Today ends our Five Week Challenge. This focus on prayer and fasting has impacted many in our Family of Faith. I’ve heard countless stories and comments of God’s work in people’s lives. Individually and collectively, there has been a spiritual renewal. I praise God for all He has done and will continue doing. I encourage… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 27
Fervently praying (James 5:16) for those outside the kingdom of God leads to amazing acts of God in people’s lives. Evangelistic praying births in our heart a Christ-like love that moves us to reach out the lost people in our sphere of influence and seek opportunities to share the gospel with them. Some of the… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 23
The great solar eclipse of 2017 created quite a buzz. People were scrambling at the last minute for eclipse glasses, Interstate 77 was a parking lot south of Rock Hill, and people waited in line 30 minutes to get Krispy Kreme’s “eclipse” chocolate glazed donuts. Monieca and I enjoyed watching it together at home, relaxing… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 21
Our Five Week Challenge includes prayer and fasting. FASTING This week I fasted on Wednesday for God to bring spiritual renewal to people I know who spiritually struggling and backslidden This coming week we will fast for lost people we know to be saved Remember – you choose the day of the week and type… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 18
Here are some quotes about Biblical fasting that inspire me. I pray they inspire you as well: “Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 15
Yesterday I was able to pray with several people – a young couple leaving their baby in the nursery the first time, a man with cancer, a woman who recently connected with her birth mother and step-siblings. I don’t pray with everyone I meet and have a conversation, but it is a normal part of… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 13
What have you prayed about today? This week? A New Cycle of EU Wednesday Night Classes Starts August 23 Next Steps, opportunities for new people to get plugged into FBC Those are the two items from last Sunday’s bulletin I prayed for today. Each day this week I’ve been praying for different items in the… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 12
Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.” Many of us are discovering when we fast and pray, God does what the Psalmist described above. When we break our… Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 11
“let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace” Hebrews 4:16 “Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus” Hebrews 10:19 In his book “Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home” Richard Foster writes of God: “He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. … Read More »
Five Week Challenge: Day 9
All of us face challenges that discourage us from praying. Perhaps you’ve faced these specific challenges: Thinking that prayer is one more item on your already full to-do list. Thinking that when you pray your job is to convince God to do something. Thinking you have to pray like another person whom you admire prays.… Read More »