Fasting For Discipline and Self-Control
on June 16th, 2022
“But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.” - 1 Corinthians 9:27Over the last week, we have discussed the importance of fasting. If you are a believer who wants to grow your intimacy with Christ, hear from God on a certain matter, obtain a breakthrough, purge your life from sin and addiction, and/or increase your faith, fast... Read More
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Fasting To Increase Faith
on June 15th, 2022
“For we live by faith, not by sight.” - 2 Corinthians 5:7If you want to grow in intimacy with Christ, you should fast. If you want clarity to better hear what God is saying to you, you should fast. If you are waiting for a breakthrough, you should fast. If you want to purge sin and addiction from your life, you should fast. And if you want to increase your faith… well, you should fast.Fasting is s... Read More
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Fasting To Purge
on June 14th, 2022
“No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” - 1 Corinthians 10:13When your heart is committed to God, He rewards you in other areas of life. Today, we are discussing fasting to purge sin or addiction from your life... Read More
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Fasting For A Breakthrough
on June 13th, 2022
“Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.” - Revelation 1:3Have you ever waited, hoping for something to change, or come to fruition, in your life? Have you waited on a dream or manifestation to become reality? Your circumstances may make it difficult to hope, but you continua... Read More
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Fasting To Hear
on June 12th, 2022
“‘Consider carefully what you hear,’ he continued. ‘With the measure you use, it will be measured to you— and even more.’” - Mark 4:24Fasting is an effective tool we can use for many reasons. Yesterday, we discussed fasting to gain greater intimacy with God. We can also fast to better hear from God on a particular matter. Many people will fast to gain clarity about what God is telling them.With so... Read More
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Fasting For Intimacy
on June 11th, 2022
“And then she was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.” - Luke 2:37As we mentioned yesterday, there are many reasons for Christ-followers to fast. Fasting can not only be done in many different forms, whether it be from food, social media, or a bad habit, but it is also done for many different reasons. One of those reasons i... Read More
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Fast For It
on June 10th, 2022
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” - Joel 2:12Fasting is one of the weapons God has given us to engage in spiritual warfare whenever the enemy tries to defeat us, discourage us, or deter us. Fasting is one way of tapping into the Lord’s power to deal with and confront obstacles, hurdles, hindrances, and trials down here on eart... Read More
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Only By Prayer and Fasting
on June 9th, 2022
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?” - Isaiah 58:6Mark tells a story in his version of the Gospel about an argument the disciples were having with the scribes one day, which got pretty heated. When Jesus approached them and asked what they were arguing about, a man in the c... Read More
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A Sense of Persistence
on June 8th, 2022
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” - Matthew 7:7If you want to pray in a way that moves the heart of God, you should look to Genesis 18 where Abraham prayed a prayer that did exactly that. Abraham went to God with a sense of burden, a sense of boldness, and a sense of humility; but lastly, he went to God with a sense of persistence.A... Read More
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A Sense of Humility
on June 7th, 2022
“Then Abraham spoke up again: ‘Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?’” - Genesis 18:27-28Over the last couple of days, we have talked about the ingredients of Abraham’s prayer in Genesis 18. This was a prayer that moved the he... Read More
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A Sense of Boldness
on June 6th, 2022
“Then Abraham approached him and said: ‘Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not ... Read More
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A Sense of Burden
on June 5th, 2022
“Then Abraham approached him and said: ‘Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?” - Genesis 18:23It is possible for you and me to pray prayers like Abraham did in Genesis 18 and move the heart of God. If we are going to do this though, we need to pay close attention to the ingredients within Abraham’s prayer.The first thing we discover is that if you want to pray a prayer that moves God,... Read More
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Move The Heart of God
on June 4th, 2022
“Then the men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Then Abraham approached him and said: ‘Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?’” - Genesis 18:22-23Genesis 18 gives us a dialogue between a desperate man and a determined God concerning the fate of a community that departed from God’s will and God’s way. God revealed His plans to destroy the ... Read More
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A Determined God
on June 3rd, 2022
“Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.’” - Matthew 19:26When you come to God in prayer, He listens to you. When you come to God with a prayer that aligns with His will, He becomes determined to answer your prayer. Have you ever heard that? Not just that God says “yes,” but that He is determined to make it happen?Yesterday, we talked abou... Read More
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A Desperate Man
on June 2nd, 2022
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” - Matthew 7:7-8Yesterday, we talked about the power of prayer. If you have been a believer for any significant amount of time, you have likely seen just how powerful prayer can be, or maybe ... Read More
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The Power of Prayer
on June 1st, 2022
“The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Then Abraham approached him and said: ‘Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?’” - Genesis 18:22-23Gospel recording artist Helen Baylor had a hit song back in the early 1990s that became popular because of the testimony she told about navigating the challenges of addiction, promiscuity, and suicid... Read More
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Are You That Friend?
on May 31st, 2022
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” - John 15:13Yesterday we talked about what a true friend is, and the value of having even one. A true friend will, as John says, “lay down his life for his friends.” As Proverbs 17 says, they are “born for adversity.” Then we see in Proverbs 18 that, “there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”Finding the... Read More
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A True Friend
on May 30th, 2022
“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” - John 15:13We live in an era of social media where people have replaced real relationships and authentic interaction with virtual contacts—Facebook friends, Snapchat and Twitter followers, Instagram likes, the list goes on and on. While these apps do bring a lot of great things, one thing they lack is the value of true... Read More
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