Forgiveness
Have you ever been offended?
Spiritual Warfare
Faith that Moves
After 21 days of fasting my spirit was as an eagle soaring from the highest pinnacle coasting down ready to face the world and all God had for me.
…then mid-flight…I am struck and this eagle plummets…
It is after much deliberation within myself I decided to move forward with telling how my husband suffered a spinal cord injury. Most posts have endings before they are penned …this one does not.
Intercession
Psalm 18:32-33
32 The God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect.
33 He makes my feet like hinds’ feet [able to stand firmly or make progress on the dangerous heights of testing and trouble]; He sets me securely upon my high places.
Lord make my feet like hind’s feet. Let me scale the heights of the mountainside to reach your Presence. Let the rocks and the crevices of your High Places be the footholds that give me stay as I ascend into your Glory. Let the thing that may very well take me out become my strength. O Lord make my feet like hind’s feet that when I traverse the valleys, I may be swift and sure. Make my eyes like hind’s eyes that when I go through my valley, you light up the dark places.
Intercession
Everyone is aware of the recent rift between Iran and America. The world is watching and most are asking both powers to de-escalate. My intention this second week of the fast was to focus on “The Community”, that being your family and neighbors. However, these events have impressed me to switch the third week’s focus to the second. So this week, please focus intercessory prayer and fasting on Global Intervention. Although we see two world governments posturing themselves against one another, there are submergent powers out of media focus that want to propel this situation in to catastrophic proportions. There are America’s allies that really don’t want to go there. Church we need to pray.
Spiritual Warfare
Key Points
Expect to be challenged by the Adversary. You are going through the same process as Christ did in Matthew chapter 4. In other words as you enter your wilderness of fasting and prayer, you will be tempted. If you recall the wilderness journey of the children of Israel it was a place where their loyalty and faith were tested. You are laying yourselves on God’s spiritual altar and asking Him to magnify the ways that are not like Him. God allows the temptations of the Adversary to cause our “uglies” to come to the surface. In this state of consecration those things you were not under conviction about you are now under conviction because you are seeing them through the light of the Spirit of God. You now have to fortify those areas of your lives that have been exposed as weaknesses.
Intimacy
Key Points
It is important that you are set up for success during this 21-Day Fast. This first week’s focus is on Self. I will give you enough seed for you to start to entrench yourself in the process of consecration during which you will grow in intimacy (closeness) with God and begin to realize the power you have in Christ Jesus. You can only be pointed in the direction of consecration, intimacy and power…YOU have to walk it.
Spiritual Growth
A number of Christians will partake in an annual 21 Day Fast to posture themselves for the coming year. Posturing themselves to be spiritually in tune with God to receive His guidance throughout the year in all things. This practice is drawn from Daniel’s fast in Daniel chapter 10.
Aspirations
A Prayer
LORD, I thank you for everything you have done for me. The ups and the downs. I have come through them all. In spite of it all and because of it all, I am whole, a recipient of your mercy. For that I thank You.
Fearless
I ended the first blog about Fear with the question,
‘Would I be a chicken or an eagle?’
Well folks, the verdict is in.