Our continuance as a true church depends upon whether we will repent of and turn from our sin toward Jesus and live delighting in him and being led by him.
Jesus is not only to be believed, lived, and shared with our words, but our lives as well as we make disciples and are being discipled by others.
True fasting is between you and God. It isn’t something you show off. It is feasting upon Christ instead of the world.
Fasting does no good if our hearts and actions are not aligned with God’s heart. We must live out God’s heart of seeking justice and loving mercy.
We do not need to be people of fear or rage because our God is mighty in power, he is our refuge, and he is our very present help.
As Christians, we should expect suffering and rejoice in real suffering for Christ’s sake, knowing that our souls are safe in Jesus’ hands.
There are people that you know, that you work with, that you interact with, your neighbors and friends that are groping around in the darkness, searching and seeking for something that they don’t even know. God has placed you in this time and this place so that you can tell them the Gospel.
Because Christ is so wonderful, we should cultivate a life of observant and persistent prayer that aligns with the missionary heart of God so that all might know him. And we should align our lives purposefully in order to see Christ glorified as more and more come to know him.
We should pray all the time, during good and bad times, individually and with friends, and pray with confidence and trust.
We must persistently and expectantly pray to our Father from a heart of sonship and submission