We are using the traditional period of Lent to seek after God through prayer & fasting, bringing our \u2018holy dissatisfaction\u2019 to Him collectively as a church family. For these seven weeks, wherever you are in your faith, we are encouraging people to fast, from food, for a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This will look different for everyone, it may be skipping a meal once a week and using that time to pray, it might be as a group you fast all day and break your fast together with a meal in the evening, it might be fasting completely for a day or two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 7 topics are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
12th Feb:<\/strong> Week 1 \u2014 All that is within me <\/strong> 19th Feb: Week 2 \u2014 Information overload<\/strong> 26th Feb: Week 3 \u2014 Repenting well <\/strong> 4th March: Week 4 \u2014 Lamenting with God <\/strong> 11th March: Week 5 \u2014 Calling on God in a time of crisis <\/strong> 18th March: Week 6<\/strong> 25th March:<\/strong> Week 7 \u2014 Knowing God\u2019s Mind <\/strong> FASTING GUIDELINES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For some there may be medical reasons meaning you are unable to safely fast from food completely, or there may be people who struggle with eating disorders. We are using the traditional period of Lent to seek after God through prayer & fasting, bringing our \u2018holy dissatisfaction\u2019 to Him collectively as a church family. For these seven weeks, wherever you are in your faith, we are encouraging people to fast, from food, for a time. This will look different for everyone, it … Continue reading “7 ways of fasting through Lent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotionals","has-post-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kings.church\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Looking at how we praise the Lord with our whole selves.
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Exploring what dials we need to turn down in our lives in order to turn up our spiritual dial.
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Discussing how we repent and how we can use fasting as a way to repent well.
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Considering where we seek comfort in times of grief and lament.
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Assessing our gut reactions when crisis comes our way.
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Examine how you\u2019ve found the practice of fasting and sharing what God has been speaking to you about and stirring your heart towards.
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If this is you or people you know, walk through this together asking the Holy Spirit to reveal if there is a particular type of food to fast from, or something that would be helpful to fast instead of food.
We want to reiterate that we live under grace and it’s important to be safe and sensible about this. There’s room for everyone to grow in this practice in some way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"