Pray & Fast Your Way To Success

Many of us believers know and understand the importance & power of prayer BUT how many of us know and understand the importance and power of fasting?

Today I want to talk to you about how you can Pray & Fast Your Way To Success.

Now that may sound outrageous and even preposterous BUT God has been revealing to me that pray and fasting are foundational principles in the lives of believers who want to be or have answered the call of becoming one of His disciples.

It is important to note that you can’t practice the principle without the prince aka Jesus and expect success. It doesn’t work like that. My mentor Jim Baker says principles without the prince is witchcraft.?

So it is key that you have and are growing your relationship with the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit. In other words partner & prosper with God.

Let’s get into talking about how you can pray and fast your way to success.

First, let’s look at what prayer is and what it means to prayer:

• Prayer can be found in all religions and they have their ritualistic ways of praying
• The Bible has a lot to say about praying, why we should pray and how to or not to pray
• Prayer is you having communion with the Father as in you seeking to grow in your relationship with the Father, you sharing what is on your heart and mind,?
• When you pray you are making petitions to the Father.
• When you make petitions you are making an appeal to the kingdom, to God for His intervention, you are giving Him permission to have His will be done in your life.
• And prayer is expected of us Matthew 6: 5 says “And when you pray …

This is essentially what prayer is and what it means to pray.

Prayer & fasting go hand in hand. Fasting has been an activity engaged in the Old & New Testament. We pray to move the Father we fast to change ourselves.?

Fasting:

• Should be a choice, not something you are coerced, pressured or manipulated into doing?
• It shouldn’t be used as a tactic to move the hand of God or to get Him to take action when you want Him to
• Fasting is not just about abstaining from food, it is about abstaining from life’s natural pleasures that include anything that you enjoy doing and spend a lot of time doing like watching T.V being on social media and so forth
• Fasting is about substituting the time you would normally spend engaging in life’s natural pleasures and spending it with God, dedicating that time to prioritize praying and meditating on God’s word
• One should seek medical advice before engaging in a food fast and never fast for more than 40 days

How you achieve success from praying and fasting is this, you use them as a tool to:

• Seek God’s direction in your life like Moses did in Exodus 34:28
• Humble yourself before Him like Ezra in the book of Ezra 8:21
• Break free from being enslaved as mentioned in Isaiah 58:6
• Grow in your intimacy with the Lord as instructed by Jesus in Matthew 6:16-18
• Be made new in the Lord as Jesus shared in Matthew 9:14-17
• Seek the Holy Spirit’s guidance in our lives as disciples did in Acts 13:3

For Jesus said in Matthew 6:25-34?

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

And you seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness through prayer and fasting. That is your way to success in life and in business. Amen.

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