Here is the video devotional for today:

And here is the worship tune:

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Remember that we are doing the prayer calls today and we will be gathering tonight at 7 p.m. at Advent Lutheran Church for a time of worship and prayer.

Pastor Brendan’s message from yesterday, Covenant Love, is available to download as well – click here.

Here is the Faith Fuel Video Devotional for today:

And here is the worship tune for the day:

Please remember: we are not having a prayer calls today (Sunday) as we are gathering for our weekly worship experience but they will be back on tomorrow.

Here is the video devotional for Day 06:

And here is the worship song for the day… it is longer but it is worth it, and we figured you would have a little more time on the weekend:

Remember that we have prayer calls at 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 12 p.m. and 10 p.m. today but that there will be no prayer calls tomorrow as it is Sunday and we are all gathering for our Worship Experience (we will have 9 a.m. Prayer and Pre-Service Prayer as usual though)

Here is the video devotional for today:

And here is the worship song:

Remember that we are gathering tonight at Advent Lutheran Church for a time of worship and prayer (starting at 7 p.m.) and that there are prayer calls today at 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 12 p.m., and 10 p.m.

Often at this point during a fast you will feel a lot of pressure to give up and stop – don’t do it! Ask God for strength and keep pressing forward! We have almost reached the mid-point. Remember that the “suffering” of fasting is nothing compared to what Jesus suffered for us and we are honoring him through our sacrifice, and we are positioning ourselves to receive all that he has for us!

Check out this blog post from Pastor Brendan to help you stay focused and keep going!

Here is the Faith Fuel Video Devotional for today:

And here is the worship song for today:

Remember:

• You can get on prayer calls today at 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 12 p.m. and 10 p.m… there is something really powerful about joining other CWL family members and going before God.
• Pastor Brendan is posting supplementary material for reading and study on his blog and if you have extra time feel free to check it out.

Here is the Video Devotional for Day 03 of the 12 Days of Relentless Love:

Here is the worship song for the day:

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Here is the Faith Fuel Video Devotion for Day 02 of the 12 Days of Relentless Love. If you are doing the juice fast remember that the second day is usually the hardest (tired, hungry, head aches) – just keep going and tomorrow will be much better. Remember that we are having daily prayer calls at 5 a.m., 6 a.m., 12 p.m. and 10 p.m. (call 674-722-5570 then enter 992365#).

Check out this worship song from Will Regan & United Pursuit Band: There’s No Place I’d Rather Be:

Extras:

• You can now subscribe to the CWL Blog via e-mail… just enter your e-mail in the space provided in the right column and every post will be sent directly to your in-box.
• If you are looking for a great book to read on the love of God during the 12 days check out Passion for Jesus by Mike Bickle, Pastor Brendan references it in the teaching today.

Today is the first day of our 12 Days of Relentless Love – check out the the daily teaching from Pastor Brendan:

Worship – Let this song about the love of God by Kim Walker minister to you.

Extras:

• Throughout the 12 Days of Relentless Love Pastor Brendan will be posting even more thoughts/teachings on his blog – www.brendanwitton.com
• Want to learn more about how to have a great daily devotional life? Check out Pastor Brendan’s teaching from last week on FaithFuel.tv on the power of spending daily time with God.
• Note: we have not set up the capacity for you to have these posts delivered to your e-mail inbox but hope to have the function in place by the end of the day.

Here are some core scriptures to pray/meditate on during the 12 Days of Relentless Love:

Psalm 36:5 – Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies

Psalm 36:7 – How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings

Psalm 48:9 – Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing love

Psalm 52:8 – But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever

Psalm 86:15 – But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness

Psalm 136:26 – Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever

John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends

John 17:20-26 – 20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. 24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

Romans 8:31-39 – 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:

“ For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:14 – For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, than all died

Ephesians 1:17-23 – 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 3:14-19 – 14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 5:2 – Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God

Titus 3:4-5 – But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit

1 John 4:9-10 – This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins

When doing extended fasts it is important that we use wisdom and make sure that we understand how to do them in a healthy manner.

The International House of Prayer has posted an excellent article that gives a ton of good info and answers common questions about fasting. Whether you are doing a juice fast, Daniel fast or the Wesley fast it would be good to check it out.

To see the guide click here