January 10, 2021
The Power of Fasting
When you fast, don’t look gloomy and pretend to be spiritual. They want everyone to know they’re fasting, so they appear in public looking miserable and disheveled. Believe me, they’ve already received their reward. When you fast, don’t let it be obvious, but instead, wash your face and groom yourself and realize that your Father in the secret place is the one who is watching all that you do in secret and will continue to reward you.” (Matthew 6:16-18 TPT)
Precious one are you praying for and believing God to save a loved one? Consider fasting and prayer. It is the goodness of God that draws people to repentance. (Romans 2:4) Do you need a turnaround in your finances? Fasting and sowing a seed for your financial breakthrough works every time. Perhaps, you or someone you know needs deliverance from an addiction or a stronghold? Fasting is the answer. Are you desiring intimacy with the Father? Communion, fasting, and spending quiet time in His presence will take you to the feet of the King in sweet fellowship with Him. Fasting and prayer was the answer to ending the plagues in the Old Testament and God is still the same God now as then. I call a fast to end the plague of covid, omicron variant, and delta. In the name of Jesus, I declare no longer will this wicked evil spirit attack the body of Christ. I command it to leave the nations in Jesus’ name. If you will fast with me let me know. Too many have died prematurely because of this plague. Fasting is a source of power!
Consider this:
1. Before Moses received the 10 commandments from God, he fasted and prayed.
Moses remained there on the mountain with the Lord for forty days and forty nights. In all that time he ate no bread and drank no water. And the Lord wrote the terms of the covenant—the Ten Commandments on the stone tablets. (Exodus 34:28 NLT)
2. David a man after God’s own heart and Israel’s greatest King, fasted.
When I weep and fast, they scoff at me. (Psalms 69:10)
3. Daniel, Seeking God’s timetable for the return of God’s people from captivity, fasted.
(Daniel 9:3) So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I also wore rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes.
(Daniel 1:8) But Daniel was determined not to defile himself by eating the food and wine given to them by the king. He asked the chief of staff for permission not to eat these unacceptable foods.
4. Esther Fasted 3 days before risking her life to save the kingdom.
(Esther 4:16) “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”
5. Nehemiah stood alone in prayer and fasting before rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 1:3-4) They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.” When I heard this, I sat down and wept. In fact, for days I mourned, fasted, and prayed to the God of heaven.
6. Hannah fasted and prayed, asking God for a son, and made a vow before the Lord. (1 Samuel 1:9-28)
7. Jehoshaphat called a fast for all of Judah when threatened by vast armies coming against them.
(2 Chronicles 20:3) He also ordered everyone in Judah to begin fasting.
8. Ezra called on the nation to fast before returning to the land of Israel.
(Ez. 8:21) And there by the Ahava Canal, I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before our God. We prayed that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as we traveled.
9. Joel called a national fast regarding a vast army of locusts (a plague) that had invaded the land, a terrible army too numerous to count. (Sounds like the plague covid, omicron variant, and delta and I call a fast to stop this plague).
(Joel 1:14) Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting.
Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the Lord your God and cry out to him there.
10.Jesus, before beginning his earthly ministry, fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.
(Luke 4:1-3) Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”
Fasting is a source of power!
