FIVE MARKS OF A DISCIPLE: OCTOBER 5 – NOVEMBER 2

Posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: Fasting builds intimacy with God, and encourages you to grow inwardly, upwardly, and outwardly. Explore five marks of a transformed disciple of Jesus and determine five actions that will allow God to change you. An action that applies to each mark is focus. Fasting and prayer is God’s way for us to find the kind of focus that builds intimacy within and actions without. Be with Him. Be like Him. Do what He wants.

COMING NEXT! MAKING SPACE: NOVEMBER 4 – NOVEMBER 27

Reflect on how to use fasting to make more space for God in your life. Make space in the moment and better reflect God to others. Make space in the morning and enjoy intimacy with Him. Make space in your conversations with others and learn how to listen like He does. Make space in your schedule to breathe and be refreshed by Him. Make space in your commitments so that you can say Yes! to the things He wants you to do. God made a space in His world for us. Let’s return the favor!

by Amanda Bew

Fast Night 5: Rewarding

“Fast so that your fasting will not be noticed by others but only by your Father who is unseen. Your Father, who sees you in private, will reward you.” Matthew 6: 16-17

When I started this blog, this was an area of great concern for me. I have needed God’s encouragement and wisdom to present fasting with humility, on this blog and in conversations with others. It took many years of private fasting to confirm to me that God has been asking me to speak out about my own experiences, plans, and struggles for the growth of His other children. If sharing assures others that this is a valuable and powerful spiritual exercise to be drawn into a deeper intimacy with God in a way that some of the other spiritual disciplines may not, it is a distinct calling from Him. This is my reward. I will be obedient. I will continue to fast and learn. I will open my mouth to help others.

So may you share your experiences with God through fasting with others!

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