Some people believe that faith is believing that God will do what you want Him to do. If you pray and believe, God will act in the way you want Him to act on behalf of your situation or circumstance. And they have been taught by man that if you mix some fasting with that praying and believing, you can really get God’s attention and He will do more of what you want Him to do. This type of thinking results in glory being given to the individual who can supposedly move God into action.

I believe that faith is believing that God will do what is right because He is in control and He loves His children. It is in prayer that I allow Him to give me more of His grace in time of need and I turn over my cares and anxieties to Him. My nature wants to hold on to them all, but His nature is to bare them all for me if I just turn them over to Him. Fasting changes me and not God as I lay aside the substance of my continued existence to seek Him and utilize the resources I would have consumed to further His kingdom (Isaiah 58:1-9 True and False Fasting). Throughout the process, no matter how uncomfortable it becomes to me, He is molding and shaping me and I find out that His grace is truly sufficient. And in His timing, when He does what is right, it will be in such a way that the glory will be to Him alone. Soli Deo Gloria!

Know that you are loved,

@PastorGreg
Founder, www.LovingGodFellowship.org