Day Twenty

As we close our 20/20 initiative, and I want to encourage you to keep pressing forward in fasting.  We are ending our fast corporately, but want to challenge you to keep going forward individually.  The more you press into the things of God, the more He will manifest within you. It takes 21 days to start a habit.  Tomorrow will be the twenty-first …

Day Nineteen

Fasting creates a place where God can dwell.  Matthew 5:6 says, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”  The blessing of the Lord comes when you posture yourself to be filled by God and His blessings, not the blessings of man.  When a person doesn’t eat or drink, the obvious bi-product is hunger and thirst.   God, in this …

Day Eighteen

The story of Esther is one of the most well known in the Bible.  But so often we spend our time talking about the end of the story.  Today, let’s dig into some of the beginnings of it.  In Esther 4, the Bible tells us that Haman had plotted to bring destruction, to slaughter and annihilate the Jews.  Mordecai (Esther’s uncle) sent word and …

Day Seventeen

Fasting produces a greater level of anointing on your life.  Fasting is what causes the glory of God’s presence to be upon you and around you.  When this new anointing or glory falls on your life, the Bible tells us in Isaiah 58:8-9 the following things will happen… Your light will break forth like the dawn  God’s light and favor are about …

Day Sixteen

Isaiah 58:6-7 teaches us a few things about fasting.  First, it tells us that God has chosen a certain type of fast for His people.  There’s something that can be accomplished when we go into a fast with His purpose in mind.  He then lists out all the things He will do once we enter into His type of fast.  The Bible says in …

Day Fifteen

Fasting has a partner and its name is prayer.  Fasting gives you power.  And prayer is essential to the life of the believer.   So when you couple prayer and fasting, mountains will move.  Prayer adds things to your life and fasting subtracts from your flesh,  Think of it this way…prayer is the positive charge and fasting is the negative charge.  And when a positive charge comes …

Day Fourteen

FASTING IS NECESSARY TO FULFILL WHAT’S IN YOUR FUTURE!  Fasting brings us spiritual wisdom from above.  When we fast, God can download wisdom, insight, and instruction that we will be able to hear because we have crucified our flesh.  Sometimes, the reason we can’t feel or hear God is that we are in the way.  Fasting puts God where He needs to be in …

Day Thirteen

Fasting doesn’t fix your problem or situation, fasting fixes you while you’re in the situation. Fasting gives you the faith to speak to whatever your situation is and demand that it lines up with the Word of God.  When we fast, it activates the measure of faith that God has distributed to every person He created.  Our faith increases when we enter …

Day Twelve

Fasting is one of the weapons God has given you to use. to crucify your flesh.  Fasting is to deny yourself of food and that, in turn, kills and crucifies your flesh.  In 1 John 2:16 the Bible says, “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, …

Day Eleven

Jesus gave us strict instructions regarding fasting in Matthew 6:16-18.  First, He told us when we fast to not be like the hypocrites with a sad countenance.  Those people would fast and disfigure their faces so everyone would know that they are on a fast.  Fasting is between you and God and not the world.  In verse 17, He says that you should anoint …