{"id":5772,"date":"2023-07-10T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T17:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:24:47","slug":"the-power-of-prayer-and-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/?p=5772","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Prayer and Fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Lord, I love You more than food. What do You want to say to me?'&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of New Song Community Church will often pray these words when abstaining from food during a fast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few times a year, the entire church community is invited to participate in a week of prayer and fasting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But why is it important for Christians to fast? What impact does fasting with prayer have on our relationship with God? And what should we pray for when fasting? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor Herb Shaffer addressed these questions in his message at the worship service on July 9, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastor Shaffer said prayer and fasting can lead to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Greater intimacy and being in alignment with God<\/li><li>A sensitivity to God that, instead of being superficial, is soul-deep<\/li><li>Transformation in the image of Jesus, which gives ever-deepening power<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Watch the Worship Message<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sermon Sermon &quot;Choose Your Master&quot; July 9, 2023\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HAfVOM5kjSw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2>Additional Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fasting-and-Prayer-Insert-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">New Song Prayer and Fasting Handout<\/a> (PDF) provides a variety of prayer and fasting resources including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Different types of fasting (liquid-only, Daniel fast, partial fast, etc.)<\/li><li>Timeframes for fasting (partial day, multiple day, weeklong)<\/li><li>Further context on the power and purpose of prayer and fasting<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lord, I love You more than food. What do You want to say to me?&#8217;&#8221; Members of New Song Community Church will often pray these words when abstaining from food&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsongpittsburgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}