Gospel Gurus Fruitful Handbook for Believers on Fasting
A Guide for Helping You Through Life's Valley Experiences
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JESUS IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW IS TEACHING HIS DICIPLES TO OBSERVE WHAT TO DO WHEN THEY FAST. THIS WAS A STRANGE TEACHING BECAUSE THE DICIPLES WAS NOT FAST BECAUSE JESUS WAS STILL ALIVE AND STILL WITH THEM. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW WE ARE TO FAST AND BY OBEYING THE PRINCIPAL WE WILL REAP THE GREATEST REWARDS.
MOREOVER WHEN YE FAST, BE NOT AS THE HYPOCRITES, OF A SAD COUNTENANCE: FOR THEY DISFIGURE THEIR FACES, THAT THEY MAY APPEAR UNTO MEN TO FAST. VERILY I SAY UNTO, THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD. (17) BUT THOU, WHEN THOU FASTEST, ANOINT THINE HEAD, AND WASH THY FACE; (18)THAT THOU APPEAR NOT UNTO MEN TO FAST, BUT UNTO THY FATHER WHICH IS IN SECRET: AND THY FATHER, WHICH SEETH IN SEETH IN SECRET,SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.
FAST FOR THE SICK TO GET HEALED
(2 SAMUEL 12:22,23)
HERE WE SEE THE EXAMPLE OF KING DAVID WHO WAS GIVEN A WORD OF JUDGEMENT BY THE PROPHET NATHAN. (VERSE 14) THE PROPHET TOLD DAVID THAT HIS CHILD BY BATHSHEBA WOULD DIE. DAVID FASTED IN AN ATTEMPT TO APPEAL TO GOD FOR MERCY. ALTHOUGH THE CHILD DIED AS A RESULT OF HIS SINS HIS FASTING WAS NOT IN VEIN BECAUSE WE THE READERS GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING THAT THROUGH FASTING GOD AT ANYTIME COULD BE GRACIOUS TO US AND GRANT OUR REQUEST. WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT KING DAVID LIVED IN ANOTHER DISPENSATION WHICH MEANS RELIGIOUS SYSTEM BELIEVED TO BE DIVINELY INSTITUTED.
AND HE SAID, WHILE THE CHILD WAS YET ALIVE, I FASTED AND WEPT: FOR I SAID, WHO CAN TELL WHETHER GOD WILL BE GRACIOUS TO ME, THAT THE CHILD MAY LIVE? (23) BUT NOW HE IS DEAD WHEREFORE SHOULD I FAST? CAN I BRING HIM BACK AGAIN? I SHALL GO TO HIM, BUT HE SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME.
FAST FROM PERSONAL DELIVERANCE FROM JUDGEMENT FROM GOD
(1 KINGS
THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF HOW GRACIOUS GOD IS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE STORY OF JEZEBEL AND AHAB TO GET A FULLER UNDER STANDING YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ THE STORY. THIS FAST THAT AHAB TOOK WAS TO BE SPARED FROM JUDGEMENT FROM THE SINS HE COMMITTED WITH AND THROUGH HIS WIFE JEZEBEL.
AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN AHAB HEARD THOSE WORDS, THAT HE RENT HIS CLOTHES, AND FASTED, AND LAY IN SACKCLOTH, AND WENT SOFTLY. (28) AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ELIJAH THE TISH-BITE, SAYING, (29) SEEST THOU HOW AHAB HUMBLETH HIMSELF BEFORE ME, I WILL NOT BRING THE EVIL IN HIS DAYS: BUT IN HIS SON’S DAYS WILL I BRING THE EVIL UPON HIS HOUSE.
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THIS HANDBOOK WAS INSPIRED BY THE HOLY-SPIRIT TO HELP BELIEVERS TO BECOME OVERCOMERS IN AREAS THAT THEY MAY STRUGGLE IN. THE WORLD IS FULL OF DISTRACTIONS AND SOMETIMES IT BECOMES DIFFICULT TO CONSENTRATE ON THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD FOR OUR LIFE. WHEN I WAS ORDAINED A PASTOR, PRIOR TO RECEIVING MY CALLING I WAS INVOVLED IN A OF ACTIVITY AT MY CHURCH, AT MY JOB AND SEEKING A POSITION IN SPORTS AS A LIFE TIME CAREER. I WAS TORN BETWEEN WHAT I WANTED TO DO AND WHAT I NEEDED TO DO.I HAD NEVER FASTED ON MY OWN BEFORE, BUT WHEN I FASTED WITH THE CHURCH IT WAS VERY EFFECTIVE IN HELPING ME HEAR CLEARLY FROM GOD. I REALIZED THAT IN ORDER FOR THIS FAST TO BE EFFECTIVE I HAD TO GLEAN AN UNDERSTANDING OF FASTING AND WHAT I WOULD FAST FROM. I REALIZED THAT I HAD TO ISOLATE MYSELF FROM EVERYTHING THAT I COULD THAT WAS COMMON TO ME. I PREPARED MYSELF BY GETTING RID OF EVERYTHING THAT WOULD DISTRACT ME FROM CONSENTRATING ON HEARING FROM GOD. (MY T.V. COMPUTERS) ANYTHING THAT WAS NOT BIBLE ORIENTED. I WAS ALMOST READY; I JUST NEEDED TO SURROUND MYSELF WITH SOME BIBLE AIDS LIKE STUDY GUIDES AND DIFFERENT BIBLES AND LOTS OF GOSPEL MUSIC. I BOUGHT A PHONE WITH AN ANSWERING MACHINE SO I COULD SCREEN OUT CALLS THAT WAS NOT IMPORTANT SO I COULD STAY CONSECRATED. THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT TIME FOR ME BECAUSE I WAS AT A CROSS ROAD AND I WANTED TO DO WHAT GOD WANTED ME TO DO. THE FAST WAS VERY EFFECTIVE, I LOST WEIGHT WITHOUT TRYING AND WAS ABLE TO QUIET LIFES NOISY DISTRACTIONS AND FOCUS ON THE FAITHFUL CALM STILL VOICE OF MY LORD AND SAVIOUR. I COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT I WAS NOT STARVING OR HAVING HUNGER HEAD ACHES. AS LONG AS I PRAYED AND READ MY BIBLE I HAD STRENGTH. I WAS ONLY WEAK WHEN I WAS AWAY FROM HOME AND HAD TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT LIFE IS LIKE A VAPOR, IT IS HERE THEN IT IS GONE. THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT THE STEPPS OF A GOOD MAN IS ORDERED BY THE LORD AND THAT HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US.
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SEAN HENRY SCOTT SR. A.K.A. GOSPEL GURU. THE GOSPEL IS THE BIRTH THE LIFE THE DEATH AND THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST. GURU IS SIMPLY A TEACHER. I USE THE GIFTS GOD GAVE ME TO TEACH PEOPLE TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT JESUS CHRIST COMMANDED. ON A PERSONAL NOTE SEAN IS A LICENSE MINISTER IN THE STATE OF