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Fast, Toward Home!

“Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God.” John Piper.

May 15, 2025

Answered Prayers!, Change, Compassion, Epiphanies, Experience, Faith, Faithfulness, Fasting

“Fast AND Pray.”, “This kind goes not out except by prayer AND fasting.”, “WHEN Ye Fast…”, Fast Toward Home, Fasting Brings Heaven to Earth, Fasting Changes ME, Fasting Changes Things, Fasting is Transformative, Prayer AND Fasting, Prayer AND Fasting Makes a Bigger Difference
The Old is Gone, THE New Has Come: No More PAST, Present & Future Living…

We were made for divine Double-vision, not triple-vision, to learn from and perhaps even admire, the past, albeit at a safe distance…but NOT to live in it, to our own stagnation and demise. So we desperately need elevated Duplicity of Vision, first for our Truer, Homebound Tomorrows, then for our Urgent, Needful Todays, to be embraced by God’s Double, above-time Vision that can empower higher-living perspectives and foster HIS freedom and joy-strength in the Here and Now. In short, ‘Today AND Tomorrow Double-Vision’ but not, ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Triple-Vision’ (and I should know, as I live with physical double-vision)! “…old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new,” II Corinthians 5:17 and “…do not dwell on the past,” Isaiah 43:18 and “…this ONE thing I do…” Philippians 3:13. Rhema.

April 18, 2025

Passion, Perspective, Prayer, Promises, Selflessness, Success, Tradeoffs

A Better Today Here…because of a Beautiful Tomorrow Coming!, NEW Things Here, NEXT-level Living, Old Things are Passed Away; Behold All Things are Become New (or CAN)!, OLD Things Gone, OLD Times Gone; NEW Times Here!, TAKE Time, Take Time to the Next Level
LIFE is Love.

The LIFE of God IS the LOVE of God and, therefore, His extravagant, exhilarating and transformative Power. dkb. “God IS Love.” Apostle John, in I John 4:8, 16.

April 18, 2025

Change, Compassion, Epiphanies, Experience, Love

God IS Love, LIFE is Love (for GOD is Life)!, Looking for Love…in all the wrong places?, Looking for Love?, Love drove Jesus, Love drove Jesus’ miracles, Love-power, The Cross of Christ = Ultimate Picture of Love
Hurry, Make it (a) Fast!

“Almost everywhere, at all times, fasting has held a place of great importance, since it is closely linked with the intimate sense of religion. Perhaps this is the explanation for the demise of fasting in our day. When the sense of God diminishes, fasting disappears.” Edward Farrell, as quoted in The Book on Prayer, pg. 280, by Ken Gurley.

April 14, 2025

Experience, Fasting, Perspective, Prayer, Promises, Selflessness, Success

“THIS kind (of demon) goeth out (only) by prayer AND Fasting.”, Dynamic Dual Weapon of Prayer…and Fasting, Fast and Pray, Fast WITH Someone (in Agreement), Fast….UNTIL (you receive THE/your Answer)!, Fasting brings God’s Favor, FASTING brnigs GOD’S Favor, fasting changes everything, Fasting changes…ME!, Fasting changing things, Fasting is a form of Silent Prayer, fasting that pleases God, Fasting works!, FastingIS Fighting, Make War on the Floor, Serious Saint, So You Want Deliverance?, what IS fasting?, Why fast?
‘Fast’ POWER!

“God’s chosen fast changes the spiritual climate (in your life and world). Fasting, along (or coupled) with prayer (though fasting in and of itself can be a form of powerful, silent praying), can move you from being a cloud-watcher to (becoming) a rainmaker, from being reactive to proactive, from being a thermometer (in)to (becoming) a thermostat. Fasting can change everything! Pastor/Writer Ken Gurley, The Book on Prayer, pg. 280 (italics, words in parenthesis and exclamation point added by me, Denny Beckham, 4/11/25).

April 11, 2025

Compassion, Experience, Faith, Faithfulness, Fasting, Prayer, Success, True Life Stories, Unity, Vision, Wisdom

Fasting is Powerful!, Fasting Power, Prayer AND Fasting, Prayer AND Fasting TOGETHER Work!, Prayer AND Fasting Work, Try Fasting, Try Fasting with Tears, Try Fasting…with Tears., try tears
FULL of Life

Not “living IT up” but “Living-UP” in THE Lord God Jesus…

March 6, 2025

Change, Epiphanies, Experience, Firm Foundations, Healing, Heaven, Heroism, Holiness

Abundant Life Now; Eternal Life Later, John 10:10, Live UP NOT down, Living-UP!, NOT “living it up!” a better life, the best life
W.O.W….or W.O.E.?

W.O.W.= W-Worldly O-Obstructions (to God’s) W-Wonder. W.O.E.= W-Without O-Obstinance (&) E-Evasion (to/from God). (Holy) W.O.W.= W-Worship O-Over W-Whining!

March 3, 2025

Acronyms, Perspective

BOW in Worship (of the ONE & ONLY True God), W.O.E. before W.O.W., W.O.W. Worship, WOE before WOW, WOW Worship
When GOD Weeps

“When the city came into view, He wept over it. ‘If you had only recognized this day, and everything that was good for you! But now it’s too late. In the days ahead, your enemies are going to bring up their heavy artillery and surround you, pressing in from every side. They’ll smash you and your babies on the pavement. Not one stone will be left intact. All this because you didn’t recognize and welcome (but instead refused) God’s personal visit’ (Me).” Jesus, weeping over Jerusalem (and us), Luke 19:41-44, MSG Bible. (Words in parenthesis and italics added by me, dkb.)

February 11, 2025

Compassion, Focus, Healing, Heaven, Heroism, Obedience, Passion, Perspective, Prayer, Promises, Selflessness, Tradeoffs, Warnings, Wisdom

Don’t Make God Cry, DON’T MISS OUT!, Don’t procrastinate but take action now, DON’T YOU DARE MISS OUT! BE AFRAID of missing out on THIS Opportunity, It’s NOW or never, Missed Opportunity, ONCE in ONE lifetime OPPORTUNITY, THE Saddest Thing, TODAY is THE Day of Salvation, What makes GOD Cry
Right Makes Might (not vice-versa)!

“Being able to speak to a mountain and have it move means that you are in right standing with God.” Prayers that Release Heaven & Move Mountains, Book 2, pg. 52, by John Eckhardt

February 7, 2025

Answered Prayers!, Change, Experience, Faith, Faithfulness, Firm Foundations, Obedience, Perspective, Prayer, Promises, Success, Unity, Vision, Wisdom

Be right for moving might, Christ IS our Righteousness!, Faith and obedience go together, faith and works go together, Faith is proven by action, faith is proven by obedience, Faith is proven by works, Mountain-moving might by being right, our righteousness is of God, right makes might, what is your mountain?, WHO is your mountain-mover?
“Is There Not a CAUSE?”

OPERATION FIRM FOUNDATONS

I Samuel 2:8b,9a (MSG)

“For the very structures of earth are God’s;

he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation.

He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step…”

More Founding Truths/Scriptures:

“God’s Business is putting things Right; He loves getting the lines straight, setting us straight. Once we’re standing tall, we can look Him straight in the eye.” Psalm 11:7 (MSG)

“The LORD is our Rock.” Psalm 31:3; 89:26 (thru 37)

Isaiah 28:16; 42:11b; 51:3; 58:12; 60:18

“The LORD our Home.” Psalm 90:1(&2); 91:1,2,9,10

“And I will place the solitary in families…” Psalm 68:6

“I will bring you back Home…” Zephaniah 3:17-20

What’s important to God is beautiful to me. In other words, when I follow Jesus with all my heart, I am fulfilled (because I’m not ‘only’ pleasing God but I’m also doing what I was created and called to do!). Rhema rooted in the belief that God is Good…and looking out, ultimately, for ‘only’ my good; i.e., ‘Father (Abba) knows best’!

II Samuel 22:17-25 (MSG)

I Samuel 15:29 (KJV & MSG)

Yes, God hates sin because it separates us from Him. But also because it fosters condemnation AND causes us to become doubtful and (even) more selfish.

January 21, 2025

Answered Prayers!, Change, Epiphanies, Faith, Faithfulness, Firm Foundations, Focus, True Life Stories, Unity, Vision, Wisdom

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