ But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. ⁸ What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. ¹⁰ I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, ¹¹ and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

¹² Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.