Bucket Full of Grace

Called to Fasting Prayer: Father, we need you today.  You created this world for us to find You in it.  For us to bring about Love and Joy and Hope and to Walk with you all the days of our lives.  But, we need help.  We can’t do it on our own.  Our flesh, satan, and the cares of the world pull us away and distract us from  you.  We ask today that you would share with us by your Grace the tool of Fasting and Prayer, that you would call each of us into a deeper relationship with you through this practice, that you would start dissolving our excuses right now in Jesus Name.  Amen. So, we are going to discuss fasting today, a spiritual discipline that should not be exalted as some magical cure but also should not be neglected or dismissed… so we need to find a balance together for the use and not misuse of this tool that the Lord gives us to deepen our relationship with Him. In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word used for fasting is tsom , which means...