First Things First -- 2 January 2022

First things First
The importance of starting right. 

Mark 9:29
So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.”

My experience with fasting. When I come to the end of my journey…what brings about effectiveness in ministry? Prayer and fasting.

1. He roots me in my identity as a son
2. He awakens longing
3. He settles the traffic
4. He awakens me to His voice at a greater level

It is a choice of me putting myself in a weak position in order that He might put Himself in a position of being strong in my life. It is a deliberate focus on emptying myself, becoming less in order that He might become more.

Fasting should be called slowing. It’s a paradox because while you’re fasting, everything slows down. God positions you in slowness and yet it is a catalyst to speed up the activity of the Kingdom in your life.

We live in such a noisy, chaotic culture. The spirit of this age screams at us and it is almost impossible to not get concerned with “things too difficult for me.”