What do you get when you put 170 students in a room designed for 100 with a kickin’ band, fog machine, crazy lights, and amazing energy. You might think chaos, odd smells, and stress. I think of Worship. Every Wednesday night at the Outback the room is alive with the anticipation of God’s glory to be shown and for the Holy spirit to make Himself known in the room. I am awed by the corporate worship of our students, the fervor, the unashamed way they go about it. I am humbled by the respect they show each other and the dignity they conduct themselves with. It blows my mind and I can’t help but be swept away in the passion of a room of students chasing after God’s heart.
Combing that passion with a call to fast is a privilege and challenge. One that will set our student ministry on a new and amazing course. As we deepen our passionate worship to include fasting. Fasting is an intimate and private of way to worship, it effects our corporate worship as well. Where we raise our voices in praise on Wednesday’s or Sunday’s, fasting is done in the stillness and the quietness of our souls. It brings our hearts and minds to the sacred. Fasting is Worship just as singing is. Where singing is an active proclamation with our mouths of the adoration of God. Fasting involves our minds and wills to say God is great and in control. Fasting is a lifestyle worship not an event driven worship. Combine the two together where our minds, our bodies, our will, our tongues, our community are all focused in worship of God. Lets just say I can’t wait until next week…
Actions Step Read Isaiah 58: 1-14
How does fasting and worship work in you life?
Are we guilty of any of the dangers Isaiah warns us about?
Do we bring worship and glory to God in our fasting?
Take a look at you fasting history are there changes that need to be made?
Journal your thoughts!!!
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