You Can't Manipulate God...
We as children of God, and mostly in the charismatic church, have perpetuated a lie. We have taught and believed that we could do things and it would get God to move. Some of you just about started to throw things at my computer so let me try to explain this better. I have found myself in seasons of frustration, so badly where I really wanted to bang my head against a wall and cry out to God, “What are you thinking?” So when my situation and circumstance doesn’t change I think, “I have to do something? I know I’ll go on a fast.” So I try to fast, and because God didn’t tell me to fast there is no grace on it. I just end up getting really hungry and more frustrated. The lie we’ve perpetuated is if our circumstances aren’t lining up with what God has said then somehow it’s our fault and we have to “do” something to fix it. So we try to fast, we ...