Hi, My name is Karen Donovan. For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve been a part of Christ Covenant’s prayer ministry for almost 15 years and I’m here to tell you about a new opportunity for prayer and fasting.
Some of you who hear the word--FASTING—panic and say “I can’t do that!” While there are many different kinds of fasts that were used for different outcomes in the Bible, for the purposes of this prayer time, we will only be skipping lunch two times a month. No doubt on busy days you’ve missed lunch and waited until dinner to eat. God is far more concerned about the response of your heart than He is the length of the fast.
Some of you who hear the word--FASTING—panic and say “I can’t do that!” While there are many different kinds of fasts that were used for different outcomes in the Bible, for the purposes of this prayer time, we will only be skipping lunch two times a month. No doubt on busy days you’ve missed lunch and waited until dinner to eat. God is far more concerned about the response of your heart than He is the length of the fast.
Fasting always goes hand in hand with prayer. The definition of fasting is-- the abstinence from food with a spiritual goal in mind. It is you saying, “God I don’t want food, I want YOU.”
During a time of fasting and prayer you “hunger and thirst after righteousness.” To make the picture clearer, when we fast and pray, God sees us much the way a mother sees her baby who is crying when it’s hungry. The Lord sees us hungry and wants to fill us with His presence. Remember, Jesus is the bread of life. That’s the bread we want to eat.
The Lord has made it clear to me that He wants greater intimacy with His people at Christ Covenant. Greater intimacy with our God is the spiritual goal we will have in mind as we fast. He has put it on my heart that we are to lavish Him with love and worship first. To acknowledge Who He is and what He has done. This will be followed by sincere repentance for our sins, but He doesn’t want us to dwell there. We will then give God the thanks He deserves. And finally, we will lift our prayer requests for this church, the body and each other to Him.
This time of prayer and fasting will be held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month in CCPC’s prayer room from 11:50 to 1 o’clock.
Ladies, powerful intercession comes from powerful intimacy. I am hoping that we can learn to let our hair down, take our masks off and in realness and humility love the Lord from the depths of our souls and pray. When we do this, we can count on the Lord to meet us there.
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