Turning Point Trust Blog

>The concluding chapter of Piper’s book today. Why does God reward fasting. Piper’s view is because ultimately it is demonstrating a reliance on God, which must bring glory to God, and that is what God is all about – bring glory to himself. I’m not sure where I am with this view, but there is [...]

>How great is my desire for God. Does my soul ‘pant’ for Him as in Psalm 42? Does my soul ‘thirst’ and my flesh ‘yearn’ for him – Ps 63? Do I count everything as loss compared to the value of knowing Christ – Phil 3:8? No. I guess I don’t. Do I want to? [...]

>Isaiah 58 today. A passage Jo and I know well, as it was instrumental in us setting up Turning Point originally. However, it’s easy to skip over it now because of its familiarity, and that’s not good. Looking at it again today I’ve realised that some verses can be interpreted in more than one way; [...]

>I’m already starting to think about what happens come Christmas, when the time I’ve committed to fasting comes to an end. Will I continue? Or will the youthful (I wish) enthusiasm I have for fasting have worn off by then, and I’ll be happy to return to a life where fasting is absent. Wouldn’t Satan [...]

>Another Monday, another fast day for me in Kibera. This being the 1st Monday of the month there are also many Turning Point supporters fasting and praying for God’s future for TP. Last week at homegroup I shared about why I was fasting, and they all decided to introduce a weekly time of prayer and [...]