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_9_2017_Fasting_Over_Forks_2.mp3</a"><br><br> </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_9_2017_Fasting_Over_Forks_2.mp3</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> FASTING OVER FORKS – Delight Not Drudgery<br> <br> It’s hard for 2 wills to live in the same body. What passion prevails?<br> <br> <br> Conflicts on the calendar – Dodger game vs. Wedding<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The motivation behind fasting is to seek God more fervently – to give up the good for the best!<br> <br> <br> <br> JUST FOCUS ON JESUS: According to the Obesity Action Coalition – “It’s estimated that every pound of fat requires about one extra mile of blood vessels…that means more work for the heart.”<br> <br> Fasting disciplines the body, prayer fights the enemy, and the Word give us wisdom.<br> <br> <br> <br> If the battle is with the flesh, what makes us think we’re going to defeat it if we keep feeding it.<br> <br> <br> __________________________________<br> <br> 1 John 2:16 [NIV] – For everything in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–comes not from the Father but from the world.<br> <br> <br> <br> BUT we hear: “Be yourself! Embrace your longings! Cave in to your desires.”<br> <br> <br> MANY Old Testament rebukes were because of gluttony and indulging the flesh.<br> <br> <br> <br> Leonard Ravenhill – “The early church had an upper room with fire; today we have a supper room with smoke.”<br> <br> WHEN: There is desire, conviction, AND confirmation. There is a deeper call to purity and holiness, or a difficult task ahead.<br> <br> Fasting applies pressure: “Often, pressure has to be maintained before there is a breakthrough in heavenly warfare.” Arthur Wallace<br> <br> The flesh gives up once pressure is applied consistently – “Popeye – “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!”<br> <br> <br> “Resist the devil…”<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Some strongholds hang on piece by piece.<br> <br> <br> <br> W H E N –<br> <br> <br> Is there a desire to resurrect dead prayers?<br> <br> <br> Is there a stronghold that has been gripping your life?<br> <br> <br> Do you desire a deeper walk with God or INCREASED spiritual hunger? Do you need help in the area of self-discipline [temperance]?<br> <br> <br> Do you need a breakthrough, direction, or peace.<br> <br> <br> Is all hell breaking loose in your life or in your family – great obstacles ahead.<br> <br> <br> Pray & Fast –<br> <br> Matthew 17:14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”<br> 17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour. 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly,
