Bend The Church & Bow The World, Pt 4 - Self-humbling Through Fasting - Derek Prince

‘Bend the Church and Bow the World’ was the theme of the revival that shook the little nation of Wales in 1904. It is still true today - if the Church will bend, the World will bow.

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Table of Contents:
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I. Afflict Your Souls
A. Every Israelite, every year (Lev. 16:29–31)
1. The Fast: (Acts 27:9)
2. I humbled my soul with fasting (Ps. 35:13)
B. Grace to the humble (1 Pet. 5:5–6)
1. Soul = self-assertive
2. Ego = I want, I think, I feel
II. Historical Examples
A. Men of Jabesh Gilead (1 Sam. 31:11–13) from division and defeat to unity and
victory
B. Men of Nineveh (Jonah 3:4–10)
C. Esther and the Jews in Shushan (Esther 4:23–5:2)
D. Ezra and the returning exiles (Ezra 8:21–23)
III. Fasting in the New Testament
A. Jesus Himself (Matt. 4:1–2)
1. Filled with the Spirit (Luke 4:1)
2. In the power of the Spirit (Luke 4:14)
3. When you do charitable deeds . . . (Matt. 6:2)
4. When you pray . . . (Matt. 6:5)
5. When you fast . . . (Matt. 6:16)
B. Leaders
1. Fasted to receive revelation (Acts 13:1–3)
2. Fasted to send out apostles (Acts 14:4, 14)
3. Fasted to appoint elders (Acts 14:23)
C. Prophetic call to fasting
1. Call to corporate fasting: Elders, priests, ministers (Joel 2:15–17)
2. Afterward the Spirit outpoured (Joel 2:28–29)
D. How to humble ourselves
1. Confess our sins to God (1 John 1:9)
2. Confess our sins to one another (James 4:16)
E. Personal testimony
Since 1941: 3,000 (+) days = 8 (+) years

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