Today we are starting a 40 day fast. I am giving up coffee and Sandy’s giving us diet soda for 40 days but this kind of means we are both giving up both things since we will not do that to each other. We are looking forward to some spiritual growth through this.
The last time we did this was around 5 years ago and when it was almost over we found out that Sandy was pregnant and because she would not drink any soda or coffee while pregnant, she went another 9-10 months.
So who knows what we will get out of this 40 day fast but God knows what we need right now and knows our hearts so wherever he leads, we will go in these 40 days!
We have also recreated our marriage challenge that we did back then. Changing some things up and making it a 40 day Inspired Marriage challenge! We have posted it on this website and we are very excited for you to check it out. We are moving forward with the mission that God has us on and things are slowly coming together!
We can’t wait until the day that we get to tell our story from a stage of the marriage we have had. Mine of 19 years of addictions to getting sober over 8 years ago and to Sandy and how she dealt with the first 5 years of our marriage because of my addictions.
Never push God’s purpose away because you never know, he may not whisper for you to go over time. We feel really lucky that we still felt the nudge from God because we almost accepted not running with our calling. We were going in other directions but something changed!
I decided that I was going to write our my story and my goal was to write 50,000 words of my story in 60 days. After the first week, I knew that goal was too low so I made it for 30 days instead and I did hit 50,000 words in less than 30 days. I still have 10-12 years of my life to go so it will probably reach 70-80,000 words when I am done but this literally changed my life.
So many ah-ha moments have happened since I have been writing my story. Even though Sandy and I were strong, we felt an even deeper connection then ended up going to the XO Marriage Conference were God whispered this can be you and the whole marriage ministry calling came back into our lives and here we are now getting everything going.
We are looking for God to speak to us these 40 days because we need a bigger connection to him doing what we are about to do. We are nervous but we also know that God put this on our hearts so I hope you will do some kind of fast too!
Chris Benton
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