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Prayer, Meditation and Fasting

Prayer, meditation and fasting can help us learn to walk in communion with the living God. We can live a supernatural life that is empowered, led and filled with the Spirit.

For the notes and outline that accompany these lectures, please go to desiringgod.org by clicking here.

Number of lessons: 5
Total length: 5 hours and 30 minutes
format: Audio
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Prayer, meditation and fasting can help us learn to walk in communion with the living God. We can live a supernatural life that is empowered, led and filled with the Spirit.

We are thankful for John Piper's willingness to share these lectures with us. Copyright 2014 by Desiring God Ministries. Used with Permission. For more information, please visit www.DesiringGod.org.

 

Recommended Reading:

John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides, James Paton 

The Life of John Newton, Richard Cecil 

Communion with God, John Owen 

A Hunger for God: Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer, John Piper 

About the Professor

John Piper

“The ministry of preaching is the central labor of my life. My prayer is that through that ministry and everything else I do the great glory of our God and Savior Jesus Christ would be magnified as more and more people come to live out the obedience of faith more and more deeply.”
John Piper

Lessons

  • 1. Communion with the Triune God
    Fellowship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the foundation and the source of our life in God.
  • 2. Meditating on the Word of God

    God wakens and sustains our faith through his Word.

  • 3. The Role of the Word in Communion with God
    The presence of God is a mediated presence and the primary material of the mediation is the Word. Dr. Piper lists ten reasons to meditate and pray over biblical truth.
  • 4. The Role of Prayer in Communion with God
    The purpose of prayer is communion with God, not to get things from him.  Whatever we pray for with the intent of glorifying God is worship. If we pray with wrong motives, it's idolatry. (1 Cor 10:13, James 4:1-5) Spontaneity is enhanced by discipline.
  • 5. The Role of Fasting in Communion with God
    The essence of fasting is hunger for God. Bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food – the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ. Both send the heart – grateful and yearning – to the Giver. Each has its appointed place and each has its danger. The danger of eating is that we fall in love with the gift; the danger of fasting is that we belittle the gift and glory in our will-power.

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