Prayer and Fasting Weekends
These have been weekends that we as a church have set aside time to pray, fast and hear the Word of God in particular areas of our lives.
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These have been weekends that we as a church have set aside time to pray, fast and hear the Word of God in particular areas of our lives.
This was a very special fasting weekend. It is this weekend that I can with confidence look back on and say that God has restored my relationship with Him, and He has restored my soul.
The personal focus of my fasting this weekend was to draw near to God, to love and Jesus and for the major work that God was doing and still today is doing in my relationship with Him.
Pastor Sharon activated us again in Sower Sows the Word and gave us a few of the scriptures that she uses and personalises to sow into her heart and which she has sown into her heart for many years. I praise God for this session which we began on Friday night because it renewed my hope for my future and my relationship with God. There was an activation that I took and I continue to walk in the grace of that activation.
During the whole weekend, God was doing a wonder work in me and even as I shared about my encounter with God the next Monday, I was filled with such joy, passion and zeal for my Father. Jesus was and still is my focus.
I am also grateful for how practical God was speaking through Pastor John. There were many practical things spoken about which I can apply in my marriage one day, but also practical ways to honour God and to touch Him.
Also, during Foot in the Message, I was more and more experiencing the Body becoming of one mind, one heart and one accord, and where we could receive of each other’s gift. For example, we could receive from Angie’s gift when God showed her an easy, practical way to remember the 5 points of relationship. I could receive from Hanna’s gift as she spoke about receiving the Words of God in the messages as from God when she shared the scripture in Romans 10. I could receive from Tannie Stefnie’s repentance, Oom Le Roux’s revelation about relationships in the Body, the importance of touch which my mom realised in going through the message and the absolute of God taking the children when Kha-Zeg and Josh shared. There were many others that did share and I praise God that I could receive from their gifting too. It was wonderful to experience what God was doing in other people as they went through the message and from them to encourage me and to teach me through what they learnt. My relationship with the Body of Christ was also restored this weekend, and I continue to grow in and walk in the state of a restored soul and in restored relationships, first with my Abba Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and then also with my Blood-bought family!
The focus of my fasting was to seek the plan that God has for me. Pastor Sharon taught us that we could fast when we were being double-minded about a matter and we could fast for God’s guidance.
So, I used this opportunity to fast to have clarity about what I should be doing next year because I was being very double-minded. It was here that I wrote down in my journal as the Holy Spirit was leading me to write where He called me to Pastor John and confirmed to me that my future is in this ministry with God. I had an encounter with God of dedicating and consecrating myself to Him.