7/2/17 “FASTING OVER FORKS PT.1 -A HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST HELL” – Pastor Shane Idleman

Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/7_2_2017_Fasting_Over_Forks_1.mp3</a"> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/7_2_2017_Fasting_Over_Forks_1.mp3</a"></a> Complete Sermon Notes FASTING OVER FORKS Pt. 1 A Hunger Strike Against Hell The Why, When, and How of Fasting WHY? Spiritual disciplines are like farming. We can’t make the seeds grow, but we can create an environment for growth. Fasting is seen throughout the Bible – Matthew 6 – when you pray, give, and fast. LUKE 5:35 [NIV], “But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.” Ravenhill: “When there´s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it `legalism.´” The physical is affected by the spiritual – “we wrestle not.” MOSES RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD – KING JEHOSHAPHAT EXPERIENCED VICTORY – ESTHER RECEIVED PROTECTION – ELIJAH WAS RESTORED – DANIEL EXPERIENCED THE SUPERNATURAL – EZRA RECEIVED DIRECTION – NEHEMIAH WAS STRENGTHENED – JOEL OFFERED THE CURE FOR JUDGMENT – JESUS WAS EMPOWERED – PAUL CONFIRMED HIS CALLING – CORNELIUS WAS SAVED – ACTS 13:2 [NIV] While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” ACTS 14:23 [NIV] Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust. The vast majority of the heroes of the faith fasted. And it’s still very common in places like China, Korea, – secluded places for prayer and fasting. *John Wesley would not ordain a man unless he fasted twice a week – self disciplined. THE PENDULUM SWING – Those who see it mentioned throughout Scripture (close to 80 times), see the enormous benefit – KEY: The closer you draw to God the more you do for God. Fasting is a hunger strike against hell – it subdues the flesh. “How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don’t even have the strength to turn off your TV?” Ravenhill John Owen, The Works of John Owen: Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin. Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work…be killing sin or it will be killing you….Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could; every covetous desire would be oppression, every thought of unbelief would be atheism. You are not powerless – you give power to either the flesh or the Spirit. Neglect of this duty to mortify causes the withering of the soul. James 4:5 says that our spirit “has envious yearnings”. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Spiritual is the priority but there are physical benefits. All of our choices have consequences, but when it comes to eating, we don’t think that applies. The Great Physician heals our bodies.

7/2/17 “FASTING OVER FORKS PT.1 -A HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST HELL” – Pastor Shane Idleman

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