![]() There is not a problem so complex or powerful that God cannot handle it. There is no problem so big that God cannot solve it. Fast so that you can solve difficult problems.God is able to bring people you don’t even know into their life. God is able to wake them up in the night. God is able to bring conviction by the power of the Holy Spirit. When you are fasting for others to be delivered from addiction God sees that, and he is able to turn up the heat of His Holy Spirit power. So it stands to reason that if you can control your appetite for food, you can control it for any other area.īesides that when you fast, you are drawing near to God. Every time you say no to dinner and go to pray…you are building up your spirit man and you are decreasing the power that the flesh has over you. Every time you say no to eating, you are crucifying the flesh. The flesh is that part of us or others that desire to satisfy or gratify the sinful nature. ![]() ![]() There is a principle in the Word that talks about crucifying the flesh. Some of you are thinking, well how does that work exactly? When we fast for our own self we are enacting a biblical principle. God has ordained that when we get serious about walking in victory that we would demonstrate it through fasting. But we can fast and we can pray and God will answer and He can set people free. Satan wants to keep people bound up in sin. These are all things that the bible calls bondages. “I don’t know how to control my temper.” Try fasting!.“I keep on getting drunk and I want to be free.” Try fasting!.“I just can’t seem to stop cussing.” Try fasting!.“I don’t want to watch porn anymore.” Try fasting!.“I don’t want to do drugs anymore.” But I just struggle.“I’ve tried to quit smoking, but I can’t!”Try fasting!.Yet perhaps there are things in your life that you would like to lay down but have been unable to: If you are a believer in Jesus there should be nothing in your life that exerts a power over you. I believe that whom the Son sets free is free indeed. There are people who are literally enslaved and in spiritual bondage today. ![]() We are to fast to loose the bonds of wickedness. Yet this is not speaking simply of physical bondages. Some physical bonds would be a chain or a rope. A bond is something you would use to bind someone so that they lose their freedom. The word picture given here is really powerful. Isaiah 58:6 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen:
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