December 26, 2011
Posted by rgaschler in Fasting.trackback
Fast Seriously
Ezra 8:21 (ESV) Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.
For a meaningful fast, people must not only withhold food, but they must also agonize in prayer. Fasting is more than diet adjustment; it involves spiritual agony and intercession.
Originally great distress would beset the people (cause) and then diet was adjusted as people were too upset to eat (effect). But in time people realized fasting should be the cause to lead to the effect of agonizing in intercessory prayer (“Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough” by Elmer Towns, 47).
Why Fast Seriously or even at all?
- Because believers are in bondage to sin.
- Because your family may need a spiritual breakthrough.
- Because our church needs a spiritual breakthrough.
- Because the body of Christ needs humbled and unified at FSBC and in America.
- Because the lost need saved in Tucson, Arizona, America and the World.
- Because the city is enslaved in darkness.
- Because poverty, starvation, disease, and injustice is killing multitudes in our world.
- Because our government has lost its way.
- Because we are not desperate enough for God and it will help us remember what it is to feel desperate.
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