Keep Our Hearts Burning
“Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast." - Matthew 9:15 “Did not our heart burn within us...while He opened the Scriptures to us?” - Luke 24:32 The IHOPKC community has done a “Global Bridegroom Fast" for the past 20 years, setting apart 3 days at the beginning of each month to seek the Lord. As IHOPU students, we were invited to join the community in these monthly fasts. There are different kinds of fasts, such as the intercessory fast in Isaiah 58. The Bridegroom fast is basically the “missing Jesus” fast based on Matthew 9:15. If the bridegroom is here, we don't fast. But if the bridegroom is gone, there is an appropriate response—fasting. We fast out of a lovesick, yearning heart. This fast is about living with the day of the Lord and day of the gladness of His heart in view. As I joined the community in the Global Bridegroom Fa...