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Lent experiences? Lent is a period of 40 days, excluding Sundays between Ash Wednesday and Easter Represents Jesus’ time in the wilderness Supposed to be a fasting period Lexham Bible Dictionary defines fasting as A ritual of abstaining from food and/or drink for a predetermined period; Biblical basis…

What is it? Christian fasting is a believer’s voluntary abstinence from food for spiritual purposes. - Donald Whitney when something is exerting so much influence over us that our view of spiritual realities is blurry, we need a fast to reorient and clear up our focus on God. we must maintain and regain…

Over the past several weeks we have been learning about taking a season or a time to reevaluate or recalibrate and focus our hearts and minds on the Lord. As we approach Easter where we remember all of the wonderful things that Christ has done for us I think it is good for us the remember the sacrifice…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

We are starting a mini series this morning Tilted Hold Fast a two week study though 2 John. This series explores the importance of truth—both practicing and protecting it. The book of 2 John paints a beautiful picture of the truth Christian community is built upon, demonstrating that this foundation…

I. Reason for a fast A. Lent a time of sacrifice 1. Wednesday, we entered the season of lent a. a period of forty days before Easter b. a time of sacrifice, give up something c. Why do you do it? 2. Early Churches in the holiness tradition pride themselves on their ability to sacrifice a. the road to…

Introduction Fasting has been a spiritual discipline from the inception of religious thought. The Concept has been anchored in religious ceremony. It is connected to morning, suffering and personal and nation loss. but the prophet Isaiah challenged the practice by saying there is a better reason to fast…

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Unfortunately, not many of us have the tenacity that Thomas Edison showed. Failure isn’t fun and is often painful and embarrassing. Many of us are afraid of trying new things for fear of failure. Failure can make us BITTER… or it can make…

Fasting 101 my experience so far. My experience with fasting has been life changing. I wasn’t able to do a complete fast because my job is very physical and i am out in the heat right now a lot delivering the mail. I as doing a sun up sun down fast with just water and vegetable juice at first which means…

1 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. 3 And he did what was right in…

Prayer and Fasting On occasion, every priest will have something on his mind that he would like to communicate with his parish, but the Sunday lectionary doesn’t exactly agree. The readings point in one direction, while the priest wants to go another. Today is not one of those Sundays. In fact, because…

Previously, Jesus has been addressing misunderstandings of the law and of practice. In this section, he addresses three practices (giving, praying, and fasting). In each of them there is a contrast between the practices of the religious leaders of the day and how followers of Jesus ought to practice…

The Effectiveness of Fasting With Prayer 16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”…

Introduction 1 “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the…

Intro “Hold Fast” Naval term Master and Commander movie Holding on when the ship is being pitched around. As we get tossed around on the stormy seas of life, what do we hold on to? I hope that we can all agree that the Truth is important. I know that i bang on about the truth a lot It’s because it is…

Intro Ever played the children’s game telephone? One person thinks of a phrase and whispers it to the first person Passed around At the end of the chain you see how close it is But there is always that person that intentionally tries to “spice it up” because they know that it’s “better” if they change…

Fasting is not an end in itself Fasting as empty ritual is condemned Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good. When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by…

18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, With all these things in mind, dear…

In His Presence Only the humble believe him and rejoice that God is so free and so marvelous that he does wonders where people despair, that he takes what is little and lowly and makes it marvelous. And that is the wonder of all wonders, that God loves the lowly…. God is not ashamed of the lowliness…

Why? Why Prayer? We don’t have because we don’t ask 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 22 “And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Why Fasting? Fasting gets God’s attention because it changes your attention 22 For…

We come this morning to what I consider to be a cornerstone passage in Scripture... A passage worthy of memorization and worthy of regular meditation... So, if you would please… open up to Hebrews 4:14-16 . This passage concludes the argument started by the author back in chapter 3 v. 1… Heb 3.1 where…

Fasting is a discipline that many of us struggle to understand and cultivate. Find out what it is and is not in this message from Matthew 6:16-18.

Intro; This morning we are going to look at a very important part of the Christians life that I can say with shame and embarrassment, it is practiced little in my own life. I will be the first to say I am not worthy to speak on this subject because of my failures in this area, but it is in God’s Word…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is from 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 : Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to…