Prayer & fasting 2025 – Epilogue

On Fri, Thomas Galles put the 4 blogs from the fast into an AI podcasting tool. It created a conversation between two people about the fast and summarized really well what God was saying.

Here’s the link if you’d like to listen to the podcast.

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It suggested why God stopped providing manna after the Israelites arrived in the promised land. Living off God’s daily provision may seem like the ultimate in spiritual life but it’s not what God wanted for them, or us. Yes, God led them into the desert and made them hunger to teach them dependence on him, but once that was established, he was looking for people to partner with, who would actively extend his Kingdom, while remaining totally dependent on him. He’s looking for participants, active agents, ambassadors and co-regents not passive consumers of his goodness. As with Abraham, our spiritual father, we are blessed to be a blessing.

For me this sums up beautifully what God was speaking about during the fast. There were numerous metaphors used to illustrate and illuminate how God wants us to flourish. Whether that was the river flowing from the throne room in Ezekiel 47 or a mighty army rising up in Ezekiel 37, God is calling us to repent of mindsets stuck in lack, disappointment and shrinkage and to focus our minds on his word again.

“Did God really say” is the oldest doubting question in the book, but the enemy keeps churning it out, over and over again. God speaks and the enemy begins to challenge that with questions about our confidence in what God has said and reminders of where it appears God has not kept his word. The journey of faith is persevering in hope (Rom 5:5) even when time elapses and we still haven’t seen what we hoped for.

The heroes of the faith in Hebrews 11 were not flawless individuals. In fact their many failings are listed where their stories are told in the OT, but they are regarded as heroes because they remained convinced of what God had said no matter how long they waited:

13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country – a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Faith is not about how quickly you can realise the miracle, you have no control over that. Great faith is about how long you can remain unwavering, because God has promised, no matter what evidence is thrown at you.

So as we step out towards flourishing together, let us remember from Joshua 5, that God has removed the shame of our past and now he invites us to participate in the future he has for us; we forget what is behind and strain on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of us, to win the prize for which God has called us heavenwards in Christ Jesus. (Phil 3).

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