Remember the story of the young man the disciples could not heal? Jesus told them.
Matthew 17: 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
This isn’t something that you do because Tuesday is the fasting day, this is something you do when you are in a crisis situation and you need a huge spiritual breakthrough, although it is a great idea to do it on a regular basis.
Jesus said this mountain can only be moved, this tragedy can only be reversed, this circumstance can only be overcome by prayer and fasting.
We hear a lot about prayer but rarely do we hear anything about fasting. This could possibly change the course of your life.
Jesus said that in His absence, fasting was to be a priority.
Matthew 9:15 for example, And Jesus said to them, “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.
That is, in Jesus’ absence fasting would be a way to make that connection with Him. Since you can’t go to Jesus right now and sit down with Him and have a verbal conversation face to face, God says there’s a special way you can make a spiritual link with Him when you need to, and He says “and they will fast.”
Fasting is a way to get through the gateway to God in the crises of life.
1.) In the bible, fasting occurred during the burdens of life that demanded a spiritual breakthrough; emotional burdens, relational burdens, circumstantial burdens, physical burdens, ministerial burdens, directional burdens or what have you.
Fasting is the deliberate abstinence of physical gratification to achieve a spiritual goal. It’s a denial of the flesh to gain a response from the Spirit.
It’s renouncing the natural to invoke the supernatural. It’s saying “no” to yourself in order to hear a “yes” from God.
Another great article from http://www.justacloserwalk.com
Matthew 17: 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
This isn’t something that you do because Tuesday is the fasting day, this is something you do when you are in a crisis situation and you need a huge spiritual breakthrough, although it is a great idea to do it on a regular basis.
Jesus said this mountain can only be moved, this tragedy can only be reversed, this circumstance can only be overcome by prayer and fasting.
We hear a lot about prayer but rarely do we hear anything about fasting. This could possibly change the course of your life.
Jesus said that in His absence, fasting was to be a priority.
Matthew 9:15 for example, And Jesus said to them, “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.
That is, in Jesus’ absence fasting would be a way to make that connection with Him. Since you can’t go to Jesus right now and sit down with Him and have a verbal conversation face to face, God says there’s a special way you can make a spiritual link with Him when you need to, and He says “and they will fast.”
Fasting is a way to get through the gateway to God in the crises of life.
1.) In the bible, fasting occurred during the burdens of life that demanded a spiritual breakthrough; emotional burdens, relational burdens, circumstantial burdens, physical burdens, ministerial burdens, directional burdens or what have you.
Fasting is the deliberate abstinence of physical gratification to achieve a spiritual goal. It’s a denial of the flesh to gain a response from the Spirit.
It’s renouncing the natural to invoke the supernatural. It’s saying “no” to yourself in order to hear a “yes” from God.
Another great article from http://www.justacloserwalk.com
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