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Igniting your spirit man through fasting

Prayer, fasting and giving are kingdom priorities.

Matthew 6:6-9

The kingdom is a priority in the Jesus outlined prayer.

When you make the kingdom your priority in prayers, God takes over your needs.

John 20:21

Making the kingdom a priority makes you gain spiritual command.

Matthew 7:7-8 | James 4:2

What you get is a product of what you diligently ask for.

Fasting is the thirst of the soul and longing of the flesh.

Nothing meaningful can be accomplished outside of the labour room.

1 Corinthians 3:8

Psalm 105:42, Romans 6:16

John 21:15 - 17, 1 Corinthians 2:9

Matthew 6:10, Matthew 24:14, Micah 4:1, Isaiah 2:2-3

HOW TO MAKE A LASTING IMPACT

Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified. And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.” And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only (Mark 9:2-8).

The messiahship of Jesus was confirmed as Jesus conversed with Elijah and Moses, and as the voice of God said, “This is my beloved Son." Jesus was not a self-proclaimed, self-anointed leader. His right

to be called Jesus the Messiah was proclaimed by God the Father, and that proclamation was heard by many witnesses.

Reference: The Leadership Style of Jesus by Michael Youssef

TODAY'S BIBLE READING

1 Corinthians 5

New King James Version

Immorality Defiles the Church

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even [a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are [b]puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord [c]Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore [d]purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed [e]for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Immorality Must Be Judged

9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to [f]keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.”