My aim and my prayer in writing this book is that it might awaken a hunger for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples. Fasting proves the presence, and fans the flame, of that hunger.

Paul, fol-lowing the lead of Jesus, deliberately diverted the disciples’ attention away from fasting and any form of food asceticism and into prayer, service, and toil on behalf of the Kingdom.

Carry this manual to church and use it during collective times of corporate prayer in praying for others – there are sections included for praising God, as well as many Scripture prayers, etc.

List one or two new habits you want to cultivate to enrich your private prayer time—or, if your private prayer time needs a full overhaul, write a new Private Prayer Plan.

PRAYER Thank God for the significance of His love for His children. Pray that your group would learn what it looks like to fully delight in the treasure that is given to us in Jesus Christ. Ask God for …

oming of Christ. We pray for his appearing, because we lov his ap pearing. The prayer “Come, Lord Jesus” is rooted in something deeper: “I love y akening happens. This love involves desiring, lon ing, …

This seminar is designed to teach on the biblical disciplines of prayer, meditation, and fasting from the radically God-centered, Christian hedonistic point of view taught in the Scriptures.

Our united prayer and commitment, from the home base of a missions-mobilizing local church, and the newly founded Bethlehem College and Seminary, is that God will be merciful to us and make our …

Therefore the work of the Holy Spirit is essential for right understanding of the Bible,5 and prayer for His assistance belongs to a proper effort to understand and apply God‘s Word.6

In the chaos of our increasingly fast-paced and hectic society, Holy Week is a reminder to pause and ponder, to carefully mark each day and not let this greatest of all weeks fly by us like every other. …