This came in late. The prayer and fasting week ended last January 12, 2011. The week was awesome!God never failed to show up in our daily prayer marathons every 6-7PM which often ends at 8:30PM. (hehehe always exenteded)During the first Sunday preaching I told the church that fasting is not just abstaining from food but also gaining rewards (jentezen franklin). So went thru Isaiah 58:6-18 to see all the rewards. When you focus on the rewards or purpose of your fast you cant focus on the hunger of the fast.
I started off the year asking God for a direction in the ministry and my personal life. During our first Leadership Team meeting I honestly told the guys that I really dont have a clue what exactly to do (Im always a thinker, putting ideas in the table but now I dont even have an agenda with me during the meeting, I just want them to know that so we can all pray hard and seek God) but I believe after the fast He will show up and give us clear paths to take. All I know is that this year is the start of the fufillment of the great harvest in the ministry. So we waited, lingered and remained as open and close to God's voice.
DANG! After the fast week I din't get it, but slowly realized that something's unfolding. We started seeing clear highways. We started branding out a new startegy (MI:5 Mission It'sPossible 5) The Circle of Five Second Generation Completion Challenge. Our Senior Pastor met us for an eye opener meeting that jumpstarted our intial, meaningful, fruitful discussions in our Leaders Gathering (D10 leaders). We were never serious and passionate in discipling just as like this! Our campus volunteers and services teams were inspired!.Our prayer lives soared high and empowered and consistent! (They're red hot!) We started believing God for the impossible and pray BIG prayers.I met with the Leadership team the next week and plotted our priorities for the year! There were really AHA! moments. Ideas flowed!The first once a month Staff meeting was a tickler meeting! I asked the question what's new in your ministry that we are going to expect this year? minds went crazy!ideas were awesome!
I dint realize that's how God would unfold things and answer prayers when we seek Him first and earnestly early in the year!When we fast answers are fast! SLOW DOWN and listen to His voice, early in the morning, everyday!Like, I wanna fast regularly and seek God and obey Him more!
What is your prayer and fasting story?
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yes. fast regularly! that's from God. :) awesome testimony. go for the giants ptr. mark. if god is for you, who can be against you?! harvest and blessings to sea gentiles church all the way from manila! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks ate riza and jheck!God is really awesome!testimones are really powerful you'll get to experience what you talk about on stage and hear from people!fast answers when we fast.
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