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Habits of Jesus: 21 Days to Easter
Decide to make this Easter a 21 day journey of hungering for God, like Jesus, leading to a focused celebration of what He did on the cross for you. Starting Sunday, March 10. For 21 days leading up to Easter (March 10-30), we will explore the habits of Jesus that kept Him hungering for His…
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Habits of Jesus Day 1: The Lord’s Prayer
The disciples noticed that Jesus prayed when He was alone. They asked Him how they could make this habit of His their own. The Lord’s Prayer. Jesus said, pray this way: “Our Father, who is in heaven, holy be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.…
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Habits of Jesus: 21 Days to Easter
Decide to make this Easter a 21 day journey of hungering for God, like Jesus, leading to a focused celebration of what He did on the cross for you. Starting Sunday, March 10. For 21 days leading up to Easter (March 10-30), we will explore the habits of Jesus that kept Him hungering for His…
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Habits of Jesus: 21 Days to Easter
Decide to make this Easter a 21 day journey of hungering for God, like Jesus, leading to a focused celebration of what He did on the cross for you. Starting Sunday, March 10. For 21 days leading up to Easter (March 10-30), we will explore the habits of Jesus that kept Him hungering for His…
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Fast Day 2: True Hunger
Fasting is a spiritual discipline that you might not have tried before. I have done a forty day sugar fast every January for three years. I can’t say it’s easy, but it does get easier. In this fast I still eat meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and nuts. I still eat. So there is really no…
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Fast Day 1: Fasting & Prayer
Because the Bible consistently connects spiritual fasting with prayer, we must, too. If we fast without praying, there is, of course, not really a spiritual element. Fasting is a discipline that people from many places have practiced over many generations and is connected to many different faiths. You don’t even have to have any specific…
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Get Ready to Fast!
Know why you are fasting. See my January 3 post, What Am I Fasting For? Know what spiritual fasting looks like. See my January 4 post, What Could My Fast Look Like? Know why fasting is a spiritual discipline for all Christians. See my January 5 post, How Does Fasting Work? Know specifically why God…
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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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A Simple Fasting Plan
Write down a simple plan in a journal: What will I fast from, exactly? (note if there will be an accepted replacement) Which hours in the day will I fast from it? (put it in your schedule) How will I support my fast with prayer and the Word? (write out prayers, get on my knees,…
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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. Intentionality will keep our focus strong! Here are a few…
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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 His world for us. Let’s return the favor!
