‘Have Your Way’ Faith

Sept 24, 2016Abiding Faith Christian Church

Month of Revivals

• Are You Distracted?• Importance of Forgiveness• Worship• Because You Are Anointed• Are you Profitable for the Work?• The Gospel• ‘Have Your Way’ Faith

‘Have Your Way’ Faith

• Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.– Isaiah 6: 8 (KJV)

• I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. – Phillipians 4:13 (KJV)

‘Have Your Way’ Faith

• And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28

• Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. – Romans 8: 37

Have Your Way Faith

• The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

• All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

• Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. – Proverbs 16:1-3 (KJV)

Have Your Way Faith

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. Proverbs 16:9 (KJV)

Have Your Way Faith

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 16:33

What happens when it doesn’t look like it’s “supposed to”?

• Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. –Romans 5:3-4 (NIV)

• If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.–Proverbs 24:1 (KJV)

• Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me…

Luke 22:42 (KJV)

When bad things happen to Good people

• Scriptural Examples

Fasting

• 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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. –II Chronicles 7:14

Fasting• Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the

bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Isaiah 58: 6

• Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. Isaiah 58:8

• And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Isaiah 58:11

Fasting• Restores the first love for your Lord and result

in a more intimate relationship with Christ• Allows you to humble yourself in the sight of

God• Enables the Holy Spirit to reveal your true

spiritual condition, resulting in brokenness, repentance, and a transformed life.

• Quickens the Word of God in your heart and His truth becomes more meaningful as you commune with the Holy Spirit

Fasting

• Self-denial• Spiritual and physical discipline• “..opens the way for the outpouring of the

Spirit and the restoration of God’s house. Fasting in this age of the absent Bridegroom is in expectation of His return. Soon there will be the midnight cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ It will be too late then to fast and to pray. The time is now. “

God’s Chosen Fast, Arthur Wallis

Fasting

• Transforms your prayer life• Results in a dynamic personal revival • Makes you a channel of revival to others• Enables the Holy Spirit to reveal your

true spiritual condition• Quickens the Word of God in your heart

Types of Fasts

• Normal or Regular• Absolute or Full• Partial• Other self-denial– In marriage, sexual fast (1 Corinthians 7:3-6)– Social media– Technology-TV, phones, videogames

Contraindications to Fasting

• Pregnant or Nursing Mothers• Those with Eating Disorders• Those with diagnosed illnesses and/or Taking

Prescription Medications– Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Anemia, Kidney or

Liver Disease, Ulcers, Cancer*, Heart Disease

Ease into a Fast

• Increase fresh fruits and raw vegetables, juices, and oatmeal

• Eat smaller meals• Avoid high-fat and sugary foods• Commit and determine the length• Medical Check up with your Doctor• PRAY/STUDY THE BIBLE

During the Fast

• Drink plenty of water (distilled/filtered/purified)

• Avoid caffeine and sugary drinks and artificial sweeteners

• Detoxification symptoms– Bowels: consider taking fiber, WATER, WATER– Kidneys: WATER, vegetable>fruit juices, Broth– Lungs: leisurely walks (~30 mins), Deep breathing– Skin: natural body brush/loofah

DURING THE FAST

• Pray with a goal, keep a written journal• Pray and fast with expectation– Daniel 10: 1-2

• Prepare for those obstacles/temptations• Don’t give in to condemnation if you slip.• Don’t make excuses. • REST. Enter into His rest.• Wait for your breakthrough.– May occur after the fast.

Breaking The Fast

• GRADUAL process• Fruits/vegetables-raw, steamed – (except bananas)

• Vegetable/fruit juices• Broths• 1 day of recovery for every 4 days of fasting• Avoid processed and heavy foods during this

time

After the Fast

• Book of Remembrance

• Scriptural References of people who fasted: – Group 1: Genesis-1 Chronicles– Group 2: 2 Chronicles-Malachi– Group 3: New Testament

Have Your Way Faith

• Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. – Romans 5: 1-2

PRAISE

• Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. –Job 13:15

PRAISE• Although the fig tree shall not blossom,

neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, –Habukkuk 3:17-18

PRAISEI will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is

my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. – Psalm 18: 1-6

• Make a Joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.– Psalm 100

PRAISE

• Focuses our attention on God• Allows us to recognize His Sovereignty• Causes us to recall the mighty acts of God• Prepares the way for God to release His

awesome power in his lives• Enlarges our vision of God• Magnifies his presence• Exalts the name of God• Fills our heart with the joy of the Lord

Purpose of the Trials

• Cleansing• Closer Walk with Him• Conforming to the likeness of His Son• Comfort- from Him and through us– 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

• Convicts us-His grace is sufficient (2 Cor 12:9)• Changes us (example of Paul)• Allows us to submit to Him and His will, through our

brokenness so that He might live in and through us.

‘Have Your Way’ Faith

• So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

• For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.”

• Hebrews 10: 35-37 (NIV)

Have Your Way Faith

• For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Philippians 1:21• …nevertheless not my will, but thine,

be done.Luke 22:42 (KJV)

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