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Fast Prep Day 5: A Simple Fasting Plan
Write down a simple plan in a journal you will use for your 30 Day Fast. Take into account all of the preparation work you have done and ask God to help you capture it more clearly and succinctly. What will I fast from, exactly? (note if there will be an accepted replacement) Which hours…
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Fast Prep Day 4: Reasons to Fast
There isn’t just one reason to fast. The Bible is full of situations where fasting takes place for personal, family and national reasons. And God probably doesn’t care what our reason is, just that we set aside special time to fast and be with Him. But intentionality will keep our focus strong! Here are a…
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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: What am I fasting for?
My post-COVID-19 journey led me to stop. God led me to meditate on Isaiah 58 often and it initiated an intimate dialogue with God about fasting and justice! I share my own fasting journey on this blog and hope you leave inspired and motivated for a specific vision and a plan for action for your…
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Fast Prep Day 1: God’s Fast
Isaiah 58: 6-9 Is this not the fast that I choose?To release the bonds of wickedness.To undo the ropes of the yoke.To let the oppressed go free and break every yoke.Is it not to break your bread with the hungryand bring the homeless poor into the house?And when you see the naked, to cover himand…
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A Season of Seeds 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 Seeds 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 Seeds 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 Seeds 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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FASTING IN THE BIBLE, APRIL 8 – MAY 29
Posts every Wednesday and Friday to learn about fasting in the Bible. We will review the whole Bible, exploring what happened when fasting was a special focus for the people of Israel, in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Keeping in mind the way that Jesus taught us to fast, we will find new ways for us to enact a spiritual habit of fasting in our modern lives.
COMING NEXT: HUNGER FOR THE HARVEST, JUNE 2 – AUGUST 21
Posts every Wednesday and Friday to learn about the connection between fasting and His harvest. We will explore together how fasting increases your hunger for God, creating a position of humility that thirsts for holy intimacy and holy maturity. Helping others and planting seeds will become a natural and a supernatural response. Jesus is the Lord of the Harvest, He will use you in the lives of others to further His kingdom.
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