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Can someone please help me understand fasting? Fasting and Prayer? How and Why's do we do it? The Do's and the Don't? Does it really work? Etc... I'm really trying to learn and understand. Thanks ###.

Matthew 18:27 Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. I was meditating on this verse, the above verse is the base for forgiveness. If you observe, there are three things: Compassion Loosing Forgiving Compassion We must choose to forgive those who have done us wrong. Jesus, when he was on the cross, chose to forgive the people who put him on the cross, and his words were "Father, forgive them!" In a similar way, we need to have compassion on others and forgive them. Loosing We need to loose the person who has sinned against us. We should not hold on to that. Release those hurts and pains and give them into the hands of Jesus. 1 Peter 5:7, "Casting all your care upon...

i dont know how i will be tomorrow. am not looking forward to it except to hear from God.

I am getting ready to leave for ### for a funeral for a ### year old that overdosed. This has become all too common in that generation. Heroin is wiping out an entire generation it seems. I am praying for the family of the victim. I pray that the ### are led to The Lord to seek comfort, strength, and peace. I pray if The Lord needs me He will give me His heart, eyes, ears, and words. I pray I walk in His strength. Lord, I ask You to powerfully come into this world of drugs, death, and evil. Lord, lead all to You, Lord, set these addicts free. Thank You, Jesus, Amen.

well its been going better, God has been helping a lot even though I don't deserve it and haven't been spending much time with Him. Have been having quite a lot of anxiety, waking during the night when I used to sleep right through. I think I need the Word of God more but I am not reading it much I am tired most of the time but it has been going better

This is a mind-science study of why certain paradigms work and why others don't according to the Bible. If you have some habitual sin, or addiction, this is a good blog to read. Before I concluded these reflections with Father God, I was restrained from searching Him out for fear of being guilty of unholy motivation. So I was reading: James 4:6-7 "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." Therefore submit to God. I thought I can't submit to God unless I'm motivated enough to do it. That's easy enough to understand. But there's a double-mindedness to my spirituality that I had to address there (James 1:7-8). If I left it at that I wasn't addressing the root issue, so I continued to the root motivation so I could have a...

Today's post is more about me seeking The Lord's will on Marriage, Divorce, Remarriage, and Parenting. This has been in my thoughts for months. I have not written about it because I have no revelation on it. Recently events have made it so strong on my mind I believe some light will be shed on it. This again will be more like a journal entry and may not have any organization to it. My mother was married to my biological father until I was two. The story goes he was a wonderful man until he went to Vietnam, but when he returned he was profoundly changed. That is when he began using drugs and alcohol, and feeding a raging sex addiction. At the age of five, she married another man, that later adopted me as his own. This marriage was full...

Acts 1:6-8 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” I have a great feeling of The Lord's awesome power when I go to church and the sermon speaks directly to a situation I am in. Over the weekend I have had the great privilege of spending some time really getting to know some children in the youth program at church. I know some of their stories from their parents, but hearing from the children themselves is overwhelming. The issues these 9 children have experienced in the past and are currently dealing with: reoccurring abandonment from parents, sexual abuse, parental mental health issues, adultery, losing a parent to death, almost losing a parent to death due to...

This has been an interesting two days, a great opportunity to seek God's wisdom, forgiveness, and mercy. For about two weeks I have really been into studying Genesis. The phrase "I am a sinner in need of a savior" has really been strong on my heart. Some questions I have been seeking answers to are: Why did God put the tree of wisdom in the garden in the first place?, Why did Eve eat the apple? She was given one command and she broke it! Listening to a teaching on Genesis, the speaker said something to the affect of; If you don't think you would have eaten the apple, or you don't think you could have pulled the trigger at one of the school shootings, you are missing a very profound point. Pride has been clouding the Truth. Still in...