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Fast Prep Day 4: How Not to Fast
You say, “Why have we fasted and You have not been impressed? Why have we been hard on ourselves and You have not even noticed?” I, the LORD, say, “Because you are fasting to please yourselves and even while you are fasting, you oppress your workers. What good is fasting if it ends in quarreling…
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Fast Prep Day 3: How does fasting work?
We can learn a few things from Jesus’ experience in the wilderness to make our own fast successful: Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, was led into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted and eaten nothing for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. And…
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Fast Prep Day 2: What could my fast look like?
Explore how God might use your intention, your prayers and renewed hunger in your life through a 30 day fast.
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Fast Prep Day 1: God’s Fast
My post-COVID-19 journey led me to stop, as it did so many others, and God led me to meditate on Isaiah 58. It initiated an intimate dialogue with God about fasting and how this spiritual habit adds to His kingdom and His harvest (Matthew 9:37-38)! Let’s dig into this passage together and my hope is…
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A Season of Harvest Day 21: Response to Harvest
The baby Jesus was sent by God to become the Lord of the Harvest which He planned to do from the beginning of time. God wants our participation as workers in His harvest (Matthew 9:38). In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, sitting on a throne, and the…
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A Season of Harvest Day 20: The World’s Harvest
The Great Commission: The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some of them doubted. Then Jesus came to them, and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples…
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A Season of Harvest Day 19: Light Came for Us, II
Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world. The one who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light that leads to life.” John 8: 12 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with…
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A Season of Harvest Day 18: Light Came For Us
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s special possession, so that you may declare the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. For once you had no identity as a people, but now you are the people of God.…
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A Season of Harvest Day 17: Holy Spirit, Guide for Growth
When Spirit of truth comes, He will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He will make sense out of what is about to happen and He will honor Me. John 16: 13-14 There are so many types of guides we may run into in our life so…
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A Season of Harvest Day 16: My Spiritual Family
But when the right time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, subject to the Law. God sent Him that He might redeem those who were slaves to the Law, that we might receive our adoption as sons and daughters. Because we are His children, God has sent the Spirit of His Son…
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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 this world for us. Let’s return the favor!
