Last week’s message at Christ Fellowship was on prayer and the main passage used was Jeremiah 33:3 where God says, “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” God is telling us – commanding us – to call on Him, to pray to Him and when we do, He will tell us what He wants us to know. But all through the Bible we read of times when it seemed like God just wasn’t speaking. His will was not clear and so the people would add fasting to their prayers to help them hear from God.
We are coming up on a year of being in the auction house now and we are still very grateful to God and the Cantrells for providing it. Seriously, I don’t know what we would do if not for their generosity and we are very thankful. But I am and have been praying for our own place to worship, a place we can stay and call our own permanently. But this is one of those times when God has chosen not to answer those prayers like we want. He continues to say, “Wait.”
So, I’m asking you to join me in fasting just one meal this weekend and to spend that time we would be eating instead praying and communicating with God especially in this matter of a building for our church. You pick the meal and the day but sometime this weekend, let’s spend some extra time just asking for God’s undeserved blessings on His bride, the church. Ask Him to give us wisdom and insight and unity on where we should go next. And spend some time just listening as well. And I know He will tell us great and unsearchable things we do not know.
We start a new sermon series this Sunday on where we all struggle and this Sunday will be on the struggle of faith itself looking at Abram in Genesis 15. I can’t wait to see you! I love you all! — Todd