Midweek Service 3-20-24 (2)

In Matthew 10:42, Jesus promised: And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

When you give to Jesus is Lord Fellowship WWI, you give a virtual "cup of cold water" to tens of thousands daily. How you ask? By enabling Jesus Is Lord Fellowship WWI to daily satisfy their spiritual thirst in the virtual world of the Internet where we minister to homes through out the world. We also supply needs by post world wide. Please consider sending us regular tithes and offerings. May the Lord richly bless each and every one of you. We do pray that our Fellowship does minister to you on Sundays, and throughout the whole week on a daily basis. God Bless you and have a blessed Jesus filled day, we daily are available to assist each of you daily in all the areas of your lives through Christ Jesus in Jesus is Lord Fellowship World Wide International through Senior Pastor Dr Diana Brevan

This Sermon today is spoken by your very Own Dr.Diana Brevan

As Dr Diana comes to the podium let us take a moment to bow our heads in prayer.

Today let us remember to prayer today for ourselves. For our own needs in health, wealth and happiness and for our spiritual wellbeing and growth

As we pray also let us hold up all the prayer requests that we have received this past week. Let us also be in agreement with the unspoken prayers that lay in each of our hearts.

Let us lift up all those that have been called as Prayer Warriors, that they may have the Lord’s strength as they pray and that a hedge of protection may surround them and their families

Let us also prayer for the needs of our local Church including the needs of Jesus is Lord Fellowship WWI. Let us as God for provisions so that His church may be able to continue the work that He has set aside for it. Let us pray for those that have been called to leadership in His church that they may always have strength and a Godly vision. Let us place a hedge of protection around Leaders and their families so that they may be healed from all health problems.

Let us pray that as we listen today our heart and our inner soul will be open to the words so that we may feed freely on the message and drink from the Holy Spirit.

We welcome all National and International Fellowship members and visitors around the globe as you receive the spiritual nutrition of the Lords Word.

May the Lord richly bless you today around the globe. I am Senior Pastora of Jesus Is Lord Fellowship Dr. Diana Brevan. Let us prepare ourselves for this lesson in:

Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough

Lesson 7

Four thoughts come from this portion of the fast:

• Backsliders are blinded to sin in their lives. They are generally willfully ignorant of an obligation to God.

• Backsliders are careless about sin in their lives. The fact that a person may have “gotten away” with some of their sin will provide more confidence to take more steps away from God.

• During fasting, God can show hidden sin to the believer—a sin that very well could be prohibiting God’s blessings.

• More adjustments that we need to take are revealed as we continue the Samuel Fast. Fasting has to be an ongoing process, meaning that we have to have a consistent level of fasting weekly or at least monthly.

Sometimes one may fast for two or more separate days, separated by a time of eating. Whereas a two-day fast may produce an intensive examination for sin, there are advantages of two separate days of fasting. The time we spend between our fasts provides opportunity to think through the ramifications of our needs, and our sins may become clearer to us. However it happens, fasting must be more than a one-time event. It must be an action we employ throughout our lives.

The effect of secret sin in our lives can be extremely dangerous. During my days in working in the Intensive Care Units, I noticed that there were a number of victims who would come in from trauma situations. Generally, they would have some blow to the chest and lung region and would exhibit a very small amount of bruising on the outside the problem was with the inside. Their lungs would have been insulted in such a way that the bruising would cause the tiny air sacs within their lungs not to make a proper oxygen/carbon-dioxide exchange. These patients would generally be ventilated with life support but no matter if we were delivering 100% oxygen to them, they could not make the necessary exchange and therefore no oxygen was getting to the vital organs and tissue.

The sad tale of their hospital course would be told by their morning chest X-rays. You would notice throughout that the lung fields were not as sharply defined and a massive “whiteout” would be present on this X-ray. This is commonly referred to as Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome or ARDS. It has been my experiencee that very, very few patients who were actively diagnosed with this actually lived. The right equipment was present. The highly trained medical staff in the ICU’s knew what they were doing. The high concentration of oxygen was being delivered but the traumatized body simply could not assimilate what was being delivered to it.

This is what happens when one struggles with secret sin. No matter how powerful the worship may be or the prayers or the singing or the preaching, if the spirit cannot interact with the Spirit then spiritual death will occur. That is why that this single principle in the Samuel Fast is so crucial. God can bring to light exactly what is necessary for us to be delivered from but it will not come until secret sin is exposed and dealt with. You must separate yourself from secret sin.

• STEP 4: Have Corporate Confession of Sin

There are some who hold the view that there is no such thing as corporate sin. They hold that sin is something that is done on an individual basis. While that view is certainly valid, Scripturally there are several examples where one notes that sin was confessed for the group as a whole.

Numbers 14:40 KJV And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. (For hesitation about going into the Promised Land.)

Numbers 21:7 KJV Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. (For murmuring against Moses and Lord. Fiery serpents were sent to punish them.)

Jeremiah 14:7 KJV O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. (For their numerous backslidings over the course of time.)

Daniel 9:5 KJV We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

When you confess ‘we have sinned’ in private, you are included in that sin. When the group prays together, God responds to that group. However, I must interject that I do not believe it is profitable to bring a “laundry list” and air out all of the offenses and mistakes that have occurred in the past. I believe that for the spiritual health of that Church that, as a body, the words “we have sinned” is sufficient enough for God to break through and pour revival out on the Church .