Sabbath Purposes:
Reflecting God’s Ownership of My Time & Enjoying the Simplicity of God’s Rest.
Today we are turning to Isaiah 58, where we see two ancient and powerful truths applied by God Himself. This passage is God applying Biblical fasting and a personal Sabbath rest.
HOW’S YOUR HUNGER FOR GOD TODAY?
Several weeks ago, we began to study hunger for God and saw this longing after Jesus with a heart of love and devotion is called Biblical Fasting.
Biblical Fasting, or the voluntary abstinence from good and right things such as food, is a spiritual discipline that has suffered in modern Christianity.
So, I repeat what we have learned:
In the Old Testament, biblical fasting was an urgent call to get serious about Knowing God.
In the New Testament, we see that Biblical Fasting was an ancient spiritual discipline that rescheduled my life with God at the center instead of dining, relaxing, amusing, accumulating, advancing, securing, and a multitude of other things that are not wrong—just deadly to intimacy with the Almighty.
In the Early Church of Acts and the Epistles, we see that this Hunger for God shaped their lives, ministry, worship, and outreach.
In the Early Church, Biblical fasting is a powerful way to yield every part of my life to God’s supremacy.
Conclusion: Biblical Fasting is an immediate way to declare your allegiance to God’s way and glory in every day of your life!
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