G12 Life Group Notes– November 28, 2010–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 1 of 2)
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Exodus 34:28
28And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

• Moses fasted and prayed before receiving God’s word – The 10 Commandments.
• Joshua was also fasting 40 days so the anointing also came over him.

Luke 4:1-2
1And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

• Your greatest success is not what you take, but what you give back.
• In order for something big to happen, there was fasting.
• Moses was able to overcome all of his weaknesses through 40 days of fasting.
• When Jesus came out of 40 days of fasting, He was stronger.
• Fasting helps you become more sensitive to the Holy Spirit; you are quicker to repent when errors occur.

Acts 13:1-4
1Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 3And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 4So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

• Our fasting and prayer time must include ministering to the Lord.
• How much time do we spend ministering to the Lord?

Acts 14:23
23And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

• A mandate was given for prayer and fasting.
• You will never find truth as long as the flesh is in charge.
• One of the biggest challenges for men/women is the flesh.
• Our job is to keep our flesh under subjection.
• Before Christ we were body, soul and spirit. After receiving Christ as our Lord and Savior, we are spirit, soul and body.


G12 Life Group Notes– November 28, 2010–6:30 a.m. Pastor Goudeaux (Pg 2 of 2)

I John 2:15-17
15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

• Verse 16 defines what the world is.
• The unholy trinity: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and pride of life.

James 1:12
12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

• The only way to avoid temptation is to have our flesh under subjection.
• God does not send evil our way to see if we will respond.
• When lust comes, it brings sin with it.
• No sacrifice for God will go unrewarded.

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