A WHOLE MAN

Recommended Reading: Chapters 6- Conclusion (~48 pages) Key Quotes: Chapter 6  "The burden of Isaiah 58 prevades the ministry of Jesus -- and more and more it should prevade out ministry as well…If your fasting leaves you self-indulgent in other areas, harsh toward your employees, irritable and contentious, then your fasting is not acceptable to God….Hypocrisy is a terrible blight on the worship of God." (121;123) "Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another. Any alteration of this pattern for the sake of ministry is a "fast"--and one that would please God more than a hundred skipped lunches with a view to more pizza at supper." (127) Chapter 7  "There is a hunger for God that goes beyond the desire for private experience. It longs for the public display of his glory in the world. It longs for the great dishonors against our God to be set right." (142) "God rules the hearts of kings and emperors…Th...

Recommended Reading: Chapters 4-5 (~32 pages) Key Quotes: Chapter 4 "Do you love the Lord's appearing? Then you will bend every effort to take the gospel into all the world. It troubles me in the light of the clear teaching of God's Word…that we take it so lightly. - George Ladd" (78) "The almost universal absence of regular fasting for the Lord's return is a witness to our satisfaction with the presence of the world and the absence of the Lord." (80) Chapter 5 "how hasty we are to judge from God's mercy in the life of a fasting saint that this particular pattern of piety is the key to vital spiritual life! " (94) "We will measure all by the Scriptures. We will not be swept away by the 'successes' or 'blessings' that accompany any particular pattern of spiritual discipline. We will realize that God is sovereign in dispensing his mercies" (96) "The course of history has been turned by many other factor...

Recommended Reading: Chapters 1-3 (45 pages) Key Quotes:  Chapter 1 "In this world there is an ache inside every Christian that Jesus is not here as fully and intimately and as powerfully and as gloriously as we want him to be. We hunger for so much more. That is why we fast." (40) "The new fasting, the Christian fasting, is a hunger for all the fullness of God (Ephesians 4:19), aroused by the aroma of Jesus' love and by the taste if God's goodness in the gospel of Christ (1 Peter 2:2-3)" (43) "His gifts leave a hunger for him beyond themselves, and fasting from his gifts puts that hunger to the test." (46) Chapter 2 "What are we slaves to? What are we most hungry for -- food or God? Fasting is God's testing ground-- and healing ground." (57) "Therefore the fight of faith and the battle to behold the glory of the Lord day by day is fought not only by feeding the soul on truth, but fasting, to put our appetites to...

This week we begin our next book. If you have not yet purchased your copy, go ahead and grab the FREE PDF here while you wait for it to arrive. Recommended Reading: Foreword, Preface, and Introduction (15 pages) Key Quotes: Foreword/Preface: "This is not a book of legalism. It’s not a book of technique. It does not contain a twelve-step plan…it’s a book more about our hearts than our stomachs." (pg. 11) "’Desires for other things’ – there’s the enemy. And the only weapon that will triumph is a deeper hunger for God.” (13) “What is at stake here is not just the good of our souls, but also the glory of God.” (14) Introduction “The greatest adversary of love to God is not his enemies, but his gifts. And the most deadly appetites are not for the poison of evil, but for the simple pleasures of earth.” (18) “If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you...