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

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 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.