Fasting: The Lost Discipline {Part 2}
John 4:31-38 & Isaiah 58
Statement of
Truth:
Anything that I
have to have is enslavement for me.
Points
to Ponder:
I. We have Little Hunger for God
II. We have a limited amount of hunger
Statement of Truth:
That the attempt to satisfy self apart
from doing to will of God is not just a frustrating process but it is a very discouraging
process.
III. Our enslavement to food hinders our hunger for God
IV.
Fasting
breaks our enslavement to food
Statement of Truth:
Anything that could empower you should be set-aside for a
time to break its dependence.
VI. When we fast that enslavement is broken and
we are free to focus our hunger upon what really matters.
VII. Fasting if done rightly can ignite our
hunger for God.
Doers of the Word:
1.
Am I
wisely investing my limited capacity for God?
2.
What has kept me from fasting in biblical ways?
3.
What is
in my life that I am enslaved to that hinders my hunger for God?
4.
Study the following: Zechariah 7:1-5; Colossians 2:21-23; Psalm 69:10; Daniel 10; Acts 9; Ezra 10; Esther 4; Joel
2:15-16; 2 Chronicles 2; Isaiah 58
