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Fasting And Prayer Read: Isaiah 58 Why do we do fasting? Is it Because God gets pleased and blesses us with all the things we need? No, it is because we are giving a sacrifice/giving thanks/apologizing to God. In Isreal, people used to sacrifice to God the lamb, birds or other animals for forgiveness or giving thanks. But when Jesus sacrificed his life for us on that cross he bore all our sins and punishments on himself and became the ultimate sacrifice. Even th ough Jesus became our sacrifice, we still need to give something to God. So, instead of making an agreement with God, we have to do it wholeheartedly and free-willingly without expecting something in return. But we will be rewarded in heaven for all what we have done on earth ( Matthew 18:18  “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be  bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be  loosed in heaven. ).  Most people fast by not eating anything or some will not eat their fa...

Gods Plan Is Much Greater Than Our Plans Read: Isaiah 55:3       God has greater plans for us which are beyond our imagination. Isaiah 55:3 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.", says that God's thoughts and ways are not the same as our thoughts and ways but His thoughts are much bigger than ours as He knows and holds our future in His hands. If we allow God's will to be done in our life we will prosper. But if we deny it and go with our plans some or the other way God will bring us back to His plan again and from that moment, there is no turning back. In 2 Samuel 7, God made a covenant with David. But, David was feeling bad because the Ark Of The Covenant was in a tent and he was in a palace. So he had decided to build a temple of God to keep Ark in it. But God wanted David's son Solomon to build the temple. Do you know why God had rejected David to build the temple?  God had rejected ...