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Discover how prayer and fasting can reset your life and change your spiritual course - as well as the course of the nation. What would happen if we all hit the big "reset button"? The stress and busyness of life can take a huge toll on us emotionally and spiritually. We need a spiritual reset to restore peace and hope. Although it can take 21 days to form a habit, it often takes more time to deeply instill that habit. If you’re on your 100th attempt to overcome a habit, or if you simply need to get back on track, you need this 40-day resource in your spiritual tool belt.

God is sovereign and controls the affairs of men and has a pattern of reviving his people at very dark moments in history. The need to address the vital role of the Holy Spirit is as relevant today as it has been throughout Church history.

Today, as we continually drift away in a current of moral decline and relativism, many believe that the battle is too advanced and that we cannot make a difference. Shane, however, believes that we can. He stresses: "If we encourage truth, yet fail to relate to our culture, the church can seem formal and dead. This fact fuels the postmodern movement. But when truth is sacrificed for the sake of relating to the culture, as we see today, the very foundation is destroyed. Truth, the foundational beliefs clearly outlined in Scripture, must remain unmoved and unchanged. Times change, but truth does...

Through fasting, the body becomes a servant instead of a master. When Jesus directs us to do something, the outcome is always beneficial, both spiritually and physically. He said, “when you fast” (Matthew 6:16). Scripture doesn’t say, “When you sin and if you fast,” but rather, “If you sin and when you fast.” The obvious goal and benefit of fasting is spiritual, but the physical benefits as well. Can you pray and seek God better with a headache, tight pants, and a sluggish, lethargic body strung out on your favorite addictive substance?

Only 2 percent of those who lose weight keep it off longer than two years. Over 60 percent of adults and 30 percent of children are obese in our nation. Diabetes has increased approximately 1,000 percent in sixty years. Cancer now affects one out of three people. The top 3 killers in America are all diet related. The diet industry is a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry–reoccurring dieters means reoccurring revenue.

We are at a crossroads. Opioid and alcohol abuse are leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Pornography is desecrating families. Obesity is skyrocketing and plaguing millions, reaching epidemic levels in children. Heart disease and cancer are—by far—the leading “killers” in America. And on and on it goes, from nicotine to caffeine to food. As a society, we are out of control. But are there answers? Yes, absolutely—if we once again set our sights on God’s truth.

If My People is a cry for the people of God to turn back to God, to seek his face, and to receive the blessings he promises to those who will humble themselves and seek his face.