4 Week Challenge
CHURCH WIDE MINISTRY
EXPECTANT FAITH CHALLENGE
WEEK ONE
During these next 4 weeks, Epic Life is challenging its people to have expectant faith in Jesus & seek the Lord. We are encouraging our people to not only immerse themselves within prayer & scripture, but also with the spiritual discipline of fasting.
Fasting will start Tuesday evening after dinner and can either be broken around lunch or until dinner the following Wednesday.
What do I do while I fast?
During your set period of fasting abstain from consuming food & drink, besides water. During long periods of fasting, juice may be incorporated between meals, if needed.
How do I confide in the Lord during my fast?
Every time you feel hungry, engage in practices that help align your heart with Jesus by conducting in worship, scripture & prayer. (Resources are provided below to help you navigate through these practices.)
Check out this video form Gospel City Church for essential biblical and practical information regarding fasting. (FASTING-GOSPELCITYCHURCH)
Fasting will start Tuesday evening after dinner and can either be broken around lunch or until dinner the following Wednesday.
What do I do while I fast?
During your set period of fasting abstain from consuming food & drink, besides water. During long periods of fasting, juice may be incorporated between meals, if needed.
How do I confide in the Lord during my fast?
Every time you feel hungry, engage in practices that help align your heart with Jesus by conducting in worship, scripture & prayer. (Resources are provided below to help you navigate through these practices.)
Check out this video form Gospel City Church for essential biblical and practical information regarding fasting. (FASTING-GOSPELCITYCHURCH)
ASKING FOR WISDOM
1 KINGS 3:1-15
PSALM 147:3
"HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED AND BINDS UP THEIR WOUNDS."
PSALM 30:2
"LORD MY GOD, I CALLED TO YOU FOR HELP, AND YOU HEALED ME."
PSALM 91:9-14
"IF YOU SAY, "THE LORD IS MY REFUGE," AND YOU MAKE IT THE MOST HIGH YOUR DWELLING , NO HARM WILL OVERTAKE YOU, NO DISASTER WILL OCME NEAR YOUR TENT."
"SOLOMON MADE AN ALLIANCE WITH PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT AND MARRIED HIS DAUGHTER. HE BROUGHT HER TO THE CITY OF DAVID UNTIL HE FINISHED BUILDING HIS PALACE AND THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, AND THE WALL AROUND JERUSALEM. THE PEOPLE, HOWEVER, WERE STILL SACRIFICING AT THE HIGH PLACES, BECAUSE A TEMPLE HAD NOT YET BEEN BUILT FOR THE NAME OF THE LORD. SOLOMON SHOWED HIS LOVE FOR THE LORD BY WALKING ACCORDING TO THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN HIM BY HIS FATHER DAVID, EXCEPT THAT HE OFFERED SACRIFICES AND BURNED INCENSE ON THE HIGH PLACES.
THE KING WENT TO GIBEON TO OFFER SACRIFICES, FOR THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT HIGH PLACE, AND SOLOMON OFFERED A THOUSAND BURNT OFFERINGS ON THAT ALTAR. AT GIBEON THE LORD APPEARED TO SOLOMON DURING THE NIGHT IN A DREAM, AND GOD SAID, “ASK FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO GIVE YOU.”
SOLOMON ANSWERED, “YOU HAVE SHOWN GREAT KINDNESS TO YOUR SERVANT, MY FATHER DAVID, BECAUSE HE WAS FAITHFUL TO YOU AND RIGHTEOUS AND UPRIGHT IN HEART. YOU HAVE CONTINUED THIS GREAT KINDNESS TO HIM AND HAVE GIVEN HIM A SON TO SIT ON HIS THRONE THIS VERY DAY.
“NOW, LORD MY GOD, YOU HAVE MADE YOUR SERVANT KING IN PLACE OF MY FATHER DAVID. BUT I AM ONLY A LITTLE CHILD AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CARRY OUT MY DUTIES. YOUR SERVANT IS HERE AMONG THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE CHOSEN, A GREAT PEOPLE, TOO NUMEROUS TO COUNT OR NUMBER. SO GIVE YOUR SERVANT A DISCERNING HEART TO GOVERN YOUR PEOPLE AND TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG. FOR WHO IS ABLE TO GOVERN THIS GREAT PEOPLE OF YOURS?”
THE LORD WAS PLEASED THAT SOLOMON HAD ASKED FOR THIS. SO GOD SAID TO HIM, “SINCE YOU HAVE ASKED FOR THIS AND NOT FOR LONG LIFE OR WEALTH FOR YOURSELF, NOR HAVE ASKED FOR THE DEATH OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT FOR DISCERNMENT IN ADMINISTERING JUSTICE, I WILL DO WHAT YOU HAVE ASKED. I WILL GIVE YOU A WISE AND DISCERNING HEART, SO THAT THERE WILL NEVER HAVE BEEN ANYONE LIKE YOU, NOR WILL THERE EVER BE. MOREOVER, I WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU HAVE NOT ASKED FOR—BOTH WEALTH AND HONOR—SO THAT IN YOUR LIFETIME YOU WILL HAVE NO EQUAL AMONG KINGS. AND IF YOU WALK IN OBEDIENCE TO ME AND KEEP MY DECREES AND COMMANDS AS DAVID YOUR FATHER DID, I WILL GIVE YOU A LONG LIFE.” THEN SOLOMON AWOKE—AND HE REALIZED IT HAD BEEN A DREAM."
"HE HEALS THE BROKENHEARTED AND BINDS UP THEIR WOUNDS."
PSALM 30:2
"LORD MY GOD, I CALLED TO YOU FOR HELP, AND YOU HEALED ME."
PSALM 91:9-14
"IF YOU SAY, "THE LORD IS MY REFUGE," AND YOU MAKE IT THE MOST HIGH YOUR DWELLING , NO HARM WILL OVERTAKE YOU, NO DISASTER WILL OCME NEAR YOUR TENT."
SEEKING THE LORD IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY
2 CHRONICLES 20:12
"OUR GOD, WILL YOU NOT JUDGE THEM? FOR WE HAVE NO POWER TO FACE THIS VAST ARMY THAT IS ATTACKING US. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT OUR EYES ARE ON YOU."
"OUR GOD, WILL YOU NOT JUDGE THEM? FOR WE HAVE NO POWER TO FACE THIS VAST ARMY THAT IS ATTACKING US. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT OUR EYES ARE ON YOU."
OVERCOMING TEMPTATION
I CORINTHIANS 10:13
"NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT WHAT IS COMMON TO MANKIND. AND GOD IS FAITHFUL; WE WILL NOT LET YOU BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN BEAR. BUT WHEN YOU ARE TEMPTED, HE WILL ALSO PROVIDE A WAY OUT SO THAT YOU CAN ENDURE IT."
"NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT WHAT IS COMMON TO MANKIND. AND GOD IS FAITHFUL; WE WILL NOT LET YOU BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN BEAR. BUT WHEN YOU ARE TEMPTED, HE WILL ALSO PROVIDE A WAY OUT SO THAT YOU CAN ENDURE IT."
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