TLC FAST OUTLINE
From the desk of Pastor Friday:
As your Pastor I believe this corporate fast is necessary in this season. I believe God is going to show His face to us mightily. Let’s come together for 14 days to sacrifice, pray and believe Him for BIG.
Food Guidelines
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Drink ONLY Water
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Eat ONLY Seafood & Vegetables
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Fried seafood is allowed
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Starchy vegetables can be baked and/or grilled (ex. Potatoes & Corn)
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No Sweets (fresh fruits allowed)
Prayer Guidelines
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Daily prayer calls @ 7am (via Zoom and FB)
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Pray individually at least 3 times daily
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Sunday August 23rd online COMMUNION during service – pick up at the church on Saturday August 22ndbetween 5-7pm
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Sunday August 30th PRAYER IN THE PARKING LOT of TLC @3pm
DAY 1
*LET’S PRAY FOR GODS MERCY TO HEAL THE BROKEN HEARTED
*LET’S PRAY FOR SOULS
Psalm 52:8 (KJV)
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Meditate a little on this mercy of the Lord. It is tender mercy. With a gentle loving touch, He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He is as gracious in the manner of His mercy as in the matter of it. It is great mercy. There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself—it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
DAY 2
*LET’S PRAY FOR ALL LEADERS
Micah 5:5 (NASB)
5 This One will be our peace. When the Assyrian invades our land, When he tramples on our citadels, Then we will raise against him Seven shepherds and eight leaders of men.
Christ's reign in His Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy, but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy and loving flock; He commands and receives obedience, but it is the willing obedience of the well-cared-for sheep, rendered joyfully to their beloved Shepherd, whose voice they know so well. He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness.
DAY 3
*LET’S PRAY FOR THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD TO PULL US OUT IN THIS SEASON
Psalm 31:4 (NASB)
4 You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You are my strength.
Our spiritual foes are of the serpent's brood and seek to ensnare us by subtlety. The prayer before us supposes the possibility of the believer being caught like a bird. So deftly does the fowler do his work, that simple ones are soon surrounded by the net. The text asks that even out of Satan's meshes the captive one may be delivered; this is a proper petition, and one which can be granted: from between the jaws of the lion, and out of the belly of hell, can eternal love rescue the saint.
DAY 4
*LET’S PRAY FOR SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS
Ephesians 1:3 (NASB)
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
All the goodness of the past, the present, and the future, Christ bestows upon His people. In the mysterious ages of the past the Lord Jesus was His Father's first elect, and in His election He gave us an interest, for we were chosen in Him from before the foundation of the world. He had from all eternity the prerogatives of Sonship, as His Father's only-begotten and well-beloved Son, and He has, in the riches of His grace, by adoption and regeneration, elevated us to sonship also, so that to us He has given "power to become the sons of God." The eternal covenant, based upon suretiship and confirmed by oath, is ours, for our strong consolation and security.
DAY 5
*TODAY LET’S ASK GOD TO SHOW US ONE PERSON WE CAN TALK TO ABOUT HIM. USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO SPREAD THE WORD TODAY, POST SOMETHING ABOUT GOD EVERY HOUR
Proverbs 11:25 (NASB)
25 The generous man will be prosperous, And he who waters will himself be watered.
We are here taught the great lesson, that to get, we must give; that to accumulate, we must scatter; that to make ourselves happy, we must make others happy; and that in order to become spiritually vigorous, we must seek the spiritual good of others. In watering others, we are ourselves watered. How? Our efforts to be useful, bring out our powers for usefulness. We have latent talents and dormant faculties, which are brought to light by exercise.
DAY 6
*LET’S PRAY THAT OUR FIRE DOESN’T BURN OUT
***don’t forget to pick up your communion today between 5-7pm***
Leviticus 6:13 (NASB)
13 'Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it is not to go out.
Keep the altar of private prayer burning. This is the very life of all piety. The sanctuary and family altars borrow their fires here, there-fore let this burn well. Secret devotion is the very essence, evidence, and barometer of vital and experimental religion.
Burn here the fat of your sacrifices. Let your closet seasons be, if possible, regular, frequent, and undisturbed. Effectual prayer availeth much. Have you nothing to pray for? Let me suggest the Church, the ministry, your own soul, your children, your relationships, your neighbours, your country, and the cause of God and truth throughout the world. Let us examine ourselves on this important matter. Do we engage with lukewarmness in private devotion? Is the fire of devotion burning dimly in our hearts? Do the chariot wheels drag heavily? If so, let us be alarmed at this sign of decay. Let us go with weeping, and ask for the Spirit of grace and of supplications. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer.
DAY 7
*LET’S PRAY FOR THE UNITY OF CHRIST IN US
**online communion during our virtual service**
John 17:23 (NASB)
23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
If such be the union which subsists between our souls and the person of our Lord, how deep and broad is the channel of our communion! This is no narrow pipe through which a thread-like stream may wind its way, it is a channel of amazing depth and breadth, along whose glorious length a ponderous volume of living water may roll its floods. Behold He hath set before us an open door, let us not be slow to enter. This city of communion hath many pearly gates, every several gate is of one pearl, and each gate is thrown open to the uttermost that we may enter, assured of welcome.
DAY 8
*LET’S PRAY THAT WE DON’T FORGET HIS BENEFITS IN THIS SEASON
Psalm 103:2 (NASB)
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget none of His benefits;
It is a delightful and profitable occupation to mark the hand of God in the lives of ancient saints, and to observe His goodness in delivering them, His mercy in pardoning them, and His faithfulness in keeping His covenant with them. But would it not be even more interesting and profitable for us to remark the hand of God in our own lives? Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before? We do our Lord an injustice when we suppose that He wrought all His mighty acts, and showed Himself strong for those in the early time, but doth not perform wonders or lay bare His arm for the saints who are now upon the earth. Let us review our own lives. Surely in these we may discover some happy incidents, refreshing to ourselves and glorifying to our God. Have you had no deliverances? Have you passed through no rivers, supported by the divine presence? Have you walked through no fires unharmed? Have you had no manifestations? Have you had no choice favours? The God who gave Solomon the desire of his heart, hath He never listened to you and answered your requests? That God of lavish bounty of whom David sang, "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things," hath He never satiated you with fatness? Have you never been made to lie down in green pastures? Have you never been led by the still waters? Surely the goodness of God has been the same to us as to the saints of old.
DAY 9
*LET’S PRAY FOR THE LIGHT TO SHINE IN US
Genesis 1:3-4 (NASB)
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered, and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul's words in the seventh chapter of Romans: "I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members." How is this state of things occasioned? "The Lord divided the light from the darkness." Darkness, by itself, is quiet and undisturbed, but when the Lord sends in light, there is a conflict, for the one is in opposition to the other: a conflict which will never cease till the believer is altogether light in the Lord. If there be a division within the individual Christian, there is certain to be a division without. So soon as the Lord gives to any man light, he proceeds to separate himself from the darkness around; he secedes from a merely worldly religion of outward ceremonial, for nothing short of the gospel of Christ will now satisfy him, and he withdraws himself from worldly society and frivolous amusements, and seeks the company of the saints, for "We know we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." The light gathers to itself, and the darkness to itself. What God has divided, let us never try to unite, but as Christ went without the camp, bearing His reproach, so let us come out from the ungodly, and be a peculiar people.
DAY 10
*LET’S PRAY FOR JOY AND PEACE IN OUR TROUBLE
Psalm 33:21 (NASB)
21 For our heart rejoices in Him, Because we trust in His holy name.
Blessed is the fact that Christians can rejoice even in the deepest distress; although trouble may surround them, they still sing; and, like many birds, they sing best in their cages. The waves may roll over them, but their souls soon rise to the surface and see the light of God's countenance; they have a buoyancy about them which keeps their head always above the water, and helps them to sing amid the tempest, "God is with me still.
DAY 11
*LET’S PRAY FOR A GREAT FULLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ON EARTH AND IN OUR HOMES
Acts 2:4 (NASB)
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
Rich were the blessings of this day if all of us were filled with the Holy Ghost. The consequences of this sacred filling of the soul it would be impossible to overestimate. Life, comfort, light, purity, power, peace; and many other precious blessings are inseparable from the Spirit's benign presence. As sacred oil, He anoints the head of the believer, sets him apart to the priesthood of saints, and gives him grace to execute his office aright.
DAY 12
*LET’S PRAY THAT GOD REDEEM SOME STUFF IN THIS SEASON
Isaiah 54:5 (NASB)
5 "For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth.
Jesus, the Redeemer, is altogether ours and ours for ever. All the offices of Christ are held on our behalf. He is king for us, priest for us, and prophet for us. Whenever we read a new title of the Redeemer, let us appropriate Him as ours under that name as much as under any other.
DAY 13
*LET’S PRAY THAT WE STAY FAITHFUL IN THIS SEASON
Psalm 12:1 (NASB)
1 Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
The prayer itself is remarkable, for it is short, but seasonable, sententious, and suggestive. David mourned the fewness of faithful men, and therefore lifted up his heart in supplication—when the creature failed, he flew to the Creator. He evidently felt his own weakness, or he would not have cried for help; but at the same time he intended honestly to exert himself for the cause of truth, for the word "help" is inapplicable where we ourselves do nothing. There is much of directness, clearness of perception, and distinctness of utterance in this petition of two words; much more, indeed, than in the long rambling outpourings of certain professors. The Psalmist runs straight-forward to his God, with a well-considered prayer; he knows what he is seeking, and where to seek it.
DAY 14
*PRAYER ON THE LAWN OF TLC @ 3pm
