Fasting Brings miraculous benefits to believers

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Why We Should Fast for Miracles

1. Helps us overcome personal challenges and conflicts

To get a sense of how fasting helps us overcome our own challenges and conflicts, let’s look at a few biblical examples of how fasting helped heroes of the faith, and even Jesus Himself, face their own trials.

Fasting brings a sense of humility as we must rely on God alone (Ps. 35:13; 69:10).
Esther fasted when faced with danger (Est. 4:16).
Ezra fasted for protection (Ezra 8:21-28).
Jehoshaphat fasted in the time of war (2 Chron. 20:3).
Jesus fasted in the wilderness when confronted with the devil (Matt. 4:2).

2. Opens our connection with God for clarity and communion

Jesus told His disciples they would fast when He was physically no longer present (Mark 2:20). When we fast, we open ourselves up to a renewed presence of God.

3. Empowers us to walk in the Spirit and live out our testimony

In the Old Testament, we often see people fasting in a time of crisis. In the New Testament, we see Jesus fasted for His calling. We should not only fast during problems, but also as a testimony of God’s power and sufficiency in our lives. The prophetess Anna, for example, fasted not because of a conflict, but as an act of anticipating God, as she stood at the gate waiting to see the Messiah (Luke 2:37).

4. Defeats the devil

We have already seen how Jesus directly connected fasting to warfare, when telling His disciples when they could not cast out a demon, “This kind does not leave, but by prayer and fasting” (Matt. 17:21). But the precedence of fasting as a weapon that liberates us from the evil one was already established in the Old Testament. According to Isaiah 58:6, fasting helps to break the bonds of wickedness, undo heavy burdens, and break every yoke.

Excerpt from Fasting For Miracles. Fasting For Miracles, published by Charisma House, releases on December 20, 2022, and is available online at MyCharismaShop.com and wherever Christian books are sold.

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Spiritual Fasting 101..how, when, why.

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