PREACHER: REV. SETH KISSI
The 40 days of fasting and prayer excludes fasting on
Sundays because it was a day Christians fast. It recalls the fast of Jesus
Christ and calls on us to depend on him, through emphasizing a series of
disciplines for the year. The period involves cultivating the habit of humbling
yourself before God through fasting and prayer, seeking God’s face through
repentance and of forgiveness sins and a deliberate effort to align your life
with the will of God as presented to us in his word.
People deliberately stay away from food and commit
themselves to the call to do good so that our lives can be marked by these
disciplines. We wait before God in fasting, prayer and in the study of his
word.(Matt 4) through this period we prepare ourselves in prayer for the
temptations that this life provides to Christians, drawing strength from God to
overcome these temptations and live for him. Through tempted in the very ways,
he did not sin unlike Adam who brought sin to the world. Today we are presented
forcefully with the victory of Jesus over sins to help us draw from his
strength and grace to be victors over sin.
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