Lighting the Fire

Lighting the Fire

A fire can only be lit when the people are willing for God to light it. A fire is already smouldering in the hearts of some, but needs the oxygen of the breath of God for it to spring to life. This breath is experienced by proximity. As Hebrews 10:22-23 says, “let us...
Abstinence is Fasting

Abstinence is Fasting

Fasting is a powerful tool to bring anything in your life that holds power over you back into subjection. It is that choice to refuse something, even something good, that removes its power over your decision making. The call to fast is what Paul voiced in 1...
To Rest is To Fast

To Rest is To Fast

There is a connection between the sabbath and fasting. For in observing sabbath one must both set aside what is “normal” and abstain from that which is good. It is good to both eat and work, this is why Paul connected them together in 2 Thess 3:10. Yet God prompts us...
The Gift of Giving

The Gift of Giving

Our Heavenly Father is honored by love shown to those around us, for we are His children (Luke 6:35,38). If you have children, you have experienced the deep love and generosity of someone who gave your son or daughter a gift. Even if they didn’t bring you personally a...
The Confidence to Ask

The Confidence to Ask

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. 1 John 5:14-15 There are many Christians who...

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