Sermon Illustrations

Tag: Fasting

  • Reducing Self

    Bill Bright nails it when he says that “fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.” Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Fasting

    Fasting as it relates to prayer is the spiritual atomic bomb that our Lord has given us to destroy the strongholds of evil. BILL BRIGHT Jared Brock – American authorClick to TweetFrom the book “A year of living prayerfully” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Fasting

    Is fasting ever a bribe to get God to pay more attention to the petitions? No, a thousand times no. It is simply a way to make clear that we sufficiently reverence the amazing opportunity to ask help from the everlasting God, the creator of the universe, to choose to put everything else aside and…

  • Prayer needs fasting

    Prayer needs fasting

    Prayer needs fasting for its full growth. Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible. Fasting is the other hand, the one with which we let go of the visible. Andrew MurrayClick to TweetFrom the book “With Christ In The School Of Prayer” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Secret prayer and fasting

    Secret prayer and fasting

    I think ministers, above all persons, ought to be much in secret prayer and fasting and also much in prayer and fasting one with another. It seems to me it would becoming the circumstances of the present day, if ministers in a neighbourhood would often meet together and spend days in fasting and fervent prayer…

  • Absence of fasting

    Absence of fasting

    The absence of fasting is the measure of our contentment with the absence of Christ. John PiperClick to TweetFrom the book “A Hunger For God” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Fasting a counterpart to Lord’s supper

    Fasting a counterpart to Lord’s supper

    Fasting is a future oriented counterpart to the past-oriented celebration of the Lord’s supper. John PiperClick to TweetFrom the book “A Hunger For God” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Feasting at God’s table

    Feasting at God’s table

    Fasting is a periodic and sometimes decisive declaration that we would rather feast at God’s table in the kingdom of heaven than feed on the finest delicacies of the world John PiperClick to TweetFrom the book “A Hunger For God” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Goodness of food and the generosity of God

    Goodness of food and the generosity of God

    Fasting is not a no to the goodness of food or the generosity of God in providing it. Rather it is a way of saying, from time to time that having more of the Giver surpasses having the gift John PiperClick to TweetFrom the book “A Hunger For God” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Christian fasting

    Christian fasting

    Christian fasting is a hunger for all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19) aroused by the aroma of Jesus’ love and by the taste of God’s goodness in the gospel of Christ (! Peter 2:2-3) John PiperClick to TweetFrom the book “A Hunger For God” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*