When Jonah was sent into Ninevah, he was sent with the message: "God will destroy his city in 40 days." Ninevah was a pagan city, yet the Lord sent a reluctant prophet to warn the people. God didn't want to destroy Ninevah. He didn't delight in its demise, so he sent a man of God …
21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 21 Overcome!
He may have found you as a wretched sinner in the mud of your sin, but he cleansed you by the blood of his Son Jesus, raised your dead spirit to life and filled you with the Holy Spirit of the living God. Walk in the goodness and victory of your salvation!
21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 20 The Pouring Out of God’s Holy Spirit
One of the promises of God in Joel 2 for those fasting, is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit for signs and wonders. Do you hunger for more than a religious experience? Do you want a life-changing transformation from the inside out that touches everyone around you? Anyone who thinks of fasting as an activity …
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21 Days of Prayer and Fasting Day 19 ~ Finding your Healing
Do you want to see a breakthrough in your life? Do you ever feel overwhelmed by a weakness in your personal life, in relationships, in your health or in what seems to be a constant barrage of what some may call “bad luck?” Does one thing happen after another, until you feel pulled underneath ocean …
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21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 18 Rend Your Heart
The day of the Lord is approaching. No one knows the day or the hour, but Jesus told us that we would certainly know the signs of the times. In the prophet Joel, the Lord instructs believers to fast and pray, rending their hearts, as they see the day of the Lord approaching. I have …
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21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 17 Blow the Trumpet
Is fasting for those who live in the age of grace? What is its purpose and place? We have been exploring many scriptures to understand why and how we fast. Today, we will examine a stirring passage of scripture in the Old Testament that prophetically points to the end of the age, to a day …
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21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 16 Power from On High
For years I thought fasting was a good idea. I talked about it. I even taught others about it, as if I knew about it from practical or personal experience, when really, I was speaking of it in theory. I had fasted occasionally, as in once a year for one meal. Or every few years, …
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21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 14 Our Battle is Not Against Flesh and Blood
We live in desperate and dark times in our world, and in the United States of America. Every person is out to preserve his or her own life, yet so many people live in a lack of peace. Marketing is targeted at our selfishness. "Just do it!" "iPhone" "Ipad" "Self Magazine" Even names of products …
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21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 13 Praying for Your Family
The prophetic ingathering of Israel's children to their homeland is a beautiful picture of the Lord God redeeming and delivering families. Isaiah 49 is a complex Messianic prophecy about the foretold Messiah and his purpose -- to restore and redeem Israel and to be a shining light to the Gentiles. Jesus -- The Messiah -- …
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21 Days of Prayer and Fasting – Day 12
The very first sin entered the world through eating. Just absorb that thought. Food is a gift from God. He designed it to taste delicious and to smell desirable. But, even in our eating, God gives us limits. From the beginning, the desire for more than we need or were created for has dominated our …