You may have already sacrificed sleep, relationships, maybe even finances over your wandering child, but have you considered prayerful fasting? Fasting may be a new concept for you, but fasting doesn’t have to involve food. It can be giving something up, like television, surfing the web, golf, manicures, tennis, and social media. Something you enjoy doing regularly, but now, when you’re tempted to do it, you instead abstain and pray for your child. Even if you think you could never give something up, that might be the very thing God wants you to sacrifice. 

Pray with me:
Heavenly Father, thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus Christ, to make the ultimate sacrifice of giving His life for me, even while I was an undeserving sinner, so that I could repent and be reconciled to Him forever. Lord, Your grace set me free from my sinful life. Now, Lord, I want to sacrifice, fast, and pray for my undeserving wandering child. You know the desires of my heart. Please reveal to me what You want me to sacrifice as I pray for the return of my child, who seems so far away right now from You and me emotionally and spiritually. Help me take this step of faith and grow in my own spiritual life as I practice sacrificial love. Amen 

“But when you fast, comb your hair and wash your face. Then no one will notice that you are fasting, except your Father, who knows what you do in private. And your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.” – Matthew 6:17-18 NLT

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