Lately I have just been
starving for more of God. Starving to feel more of his presence in my
life, so on Sunday I decided I was going to start a 3 day Fast. The
longest fast I had ever done in the past was one day and I was absolutely
miserable by the end of the day. I was still addicted to coffee at the time so
I had a bad headache and was very moody. I was slightly worried going in not
knowing what 3 days would do to me but I just had faith that it was what God
was calling me to do and began praying. What follows is a prayer I created
before I started the fast and read probably 5-10 times a day during the fast.
I didn’t raise anyone from
the dead or anything but God did show me a lot during the 3 days. After
the prayer is some of the verses He showed me and how I interpreted them. They
are not ever verse he had me read and are not organized but rather are just in
the order that God presented them to me. I hope God allows you to learn
something from what he showed me during my fast.
“Lord I ask for
preparation of my heart, body, soul, mind and spirit as I enter into this fast.
I pray that you use this act of faith to truly draw me closer to you. This fast
is not about the absence of food but rather the removal of distractions so I
can concentrate on you. So I can draw closer to you. I desire to hear your
voice Lord. I desire to have revelations from you I desire a removal of doubt
from my mind. I desire prophetic words of knowledge, words of encouragements to
be pouring from my mouth. I desire these things not for my own glory but that I
can expand the kingdom, that you can use me to rock peoples worlds, to show
them without a doubt that you are God and you are all powerful and all knowing
and are a loving God that desires after a relationship with them. I pray that
all distractions will be removed for the next couple days. That I will be quick
to listen and slow to speak with you Lord. That I give you time to pour into my
life to transform my perspective and to turn my life upside down for you.
I pray that you
have complete control of my life Lord. If there is anything I am holding on to,
anything that is blocking me from hearing you clearly that it will be removed
in Jesus’ name. I release control of my future; I release control of my desire
to be a firefighter. I say your will be done. However crazy that ends up being.
I pray your will be done in my life. I pray for more revelation on your desires
for my life.
I pray that you
reveal areas of my walk that I need work on. I pray to be rocked by the Spirit,
to be speaking in tongues, to be prophesying over people, to be bringing words
of truth, to be healing people in Jesus’ name, to be casting out demons. I pray
for increase for more. I pray for the next level of relationship with you. I
don’t want to be reliant on book smarts or just knowledge of your word. I pray
to be led by the spirit to move, to live by your will. I desire more, Lord. I
desire to see you Lord, I desire to hear you Lord, I desire to physically feel
your presence. I desire nothing in this world but you.
Holy Spirit fill
me up. Lord I cast out the fear of man. It has no control over me. I have one
judge and it is you Lord. I cast out the spirit of comparison. I have no one to
compare myself to but you Jesus and everyday day I look a little more like you.
I cast out the spirit of doubt and self-condemnation Lord. You made me perfect
the way I am. You gave me the confidence to walk as a leader, as royalty, as a
man of God. I cast out the fear of failure. You give me “not a spirit of fear
but of power and love and self-control.” You give me the strength I need to do
all things. You do not call me to please man, to always succeed by worldly
standards. You call me to walk in faith and follow your will for my life. You
will not let me fall. I have no one to please but you. Lord I cast out the fear
that my past defines me, that I will repeat my past. You made me a new
creation, the old is gone and the new has come. Galations 2:20 “I have been
crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I
live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loves me and gave
himself for me” I pray that my
nervousness or fear of these changes be cast out in Jesus’ name. These prayers
are real and so is the answers to these prayers. This is REAL change! AMEN”
Galations1:10
“Am I now trying to win the approval of men or of God? Or
am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men I would not
be a servant of Christ.”
-The Word does not contradict itself and nor should I. No
longer do I have to conform my beliefs to the world. No longer do I have to
change my words to please man, to find approval from man. I can speak truth
plain and clear and know what I am speaking is from God and of God and pleasing
to God. Do not weaver in your speech. There is no need to justify your word if
it is brought in love and truth.
Romans 2:29
–When we are
circumsized, cut off, removed from our old life and live by the spirit, when
Christ lives in us “such is our praise, not from man but from God” I
am not a people pleaser any longer. I have the freedom to speak truth and life
into people without the fear of rejection or judgment.
2 Corinthians 10:17
“But let those who boast, boast in the Lord, for it is
not the one who commends himself who is approved but the one whom the Lord
commends“
My Utmost for His Highest November 29th
“When I commit myself to the revealed truth of the New
Testament, I receive from God the gift of the Holy Spirit, who then begins
interpreting to me what Jesus did. The spirit of God does in me internally all
that Jesus Christ did for me externally”
John 16: 12-15
Holy Spirit will come and guide me and tell me what is yet
to come
John 14:17
The Holy Spirit lives in me and will continue to live in me
John 14:25-27
“But the
counselor the Holy Spirit, whom the father will send in my name, will teach
you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace
I leave with you peace I give you. I do not give as the world gives. Do
not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid”
John 14:12-14
“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do
what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the father.
And I will do
whatever you ask in my name, so that the son may bring glory to the Father.
You ask anything in my name and I will do it.”
Philippians 2:5
“Your attitude should be the same as Christ Jesus”
-Jesus was a humble and served people. Like Christ I shall
have a servant attitude serving people out of love for God and others not
out of fear or guilt. When I leave each morning to go and serve that day, I
have to choice my attitude. Am I going because I desire to share the love of
Jesus Christ with the people that day or am I going because I have to or I feel
like I need to set a good example for my team. I need to take an attitude check
every morning.
“What is my attitude going to be today? Who am I going to
serve today?”
Philippians 2:3-4
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit but
in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not
only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others”
-Whom am I concerned most about each day? I must humble
myself to truly look to others interests before myself. Remembering at the same
time the true definition of humility. Humility is not demeaning myself but
exalting God. Not thinking less of myself but thinking of myself less. Humility
is not the absence of confidence but strength restrained. We humble
ourselves by helping others while loving them with the same love we have for
ourselves.
Mark 10:45
-Jesus didn’t come to be served but to serve. He gave his
life so that we may live.
Matthew 11:28-29
“Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will
give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and
humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and
my burden is light”
-Jesus came and removed the burden of sin, condemnation,
doubt. God promises Love, healing and peace with God, not the end of labor. We
are still “taking his yoke” a harness used for labor. The labor is just no
longer meaningless, wearisome toil but is now spiritually productive and
purposeful. The toil now is not for our salvation but rather transforming our
lives, stripping off anything that is not of Him.
John 16:24
“…Ask and you will receive, and your Joy will be
complete”
Ephesians 2:8
There is nothing I myself can do to save myself. There is
nothing I can do to earn Grace. It is not by works but by faith that I am
saved. That means stop trying to get closer to God by works or acts!
Romans 3:23-24
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Jesus
Christ”
I am not alone. I am justified freely by Christ and what he
did for me
Romans 8:1-2
“Therefore, there is No condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus because through the law of the spirit of life set you free
from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:..
“…Those who live according with the Spirit have their
mind set on what the spirit desires”
“..The mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace”
“..but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of
the body, you will live”
-This does not say deal with your issues on your own the
come to me. It says the Spirit will guide you through the removal of “misdeeds”
in your life. No need to be perfect on arrival.
“… because those who are led by the spirit of God are
sons of God. For you did not receive the Spirit that makes you a slave again
to fear but you receive the spirit of Sonship”
“Now if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God
and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his suffering in order that we
may also share in his glory.”
-We are truly a Royal Priesthood. Sons of God, inheritors of
the Kingdom of God. How cool is that.
2 Timothy 1:7
“For God did not give us a Spirit of timidity but a
spirit of power of love and of self disipline”
Romans 8:18-21
-God made a trade. He traded our current suffering,
current sin for liberation from bondage and decay. He brought us into true
freedom with his sacrifice.
Romans 8: 24-25
“.. who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for
what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently”
– I pray and hope for these gifts of the Spirit. I realize
that God is faithful and will provide but I also understand that God has the
big picture in mind and could have me wait “patiently” for them. God works on
his time not mine
1 Corinthians 14:1,3
“Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts,
especially that you may prophesy… the one who prophesies speaks to
people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.”
1 Corinthians 12:31
“But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show
you a still more excellent way.”
Romans 8:31
“If God is for us who could be against us”
Romans 8:33
“It is God who justifies”
Romans 8:38-39
-Nothing will be able to separate us from the love of Jesus
Christ! No Sin, No act Nothing!
James 1:19
“Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and
slow to become angry”
Proverbs 35:6
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on
your own understanding in all ways and acknowledge him, and he will make your
path straight”
Psalms 46:10
“Be still, and know that I am God”
Psalms 37:7
“Be still
before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in
their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes”
Romans 10:11
“Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame”
John 15: 12-13
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, that he may lay down his life for his
friends”
John 6:35
“I am the bread of life, He who comes to me will never go
hungry and he who believes in me will never be thirsty”
