Happy New Year Saints! – A Fasting Devotional
From: Lyniece Oyola
Happy New Year Saints!
It seems many of us couldn’t wait for 2020 to end with hope that a new year would bring a change for the better. 2020 did affect and challenge us in many ways, I definitely gained some LBs, our country faced racial tensions, politics, conspiracy theories, arguments...even within the church. All the while, God....calling us.....to PRAY!
2020 was the first year that I experienced, various church communities gathering together to pray, to intercede for God’s church, our country, and people in a different way. We cared for one another, helped one another, loved one another, we had conversations that we had never had before that filled our hearts with compassion, concern, and greater understanding. It was not without hardship, pain or loss but it drew some of us nearer to Him, to His heart for people whom He loves. This is what prayer does! Prayer is supposed to change our perspectives, it's supposed to fill us with the very nature of who Jesus is and who we are in Christ. Prayer is where we give Jesus our burdens, cares, brokenness, it’s where we empty ourselves and cloak ourselves with Jesus, His beauty, His eyes, His heart. It’s where we exchange our will for His!
We ended 2020 with a message from our brother, Dave Popovicci, and he said this “we need to be a people marked by prayer......not just for the sake of what we can get from the Lord but for the sake of loving Him....above every other reason, the reason we connect with God heart to heart in the spirit is to know Him so we can love Him.”
Prayer is where we commune with God. Prayer is where we behold Him, we become His dwelling place and HE is what we give to our neighbor. 1 John 4:8b says that GOD IS LOVE. Gen 15:1 HE is our exceedingly great reward. We will never go wrong being with Him!
May your lives be marked in a greater way by Him in 2021. That we are touching the hearts of others with the same love we received from the Lord.
God bless you saints!
Happy New Year Saints!
It seems many of us couldn’t wait for 2020 to end with hope that a new year would bring a change for the better. 2020 did affect and challenge us in many ways, I definitely gained some LBs, our country faced racial tensions, politics, conspiracy theories, arguments...even within the church. All the while, God....calling us.....to PRAY!
2020 was the first year that I experienced, various church communities gathering together to pray, to intercede for God’s church, our country, and people in a different way. We cared for one another, helped one another, loved one another, we had conversations that we had never had before that filled our hearts with compassion, concern, and greater understanding. It was not without hardship, pain or loss but it drew some of us nearer to Him, to His heart for people whom He loves. This is what prayer does! Prayer is supposed to change our perspectives, it's supposed to fill us with the very nature of who Jesus is and who we are in Christ. Prayer is where we give Jesus our burdens, cares, brokenness, it’s where we empty ourselves and cloak ourselves with Jesus, His beauty, His eyes, His heart. It’s where we exchange our will for His!
We ended 2020 with a message from our brother, Dave Popovicci, and he said this “we need to be a people marked by prayer......not just for the sake of what we can get from the Lord but for the sake of loving Him....above every other reason, the reason we connect with God heart to heart in the spirit is to know Him so we can love Him.”
Prayer is where we commune with God. Prayer is where we behold Him, we become His dwelling place and HE is what we give to our neighbor. 1 John 4:8b says that GOD IS LOVE. Gen 15:1 HE is our exceedingly great reward. We will never go wrong being with Him!
May your lives be marked in a greater way by Him in 2021. That we are touching the hearts of others with the same love we received from the Lord.
God bless you saints!