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January 28th, 2010 on 11:15 am
Thank you Pastor Dale for regularly including COR in the amazing experience of a 21 day time of prayer and fasting. I have grown so much closer to our Father these last few weeks. Here is what I posted this morning on my tumblr as I begin the final 3 days (I am following Awakening Daniel fast calendar which started Sunday 1/10/10).
Last 3 days
Today begins the last 3 days of my time of fasting and prayer (for now) I spent some time in prayer this morning reflecting on what I have learned and experienced these last few weeks. The first thing is that I do have the ability, with the power from on high, to put my flesh in it’s place and hold all thoughts captive to Christ. Two is that I will not die if I don’t play on FaceBook for a few weeks and I can sleep without the TV on all night. Most importantly, I have re-learned that God can and does give me all I need to get through. I learned this for the 1st time when my husband and I were involved in a destructive relationship and God asked me not to leave him, but that He, God, would carry me through and provide all I needed. the 2nd time I learned that is during the year I was without work and struggled daily to pay the bills and provide for my kids as a single parent. I still learn that constantly as I go through Wayne’s incarceration, praying for reconciliation and standing firm on the promise the He will never leave me nor forsake me. I’m amazed at how much I need to go through to really get a firm grasp on the reality of God’s care and provision. We serve such an amazing awesome God who I praise not only for WHAT he Has done for me and continues to do in each and every day of my life, but also whom I worship and love for WHO He is. Today I mediate on Him as Author and Finisher of my faith.
I also gave thought to the legalistic way I have viewed obedience in the past. So often I have obeyed God’s Word because I was raised with the value that obedience is something to be done – whether I wanted to not, whether I felt it was justified or deserved, I was told to just do it. That led to many years of rebellion and separation from God and my family. These last few weeks, I have prayed about the “tasting” while cooking, the finger and knife licks, the sneakiness that still creeps into my life on a regular basis. Many times I have listened to myself tell my kids, “Just don’t lie to me, I’m going to find out what you’re up to anyway, and the consequences will be worse if you’ve lied to me or been sneaky or tried to cover it up.” I can hear God telling me the same thing, with the difference that He ALREADY knows what I’ve done – He knows today what I’m going to do tomorrow. I am NO surprise to God, He knew what He was getting when He called me to Him. And He loves me anyways. God’s not as concerned with my licking the knife after making a PB&J sandwich as He is with what that does to my heart. How that shapes my next move and my next move and how that triggers the sneaking to the kitchen in the middle of the night, seeking something other than Him. As I begin these last 3 days of full fast, I pray that I remember to seek FIRST His face, His glory, His care and provision and allow Him to provide all I need. It is all to His glory that I push through and (for the 1st time since giving birth to my children) finish what I’ve started.
Have a wonderfully blessed day
Philippians 3:12-14
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
January 27th, 2010 on 9:50 pm
I cannot even begin to say how much of a blessing this period of prayer and fasting has been to me. This is my first time participating and God has been soo gracious to me during this time. I’ve been job hunting for about a year now and by His grace and mercies i’m happy to say that i just got a job offer this evening. I’m soo thankful to Him and cannot even begin to express my gratitude. I KNOW this is just the beginning of bigger and better things to come and i continue to pray that even as this fast is ending in a few days i’ll still have that close bond with Him and get to know Him even better. THANK YOU LORD JESUS
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January 21st, 2010 on 2:17 pm
Thank you Lord for sustaining your people during this fast! Thank you for changing and growing us. I think the quote from Andrew Murray from one of Pastor Dale’s resolve series devotions sums it up nicely:
Faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong … prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development. … Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.
Thank you Lord!
January 19th, 2010 on 2:07 pm
An awesome 10 days it has been so far! My husband and I have already seen God work in our lives through this fast. It is a blessing to take time to put down our flesh and press into God!
January 12th, 2010 on 5:48 pm
I participated last year and saw what God did for me. Can’t wait to see what He does in our lives this year.
January 12th, 2010 on 4:07 pm
What an amazing time of family prayer we had last night! We praise God for a renewed appetite for His presence in our home! Last year at about this time we had a huge need as we as a family, in faith, embarked in the 21 days of fasting and prayer, trusting God for provision, and He faithfully did for us more than we could even think of or imagine. We have tasted of His mighty intervention, when we fast and pray. I encourage you if you have not started yet, or even as you are already participating, to be part of these 21 days in 2010 and expect great things from a great God!