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Pause Before the Weekend

Before you move into the weekend—pause. This week wasn’t about learning something new.
It was about recognizing what you’ve been feeding on. Jesus didn’t criticize hunger.

He revealed what hunger was pointing toward.

 

Remember What This Week Was About

This week asked a confronting question: What are you working for—and what are you feeding on?

You were invited to:

  • Recognize the difference between temporary fullness and eternal satisfaction

  • See belief not as agreement, but as dependence

  • Receive Jesus not as a provider of bread, but as the Bread

  • Wrestle with hard words that require surrender, not explanation

  • Allow physical hunger to reveal spiritual need


If this week stirred discomfort, that’s not failure. That’s formation.

 

If You Struggled This Week

If fasting felt hard… If hunger made you irritable or distracted… If you skipped the fast altogether…

Hear this clearly: God is not impressed by empty stomachs.

He is forming hungry hearts.


“The Lord’s mercies are new every morning.” — Lamentations 3:23

Grace meets you whether you fasted perfectly, imperfectly, or not at all.

 

Reorient the Weekend

The weekend is not a reward for discipline. It’s an invitation to rest in provision.

As you: share meals with family and friends, return to normal rhythms, gather with your church family. Let food remind you of the Giver. Eat with gratitude. Worship with humility.

Gather with hunger—not for more signs, but for more of Jesus.

 

Scripture to Carry Into Worship

John 6:35 - “I am the bread of life. No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in Me will ever be thirsty again.”

Fullness is not found in consumption—it is found in communion.

 

Weekend Prayer

Jesus, Thank You for feeding me with what truly lasts. Forgive me for the ways I chase satisfaction

in things that cannot sustain me. As I rest and worship, each me to receive You again— not as a supplement to my life, but as my source of life. You are my bread. You are enough.

Amen.

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