SERMONS ON FASTING
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The Lost Art of Fasting (3 of 4)
by Ernest Easley
All right ... now that we've enjoyed a good meal ... I want to talk to you tonight about the lost art of Fasting! Last week we learned that there are several kinds of fasting. For instance .. there is a Normal fast. That's when you abstain from food for a certain amount of time. There is also a Partial Fast. That's when your fast is limited to certain kinds of food. Then there is an Absolute Fast. That's when you refuse food and drink. Then there is a Corporate Fast. That involves a group of believers. And then there is a National Fast ... when an entire nation fasts. We then learned that a fast can be for one day ... one night ... three days...
The Adventure of Fasting (1 of 4)
by Jim Henry
Richard Foster, in his book, The Celebration of Discipline, says that in a land filled with Golden Arches and pizza temples, it seems very strange to talk about fasting. I hope that if you haven't read this book, you'll get a copy. Every Christian should read it. It's one of the finest I've read, covering many things in the Christian life. Foster said that in his studies he found that for a period of several hundred years there were no books written on fasting. Only in recent years, he said, has he been able to find any materials on fasting which he could study and develop for his ministry to the church. I have found that to be true in...
Energized with Prayer and Fasting (1 of 2)
by Frank Damazio
''Energized'' is all about being invigorated, refueled and fired up to live on mission. God has His hand on you individually and He desires to energize you. We must become the people who will pray with great faith: Come Holy Spirit, fill me, use me, guide me - let me be energized! INTRODUCTION: ENERGIZED ''Energized:'' God revealing Himself by His Spirit to our spirit for the specific purpose of encouraging, enabling and energizing us. God wants you to be energized by a new and powerful work of the Holy Spirit in you that releases new strength, new faith, new desires and new prayers. KEY VERSE...
Fasting: What Is It?
by Fred Lowery
Before Moses received the 10 commandments from God, he fasted and prayed. Exodus 34:28 Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant - the Ten Commandments. 2.David, a man after God's heart and Israel's greatest king, fasted Ps. 69:10 When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn; 3.Daniel, seeking God's timetable for the return of God's people from captivity, fasted. Dan. 9:3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. Daniel also purposed in...
Not so Fast (10 of 13)
by Jeff Lynn
I hope over the last few weeks you've been putting into practice some of these disciplines I've highlighted; prayer, bible intake and giving. Today, I'm going to be sharing with you about the discipline of fasting. Fasting is probably one of the least practiced and least popular disciplines of the faith, but yet perhaps one of the most beneficial. In fact, I questioned whether or not to preach about this practice because of the obscurity of it. I'm not sure what comes to your mind when you hear the word ''fast.'' You may think of it like you do wheat germ or flax seed oil. You know it's probably good for you….but you're not about to try...
Fasting for Increase in the New Year
by Stan Coffey
''Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked that you clothe him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call and the Lord will anser, you shall cry and He will say, here I am...
Prayer and Fasting Bring Change (1 of 4)
by Lenny Ports
We are entering into a time of consecration or prayer and fasting as a church. Over the next 21 days, we will be carving away time and pushing away food (or Facebook or TV or some other habit) to spend time with God in prayer. Notice I said Prayer and Fasting, not Fasting and Prayer because Prayer is the priority. Fasting is not a Christian diet even though you may lose weight. It is a call to starve your old Adamic nature, your flesh, your carnal self in order to become sensitive to the voice of God and the things of the Spirit. It is the opportunity to give ourselves completely (body, soul, and spirit) to Jesus in order to...
Fasting - Hungry for God (6 of 7)
by Roger Thomas
Today we come to the third of three illustrations Jesus uses to teach that motives matter to God. It is possible to do a good thing for the wrong reason. He outlines the principle in verse one. ''Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness before men,' to be seen by them.'' He first applies the principle to giving to those in need. Of course, sharing is good. Doing it to show off, however, doesn't impress God. The same principle applies to praying. The Lord wants us to pray. But he wants us to remember who we are praying to when we do. This is not just an old problem. I know that preachers and leaders who lead public prayer...
Fasting For Your Family
by Curt Dodd
There are times when I may come to you and it may be more motivational; today is more informational. You see there are several styles of ministry, several characteristics of the way Jesus lived that you and I need to grab hold of if we are to learn how to walk like He did, talk like He did and love our husbands and our wives and our families just like He loved the disciples. We can look at the lifestyle of Jesus and emulate and copy those things that He did; and by doing those things with our family in mind, learn how to love them just like He desires for us to love them. One of those areas happens to be a discipline...
What Did Jesus Say about Praying and Fasting (9 of 15)
by Rick White
Introduction: With or Without a Mask A few years ago, two men held up a bank in Dallas. For reasons I do not know, only one of them wore a mask. In ten or fifteen minutes they were captured. Can you imagine one of those men standing before the judge and saying, ''Your Honor, I admit I robbed the bank. I admit that I did it. But at least I went in there without a mask. I was not a hypocrite. Everybody saw who I was.'' That doesn't make it with a judge in Dallas. So, if you want to play the game of Pharisee, you can play it from any position in the board. This tax collector stood in the presence of God, and in the...
Fasting: America's Last Great Hope
by Richard Bradley
As the church we've been asked to declare November 1 as a day of fasting and prayer and this is entirely fitting because our country is holding probably it's most important election in history on November 8. This is an election that, more than any other, holds the potential to radically change the future of our great republic. I know what you're thinking. Many of you are thinking, ''Preacher I don't identify with either candidate.'' I know how you feel. Frankly, neither of these two would be my choice. But here we sit because only two legitimate candidates are running. Since someone is going to be elected why not elect the...
Fasting
by Dr. Ed Young
Not too many look hungry tonight! I was real tempted to do some interviews tonight walk up and down these aisles - but I didn't do it.... to try to answer some questions maybe we can do that again .... about fasting.... because you didn't do it in 30 or 40 minutes or whatever; but there are - just as a precursory kind of overview - there are at least 3 kinds of fast that you find in the Bible. There is the normal fast - and this was the fast in which Jesus was participating in, I think, in the 40 days in the wilderness...and... normal fast would be you would drink water or even liquids but no food - we feel like the fast...
Fasting
by Nelson Price
JESUS CHRIST was asked by the disciples of John, ''Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?'' He answered: ''Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the day will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.'' Immediately after His beautiful baptism He fasted forty days in the wilderness. Fasting was not experientially unknown to Him. Later He incorporated the principle in His matchless message on the mountain by saying, ''When you fast...'' In that same sermon He spoke of giving and praying...
Fasting (7 of 7)
by Fred Michaux
Opening -if you hadn't eaten for 5 days, what would be something you would dream about eating…the situation we just imagined is a scenario God wants you to experience, physical fasting is essential to Christianity. tell story of first time fasting as a Christian…the eternal part of who we are hungers, needs attention, needs to be nourished! My fast now, fasting can be public, Sermon on Mount was challenging people's wrong motivations… (sets up pathways slide) Introduction: Series Big Idea -Pathways Slide…tonight, we are going talk about physical fasting from the perspective of not just how it is life giving...
Fasting (3 of 3)
by Kerry Shook
''When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.'' Matt. 6:16-18 (NIV) 1. THE PURPOSE OF FASTING. Fasting: To refrain from food for a period of time for a spiritual purpose. ''Then He said to them all: 'If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take...
