Hillside Family,
Happy New Year to you all in the Lord’s name! How encouraging to know that so many of you dedicated yourselves to starting the year 2007 with prayer and fasting! 38 out of 40 days were committed by all of you to pray and fast. I wish to offer to anyone the privilege of fasting and praying Jan 4 and Jan 9. Post an anonymous comment if anyone is interested.
“O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory” (Psalm 63:1–2, NRSV).
David’s total being is in want of God and only Him. We need to ask ourselves: What is our greatest desire or want? What or who would satisfy our longings forever? These questions must be answered with growing conviction that it is God. In the next forty days we are praying that God would search our hearts and motives for living. In our fasting we will see the condition of the heart. It will humble us because we will find that we do not love God as we ought. Let us be renewed and refueled by His Spirit with what the Bible calls our “first love” for God.
2 comments:
I Pray that the blessings of God be with all who are Praying and Fasting this week. Isaiah 58:6-8 saids, the following: "No the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned...I want you to share your food with the hungry and to welcome poor wanderers into your home. If you do these things, your salvation will come like dawn. Yes, your healing will come quickly."
What an amazing passage where God promises healing through our fasting!
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