Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 21, 2009 (Day Eighteen)

Psalm 118:24 is you verse for today, “This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” At this point in your Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer you should lift up your head and rejoice before your God. You have accomplished so much with you sacrifice and your commitment to prayer. It is time to Praise the Lord! There are seven Hebrew words used throughout the Bible in relation to offering God your praise. Here is quick overview of the seven ways you can attract God’s presence to you now:

1. halal (haw-lal'); to shine; hence, to make a show, to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively, to celebrate; also to stultify: 1 Chronicles 23:5 four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with musical instruments, “which I made,” said David, “for giving praise (HALAL).”

2. yadah (yaw-daw'); literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands): Genesis 29:35 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Now I will praise (YADAH) the LORD.” Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

3. barak (baw-rak'); a primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason): Psalm 95:6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel (BARAK) before the LORD our Maker.

4. tehillah (teh-hil-law'); laudation; specifically (concretely) a hymn: KJV-- praise. Psalm 22:3 But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises (TEHILLAH) of Israel.

5. zamar (zaw-mar'); to touch the strings or parts of a musical instrument, i.e. play upon it; to make music, accompanied by the voice; hence to celebrate in song and music: KJV-- give praise, sing forth praises, psalms. Psalm 21:13 "Be Thou exalted O Lord, in Thine own strength, so will we sing and praise (ZAMAR) Thy power."

6. towdah (to-daw'); properly, an extension of the hand, i.e. (by implication) avowal, or (usually) adoration; specifically, a choir of worshippers: KJV-- confession, (sacrifice of) praise, thanks (-giving, offering). Psalm 50:14 "Offer unto God praise (TOWDAH) and pay thy vows unto the Most High"

7. shabach (shaw-bakh'); a primitive root; properly, to address in a loud tone, i.e. (specifically) loud; figuratively, to pacify (as if by words): KJV-- commend, glory, keep in, praise, still, triumph. Psalm 145:4 One generation shall praise (SHABACH) Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts.

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastorgreg@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

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All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James Version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 20, 2009 (Day Seventeen)

Dr. Bill Bright said, “Fasting is the most powerful spiritual discipline of all the Christian disciplines. Through fasting and prayer, the Holy Spirit can transform your life.” There are also tremendous physical benefits. Ron Lagerquist wrote this enlightening paragraph, “During fasting, toxins are loosened and cleansed from the body, cell by cell, even within deep tissue. The process hurts as by-products enter into the blood. Feelings of weakness, even discouragement, accompany a fasting dip. It is during this time people often give up the fast, dispirited. In the same way, old emotions, memories and hurts are stirred. Why this happens is a mystery. It could be a combination of radical change in lifestyle, slowdown, mental clarity, and the working of the Holy Spirit. Connections are made between a harmful past experience and present encumbrances. They are powerful moments of awakening, and the strengthened fingers of the will are able to skillfully undo the knots that bind, finding new freedom. We discover new strength, convincing a tired hope that one is never too old for remarkable change.” Fasting has both spiritual and physical benefits that are powerful. Add prayer to that mix and you have a life explosion of purpose and power.

It is vital that you engage in prayer during your fasting. As your flesh weakens, that process becomes a gateway for the Holy Spirit to actually lead your prayers in accordance with God’s will. Romans 8:26-28 reveals this to us, “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know for what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our heart knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.” The depth to which you are willing to go in prayer is the gauge that signals your detachment from earthly ties. As those earthly ties are cut away, prayer brings the clarity of revelation. Everything we need can be accessed through prayer. We have no greater need than that of God’s healing and forgiveness. In 2 Chronicles 7:14, God promises us, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

On this seventeenth day of Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer lift your voice and cry out to God for every area of your life. Your fasting has exposed your greatest prayer needs. We need direction for our live from God. We need direction for our children. We need direction regarding our possessions. We are fasting and praying as they did in Ezra 8:21, “I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions.

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastorgreg@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

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All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James Version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 19, 2009 (Day Sixteen)

Are you feeling lighter today? I am not just talking about the physical pounds that we have lost. More importantly, are you carrying less baggage in your spirit as a result of the past sixteen days you have spent in Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer? Fasting is a scalpel you place in the hand of the Great Physician. Fasting is your consent to have God perform the necessary surgery that identifies the areas of fleshly domination, and cut away those “growths” that drain our spirituality. Fasting reveals just how sick we are. Jesus said in Luke 5:31, “They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.” Personally, I am sick of the routines of mediocre Christianity that permeate my everyday life. Fasting enables me to trust God. Trust Him to cut away the desires of my flesh, and their overpowering effect. It is not until you make up your mind to fast, and actually begin, that you can tangibly measure the strongholds of your flesh.

Fasting reveals who you are really working for; what you are really building up; your flesh or your spirit. The works of the flesh are discussed in Galatians 5:19-21. Here are those scriptures from The Message translation, “It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on. This isn't the first time I have warned you, you know. If you use your freedom this way, you will not inherit God's kingdom.” Ouch! This fast has helped me see just how much power I give to my flesh!

As my flesh strengthens through its uninhibited works, my spirit weakens. When my spirit weakens to the place of losing control to my flesh, my entire relationship with God becomes an internal conflict that forces me to masquerade my fleshly domination by exhibiting religious behavior. When this happens, I change the location of my spiritual battle assignment to my flesh. Ephesians 6:12 gives us the precise location of our battlefield, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” We are fighting in the spirit realm. The best way to strengthen your spirit at times is to strip the power of your flesh by fasting. Stay the course, we are almost there.

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastorgreg@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James Version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 18, 2009 (Day Fifteen)

You are walking in an inseparable love that God brought to you before you knew Him! 1 John 4:10 reveals this to us, “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” God’s love for you is initially seen in the fact of Creation. God’s love for you is affirmed in Noah’s Ark that allowed man to be saved through grace when judgment demanded total annihilation. David understood this when he penned Psalm 17:8, “Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings…” God’s love for you is established forever in the offering of His son Jesus Christ on the Cross. My favorite scripture regarding this is found in Colossians 2:14, “…having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”

This Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer is a commitment to walk deeper into the Love of God. The deeper we go into His love we become more aware that we live under the divine protection of God. Romans 8:33 asks this question, “Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.” Everything that could be held against us has been blotted out on the Cross. The love of God continues even now as an ongoing intercessor. Read Romans 8:34 aloud right now, “Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.” Even as you are reading this, Jesus is praying to the Father on your behalf! God’s love saved you and now continues to protect you!

Romans 8:35 probes even deeper, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” No matter what you are going through it will not be strong enough to drive a wedge between you and God’s love. You are forever sealed with the love of God! This fast is illuminating the Love of God to you as never before. You belong to God! You must settle this revelation in your heart today. You must become fully persuaded of God’s unfailing love for you, now and forever! Romans 8:37-39 sums this thought up, “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James Version of the Bible.

January 17, 2009 (Day Fourteen)

Saturday is normally a day of hustle and bustle with flurries of movement. Usually, Saturday is a day off from work. Typically spent in getting all of things done we didn’t get accomplished through the week. This Saturday is different. Today you have fourteen days of sacrifice and willful consecration on your journey of discovery. This discovery is causing you to relinquish your flesh to the Spirit. Romans 6:16 shows us that the choice is solely ours, “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?” We are all either slaves to sin and death, or we have bound ourselves to obedience and righteousness. This Saturday is a day for you to choose obedience to God, and rest in His completed labor on the Cross.

The choice for Lordship of your life is made simple in Romans 13:14, “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.” Your freedom is found in choosing to release your will to God. Walk in the Spirit! Galatians 5:16 declares the reward, “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” You have the ability to make a mental decision, fortified by a spiritual revelation, to walk in divine protection and fulfillment! No one else can make that decision for you. I have found that at this point in my Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer the choice is easy to make.

I am so happy for the spiritual growth you have experienced. You are breaking barriers that have held you for months. Tomorrow you will be attending Sunday Worship Service. Begin right now to allow your faith to create expectancy for the miraculous. Get on the phone and call someone to share the service with you. Matthew 18:20 guarantees, “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” You will receive what you are expecting! Set your spiritual sights high! Your fasting is resulting in a powerful work of the Holy Spirit. Expect that work to manifest in your life! Stay the course and finish strong!

John 15:4 provides faith to finish strong, “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.”

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 16, 2009 (Day Thirteen)

Today you are more than half way to your destination of twenty-one days of Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer. Personally, today is the first day I have become weary with this progression. Then I realized this is a normal feeling. Fasting is a process of death. Dying first to our physical will that so easily dominates our daily routines so we can uncover what our spiritual desires really are. There can be no equality when it comes to a proposed coexistence of our flesh and our spirit. One side is always dominate. Romans 8:5 defines the two choices this way, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.”

This particular season of fasting has caused me to revisit the obvious. You and I are going to experience death. I have spent so much of my time concerned with my fleshly existence. It took these past thirteen days of fasting to bring me face to face with the truth of Romans 8:6, “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” When my flesh is willfully diminished through fasting, my spirit can govern my life under the spiritual laws of God. Romans 8:7, verifies this for us, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.” Romans 8:8, reminds me of the reason I chose to fast, “So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”

Your spirit will grow rapidly when the dominate nature of the flesh is placed in a secondary position. Romans 8:9-10 is your promise today, “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” We are fasting to break through the barriers of our flesh. We are fasting to receive the blessings inherent in a spirit-led life. Romans 8:11 proposes that blessing to us in this manner, “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 15, 2009 (Day Twelve)

Discovery is the process by which we seek to understand the intricate details of a course of action. What are you discovering about yourself on this Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer journey? What do you see when you look at yourself in the eyes of God? Do you have a right or wrong vision of who you are? Let me introduce you to B. P. Burkland, and discover what happened when he saw himself.

B. P. contracted polio when he was a young boy. His parents placed his crippled and deformed body in a box so they could pull him from room to room. One day they left him in front of a mirror and he saw himself. Not the deformed body, or the box, or the limitations. He saw himself running! What he did next is what you must do to break free of the limitations that are barriers to your God life!

HE BEGAN TO ROCK THE BOX UNTIL HE TURNED IT OVER! HE REFUSED THE BARRIERS!

God has given you the ability to see yourself beyond your barriers. You must refuse the “box” and see His vision of your destiny! Job 26:12 said this about God, “He stirs up the sea with His power, and by His understanding He breaks up the storm.” When you understand what God has already given you nothing can stand in the path of your victory and breakthrough!

Psalm 98:4 commands us to, “Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises.” It is time for you to break forth! Whatever has boxed you in can’t hold you any longer. John 8:36 is your key, “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” Rock the box today and never again allow yourself to be bound by the limitation that others put on you.

B.P. Burkland became a very wealthy business man in Seattle, Washington. The Space Needle that indentifies the Seattle skyline was built on land he owned! See yourself through God’s Word and you will breakthrough every barrier in your life today!

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 14, 2009 (Day Eleven)

Today is the day that you have overcome! Overcome is defined as: to get the better of in a struggle or conflict. 1 John 5:5 defines it this way, “Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God…” You are now more than midway through our Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer commitment. You are prevailing in the battle for your mind, body, and spirit! Lift up your head, you are an overcomer!

When Moses sent the twelve spies to see if they could prevail in the promised land, Numbers 13:30 gives this report, “Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” When everyone else saw themselves as grasshoppers, Joshua and Caleb said, “We are well able to overcome it.” You are well able to overcome the barriers that are present in your life. Breakthrough starts with a decision to focus on God’s promise instead of the seemingly insurmountable odds of logic. Logic will lie to you when confronted with the supernatural.

Everything that Satan throws at you is an accusation of the untrue. What he tells you is always a lie. John 8:44 makes it as plan as possible, “(The Devil) …does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” Don’t believe Satan’s lies, you are more than a conqueror through Christ!

Revelation 12:11 gives us a three part formula for defeating Satan, “ And they overcame him by (1) the blood of the Lamb and by (2) the word of their testimony, and they (3) did not love their lives to the death. Jesus gave His life’s blood to create an overcoming breakthrough to the barrier of Satan’s deception. God also gave you a voice to raise and declare your breakthrough by faith. And, you just can’t defeat a person who has nothing to lose and everything to gain!

Ephesians 2:4-7 is your testimony today, “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…”

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 13, 2009 (Day Ten)

Are you tired of waiting on the breakthrough you need from God today? Does it seem like it’s taking too long for the barriers to come down? Genesis, the first book of the Bible, gives us the story of Noah in chapters 6-9. Measure the injustice of your delay against his mission.

At six hundred years old Noah found grace in the eyes of God. He was instructed to build something he had never heard of (a boat) to save himself and his family from something he had never seen (rain). All he had to do was work on the project for one hundred and twenty years in an environment so wicked, that God had already decided to destroy every living thing on the earth because of it! When it was complete (Noah was now 720 years old) he took his family inside with the animals and sat seven days while nothing happened. Then it started raining for forty days and nights. To top it all off he got to stay in the boat, with the animals for another one hundred and fifty days just floating around. (The Ark had no rudder for directional movement)

The twenty-one day Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer is designed to help you put the things of your life into perspective. Romans 8:25 encourages us, “But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.” Your breakthrough is coming. Wait for it with hope and eagerness.

Think about this today, if you fall in love with the process of faith then you can enjoy the journey without being angry for the path it takes. 1 Corinthians 13:7 reminds us that love, “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” You have that love in your heart by the grace and mercy of God. Let it flow out of you today with laser focus. John 6:27 helps us bring that focus into perspective, “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life…”

You will be tempted to give up. Don’t give in. James 1:12 offer us this blessing, “Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.”

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 12, 2009 (Day Nine)

In 1971 I was nine years old. Richard Nixon was President of the United States. We heard that a new stock market called the Nasdaq opened up. The Harlem Globetrotter’s winning streak of 2,495 games ended to the New Jersey Reds. The Colts beat the Cowboys in the Superbowl, and The Carpenters released a song titled, “Rainy Days & Mondays.” If you missed those times you missed the world at half-speed.

In the song, “Rainy Days & Mondays,” there is a verse that states, “What I've got they used to call the blues; Nothin' is really wrong; Feelin' like I don't belong. Walkin' around; Some kind of lonely clown; Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.” Today you may be feeling the same sentiments on this second Monday of Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer. I want to encourage you to break the barrier of disconnection by embracing the call of the Spirit in your life.

Your invitation is found in Psalm 42:7, “Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me.” God is beckoning you today to be drawn into His heart. You have reached a rhythm in your fasting by now that is releasing a supernatural pull on your heart. Answer the call by connecting to the divine flow of God’s wisdom and fellowship offered to you through His Word and prayer.

You are an invited guest into the deepest part of God according to Hebrews 4:16, “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Today your need is to break the barrier of a hurried lifestyle and breakthrough into a deeper intimacy with God than you have ever known. Stop right now and breath in the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 2:7 gives us the original formula for your life’s substance, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” Everything you are becoming in God in found in His breath through you! Acts 17:28 makes this perfectly clear, “for in Him we live and move and have our being…”

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 11, 2009 (Day Eight)

There are some places you just don’t go at night! I grew up in East Texas, not far from where the fabled Saratoga Light can be seen in Hardin County. Everybody wanted to take the trip to see the light which was reportedly the lantern of a headless railroad worker who has lost his head in a railroad accident. The problem with the idea of making the trip was that you had to go at night!

Don’t take me wrong. I am not afraid of the night. I just can’t see what’s in the night because it’s dark. I mean, c’mon, even the Bible says, “men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19) I worked for a Pastor years ago whose goal in life was to put me out of his truck at night, in the middle of nowhere, and instruct me to, “follow that tree line until you come to a deer stand.” I still have an unsettled feeling as I write about it now! As a hunter, I found the afternoon suited me better because of the excessive sunlight that was available. Oh, did I tell you I am not that fond of the dark?

One place you have no business being at night is the cemetery! But, that is exactly where we find Mary Magdalene in John 20:1, “Now the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.”

THERE ARE TIMES WHEN YOUR HEART WILL NOT LET YOU WAIT ON THE DAY!

There are times when you must have an answer! This Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer is positioning you to release your grip on the natural to find a supernatural revelation that breaks the barriers of your fear. Psalm 139:12 promises you this about God, “Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.” Light or dark; night or day; shine or shadows; God is the same! Let go of the status quo that has placed the barriers of fear around you. Breakthrough and be free!

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 10, 2009 (Day Seven)

This is the first Jubilee of our 2009 Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer. The seventh day was the Sabbath in biblical reference. A Day of rest, just as God rested from His creative labor in Genesis. This is the first day of rest in our Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer commitment of twenty-one days. Take a deep breath, rest in His love for you.

While you are resting I want you to know that something is resting in you. Proverbs 14:33 declares, “Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding…” You have the deposit of God’s wisdom within you. It is your greatest supernatural resource. Proverbs 16:16 displays this clearly, “How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.” You can breakthrough the barrier of poverty today by ending your search for money. If you embrace wisdom, finance will follow it into your life!

Proverbs 4:7 affirms this to you, “Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.” The barrier to finance is held in place by fear. The fear of loss is a debilitating tool the enemy of your soul uses to immobilize you. “What if I lose my house?” “What if I lose my car?” “What if…” you fill in the blank! Break that barrier today by walking in what is resting within you-the wisdom of God!

You have now completed one-third of this breakthrough journey! Stay the course! Hebrews 11:6 reminds us that, “He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Your diligence will bring you the breakthrough you prayed for!

Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 9, 2009 (Day Six)

The sixth day of creation was one of the most interesting days of creative display in all of Genesis. Genesis 1:31 sums up the sixth day like this, “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” The word “good” is used six times prior to this verse to describe God’s creative work. But the sixth day brings the seventh “good” with a “very” attached to it! That attachment is a powerful clue as to the importance of the sixth day.

Is it so easy when you are in the midst of a creative miracle to miss some of the intricate details that take place as it happens. On this sixth day of our Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer you cannot miss the elaborate work of the Holy Spirit in your life! Let me explain what I am sensing in the my spirit today.

Everything was in place in the earth except purpose. Why was it here? What was its purpose? Watch God as He calls out of the earth every living creature. Beast of the field; birds of the air; creeping animals; herbs to yield seed; trees to yield seed; and then the grand finale. Genesis 1:27, “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

Everything is in place now! It looks complete. Except God has not revealed His purpose yet! Look closely at , Genesis 1:28 "Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” A divine exchange took place that exposes the Earth’s purpose. God gives Adam and Eve the blessing of His authority and complete dominion over the Earth and everything related to it. In exchange, Adam and Eve commit to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it!

God has placed you on this planet to grow exponentially. You were not only born on this earth with the innate potential for growth, you were commanded to engage in it! 3 John 1:2 shows the character of your design, “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.” You have to make a conscience decision to stop the divine nature of the spiritual genomes that God has created you with. Multiplication is as much a part of your make up as the ability to breath!

Psalm 139:14 declares that you are, “…fearfully and wonderfully made…” Rise up and take the rightful place of your created purpose in this Earth. This is your sixth day! It is a very good day for you. Fill the Earth! I love the word “subdue” in the passage of Genesis 1:28. It means to shout it out loud!

Today you must stand up out of the uniformity of our culture and shout out who you are! Your breakthrough today is in the revelation of your position. Psalm 8:5 displays your crown, “For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.” You are God’s choice to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it!

I tear down the barriers of doubt and inferiority that have been built around you! Come on Holy Spirit, crash through the barricades of guilt and condemnation and set God’s people free now! In Jesus Name I speak release over your life right now! Rise up in freedom! Breakthrough!

Send me your testimony of deliverance. Email it to me at pastor@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!

Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James version of the Bible.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 8, 2009 (Day Five)

On this fifth day of fasting the word in my spirit is CONTINUE! This is the time for you to stay steadfast in what you have started with God. You have connected! You have committed! Now you must continue. This is your day to ask God for wisdom. Wisdom is the correct application of knowledge. Today you will be established with a new faith found in the wisdom of God. The wisdom of God is yours for the asking! James 1:5-6 (NKJ), “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.”

Continue! Galatians 6:9 (NKJ) is your promise today, “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” The layers of this life’s care are being peeled off of your spirit so you can get down to the business of continuing! There is a blessing for those who continue!

Genesis 26:1-17, relates the story of Isaac’s blessing when he continued in what God had commanded him to do. Four important components were involved in Isaac’s hundredfold harvest. First the entire land was in famine. Second, God told him not to leave. Third, Isaac was told that if he stayed in the land it would become his and he would greatly multiply. Fourth, he sowed in that land of famine.

Let’s look at those four components again as they relate to us today. First, the condition of your environment has no bearing on the supernatural law of God’s provision. Second, if you will obey god’s directive to you it will turn an unproductive location or event into a fertile place of supernatural increase. Third, when God promises blessing, what you do next will determine your life for years to come. And fourth, Isaac empowered his faith through obedience and sowed without being commanded.

It doesn’t matter what the economic atmosphere is. This is where God has told you to remain. Continuing in obedience will fertilize your famine into harvest.

The result of Isaac’s continuing is revealed in Genesis 26:12 (NKJ), “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.” The secret to Isaac’s blessing is found in Genesis 26:13, “The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;”

Let me build your faith to continue with these bible references:

1. Boaz chose Ruth to be his wife because of a special quality he discovered in her. That quality is seen in Ruth 2:7 (NKJ), “And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ So she came and has continued from morning until now, though she rested a little in the house.” Ruth wouldn’t stop. She continued! Her persistence places her in the lineage of Jesus Christ even though she was not a Jew!
2. Hannah had the shame and ridicule of her barrenness removed because she continued! Look at her perseverance in 1 Samuel 1:12(NKJ), “And it happened, as she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli watched her mouth.” God gave her Samuel because she continued!
3. The ravaged walls of Jerusalem were restored by Nehemiah out of his refusal to quit! He states it with his own words in Nehemiah 5:16 (NKJ), “Indeed, I also continued the work on this wall, and we did not buy any land. All my servants were gathered there for the work.” The dogged determination and laser focus of a single purpose forced him to continue!
4. The great outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost was the result of people who simply continued! Acts 1:14 (NKJ) declares this key element, “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.” You cannot receive an outpouring from God without continuing in what He commanded you to do!
5. The new church born at Pentecost exploded in number and strength because they would not stop doing what Jesus had commanded. Acts 2:42 (NKJ) displays their tenacity, “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.” There is blessing of personal growth when you continue!

Stay the course! What you are receiving is worth the sacrifice. You can complete this journey. I believe in you! Blessing is waiting for you. Continue!

Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJ) “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 7, 2009 (Day Four)

Today we are breaking free of food strongholds that we have so easily accepted in our lives. By the fourth day most of the initial cravings have begun to subside. The sugar demon is fading and the caffeine circus that has played in my head is taking down the Big Top! Food addictions are very real. We are painfully aware of that fact today more than ever. Stay the course! You are, “pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled” (2 Corinthians 10:4-6 NKJ).

Every day of this passage from a fleshly dominated mental arena to a spirit-filled life of revelation and growth is worth the headache! One of the upsides is also found in the mellowing we all tend to experience a little more each day as we walk deeper into this Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer Journey!

I confess, the saga of this fasting expedition played out in the diverse characters on this voyage, can be very entertaining. For instance, in my household, because my children are entering adulthood, we allow them to determine their own level of commitment in fasting. While this puts the emphasis on them individually to direct their spiritual discovery, it has an unintended consequence of comparisons that produce judgment and condemnation. Hey guys! This reminder in 2 Corinthians 10:12 (MSG) might be helpful, “…in all this comparing and grading and competing, they quite miss the point.”

Remember the three words I have been sharing with you; connect; commit; continue? On this fourth day of fasting the word in my spirit is commit! Psalm 37:4-5 (NKJ) gives us this promise regarding commitment, “Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.”

You will adjust your lifestyle to accommodate your commitment to God, or adjust your commitment to accommodate your lifestyle! You will never be uncommitted. You are pledging your life to something with every breath. A commitment to God has the faithful promise of His completed work regarding the desires of your heart. Your commitment to Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer is the foundation on which your delight in God is being erected! Stay the course.

There is an added bonus to a Godly commitment also! In this crazy world of delusion and fantasy you can have the guarantee of Proverbs 16:3 (NKJ), “Commit your works to the LORD, and your thoughts will be established.” Right not! Today! Commit everything you are working on to God!

Webster defines the word commit as: to carry into action deliberately! Make the deliberate choice to carry everything you are involved with into God’s hand! Commit it to Him now! Watch his power be released through your life in a miraculous manner.

Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJ) “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 6, 2009 (Day Three)

On this third day of Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer, God is dealing with me about my connections. What have I become connected to? Today God wants to give you and I the breakthroughs we need from the willful attachments that have become hindrances to our spiritual growth. I believe it will be a two-step process. The first step will be a disconnection process where the Holy Spirit will reveal detrimental attachments to be free from. The second step will be a supernatural connection experience where God will call you into a deeper relationship with Him that you have ever known.

The problem with the hindering connections we affix ourselves to is found in the massive weight that we must carry to remain attached to them. Hebrews 12:1 commands us to, “…lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us…” You are going to break free today from every connection that is harmful!

The word connect does not appear in the Bible. Not in the version we have come to use in our English language. Our word connect, comes from a combination of Latin and Middle English that came into use in the early 1400’s. The biblical word for connect is join. In both Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament) translations it simply means the willful tying of one’s self to something.

Jesus uses the word in Mark 10:9 relating to marriage, “Therefore what God has joined together let not man separate.” Let’s examine our relationships today. Do you feel distant from your spouse? Do you have family associations that are strained and dysfunctional? Sever all ties that encroach on the intimacy of your marriage. Any interaction that draws negatively on your marriage must be disconnected from today!

If you have family members who refuse to recognize the boundaries of your life goals, reaffirm those desires and disconnect if needed. This fast will reveal unhealthy connections. Matthew 19:29 promises, “And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.”

What about you connections to friends? You will become what you associate with. Luke 15:15 tells the story of the Prodigal Son in this manner, “Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.” It seems normal to violate your principles when the environment you have embraced accepts it as ordinary and usual. This danger is revealed deeper in 2 Corinthians 6:14, “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?” Today is your breakthrough past the barrier of quiet acceptance; into the blessing of spiritual connections that promote righteousness. God is illuminating a path to the spiritual connections you need.

1 Corinthians 1:10 commands us to, “…speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” God has a perfect fit for you in His Kingdom! This Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer will direct you to disconnect from the things that are weighing you down and hindering the life God has for you. Your personal blessing and promise for this is found in 1 Corinthians 6:17, “ But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.”

God has set you in a spiritual family. In this spiritual family that you are a part of God has ordained that everything you need to grow and live exists through the divine supply of His purpose. Ephesians 4:16 makes this profoundly clear, “ …from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”

On this third day of fasting you have probably begun to conqueror the physical withdrawals (including the sugar headaches) from the food you have given up. If you are also fasting secular media you could be dealing with the deafening silence. This is a good time to examine your connections. What are you joined to? What do you need to disconnect from? Today the Holy Spirit begins to reach past the barriers of your flesh into your spirit to lead you deeper into Him. Stay the course! God is connecting you to a supernatural source of spiritual advancement that will reap a mighty harvest of His purpose through you.

Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJ) “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship.Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

January 5, 2009 (Day Two)

I believe that Holy Spirit has given me three words for our lives as we enter 2009. The words are Connect, Commit, and Continue! Throughout this twenty-one day journey of Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer I will be referencing these words as they grow in my spirit.

Do our lives revolve around God? Or, have we placed God in a fixed orbit around us? This fast is about recognizing the barriers that have been placed in our lives that can so easily, “and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man.” (Romans 1:23 NKJ)

One of the primary things in my own personal life that I am identifying as a barrier to my spiritual growth today is the complacency with which I approach the things of God. Can you see that in your own life? Have our lives becomes so hectic that God has become just another piece of the puzzle we have to put together everyday just to survive? Without even thinking, we take the responsibility to make everything revolve around us, even God! What has happened to, “…for in Him we live and move and have our being…” (Acts 17:28 NKJ)

God is the source of life! He is not just a piece of my life. He is explained in John 1:4, “ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” God is not just an object in my life that I illuminated when crises strikes. My very existence is dependent on His illumination in me. John 8:12 makes this even more clear when Jesus says, “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” Without God I cannot exist! He has been, and will continue to be, with or without me! Without a conscience effort on my part to make everything in my life submit to God, barriers begin to form that segregate God away from who I am.

How foolish is the attempt to make God submit to everything in my life. The barrier of my personal idolatry must be torn down. I must breakthrough my humanistic mindset that exalts my experiences above God’s sovereignty! Let’s break that barrier now by quoting 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, “ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ…”

There is a blessing waiting for you when you breakthrough the barrier of a humanistic mindset that exalts you above God. Read this aloud, “Isaiah 64:4-5 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him. You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways…”

This is what your breakthrough has brought you today: If you acknowledge God as the only God, and complete source of your life and existence, He acts, moves, or intervenes for you. And, if you remember God with rejoicing and righteousness, God meets with you in every moment!

Pray this with me now, “God, you are my God! I submit my mind, my experiences, my intellect, and my fears to You. I declare that you are God over all and Lord of my life. I connect myself today to the absolute truth of your reality and commit to the paths of righteousness found in Your Word. I will continue in this declaration every day with faith and rejoicing! In Jesus Name, Amen!”

Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJ) “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship. Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer

Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer January 4, 2009 (Day One)

Today is your beginning. I want you to make a conscience effort to identify this day as a starting place. What has happened to you before today is only a thing of the past. Your past was your passage to this place. Today is a day to forget. Forgetting your past is to neglect, or no longer care for, what happened and why. As we begin this Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer you are being released to forget.

Philippians 3:12-14 (MSG) I’m not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back.

Setting the course for a new beginning on this first day of your Breakthrough experience is vital to the total freedom that is calling you to break loose from the shackles of your past experiences. Inside of you is a God-given desire to soar above the cares of this life. The cares of this life are the tethers that hold you bound to a situation or an experience. You are not what you have been through. Your identity is not found in what you have experienced. You are free by virtue of the Creator who fearfully and wonderfully made you in His image.

Psalm 139:14(NKJ) I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well.

Genesis 1:27 (NKJ) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

This is why you are so uncomfortable with the disparity between what you have read about God, and what you are actually experiencing. You were not created to bear the burdens of an inconsistent spiritual existence. You must grasp this principle: Your physical world is ordered from a spiritual realm. This Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer is designed to diminish the physical input into your life to accentuate the spiritual hunger that is buried beneath the cares of life. The spiritual seeds have been planted; whether or not they grow is a direct result of your attitude and concern for them.

Luke 8:14 (NKJ) Now the ones that fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

In order for you to release your past and forget it, you must make a decision to disconnect from it. You disconnect from your past through repentance. You can actually lay down the weight of your past experiences and start fresh and new today. The future God has created for you demands a new start today to embrace it.

Hebrews 12:1 (NKJ)Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

You disconnect from your past through repentance. To repent is to seek God’s forgiveness. Seeking God’s forgiveness is not a display of weak faith. It doesn’t mean you are worthless and unworthy. All have sinned and come short of what God expects. The Bible says to us,”If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves.” The Bible also tells us, “Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.” You do the math; we need God’s forgiveness on a daily basis. Disconnect from your past today by asking God for His forgiveness.

Romans 3:23 (NKJ) …for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
1 John 1:8 (NKJ) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Romans 14:23 (NKJ) …for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

This year is going to be your best year ever! This is your season for a new song! The reason you need a new song is found in this prophetic fact: God is doing a new thing in your life!

Psalm 98:1 (NKJ) Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

You have walked faithfully through the paths of your life as they have been revealed to you. This Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer is to prepare you for a new revelation of God’s purpose and direction.

Isaiah 42:9 (NKJ) See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you."

You may think it impossible for God to do anything out of the current place you find yourself. It has been my experience with God that He doesn’t often move you from a place to deliver you; He simply opens your eyes to what He sees in that place. The new thing God is doing for you will spring up out of the wasteland you have given up on. Only God can take nothing and make everything!

Isaiah 42:8-10 (NKJ) See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

During this Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer you will receive divine interpretation for unanswered questions. You will experience clarity in hearing God’s voice. Things that have been hidden to you will be revealed in great detail. Your decision to breakthrough will result in the exposure of answers you have sought in prayer and counsel.

Isaiah 43:18-20 (NKJ) You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? "From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.

The primary purpose of this season of fasting is to increase our spiritual capacity to receive a divine impartation of prophetic release, for the next dimension of ministry through Community Life Fellowship, and our individual lives.

Secondary purposes include: spiritual sensitivity, prophetic awareness, crucifying of our fleshly desires, limiting the appetite of our flesh to feed our spirits with Godly substance, and overcoming the barriers and limits that hinder personal and corporate breakthrough.

Be sure and use your Fasting Journal as a reference point throughout this fast. Write down your thoughts. Write out your Prayer Requests, and then write the answers out when they come. This will strengthen your faith in a tremendous way. When you identify a “Barrier” or “Limit”, write it down and make it a part of your prayer process. You will be amazed at how quickly those areas will become “Breakthrough Points”. I believe God with you for a powerful journey.

Each day during this twenty-one day period of Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer I will communicate with you through my blogs, email, text, and phone calls. I will share with you the things I am sensing in the Spirit. During your daily time of devotion take these words and seal them in your spirit.

Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJ) “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”

Blessings & Peace,

PG

Connect, Commit, and Continue! Connect to the divine flow of impartation found in the storehouse of Community Life Fellowship.Commit to loyalty in Christian service through the ministry of Community Life Fellowship. Continue in the quest for Bible-based foundations of Kingdom Purpose and personal evangelism that are the fundamental works of Community Life Fellowship.