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

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

by Amanda Bew

Fast Night 17: Yield

With passion I pursue and cling to You. I yield. Ps 63: 8

“Spiritual passion is a strong internal emotion that inspires devotion and dedication. It’s what makes it easier to stick to it, to follow through, and to enjoy, not just endure.” These words from my own morning blog speak to me this evening, along with the question, “What could this kind of clinging look like?”

In Bible study last night we studied physical and spiritual hospitality. The concept that keeps twirling around in my head and my heart is one of surrender, yielding, and clinging. In the same way that the best host yields to the desires of his guests when planning a menu and the programme for the evening, for me to be the best host for the power of Holy Spirit, I must surrender my own wants and preferences. Fasting positions me to long for this, and clinging like a child, helps me make space for the confidence and passion I need to serve my Lord well.

Father God, I yield to Your plan. I cling to Your heart. Impassion me to serve others well. Amen.


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