- Fasting without prayers is religious punishment.
- It is fervent prayer that gives value to fasting.
- Pray Fervently and Listen Diligently.
- May the pacesetting anointing come upon your life today.
If you can hear the chains falling, thank God. Thank God for bringing an end to those issues of concerns in your life as listed in your ‘Enough is Enough’ list.
Whatever you have in your ‘Enough is Enough’ list shall return as testimonies today.
That’s the prayer advantage in fasting: fasting provides a platform of advantage in prayers, God prescribed fasting to facilitate answers to our prayers among others, because He answers prayers with speed in a fast (Isaiah 58:6,9).
Whatever came with you to this prophetic ground must return as a testimony.
o Whatever you have listed on your ‘Enough is Enough’ list must return as testimonies one after the other.
How many of us have been enjoying God’s presence since this fast began?
- You have just stepped into your best week of it.
- Whatever your experience was last week will be like nothing (compared to) what you will experience this week.
- His Presence will be all over you and He will be showing you the path of life.
- One of the benefits of His Presence is access to the path of life (Psalm 16:11).
UNDERSTANDING THE BLESSEDNESS OF PRAYERS AND FASTING.
Every commandment of scriptures is ordained for our profiting…thoroughly decorated (2 Timothy 3:16-17).
God’s commandments are not to punish us but to polish us
The Amazing Benefits That Accompany Fasting
Isaiah 58:6-14
- This season marks the end of shame and reproach in your life.
- This fast is ordained for an end to the struggles over your health.
- That means you will encounter God in His Word during this season like you have never had before.
- It’s ordained for expedite answers to your prayers.
- Change of story, end of dry season. The benefits are so overwhelming that the demand is like nothing when compared to the overwhelming benefits that come out of it.
- Complete change of name, setting a pace, a new name, you will show others which way to go (Isaiah 58:12,14).
How to Access the Amazing Benefits in Fasting?
Isaiah 58:9
Fasting without prayers is hunger strike. It is religious punishment. It is fervent prayer that gives value to fasting.
You call for light, “God show me what I must do to experience the breakthrough ordained for me this year.”
You call for help!
You demand for divine intervention!
All of the benefits of fasting anchors on Isaiah chapter 58 verse 9.
In my second 3-day segment, I had 10 items and I took delivery of 7 of them by the time the 3 days were over.
Then I have 12 for the one (third 3-day segment) that begins today.
If you live your life to chance, you don’t have a chance. Please make this season a season of one on a Mission with God. You are just on a Mission, you are setting the pace for the year with all your heart.
Prayer is a 2-way communication channel, you pray fervently and you listen diligently (Deuteronomy 28:1). He comes through, a still small voice. You must have to hearken diligently. Calling somebody on the phone and talking and talking without any opportunity for the person to respond is a waste of time, you are not getting anything out of it.
- May this 2-way channel answer for everyone effectively this time.
Elijah prayed earnestly, he also listened diligently. He was at the point of suicide when God said, “in the midst of this noise, you can’t know the way to go”; God gave very clean direction on the way to go and a new chapter opened to the Ministry of Elijah (1 Kings 19:11-12). - It’s the same way through your access to His directions which comes directly by a voice or by revelation from His Word.
- New chapters will be opened to your life.
Can I thank God enough for giving us this light to open every year with 21 days of prayers and fasting?
Nothing has been any more, in terms of value addition to us as a Commission and as individuals like this season. I pray that each one here will maximize the blessedness of this season in his or her life.
Why Fast?
It is prescribed by God with attendant benefits for those who care to believe. You show that you believe by engaging with it (James 2:18).
We must beware not to sell our birthright to our belly like Esau did: the Bible calls him a profane person, a careless person, a joker, who sold his birthright for a morsel of meat (Hebrews 12:16-17).
- May the blessings packaged for this season be fully delivered in your life, in the name of Jesus Christ.
Never forget: IT IS PRAYERS THAT GIVE VALUE TO FASTING. Grace to be fervent on the prayer altar in the remaining days of this fast receive it now in the name of Jesus (Romans 12:11-12, James 5:17-18). - Be deliberate, be intense about every prayer item engaged with.
- See praying Kingdom Advancement prayers as your partnership with your heavenly Father’s business and do it with joy.
BIBLICAL APPROACH TO PROFITABLE FASTING.
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