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Fasting 2024

December 31, 2023
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By now if you have been a regular reader of my blog, you know that I consecrate myself with fasting and prayer before God for 21 days at the beginning of the year.

Fasting.

That is not an activity many run to do or cannot wait to talk about. However, it is a tried-and-true remedy few take advantage of or if they do participate, it is out of duty rather than desire. You know, like getting married because it was an arrangement versus getting married because you love that person. Although the process may be challenging at times, I love the results. It’s almost a well-kept secret. It keeps the person who sincerely engages in it well in alignment with God but it is certainly not a secret. Although some wish it would quietly go away!

21-Day Pilgrimage Devotion Days 16 – 18

January 17, 2021
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Almost there! In the devotions over the next three days we are rounding the corner and we can see the finish line. We see the way home. You find in these devotions the home (secret place) you are creating with God is a place you can leave but it will never leave you. God takes pleasure in you, however exposed you may feel, He covers you with His love.

January 17

Day 16

Focus: The Way Home

Unfamiliar Territory

Have you ever been on a road trip and been away from home for a while? You long for the comfort of home, the familiar sounds and surroundings. Finally, that day comes when you get to go home. You may start out on unfamiliar roads and may need the help of a GPS. But there’s a point during the journey you begin to recognize familiar landmarks and your excitement builds because you know you are nearing home.

Personal Landmarks

Entering God’s presence for the first few times is a lot like the road trip home. You are eager to get there but at the start of the journey you are traversing unfamiliar roads. Unfamiliar territory could be things like unrestrained worship or prayer beyond basic rote prayers learned in Sunday School. You wrestle with the desire to give up and the negative head-talk until you finally settle into true worship. When you’re not familiar with worshipping God in the spirit, then you have to use a spiritual GPS as a guide. That GPS is the Holy Spirit and your willingness to let Him lead.

In the Spirit

21-Day Pilgrimage Devotion Days 13-15

January 14, 2021
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You have been in the dressing chamber a while now and it’s time. It’s time you allow the Holy Spirit to escort you into the Presence of God. Let’s first get familiar with your Guide, the Holy Spirit, by knowing who He is and how He works. Then relax as your worship and praise lift you into His Throne Room!

January 14

Day 13

Focus: Living in the Spirit – Allowing the Spirit to Operate in You

This devotion will present practical insights on who the Holy Spirit is and how He operates in the everyday aspect of our lives. My question is, do you recognize Him?

Divine Interception

21-Day Pilgrimage Devotions Days 10-12

January 11, 2021
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In every aspect of a nation’s evolution, it took a leader, someone with a vision or at the very least accepted counsel of visionaries that were for the good of the whole country. We are in need of that leader. The world and the people of this great nation are waiting and watching. In the meantime, Don’t Lower the Flag!

January 11

Day 10

Focus: Don’t Lower the Flag!

Aspirations

21-Day Pilgrimage Devotions Days 4-6

January 4, 2021
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21-Day Pilgrimage Devotions Days 4 – 6

Come, join in devotions where we discuss God’s prescribed burnings, His requirement for us to lose our minds as we conform to His image.

January 5

Day 4

Focus: Prescribed Burning

Scripture: 2 Samuel 24:10-15 Living Bible

¹⁰But after he had taken the census [of his men of war], David’s conscience began to bother him, and he said to the Lord, “What I did was very wrong. Please forgive this foolish wickedness of mine.”

¹¹The next morning the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, who was David’s contact with God.

The Lord said to Gad, ¹²“Tell David that I will give him three choices.”

¹³So Gad came to David and asked him, “Will you choose seven years of famine across the land, or to flee for three months before your enemies, or to submit to three days of plague? Think this over and let me know what answer to give to God.”

¹⁴“This is a hard decision,” David replied, “but it is better to fall into the hand of the Lord (for his mercy is great) than into the hands of men.”

¹⁵So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel that morning, and it lasted for three days; and seventy thousand men died throughout the nation.

Spiritual Growth

21-Day Pilgrimage Devotions Days 1 – 3

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020
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The devotions are merely guides to your time in prayer if you need it. This was prepared to help those that may not have time to construct framework for time spent with God.

January 2

Day 1

Focus: Confession and Repentance

Cleansing is the first step in preparation to enter the Shekinah Glory of God.

The Old Testament priest washed in the laver before entering the Holy Place, so we confess our sins, known and unknown, before God and ask for forgiveness.

When judgement was pronounced on the people of Nineveh (Jonah 3), the people repented, robed themselves in sackcloth and ashes in brokenness before the Lord. By repenting the Lord withheld judgement from the people.

So we start this fast by spiritually clothing ourselves in sackcloth and ashes in the form of confession of sins and repentance. This is letting God know we desire to be in his holy presence and we are preparing ourselves to do so.

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