Continue to celebrate Thrive's Anniversary with the sermon from January 10 of this year, 2 weeks before we started this weekly podcast.
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When we fast we give up something we _____________ to focus on something of greater _____________.
Matthew 6:16 “And when you fast, don’t make it obvious, as the hypocrites do, for they try to look miserable and disheveled so people will admire them for their fasting. I tell you the truth, that is the only reward they will ever get
God usually shapes you over _____________ periods of time by using things that seem _________________.
Fasting helps us to control our _______________.
2 Kings 7:3-7Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. 4 “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.” 5 So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! 6 For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us!” they cried to one another. 7 So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.
So many people are waiting for _____________ to move, but He's waiting for _____________ to move.
Fasting strengthens your _____________________ with God.
Psalm 42:1-2 As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?
If you don't learn to direct your _________________ they will begin to direct you.
Matthew 5:6 CSB Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Fasting teaches us how to control our _______________.
Philippians 3:10-11 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, 11 so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!
Fasting will unlock spiritual _______________ in your life.
