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February 14, 2021 | Pastor Seth Drewry


Is not this the fast that I have chosen:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens,
and to let the oppressed go free,
and break every yoke?

Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry
and bring the poor who are outcasts into your house?
When you see the naked, to cover him
and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Then your light shall break forth as the morning,
and your healing shall spring forth quickly,
and your righteousness shall go before you;
the glory of the LORD shall be your reward.

Then you shall call, and the LORD shall answer;
you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am.

If you take away the yoke from your midst,
the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,

and if you give yourself to the hungry
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light shall rise in obscurity,
and your darkness shall become as the noonday.

And the LORD shall guide you continually,
and satisfy your soul in drought,
and strengthen your bones;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Those from among you shall rebuild the old waste places;
you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
and you shall be called, the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Paths in which to Dwell. —Isaiah 58.6-12 (MEV)


Lent Begins this Wednesday

Ash Wednesday Worship Service - 2/17 @ 7pm

Fasting For Lent:
* Feb. 17 - Feb. 19
* 1 Meal or 1 Day per week during Lent
* April 2 - April 4


Fasting In Nineveh

When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” —Jonah 3.6-9

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. —Jonah 3.10


Esther’s Fast

Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law, and if I perish, I perish. —Esther 4.16


Fasting: the discipline of abstaing from food for spiritual purposes.


Fasting is continuous prayer without words.


Fasting helps express, deepens, confirms the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God. —Andrew Murray


  1. We fast to

    ourselves from slavery to sin. (v.6)

  2. We fast to free ourselves from heavy

    . (v.6)

  3. We fast to

    the yoke of oppression. (v.6)

  4. When we fast we

    with the hungry and clothe the naked. (v. 7)

  5. When we fast God shines His

    . (v. 8)

  6. When we fast God’s

    power is released. (v. 8)

  7. When we fast we receive grace to walk in

    . (v. 8)

  8. When we fast we experience His

    in a special way. (v. 8)

  9. When we fast God

    our prayers and answers our cry. (v.9a)

  10. When we fast God

    us in decision making. (v. 9b-11)

  11. When we fast God

    our spiritual lives. (v. 9b-11)

  12. When we fast God

    our faith. (v. 9b-11)

  13. When we fast God promises spiritual

    . (v. 9b-11)

  14. God enables us to

    what was lost & what was broken. (v. 12)


What is the Holy Spirit speaking to you through today’s message?

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