Day 10 | Prayer & Fasting
It has been an inspiring time of prayer and fasting, hearing and witnessing what God is speaking to and doing through his people. Sister Teri and I would like to encourage you again, if you fail, get up and go again.
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
- Winston Churchill
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
- Winston Churchill
- Pray for believers to increase their prayer life (Luke 18:1).
Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
- Pray for all to obtain the strength to remain focused on their commitment to continue the fast (Galatians 6:9, Philippians 1:3-6).
Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Philippians 1:3-6 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Church Bulletin - National Prayer and Fasting
Conference announcement:
“The cost to attend the Fasting and Prayer Conference includes meals.”
By Brian Buriff/Copied from Sermon Central
“The cost to attend the Fasting and Prayer Conference includes meals.”
By Brian Buriff/Copied from Sermon Central
On Fasting
The Didache, is a first or second century document that relates to us outside the New Testament the teaching of the early church. This document "prescribed two fast days a week: Wednesday and Friday." For early Christians; this was seen as a regular part of daily discipleship.
John Wesley sought to revive the teaching of the Didache and urged early Methodists to fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. He felt so strongly about this matter that he refused to ordain anyone to the Methodist ministry who did not fast on those two days.
Matthew Henry said, "Fasting is a laudable practice and we have reason to lament that it is generally neglected among Christians."
Hudson Taylor the great missionary and founder of China Inland Mission, said, "In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: "I wonder whether we have ever fasted? I wonder whether it has even occurred to us that we ought to be considering the question of fasting? The fact is, that this whole subject seems to have dropped right out of our lives and right out of our whole Christian thinking."
By Gordon Curley/Copied from Sermon Central
John Wesley sought to revive the teaching of the Didache and urged early Methodists to fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. He felt so strongly about this matter that he refused to ordain anyone to the Methodist ministry who did not fast on those two days.
Matthew Henry said, "Fasting is a laudable practice and we have reason to lament that it is generally neglected among Christians."
Hudson Taylor the great missionary and founder of China Inland Mission, said, "In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: "I wonder whether we have ever fasted? I wonder whether it has even occurred to us that we ought to be considering the question of fasting? The fact is, that this whole subject seems to have dropped right out of our lives and right out of our whole Christian thinking."
By Gordon Curley/Copied from Sermon Central
Posted in 21 Days of Prayer & Fasting