Fasting
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Thursday Fasting: A Love Letter
Thankful Thursday is one post down: SCROLL DOWN Rosheeda Lee: Today’s Activity: Write a love letter to God. Today’s Focus: Let your heart speak. Spend your time in personal reflection and prayer. Are you a friend of God? Is He a friend of yours? I know this is supposed to be about a love letter.
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Wednesday Fasting: Worship
Rosheeda Lee: Worship. One on one time with God to hear and to seek Him simply for who He is. Focus is ministry. What is it? How does God see it. How does He want it to look in our lives? This day is between you and God. Worship Him. Don’t ask for stuff. Ask
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Tuesday Fasting: Hall of Faith
I have been amazed and blessed to see how many of you are fasting and how you have loved and supported and prayed for one another in the comments. This is an amazing online community of Christians who are living out their faith in 2011. Love you, Lynn Rosheeda Lee: Today's Activity: Hall of Faith. Three earmarks for
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Monday Fasting: Ask for a Word
Remember the end of day two will be the most difficult as your hunger rises. As the pangs in your stomach roar, that is your call to pray for perseverance and to lean fully into the power of God. Prayer Guide Rosheeda Lee: Today’s Activity: Ask for a word for the year for yourself and
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Sunday: Let the Fast Begin – Seek God for a Verse
Remember it's in the evening that your hunger will begin to really ramp up. Lean into God and pray when those hunger pangs start. With each growl that is a calling to whisper words of prayer, to sit with your Bible to ask for strength. Drink plenty of water, at least 1 gallon of purified water
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Saturday: A Calling To Fast
Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Fasting. I was chatting with a friend of mine about fasting. She said she had fasted several times. She fasts for three or four days at a time. I asked her, "Why do you think fasting prayer affects our
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Preparing for a Fast
Some of our preparations for our week of fasting January 2-8 have already begun. We have talked about the kinds of fasts and I pray you have sensed what God is asking of you. We have written out our goals and praises to pray with next week. But, what more is there to do
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What is Your Top Ten for 2011
Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Fasting prepares you for a fresh anointing. ~ Jentezen Franklin Let's do some serious things for God in 2011? Let's crash through our walls of Jericho and bring the surrender of those strongholds. Let us also bring before the Lord
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A Snickers Bar….. or God
Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Are you willing to forgo a Snicker's bar in the afternoon to over come a recurring sin in your life? —– So what is fasting? It's the humbling of ourselves to draw closer to God. Fasting must be coupled with prayer
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Are You Going to Dream Big in 2011?
Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart’s desires. Do you really believe God? Do you read this passage and think this promise is for somebody else?That God really doesn’t care about what you desire deep in your heart? I’m here to tell you that we can believe
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I Dare You!
This is it! The last day of our fast. I don't know about you, but I've had a pretty sweet week. I hope you've gotten closer to God and that you continue to pursue Him passionately all the days of your life. We are officially done at midnight tonight so make sure you do something
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All You Need To Do Is Ask
We have not because we ask not. How many times have we needed God but have been too stubborn to open our mouths and just say so? How many crazy situations have we found ourselves in, only to discover that if we had just spoken up and been honest about our need of help or
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What Are You Feeding Your Brain? – Day Eight!
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. NIV I must tell you the thoughts, prayers, hopes, struggles, scripture, and links all of you have left in
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Weekend Devotion – Isaiah 58
This past week, 1Peter 3 and many readers here have spent a week fasting for our loves ones. It's been a very powerful and promising week for many of us. New things have been revealed and promises reinforced. God is so faithful and good. This weekend is truly a celebration of our God who is
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Day Four: Perseverance, Persistence, and Peskiness
One of the hardest aspects of praying long term is perseverance. Especially in today's society of immediate results, our patience muscle is sorely lacking exercise. Our food, our clothing, our shopping, our work-everything is structured to be quick and easy. You can even watch your favorite TV shows on one site condensed to about five
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Day Three: Believing Like Abraham
Welcome to day three of our week of fasting and prayer. I know many of you have joined us in praying and even fasting for your spouses. I'd like to encourage you to continue, in whatever form God is leading you, to keep your vigil going. For the sake of simplicity for my family as