Day Ten

FASTING CREATES SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE!  Proverbs 19:20-21 says, “Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end, you will be counted among the wise.  Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”  We all need to be disciplined to have successful and prosperous lives.  Discipline is an activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a …

Day Nine

One of the foundations that goes along with fasting is prayer.  And when we pray, it is important that we pray the prayer of repentance.   Repentance means “to feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one’s wrongdoing or sin.”  The only way to stay in right standing with God is to confess our sins not just once but on a regular basis.  If …

Day Eight

As we are in this season, don’t take it for granted that God is drawing closer to you as you are drawing closer to Him.  Fasting isn’t a good idea, it’s a God concept.  And God’s concepts prove to be the best ever.  It is God led and God-initiated.  God begins stirring something in you when you fast.  He loves when you fast because it …

Day Seven

Everything God ever did and everything He does today, He does with a goal in mind.  Fasting has a goal as well.  THE GOAL OF FASTING IS INNER UNITY!  When we fast, it puts everything in its proper order.  Fasting awakens our spirits.  Fasting positions us to be awakened by God’s hands and not human hands. For many people, the inner being is out of …

Day Six

Everything in life has a purpose and meaning.  Purpose, by definition, is “the reason for which something is done”. In other words, it’s why we do what we do.  Fasting has a purpose.  FASTING IS DESIGNED TO INTENSIFY OUR DEPENDENCE ON GOD BY WEAKENING OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOOD AND OTHER THINGS.  Richard Foster says “More than any other discipline, fasting reveals the things that …

Day Five

A couple of days ago we learned that God’s word will nourish us.  Yesterday we learned that doing God’s will sustains us.  Today, let us dig a little deeper and discover that fasting teaches us that Jesus Himself sustains us.  In John 6:43-48, the Bible reads, “Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, …

Day Four

Yesterday we learned that fasting teaches us that God’s Word nourishes us.  Today we will discover that fasting teaches us that doing God’s will sustains us!  John 4 records Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well.  When the disciples met back up with Jesus they encouraged him to eat.  He responded by saying to his disciples in verse 32 of John 4, “I have …

Day Three

The book of Matthew 4:1-4 reads, “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But …

Day Two

Since we talked yesterday about fasting and what it is, let’s talk about the thing that goes hand in hand with fasting. And that’s CONSECRATION.  There is a difference between consecration and fasting that many people don’t realize or simply overlook.  Fasting is abstaining from food.  Consecration is devoting yourself to God by denying natural pleasures.  During this season of fasting, make sure you …

Twenty for Twenty Corporate Fast

Today we kick off our 20:20 fasting initiative and are excited about what God is going to do. In the next twenty days, we are obeying God’s word and pursuing His purpose for our lives.   What we do in these next twenty days will help sustain and keep us the entire year.   This corporate fast starts today, January 5th and will end …