A Message from Bishop Bira Joshua:
What is Your Profession?
- Butcher
- Lawyer
- Computer Programmer
- Chef
- Architect
- Barber
- Doctor
- Electrician
No matter your profession, every job requires the right tools to succeed. Can you imagine walking into a barbershop, only to find that the barber has no tools to trim or shave your hair? You’d likely find another place right away!
What if you went to court and discovered your lawyer hadn’t even taken the time to review your case? The outcome would be disastrous!
Or think about an electrician who shows up without his toolbox. You’d assume he wasn’t ready for the job, right?
All these professionals need the proper tools to excel. These are physical tools, but let’s now consider the Spiritual Tools of Faith used in the Bible.
These tools are all physical. Now let us take a look at some Spiritual Tools of Faith that were used in the Bible.
Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. — Daniel 9:3
We cannot fight the good fight of faith without using the Tools of Faith. While some things can be skipped, certain essentials cannot.
Daniel understood this and approached God with fasting and prayer.
Fasting is one of the most powerful Tools of Faith available to believers, and it cannot be overlooked.
Fasting isn’t limited to abstaining from food— it can also mean fasting from personal desires or secular activities, like during the Fast of Daniel. And, of course, as Daniel did, it can include fasting from foods we enjoy.
The ability to fast, to deny the flesh, stems from the communion a person has with God.
Without that communion, it’s impossible to truly listen to His voice or obey when He asks us to deny our own will.
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