Tag Archives: Lent

Staggering Taste

Are you like the people in this psalm, staggering under the weight of your worries?  Psalm 60:2-3 (NIV) You have shaken the land and torn it open; mend its fractures, for it is quaking. You have shown your people desperate times; you … Continue reading

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Don’t Taste

Who’s telling you “don’t eat”? Colossians 2:21-22 (VOICE) You hear, “Don’t handle this! Don’t taste that! Don’t even touch it!” but everything they are obsessed about will eventually decay with use. These rules are just human commands and teachings. Let God … Continue reading

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Sweet Taste

Wisdom is to my soul as dessert is to my tongue. Proverbs 24:13 (NIV) Wisdom is like honey for you. Sweet wisdom, please. And supersize it!  

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Committed Fast

Paul and Barnabas fasted, along with church leaders. Acts 14:23 (ESV) And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. Paul, Barnabas and … Continue reading

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Humble Fast

Ezra 8:21 (NIV) I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him . . . Why a humble fast? “There is a treatise by an old Puritan, called, ‘The soul fattening institution of … Continue reading

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Wrong Fast

The people complained and God answered. Isaiah 58:3-4 (MSG) “Why do we fast and you don’t look our way? Why do we humble ourselves and you don’t even notice?” “Well, here’s why: The bottom line on your ‘fast days’ is … Continue reading

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Why Fast?

Zechariah 7:4-5 (NIV) Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me:  “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really … Continue reading

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Secret Fast

Matthew 6:16 (NTE) When you fast, don’t be gloomy like the play-actors. They make their faces quite unrecognizable, so that everyone can see they’re fasting. I’m telling you the truth: they have received their reward in full. Notice what Jesus … Continue reading

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Holy Fast

Lots of folks fast during Lent. The idea calls for some serious thought. Joel 1:14 (MSG) Declare a holy fast, call a special meeting, get the leaders together. Round up everyone in the country. Get them into God’s Sanctuary for serious … Continue reading

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Blessed Bread

The disciples faced thousands of hungry souls: Matthew 14:19-20 (ESV) Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he [Jesus] looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and … Continue reading

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