Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song. Joy to the World/Our God Saves Paul Baloche Christmas Worship O Praise Him David Crowder Band Illuminate Glorious Day Casting Crowns Until the Whole World Hears God With Us MercyMe The Best of Mercy Me/The Platinum Collection
why fast?
should christians fast?
should christians fast? matthew 9:14-17 14 Then John s disciples came and asked him, How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?
should christians fast? matthew 9:14-17 15 Jesus answered, How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.
should christians fast? matthew 9:14-17 16 No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.
should christians fast? matthew 9:14-17 17 Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
we fast for a greater hunger for God matthew 4:1-4 1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
we fast for a greater hunger for God matthew 4:1-4 3 The tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.
we fast for a greater hunger for God matthew 4:1-4 4 Jesus answered, It is written: Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
we fast for a greater hunger for God deuteronomy 8:1-3 1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to your ancestors.
we fast for a greater hunger for God deuteronomy 8:1-3 2 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
we fast for a greater hunger for God 3 He deuteronomy humbled you, causing 8:1-3 you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known,
we fast for a greater hunger for God deuteronomy 8:1-3 to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
we fast for a greater hunger for God john 6:35 I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
we fast as an expression of our desperation and dependence on God
2 Chronicles 20:3-12 we 3 Alarmed, fast as an Jehoshaphat expression resolved of our to desperation inquire of the and LORD, dependence and he proclaimed on God a fast for all Judah. 4 The people of Judah came together to seek help from the LORD; indeed, they came from every town in Judah to seek him.
2 Chronicles 20:3-12 we 5 Then fast Jehoshaphat as an expression stood up of our in the desperation assembly of Judah and dependence and Jerusalem on at God the temple of the LORD in the front of the new courtyard 6 and said:
2 Chronicles 20:3-12 we LORD, fast the as God an expression of our ancestors, of our are you desperation not the God who and is dependence in heaven? You on rule God over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.
2 Chronicles 20:3-12 we 12 Our fast God, as an will expression you not judge of our them? desperation For we have no and power dependence to face this on vast God army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.
we fast to set the captives free isaiah 58:6 6 Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
we fast to set the captives free luke 4:16-19 16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom.
we fast to set the captives free luke 4:16-19 He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
we fast to set the captives free luke 4:16-19 18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
we fast to set the captives free luke 4:16-19 He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord s favor.
action point fast one meal a day for 11 days (monday, 12/4 through thursday, 12/14) when you would normally eat, pray for a) alpha, b) the people you will be inviting, c) the people that all of us are seeking to reach during those 2 weeks before
action point fast one meal a day for 11 days (monday, 12/4 through thursday, 12/14) tips: drink plenty of water if you feel sleepy, go for a walk you may want to begin your prayer time by thanking God or worshipping the Lord