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September 5 2011 at 10:58 am

Prayer and Fasting

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This Wednesday we’ll be gathering in the Spurgeon Room to pray from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. I hope that many of you will be able to join us. But even if you can’t come that night, I want to invite you to join the pastors in fasting a meal or more on Wednesday (or whatever days work best for you this week). We continue to feel our desperate need for God’s power and guidance. The discipline of fasting is a way for us to express our dependence to the Lord and focus our hearts on God’s sufficiency.

The pastors will be fasting and devoting extra time to prayer this week. Please join us in this pursuit of God. Pray for the Lord to continue to show mercy to our church. Pray for unity. Pray for godly courage and resolve. Pray for reconciliation. Pray for the gospel to triumph in our church and in the lives of unbelievers in our community.

God’s Word tells us that if we humble ourselves and cry out to him for mercy he will hear us and heal us (2 Chronicles 7:14). Let’s continue to humble ourselves, repent of sin and seek the Lord who is full of grace and compassion. And let’s cling to this promise from 2 Corinthians 12:9, “‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that lthe power of Christ may rest upon me.”

—Joshua





Hello Josh,

Thanks so much for pointing us to the cross and helping us to focus on Him.  May He be glorified in our personal lives, our families, and our church.

Because of Him,
Ron

By Ron Parsons on 09/07/2011

Will do, Josh.  I love our church and so appreciate our leadership.  As a daughter that just lost her beloved mom, I was the recipient of the church in action doing what they do best.  It would have been desperately hard to walk through her loss without the support of the church - Robin in particular.  For me, this is the dearest place on earth, and I am in prayer that we are able to keep our pastors and that they are all united in one cause - furthering the gospel of Christ and guiding Christ’s sheep.  2 Cor 12:9 has really hit home to me.  When I think it’s more than I can handle, I think of that scripture - I am clinging to the cross, and pray that you and the rest of the church is as well.

By Susie Privot on 09/07/2011

It is so appropriate to add the discipline of fasting to our prayers at this time! Thank you for encouraging us to join the pastors in this lesser-known practice. I think of Jesus speaking about his disciples fasting in Matthew 6 & 9, as well as the example of church leaders in Acts as a Scriptural basis to make this practice a current one.  If you are less familiar with fasting, please study your Bible references about it! I suspect there may be books in our bookstore that would be helpful to reference so your practice won’t be unwise health-wise, or based on your own efforts/works. Even skipping dessert or a meal counts! God sees our hearts and knows what we do in secret. His grace is so great that he promised Israel he would change their fasts to feasts and rejoicing. Zech.8:18 He is the same today.

By susan m payne on 09/07/2011
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