PRAYER & FASTING (30)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) Prayer & Fasting for Deliverance (Matthew 17:14-21)
i) 14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:14-21 NKJV)
b) Why do you pray and fast?
i) The answer is obvious. Perhaps, there may be other reason(s) that you want to see, a breakthrough in your life or the lives of those you dearly loved. Perhaps, there are other bigger reasons to this like your communities, nation and the world.
c) How may you approach it?
i) There are 40 topics selected specially for the Prayer & Fasting Guide. You may choose and select the topics best suited for your 1-day, or 7-day, or 14-day, or 21-day, or 28-day (or 30 days) , or 40 days of Prayer & Fasting season. To ensure uniformity, each topic has been outlined as follows:
#1) Specific Scripture.
#2) Suggestions for Prayer.
#3) Questions for Reflection (thinking about yourself / your family / your church).
#4) Special Prayer for Family Members.
A. Topic 30: False Religions
1. Specific Scripture: Jonah 2:8; Acts 17:16-29
a) 8 “Those who regard worthless idols, Forsake their own Mercy. (Jonah 2:8 NKJV)
b) 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there. 18 Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? 20 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.” 21 For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
2. Suggestions for Prayer:
a) That leaders and followers will come to know the truth.
b) That Christians will be bold in their witness.
c) That their growth and spread will stop.
d) Wisdom for sharing with those we meet.
e) That those seeking God will find Christ and not the counterfeits constructed by the world.
3. Questions for Reflection (thinking about yourself):
a) Are there areas of your life where God is calling you to repentance?
b) Are there areas of your life where you see God at work and need to celebrate?
c) What do you hear the Spirit of God is saying to you?
4. Special Prayer for Family Members:
a) Pray for repentance (mention their names) that they may come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
b) Pray for mercy (mention their names) that they may return to God with repentance and forgive those who hurt them.
The End ...
0. Introductiona) Prayer & Fasting for Deliverance (Matthew 17:14-21)
i) 14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:14-21 NKJV)
b) Why do you pray and fast?
i) The answer is obvious. Perhaps, there may be other reason(s) that you want to see, a breakthrough in your life or the lives of those you dearly loved. Perhaps, there are other bigger reasons to this like your communities, nation and the world.
c) How may you approach it?
i) There are 40 topics selected specially for the Prayer & Fasting Guide. You may choose and select the topics best suited for your 1-day, or 7-day, or 14-day, or 21-day, or 28-day (or 30 days) , or 40 days of Prayer & Fasting season. To ensure uniformity, each topic has been outlined as follows:
#1) Specific Scripture.
#2) Suggestions for Prayer.
#3) Questions for Reflection (thinking about yourself / your family / your church).
#4) Special Prayer for Family Members.
A. Topic 30: False Religions
1. Specific Scripture: Jonah 2:8; Acts 17:16-29
a) 8 “Those who regard worthless idols, Forsake their own Mercy. (Jonah 2:8 NKJV)
b) 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols. 17 Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the marketplace daily with those who happened to be there. 18 Then certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.
19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new doctrine is of which you speak? 20 For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean.” 21 For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24 “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. (Acts 17:16-29 NKJV)
Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24 “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. (Acts 17:16-29 NKJV)
2. Suggestions for Prayer:
a) That leaders and followers will come to know the truth.
b) That Christians will be bold in their witness.
c) That their growth and spread will stop.
d) Wisdom for sharing with those we meet.
e) That those seeking God will find Christ and not the counterfeits constructed by the world.
3. Questions for Reflection (thinking about yourself):
a) Are there areas of your life where God is calling you to repentance?
b) Are there areas of your life where you see God at work and need to celebrate?
c) What do you hear the Spirit of God is saying to you?
4. Special Prayer for Family Members:
a) Pray for repentance (mention their names) that they may come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
b) Pray for mercy (mention their names) that they may return to God with repentance and forgive those who hurt them.
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