Food Consumption Quiz:How many food items are in your house?

• Most nutritionists recommend not eating fast food more than once a month.• Each day, 1 in 4 Americans visit a fast food restaurant.• 40 percent of American meals are eaten outside the home.

• 60 percent of all Americans are either overweight or obese.• Over the last 20 years, obesity rates have tripled in children and teens (ages 6-19).• Obesity will likely surpass smoking as the leading cause of preventable death in America.

Avoid food products containing ingredients

that are:Unfamiliar

UnpronounceableMore than 5 in numberHave high-fructose corn

syrup in them

- Michael Pollan

• 13% of the world (925 million people) are chronically hungry.

• Of the 11 million deaths yearly due to hunger, 5 million are children… 16,000 a day.

• Chronically hungry children average 160 days of illness yearly.

Jen’s Favorites:Coffee CheeseburgersTortilla Chips Fresh SalsaMozz. Sticks Veggie Pizza

Dark Chocolate----------------------------------

Jen’s 7 Foods:Chicken Eggs SpinachSweet Potatoes ApplesWheat Bread Avocados

Pastor Josh’s Fasting Plans:3 Days of Water, Juice, Fruits, and Vegetables

3+ Days of “Water Fast”

No “Solo Fast Food” or “Solo Restaurant Food”

until after Lent

“This is a fast…it’s supposed to be uncomfortable and

inconvenient…because the discomfort creates space

for the Holy Spirit to move.”

“This shake-up of my routine commands my attention…It’s like having an eyelash under my contact all day.”

- Jen Hatmaker

“As I reduce, [Jesus] is enough. As I simplify, He is enough.

He is my portion where food and clothes and comfort fall woefully short.

He can heal me of my greed and excess,

materialism and pride, selfishness and envy…

Jesus is more than enough.”- Jen Hatmaker

“Famous Fasters”MosesSamuelDavid

Elijah & JeremiahEzra & Nehemiah

EstherPeople of NinevehDaniel & Friends

JesusEarly Church

Daniel 1: 8-16Daniel and his fellow Jewish friends refuse to eat the “unclean”

food of Babylon.

After 10 days of only water and veggies,

they were healthier.

2 Chronicles 20: 3-4 3 “Alarmed, Jehoshaphat

[King of Judah] resolved to inquire of the LORD, and he proclaimed a fast for all

Judah. 4 The people of Judah came together to seek help from the LORD; indeed,

they came from every town in Judah to seek Him.”

2 Chronicles 20: 12-13 12 “…We have no power

to face this vast army that is attacking us.

We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

13 All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there

before the LORD.

Luke 4: 1-41 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,

returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.

He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.

3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone.’”

“After Jesus’ fast; He began

healing, rescuing, redeeming.

The Spirit filled up the emptiness Jesus created, launching Him into ministry.”

- Jen Hatmaker

Luke 22:19And [Jesus] took bread, gave thanks

and broke it, and gave it to them, saying,

“This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 6: 19-2019 “Do you not know that

your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,

whom you have received from God? You are not your

own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God

with your body.”

“Would Jesus overindulge on garbage food…?”

“In so many ways I am the opposite of Jesus’ lifestyle…

I can’t have authentic communion with Him

while mired in the trappings He begged me to avoid.”

- Jen Hatmaker

Can we honestly say to God during Communion today and as we return to our lives tomorrow:“This is my body which I give to You.

I do this in remembrance of You.”