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!

by Amanda Bew

Tag: jesus

  • Fast Prep Day 5: Get Ready to Fast!

    Fast Prep Day 5: Get Ready to Fast!

    Know why you are fasting. See the post, What Am I Fasting For? Know what spiritual fasting looks like. See the post, What Could My Fast Look Like? Know why fasting is a spiritual discipline for all Christians. See the post, How Does Fasting Work? Know specifically why God is leading you to fast. See…

  • Fast Prep Day 4: How Not to Fast

    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…

  • Fast Prep Day 3: How Does Fasting Work?

    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…

  • Fast Prep Day 2: What Could My Fast Look Like?

    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.

  • Fast Prep Day 1: God’s Fast

    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…

  • Hunger for the Harvest Day 24: Bear Fruit

    Hunger for the Harvest Day 24: Bear Fruit

    We plant seeds that grow and eventually bear fruit for His abundant harvest. Let’s keep connected to Jesus and bear fruit that brings true joy for us and those He places in our path! I am the true vine, and My Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch that doesn’t bear fruit, and…

  • Hunger for the Harvest Day 23: The World’s Harvest

    Hunger for the Harvest Day 23: 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…

  • Hunger for the Harvest Day 23: The World’s Harvest

    Hunger for the Harvest Day 23: 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…

  • Hunger for the Harvest Day 22: Send Me

    Hunger for the Harvest Day 22: Send Me

    Isaiah the prophet was called to plant seeds for the people of Israel to clearly follow their God, but his awareness of their sin blocked his own sense of confidence in this role. God had a special vision for Isaiah that made all the difference! We know that we are sent to plant seeds for…

  • Hunger for the Harvest Day 21: The Harvest is Coming

    Hunger for the Harvest Day 21: The Harvest is Coming

    Jesus stood up to read the scroll of Isaiah: The Spirit of the LORD is on Me, because He has anointed Me to bring a message of good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for those who are captive and recovery of sight for the blind and to set free…