Another Excerpt from Shaping History through Prayer and Fasting
God has recently taken me on a journey of fasting. I have fasted in the past but this time He has revealed to me His purpose and intent in this discipline and what I have seen occur has been so incredible that it leaves me once again astonished by the power of my Lord and Savior.
Fasting is the secret weapon of any Christain that wants to experience the power and authority that God says we have through Jesus over principalities and spiritual wickedness.
Derek Prince says that many of God's choicest provisions for His people lie within the realm of fasting and prayer and that is exactly what I have been witnessing with my own eyes.
Here is what he says about fasting on p. 103:
It is important to understand that fasting changes man, not God. The Holy Spirit being God is both omnipotent and unchanging. Fasting breaks down the barriers in man's carnal nature that stand in the way of the Holy Spirit's omnipotence. With these barriers removed, the Holy Spirit can work unhindered in His fullness through our prayers.
I would encourage anyone who wants more of God's fullness to begin a life of fasting and I know that you will be totally amazed at how God answers your prayers!
Jesus expected us to fast.
15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, (Matthew 6:15-17, New King James Version)
Here are more scriptures on Fasting:
19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. (Mark 2:19-21, New King James Version)
2 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar” (which is En Gedi). 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the LORD; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
(2 Chronicles 20:2-4, New King James Version)
21 Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions. 22 For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.” 23 So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.
24 And I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests—Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them— (Ezra 8:21-24, New King James Version)
1 “Cry aloud, spare not;
Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
Tell My people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek Me daily,
And delight to know My ways,
As a nation that did righteousness,
And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.
They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
They take delight in approaching God.
3 ‘ Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen?
Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’
“ In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
And exploit all your laborers.
(Isaiah 58:1-3, New King James Version)
Exploit the devil today through prayer and fasting! Set an ambush for him and his ways like Jehoshaphat did!
II Chronicles 20
Fasting is the secret weapon of any Christain that wants to experience the power and authority that God says we have through Jesus over principalities and spiritual wickedness.
Derek Prince says that many of God's choicest provisions for His people lie within the realm of fasting and prayer and that is exactly what I have been witnessing with my own eyes.
Here is what he says about fasting on p. 103:
It is important to understand that fasting changes man, not God. The Holy Spirit being God is both omnipotent and unchanging. Fasting breaks down the barriers in man's carnal nature that stand in the way of the Holy Spirit's omnipotence. With these barriers removed, the Holy Spirit can work unhindered in His fullness through our prayers.
I would encourage anyone who wants more of God's fullness to begin a life of fasting and I know that you will be totally amazed at how God answers your prayers!
Jesus expected us to fast.
15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, (Matthew 6:15-17, New King James Version)
Here are more scriptures on Fasting:
19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. (Mark 2:19-21, New King James Version)
2 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar” (which is En Gedi). 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the LORD; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
(2 Chronicles 20:2-4, New King James Version)
21 Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions. 22 For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.” 23 So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.
24 And I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests—Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them— (Ezra 8:21-24, New King James Version)
1 “Cry aloud, spare not;
Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
Tell My people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet they seek Me daily,
And delight to know My ways,
As a nation that did righteousness,
And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.
They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;
They take delight in approaching God.
3 ‘ Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You have not seen?
Why have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’
“ In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
And exploit all your laborers.
(Isaiah 58:1-3, New King James Version)
Exploit the devil today through prayer and fasting! Set an ambush for him and his ways like Jehoshaphat did!
II Chronicles 20
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