Dr. Bill Bright said, “Fasting is the most powerful spiritual discipline of all the Christian disciplines. Through fasting and prayer, the Holy Spirit can transform your life.” There are also tremendous physical benefits. Ron Lagerquist wrote this enlightening paragraph, “During fasting, toxins are loosened and cleansed from the body, cell by cell, even within deep tissue. The process hurts as by-products enter into the blood. Feelings of weakness, even discouragement, accompany a fasting dip. It is during this time people often give up the fast, dispirited. In the same way, old emotions, memories and hurts are stirred. Why this happens is a mystery. It could be a combination of radical change in lifestyle, slowdown, mental clarity, and the working of the Holy Spirit. Connections are made between a harmful past experience and present encumbrances. They are powerful moments of awakening, and the strengthened fingers of the will are able to skillfully undo the knots that bind, finding new freedom. We discover new strength, convincing a tired hope that one is never too old for remarkable change.” Fasting has both spiritual and physical benefits that are powerful. Add prayer to that mix and you have a life explosion of purpose and power.
It is vital that you engage in prayer during your fasting. As your flesh weakens, that process becomes a gateway for the Holy Spirit to actually lead your prayers in accordance with God’s will. Romans 8:26-28 reveals this to us, “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know for what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our heart knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.” The depth to which you are willing to go in prayer is the gauge that signals your detachment from earthly ties. As those earthly ties are cut away, prayer brings the clarity of revelation. Everything we need can be accessed through prayer. We have no greater need than that of God’s healing and forgiveness. In 2 Chronicles 7:14, God promises us, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
On this seventeenth day of Breakthrough Fasting & Prayer lift your voice and cry out to God for every area of your life. Your fasting has exposed your greatest prayer needs. We need direction for our live from God. We need direction for our children. We need direction regarding our possessions. We are fasting and praying as they did in Ezra 8:21, “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.
Send me your testimony of deliverance and breakthrough. Email it to me at pastorgreg@clfn.org. I can’t wait to hear what God has done for you. I am standing with you in faith today for every breakthrough you desire in God!
Numbers 6:24-26 “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.”
Blessings & Peace,
PG
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All scriptural references unless noted otherwise are from the New King James Version of the Bible.
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