(5-Year Anniv.🌻🙌🏻)
Last week we looked at _Fasting&its Prayer (The Isaiah version)._ Today, we throw it wide throughout scripture.
Fasting is normally treated as an alien to the Christian life. Meanwhile, it is just as part of the Christian life as the blessings we desire to claim everytime. *_(If we PAY OR REQUIRE people to fast&pray for us, why don't we allow them to take the blessings for us then?)_*
In Matt.4,Just before Jesus began his ministry,he started off with *Fasting&what I call its Prayer*...And from there it became a part of his 33-year stay on earth. _( *Remember, In Jesus' steps, we walk!*)_
Fasting is one of the key ways to prepare ourselves towards an impending assignment.However, it is important to be on guard at all times for the unknowns of life can catch us unawares.A reason we don't need to make it an option or only when things are bad.
It should be a LIFESTYLE... CULTIVATE IT!
A meditate on these verses will do:
_2 Samuel 1:12-They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the LORD and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword._
_Acts 13:2-While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,“Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”_
_Acts 14:23-Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust._
_Exodus 34:28-Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments_
_Joel 2:12-13-“Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”Rend your heart and not your garments.Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity._
_Acts 13:3-4-So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off. The two of them, sent on their way by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and sailed from there to Cyprus._
_Daniel 9:3-5 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. 4 I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed: “Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments..._
_Matthew 4:4 - _But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God._
_Joel 1:14-Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD._
_Matt.6:16-18-“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you._
*SO I SAY:*
*MAKE IT A HABIT...MAKE IT A LIFESTYLE...ONCE A WEEK IS ALL YOU NEED TO START...Fasting & its Prayer..MEDITATE!*
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