Wrangell Seventh-day Adventist Church
Email us, Follow us on:
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • What We Believe
    • Members Resources
  • Sermons
    • Sermon 2025
    • Sermons 2024
    • Sermons 2023
    • Sermons 2022
    • Sermons 2021
    • Sermons 2020
    • Sermons- 2019
  • Ministries
    • Adopt-A-Village (Artic Mission Adventure)
    • Alaska Adventist Radio
    • Children's Ministries >
      • Adventurer Club
      • SE Region- Children's Ministries Newsletter
      • On Fire For Him Archive
    • Community Services
    • DIY Vacation Bible School
    • Social Media
    • SouthEast CampMeeting >
      • 2024 SouthEast Campmeeting
      • 2023 SouthEast Campmeeting
      • 2022 SouthEast Campmeeting
      • 2021 SouthEast CampMeeting
      • 2020 SouthEast CampMeeting
      • 2019 SouthEast CampMeeting
      • 2018 SouthEast CampMeeting
    • Camp Lorraine/Vank Island >
      • Camp Lorraine
      • Vank Island Rental
  • Spiritual Growth
    • Bible Study Resources
    • Blog Pages >
      • Steps to Christ Recovery Edition Blog
      • Pastor Brad's Blog
      • Active in Ministry
    • Media Resources
    • Prayer Requests
    • Scripture Songs
    • Thunder in the Holy Land
    • Week of Prayer >
      • Week of Prayer 2024
      • Week of Prayer 2023
      • Week of Prayer 2022
    • Wrangell SDA Podcast >
      • Season 1: Sanctuary Prayer
      • Season 2: Camp Lorraine
      • Season 3: VBS
      • Season 4: Sabbath
      • Season 5: Back to Basics
  • Calendar
  • Online Giving

Fasting and Prayer

3/29/2020

0 Comments

 
As we continue our study on surrender and especially focus on the Holy Spirit; let's remember that He is a gift from our Lord and Savior Jesus, so He can live in us as we walk this life. This week I want to look at what the disciples were doing when they received guidance to witness. 
"And when they fasted and prayed..." Acts13:2 
These followers of Jesus were fasting and praying and the Holy Spirit came and spoke to them. God had already extended His Church to Antioch and had given rich blessings to the Early Church. Now we find them serving Jesus with prayer and fasting. They are convicted that they can not do it on their own. That they must have the Holy Spirits leading every step of the way! Andrew Murray in his book Absolute Surrender puts it this way, 
"What a deep conviction they have - "It must all come direct from Heaven. We are in fellowship with the risen Lord; we must have a close union with Him, and somehow He will let us know what He wants." And they were, empty, ignorant, helpless, glad and joyful, but deeply humbled. "O Lord," they seem to say, "we are Thy servants, and in fasting and prayer we wait upon Thee. What is Thy will for us?" Absolute Surrender page 41 
We see the same reaction from Peter! He is on the housetop fasting and praying and God sent the vision to go to Caesarea. He didn't know what to do; he was just waiting to see what direction God was leading, but he was fasting and praying as he waited. 
You see friends, it is when our hearts are completely and entirely surrendered to Jesus; when we are separating ourselves from the the things of this world and in intense prayer seeking Jesus that God will reveal His will to us. 
It is when we are willing to go into our closets and shut out the business and televisions and technology, anything that can distract and get alone with God. These disciples in Acts went even deeper and shut themselves away from the material things like food and fasted! They wanted so bad to let go of anything that would distract them from intensely seeking their Lord; anything that would separate them from Jesus that they wouldn't even eat. That's how much they desired God's will through the Holy Spirit! 
I encourage you and me to truly seek the will of God in our lives and in our Church. To allow the Holy Spirit to fill us with Jesus and then send us out to reach a world that needs Jesus just as much as we do. 
Have a wonderful week and remember to pray with someone else in our Church for revival and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit! 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Pastor Brad

    Pastor Brad Traxler is the pastor of the Wrangell SDA Church. Brad Traxler is the husband of forty years to Cheryl, father to Kimberly and Ryan, and grandfather to Brad, Kevin, William, Eamon, Zairhen, Seraphina, and Zeelyah. He holds a BA in Theology and has been pastoring churches for twenty years. The greatest passion of His life has been to share Jesus. 

    Picture

    Archives

    April 2023
    June 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    May 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly