☻ Wednesday, 7.30pm - Pastoral Meeting in Abundant Life
☻ Thursday, 7.30pm Prayer & Fasting; How to Study the Bible Course
☻ Friday, 7-10pm Prayer & Fasting Main Meeting
☻ Every Second Saturday Evangelism 10am in St John's area - see Pawel or Raiss
☻ Saturday's ... “Worship Band” practice each Saturday 5pm – See Sarah & Martin
☻ Next Sunday, 12th September @ 11am
Speaker: - Kevin Fitzgibbon with Tea/coffee and biscuits served afterwards! Also, Presentation of Awakenings Summer Youth Camp Certificates

FREE Worship CD to all visitors (Nashville Worship Band coming on 15th Sept)

We're a friendly bunch, so you are very welcome to join us for all our main meetings

Coming up ...

☻ PRAYER & FASTING ... Mon,6th to Fri,10th Sept

☻ NASHVILLE WORSHIP BAND CONCERT-Wed,15th Sept 7pm at ABSOLUTE HOTEL, near Abbey Bridge.
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☻ Finding your SPIRITUAL GIFTS Course - Thursday, 16th Sept 2010 - 7.30pm

☻ YOUNG ADULTS CONFERENCE ... One-Day Conference for unmarrieds/singles on Saturday, 16th October. Speaker: Dr Dr Abimbola and Racheal Afolabi. Venue: - World Outreach Christian Centre, Dock Road - All welcome

☻ TEEN CHALLENGE - GIRLS ... coming Sunday, 10th Oct

Fasting is abstaining from food for spiritual purposes. But you can also abstain from other things as a fast. Fasting is a way of telling God that your priority at that moment is to be alone with Him. You sort out whatever is necessary, and you cancel the meal, concert, TV time, or whatever else you had planned to do in order to fulfil that priority.

As you have heard it is often linked with prayer but it is its own discipline. We don’t like the word “discipline” in our world today but discipline is important. Fasting has been called “prayer without words”. And it can be seen in scripture in three different forms.

Forms of Fasting
A) Normal – No food whether solid or liquid, only water (Luke 4:1-3)
b) Absolute – No food or water (Esther 4:16, Acts 9:9). This should be no longer than 3 days as kidneys can shut down.
Any longer than that is only through supernatural means.
C) Partial – This is a restriction of diet like Daniel did. (Daniel 10:3-4)

If you want your faith to grow you can cultivate it by fasting (Matt 17:21).

Acts 13 – shows us that ministry to the Lord takes the form of prayer and fasting. It is not just something that we do for ourselves but it somehow ministers to the Lord.

Why Fast?
1) Jesus Christ fasted
2) The New Testament Church Fasted
3) God commands it and Jesus assumed it

Purposes of Fasting
A. For us Personally
1) It’s to humble ourselves
2) It’s to show repentance
3) It’s to mourn over personal failure
4) It’s to gain revelation and wisdom of God’s will

B. For Others
5) It’s to seek God by drawing near to Him and persisting in prayer against opposing spiritual forces
6) It’s to save people from bondage or evil
7) It’s to mourn over sin of the church, nation, or world

C. For God
8) It’s to honour God
9) It’s to seek grace for a new task or reaffirm our consecration to God
10) It’s to open the way for the outpouring of the Spirit and Christ’s kingdom to come on earth.

Conclusion
Jesus says that the fulfilment of all the Law and Prophets is to love the Lord your God with all your mind, heart and soul.
You will sacrifice much for something you deeply love.
Let your fasting be an invitation for Jesus to come, live and speak with you at this time.

We love Limerick!

10th August 2010
It is always good to celebrate your victories.
Abundant Life's 15th Birthday is Summer 2010, so we are having a Special 15th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday, 22nd August, starting at 11am.
All are welcome - if you want to sample Abundant life & see what we're like, then come along and get a taste!
The Celebration will include praise, worship, life stories, 15 year highlights, children's song, special dance, delicious food and meal together, and an Irish Céilí Dance at 2.30pm led by maestro Cian Nolan (of Nolan Dancing fame).
Our guest speaker is our founder Dr Mike Pinsent, and both he and Annette will be with us for this exciting weekend.
We expect a full house, so book in early at 061-405023 or 085-1496846 for this wonderful event.

No, we're are not on a skying holiday!!!!
We're part of the Love Limerick Project Team - some Abundant Life happy campers, and a great USA missions team!
Getting ready to gather near 50 bags of rubbish at Baggot Estate.
We love Limerick!

Christians are to work for the peace, security, justice, and prosperity of their city and their neighbours, loving them in word and in deed, whether they believe what we do or not.
In Jeremiah 29:7, Israel's exiles were called not just to live in the pagan city of Babylon, but also to love it, pray for it and work for its shalom—its economic, social, and spiritual flourishing.
The citizens of God's city are the best possible citizens of their earthly cities.

Limerick City is what it is because its citizens are what they are. So, don’t live selfishly in the city. Don’t use the city or take from it. Instead, love and bless and make a healthy difference to the community.
Remember, a church is a dynamic movement of people who do deeds of service and spread the Gospel, which is the Power of God to rescue & change people - as we heard recently from our Teen Challenge friends.
Let's make Limerick a FAB city!

LOVE LIMERICK PROJECT is four days of doing service in the city of Limerick. A team from the USA is coming to join us. Together with Limerick Co-ordinators and the local communities of Garryowen & other areas, we will clean up and make a difference!
Come with us to bless the city.

Let’s have people look at Limerick, and be able to read the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who live in it.