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Read Chapter One Utterly awesome reading. You will be glad
you read it. Includes the
healing of throw away children on psychiatric wards.
Healing Fast
Old Testament scripture
EXODUS 34:28 KJV He (Moses) was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights. Neither did he eat bread nor drink water.
DEUTERONOMY 9:18-20 NKJV 18"I (Moses) fell down before the Lord, as at the 1st, 40 days and 40 nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 19For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was angry with you, to destroy you. But the Lord listened to me at that time also."
2nd SAMUEL 12:13-18,20 KJV David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan said to David, "The Lord has put away your sin. You shall not die. However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child that is born to you shall surely die." Nathan departed to his house. The Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David. It was very sick. David besought God for the child, fasted, went in, and lay all night upon the earth. The elders of his house arose and went to him, to raise him up from the earth. He would not; neither did he eat bread with them. It came to pass on the 7th day that the child died...Then David arose from the earth, washed, anointed himself, changed his apparel, came to the house of the Lord and worshiped.
1st KINGS 13:8-9 KJV (Elijah)
The man of God said to the king (Jeroboam),
"If you give me half of your house, I will not go in with you; neither
will I eat bread nor drink water in this place. The Lord charged me
saying, "Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn a gain by the same way
that you came."
1st KINGS 19:8 KJV The angel of the Lord came
again the 2nd time, touched him (Elijah), and said, "Arise
and eat, because the journey is too great for you. He arose, drank, and
went in the strength of that meat 40 days and 40 nights to Horeb the
mountain of God.
1st KINGS 21:20-21,27-29 KJV (King)
Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He (Elijah)
answered, "I have found you." (The Lord says),
"Because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, I will
bring evil upon you and will take away your posterity...."When Ahab heard those
words, he rent his clothes, put sackcloth upon his flesh, fasted, lay in
sackcloth, and went softly. The word of the Lord came to Elijah the
Tishbite, saying, "See how a Ahab humbles himself before Me? Because he
humbles himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his
son's days will I bring evil upon his house. (Spiritual insight = clear
case study of generational sin.)
2nd CHRONICLES 7:13-14
2nd CHRONICLES 20:3 KJV (King)
Jehoshaphat feared, set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast
throughout all Judah.
EZRA 8:21 KJV Then I (Ezra) proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of Him a right way for us, and for our little ones (children), and for all our substance (possessions).
NEHEMIAH 1:4 KJV When I
(Nehemiah) heard these words, I sat down, wept, mourned certain
days, fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven.
NEHEMIAH 9:1-3 KJV In the 24th day of this month, the
children of Israel were assembled (in Jerusalem) with
fasting, sack clothes, and earth upon them. The seed
(descendents) of Israel separated themselves from all strangers
and stood and confessed their sins AND the sins of their fathers. They
stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the Lord their
God one fourth part of the day. Another fourth part they confessed and
worshiped the Lord their God.
ESTER 4:15-16 KJV Ester bid them return Mordecai this answer, "Go. Gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan. Fast for me. Neither eat nor drink 3 days and 3 nights. I and my maidens will fast likewise. I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. If I perish; I perish."
ISAIAH 58:3-9,14 NIV "Why have we
fasted," they say, "and You have not seen it? Why have we
humbled ourselves and You have not noticed?"
(response) "On the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit
all your workers. Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife and in
striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do
today and expect your voice to be heard on high. 5Is this the kind of
fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only
for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackcloth and ashes? Is
that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? 6Is not
this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break
every yoke? 7Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer
with shelter; when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from
your own flesh and blood? 8Then your light will break forth like the dawn
and your healing will quickly appear..." the mouth of
the Lord has spoken.
DANIEL 10:2-21 NIV I, Daniel, mourned
for 3 weeks (21-23 days). I ate no choice (pleasant) food (bread). No meat
(flesh) or wine touched my lips.
I used no lotions (anointing oil) at all until the 3 weeks were over.
4Now, on the 24'th day of the 1st month...5I lifted my eyes and looked, and
behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with gold of Uphaz.
6His body was like beryl, His face like the appearance of lightning, His eyes
like torches of fire, His arms and feet like burnished bronze (brass) in color,
and the sound of His words like the voice of a multitude...9I heard the sound of
His words; and while I heard the sound of His words, I was in a deep sleep on my
face, with my face to the ground. 10 Suddenly, a hand touched me, which
made me tremble (lifted up) on (to) my knees and on the palms of my hands.
11He said to me, 'Oh Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words
that I speak to you and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you'...12He
said to me, 'Do not fear, Daniel, for from the 1st day that you set your heart
to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard;
and I have come because of your words. 13But the prince of the kingdom of
Persia withstood me 21 days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief
princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the (evil) kings
(rulers) of Persia. 14Now I have come to make you understand' ...20Now I
must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone
forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. 21But I will tell you what
is noted in the Scripture of Truth. [No one upholds me against these (evil
spirits/demons/powers), except Michael your prince.]
(Spiritual insight = 21 days coming + 21 days back = 42 days. God often
recommends either 21 or 40 day fasts.)
JOEL 1:14 KJVer Sanctify you a fast; call a solemn
assembly; gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house
of the Lord your God; and cry to the Lord.
JOEL 2:12 KJV Now, says the Lord,
"Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and mourning.
Rend your heart and not your garments. Turn to the Lord your God, for He
is gracious, merciful, slow to anger and kind (to him who) repents of evil."
New Testament scripture
MATTHEW 4:4 Man does not live on
bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
MATTHEW 6:6 When you pray, go into your
room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father Who is in the secret
place; and your Father Who sees (you) in secret will reward you openly.
MATTHEW 6:17-18 KJV When you fast, anoint your
head and wash your face, that you appear not to men to fast, but in
secret to your Father. Your Father, Who sees (you)
in secret shall reward you openly.
MATTHEW 15:32 TLB in Kwikscan Jesus Called His
disciples to Him and said, "I pity thee people.
They've been here with Me for 3 days now and have nothing left to eat; I don't
want to send them away hungry or they will faint along the road."
MATTHEW 17:14-16 KJV There came to Him a certain man,
kneeling down to Him, saying, "Lord have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic
and sore vexed. Often He falls into the fire and into the water. I
brought him to Your disciples and they could not cure him."
MATTHEW 17:17 KJVer
Jesus answered and said, "O faithless (unbelieving)
and
perverse (perverted)
generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you?
Bring him here to Me."
MATTHEW 17:18 KJV Jesus rebuked the devil, who departed out
of him. The child was cured that very hour (moment).
MATTHEW 17:20-21 KJV
20"(Because of your little faith,)" I
(Jesus) say to you , "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this
mountain, 'Remove here to yonder place'; and it shall remove. Nothing
shall be impossible to you. 21However this kind does not go out, except by
prayer and FASTING."
(Spiritual insight = Verse 21 was not in earliest manuscripts, per TPNT.
Ndifon www.christlove.org contends that
fasting is mainly to hear God better, rather than for power; whereas Chavda
www.watchofthelord.com fasts frequently for power.)
LUKE 2:37 This woman was a widow of
about 84 years who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings
and prayers night and day.
LUKE 4:2 KJV Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost,
returned from Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being
(at the end of - per TPNT footnote) 40
days tempted of the devil. In those days
He did eat nothing.
When they were ended, He afterward hungered.
JOHN 4:31-34 KJVer 31His disciples prayed (urged) Him saying, "Master, eat." 32But He said to them, "I have meat to eat that you know not of." 33Therefore said the disciples one to another, "Has any man brought Him anything to eat?" 34Jesus says to them, "My meat (spiritual nourishment/food) is to do the will of Him Who sent Me and to finish His work."
ACTS 10:30-31 KJV Cornelius said, "4
days ago I was fasting until this hour. At the 9th hour I prayed in
my house. Behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, and said,
'Cornelius, your prayer is heard. Your alms are remembered in the sight of
God.'"
ACTS 13:2-3 KJV As they ministered to the Lord and
fasted, the Holy Ghost said, "Barnabas and Saul separate (unto)
Me for the work to which I have called them. After they had
fasted and prayed, they laid hands on (commissioned)
them and sent them away.
ACTS 14:23 KJV When they had prayed with fasting,
and had ordained the elders in every church, they commended them to
the Lord, on Whom they believed.
2nd CORINTHIANS 6:4-7 NIV As servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance, troubles, hardships, distress, beatings, imprisonment, riots, hard work, sleepless nights, and hunger (fasting=KJV).
Commentary
Corrie Ten Boom in Tramp for the Lord has a chapter
on Authority Over Demons.
The movie The Hiding Place is her autobiography of her internment during the holocaust.
She begins chapter
10 with Mark 16:17 "And these signs shall follow them that believe; in My name
shall they cast out devils..." At that time the Communists did not allow
people to speak about demons. However, God had told Corrie to use her
authority in the Name of Jesus. Corrie was afraid of the
local authorities
but nonetheless willing to obey Mark 16:17. She told the congregation that the
servants (demons) of Satan were keeping them in bondage (wanting to receive
Christ, but unable). Then she said aloud, "In the Name of Jesus I command all dark powers keeping people from the blessings of God to disappear.
Go away! Get out of the hearts of these people. Get out of this
church. Go to the place where God sends you." Guess what? The
people were free at last to receive Christ into their hearts. Corrie went on to expound on missionaries who have given all but "not taken
all the boundless resources of God's promises. Many do not know about 2 precious
weapons: the power of the blood of Jesus - and every Christian's legal right
to use the wonderful Name of Jesus - to cast out demons."
Corrie recommends fasting as part of armor of God. In Ravensbruck
when they were starved, she and her sister reversed the lack of food to a
FAST for
God, which resulted in their having power to cast tormenting demons out of their
barracks.
Fasting is often part of the protocol of doing ministry.
However, Christ was criticized for His disciples not fasting. His response
was that they would fast after the bridegroom was gone.
Roberts Liardon
God's Generals
www.robertsliardon.com Liardon
shares the lifestyle of 12 men who operated in God's healing anointing - Dowie,
Woodworth-Etter, Roberts, Parham, Seymour, Lake, Wigglesworth, Semple-McPherson,
Kuhlman, Branham, Coe, and Allen. Some fasted daily due to poverty and
dedication to God's calling, but most fasted frequently, especially before and
during ministry.
Fasting was what the Holy Spirit called Jesus to do for
40 days at the inception of His ministry.
The temptation by Satan of Jesus in the desert consisted of 3 tests - spirit,
mind, body. The one regarding His body was intended to sabotage Jesus'
fast. Jesus won that battle.
The 1st temptation of mankind involved food, the forbidden fruit in the garden
of Eden. Both Adam and Eve lost that battle.
One can begin to get a glimpse of the relationship between sin, spirit and body.
Spiritual wars have been won through fasting (not eating food or
not sinning)
and lost through lack of fasting [giving in to hunger/appetite/desires/thoughts (our own or our
accepting the thoughts/deceptions of others)].
We can abstain from food or we can abstain from (venial/mortal) sin (such as
gossip/tattling/ ratting/squealing/sharing confidences/family secrets).
Prayer lines can be gossip lines. When sin is put under the blood, then
leave it there. Do not take it out and inspect it. Do not hang your
own or another's dirty laundry out on the line for neighbors to see and talk
about. Compulsions are of the enemy. If we NEED an emotional fix, it
is not we but the enemy who is looking for attention. Satan is the
accuser. God is the forgiver. Satan is the one who wants to air the
dirty laundry. Satan is the one who wants the alcohol, the drug, the pill,
the fix, the candy. Put/leave that impulse under the blood. Tell the
temptation, "Go in the name of Jesus." Call a friend. Go to church.
Take a walk. Do a good deed. This is war! Fasting is not a
holy day of obligation. Fasting is a life style. Fasting is war
against the enemy in our life. Not a chess game. War.
Fasting As a Lifestyle
Food Ideas
1. Skip/fast 1 meal a day.
2. Eat half meals.
3. No snacks between meals.
4. No sweets. No desserts.
5. No added butter/margarine/jelly/jam.
6. No fast foods (drive-through
quick/processed/fried/unhealthy meals).
7. No fried foods.
8. No red meat.
9. No canned beverages (soda/beer).
10. No caffeinated beverages (coffee/tea)
11. No alcohol (excepting communion/wine)
12. No second helpings.
13. Leave the table a wee bit hungry - not
overstuffed.
14. When shopping reduce quantity. Buy
1 instead of 2, etc.
15. No fast food. No McDonald's, for
example. No junk food. No carbonated drinks.
One reason Adam and Eve could NOT resist Satan is because they
were NOT fasting, but rather eating.
Remember Jesus in the wilderness fasting 40 days and 40 nights?
Certainly the fasting helped Him then to resist Satan!
See Matthew 4.
DIETARY MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS
FOR BEGINNERS, we humans have a
body and the body will react to fasting in many ways. If the body is
flushing out toxins faster than it is in the habit of normally doing, it may
respond negatively in various ways, one being eczema (hives, itching, rashes,
fungus and the like).
http://www.falconblanco.com/health/fasting.htm
http://www.detox.net.au/articles/fasting-detoxification-reactions.htm share some
negative side effects the body may experience + other fasting issues. It
is important to have daily exercise (outdoor walking/ climbing stairs) and daily
elimination (emptying of bowels) to speed up removal of body's toxins. One
source recommends
bananas and avocados to slow down the detoxification process (negative physical
side effects).
Len and Joe
http://lenandjoe.com/radio/radio.shtml
http://lenandjoe.com/healthcare/healthcare.shtml
http://lenandjoe.com/healthcare/article_probiotics.shtml always is a
good resource regarding issues like fasting.
Printed RESOURCES
Allen, AA (1911-1970)
God's Guarantee to Heal You republished by
www.schambach.org
Caption - Thus Saith the Lord, the God of
David thy Father, I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears. Behold,
I will heal thee. King James Version
"Prayer and fasting should be an important part of your
preparations for healing.
Chapter 13 The Price of God's Miracle-Working Power -
a summary of book by same name
When Allen, a Methodist turned Pentecostal, had his wife lock him in a closet to
pray and fast, God came to him and revealed 13 things blocking His
miracle working power in his ministry. 11 of those things he shares in his
book.
Allen, AA
The Price of God's Miracle-Working Power
www.schambach.org
Chapter 2 The Disciple IS Not Above His Master "The Son of
God spent long hours alone with His Father in order to cast out demons. He
said, 'This kind goeth not out buy by prayer and
fasting' (Matthew 17:21). So surely His disciple must also spend
hours in fasting and prayer, waiting upon God and learning to think and
at in unison with God, before he can expect to cast out such demons. Men
ought always to pray, and not faint (Luke 18:1). Persistent habitual
prayer...is the cause - miracles the result...If the disciple could attain the
same results as Jesus did without paying the same price, the disciples would be
greater than his master...The student of Jesus Christ CANNOT become greater than
his teacher. He cannot learn anything Jesus does not know. He cannot
find a shortcut to power with God."
Almonte, Tommy
The God That I Know, A Journey to Intimacy
www.creationhouse.com
Almonte shares that he spent 1 hour each day in prayer, but that God asked him
AND his wife to spend one whole day each week also in prayer plus fasting. See
chapter 5.
Baker, Rolland and Heidi
There Is Always Enough www.irismin.org
www.sovereign-world.com
The 2005 edition delves into fasting at the end of the book. It is a
"lifestyle" for His purposes.
Baker, Rolland and Heidi
The Hungry Always Get Fed www.newwineministries.co.uk
This book is about spiritual hunger and how one needs to hunger after God.
It is about His accomplishing in us what He wants, rather than our fasting to
achieve/accomplish our goals.
Baker, Heidi
Compelled by Love
www.irismin.org
Chapter 6 Blessed Are the Pure in Heart "I would never tell my kids
to go 3 weeks without eating before I would talk to them...We fast to be more
hunger for Him, not to twist His arm" nor "gain more favor from God."
Bentley, Todd
The Reality of the Supernatural World
www.soundoffire.com
Subtitle = Exploring Heavenly Realms and Prophetic Experiences
Chapter 7 Ministering Under an Open Heaven reminds us to pray and
fast.
Bright, Bill Steps to successful Fasting & Prayer www.ifabooks.com
Brooks, Steven book Working with Angels www.stevenbrooks.org
Subtitle - Flowing with God in the Supernatural Chapter 10
Reflections on Prayer and Fasting shares the apparition/vision of 2
angels + Jesus Christ inside a car where Steven was praying. It is
"spiritually productive and physically healthier to live a fasted lifestyle.
A fasted lifestyle is choosing to never eat all you want...Fasting does
not change God...Fasting changes us."
Brown, Catherine Confessions of a Fasting Housewife http://www.glory-of-zion.org
Brown, Ruth Destroying the Works of Witchcraft Through Fasting http://www.lakehamiltonbiblecamp.com/books/deliverd.htm
Campbell, Wesley & Stacey
Praying the Bible - the Pathway to Spirituality
www.prayingthebible.com
Chapter 3 Pray Every Day "The Jews. They fast on
Monday and Thursday." Thus Catholics were admonished to "fast on
Wednesday and Friday," instead.
Chavda, Mahesh The Hidden
Power of Prayer and Fasting
www.watchofthelord.com
Read
Chapter One
What
Is the Answer for Stevie?
Mahesh did 1, 7, 13, 14, 21, and 40 days fasts, and continues to do them,
as the Lord leads.
His 1st fast began with 3 days of neither food nor water, followed by 13
days of water only. Day 14 he was allowed to pray for Stevie, resulting in
Stevie's healing from Down's syndrome and self-mutilation.
[This 3 day fast might be looked upon as (1) Christ was buried in the
tomb 3 days/nights, (2) Jonah was in the belly of the giant fish 3 days, and (3)
there are 3 persons in the Trinity. (Sometimes to undo a curse, things need to
be done/said 3 times, to counteract the counterfeit activity of Satan.
Some prayers we need to repeat 3X in order to break curses or
linkages to evil that have been invoked 3X to blaspheme the Trinity.
We can pray to end a curse: in the name of the Father; repeat the prayer in the
name of the Son; repeat prayer again in the name of the Holy Spirit.
Otherwise, we can repeat the prayer 3x, each time ending with: in the name of
the Father, Son and Holy Ghost/Spirit. Actually we can/should command "the
curse" to be broken, rather than asking God to do it. "Curse, be broken,
in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."
Regarding the 21 day fasts, one can refer to when Daniel sought the Lord and got
a message from an angel that he had been fighting his way to bring a message to
Daniel. Daniel 10:12-14 12He said to me, "Fear not,
Daniel, for from the 1st day you set your heart to understand and chasten
(perhaps by fasting?)
yourself before God, your words were heard. I have come because of your
words (prayers). 13The prince
(strongman/evil spirit/Satan's representative) of the kingdom of
Persia withstood me 21 days. Lo, Michael, one of the chief princes
(holy angels) came to help me and I remained there with the kings
of Persia. 14Now I have come to make you understand."
Most know that Jesus was tempted by Satan after a 40 day fast. See
Matthew, chapter 4.)]
Mahesh says, "For the first 19
(of 29 40-day fasts), I limited my intake to water only. After
that, the Lord allowed me to drink juices."
(The quote does not appear to mean water only for 19 days, followed by
juice 21 days for a total of 40 days.)
(An aside, eating was part of the original road to sin by the first
people, Adam and Eve. Eating (pacifying one's emotions/appetite) may be a
giant vulnerability in the human race. That may be part of the reason why
fasting is so effective in the spiritual world.)
Chavda, Mashesh The Hidden Power of the Believer's
Touch
www.watchofthelord.com
Chavda tells of a 40 year old mentally ill patient being delivered.
Chavda, Mashesh
Only Love Can Make a Miracle
www.watchofthelord.com
Subtitle = When God's Power Takes Hold of a Man, It Can shake the World
Chapter 9 By Prayer and Fasting shares that there is a "spirit of
mutilation," which can be commanded out "in the name of Jesus" after one
fasts in addition to prayer. (Healing and deliverance are not the
same.) "When we pray for healing, we may not always get the answer we want,
(the way we want or when we want), but we can always trust Jesus.
We can release into His care the things that trouble us."
Chapter 13 The Sorcerer's Tree shares, "Prayer and fasting; it has
been the undergirding of my ministry...During my fasts, it is not
uncommon for God to give me special words of revelation and insight into
His mind - sometimes about situations that have stumped me...I have made it a
regular practice to go on two 40 day fasts each year...as well as two 21
day fasts...Often...the Lord would give me a special prayer assignment
for that fast."
Chapter 15 Set the Nations Free asks us to "Pay the price of prayer and
fasting."
Cho, David Yonggi
Successful Home Cell Groups
www.bridgelogos.com publisher
Chapter 12 Importance of Fellowship with the Holy Spirit shares that no
one should fast without a specific goal. His congregation has the
habit of frequent 1 and 3 day fasts, especially at Prayer Mountain
retreat, Yoido Full Gospel Church, Seoul, Korea.
Colbin, AnneMarie
Food and Healing
www.amazon.com
Colbin addresses 4 fasts - (a) daily, (b) to the 9th hour, (c) 1+ days, (d) and
1+ weeks, plus 3 methods - (a) water, (2) juice and broth, and (c) mono-diet.
She discourages fasting while on medication, because the body becomes
supersensitive. Water only fasts are discouraged due to the high level of
water contamination AND because the body fat releases stored poisons into the
bloodstream during such a fast.
Contreras, Dr Francisco
Coming Cancer Cure book
www.oasisofhope.org
His dad (an MD) founded Oasis of Hope hospital
in Mexico on the California border. Father and son are oncologists. Patients are evaluated for
spiritual, physical and psychiatric/emotional problems, are introduced to
Christ, and are prayed for. Clinic uses methods that are not FDA
approved and has a high recovery rate. Francisco believes that 1% of cancer is
demonic. He believes the bulk of cancer is from environment, clothing,
and processed foods (sodas, bottled water, artificial sweeteners that
cause brain damage, etc). Some terminal patients they are able
to cure by conventional and alternative methods. If the patient comes to
them on his death bed with all immunity gone due to chemotherapy, etc, then the
last resort is only prayer and fasting by the staff for the patient.
Amazingly, the results are often miraculous. Francisco says that one's
prayers are answered according to one's expectations.
Copeland, Kenneth John G Lake
www.kcm.org
Lake shares in chapter 31 The Power of Divine Healing that his
co-worker in S Africa prayed and fasted for days under a thorn tree for the end to a fever epidemic that had killed a quarter of the population in 1
month in an area of 350 miles. That man prayed until he at
last needed prayer support. They witnessed a flock of demons, which
his prayer partner cursed back to where they had come from.
Immediately the epidemic stopped.
Dickow, Gregory
From the Inside Out
www.changinglives.org
Subtitle - A Revolutionary 40-day Fast From Wrong Thinking
Duggan, Dorman with Hammond, Frank
The Strong Man of Unbelief
www.thechildrensbread.net
Subtitle = Whose Report Will You Believe?
Authors contend that neither the Greek nor the NIV translation of the Bible
report Jesus requiring His disciples to fast in difficult cases. [MATTHEW 17:21 KJV However this kind does not go out, except by
prayer and FASTING."] Fasting is often an excellent
thing to do, but in this instance the root issue seems to be the LACK of BELIEF!
We all agree, that mental illness and epilepsy, in addition to
demonization, can be very very intimidating! The authors
suggest that rather than the disciples being failures, it was the failure of the
citizens of Nazareth; the failure to BELIEVE. [Mark 6:1,4- KJV
1He went out from there and came into His own country. His disciples
followed Him...4Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor, but
(except) in His own country, among His own kin, and in His
own house." 5He could do NO mighty work, save that He laid His hands upon
a few sick fold, and healed them. 6He marveled because of their
UNBELIEF...
Matthew 17:19-20 KJVer Jesus' disciples came apart and said, "Why could we
not cast him out?" Jesus said, "Because of your UNBELIEF. Verily I
say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this
mountain, 'Move (from) here to younder,' and it shall
move. Nothing shall be impossible to you." Either the
disciples' or the community's, UNBELIEF may have been the key handicap.
Eckhardt, John
Marine
Demons http://www.arsenalbooks.com/prodinfo.asp?number=1883927285
http://www.impactnetwork.net
"Marine spirits are strong and some will only be defeated through
fasting. Marine spirits are a different kind of demon...
Many mind-binding and mind-controlling spirits...have the form of a squid or an
octopus. These spirits have tentacles that wrap around the minds of people
hindering them from thinking clearly. These spirits cause much confusion
and help blind people from seeing the truth."
Ferrell, Ana Mendez
Regions of Captivity
www.thevoiceofthelight.com
"Fasting"...sensitizes us to the spiritual world in order to hear and see" into
the supernatural and helps us to pray "effectively under a prophetic anointing
to deliver persons being held captive."
Franklin, Jentezen
Fasting book #S 155
Fuhrman, Dr Joel
Fasting and Eating for Health
Saint Martin's Press
"Fasting and starting a natural diet should be the first treatment when someone
discovers that they have a medical problem."
Heflin, Ruth Ward
free download
REVIVAL GLORY (495KB)
Chapter 2 Lifted Up for Revival "Stop squandering all
your prayer time on things that will pass away and start believing God for
things that will last forever. Some of us are guilty of fasting and
praying to keep the very thins God want us to let go."
Heflin, Ruth Ward Harvest Glory
1999 autobiography
www.revivalglory.org
God told Heflin that He would deal with her "in 7s and 8s...I want you to
fast 7 days and eat on the 8th, fast 7 more days and eat on the 8th,
and do it for 7 weeks and eat on the 8th week."
Hickey, Marilyn
Fasting and Prayer
www.mhmin.org
Hickey, Marilyn The
Power of Prayer and Fasting
www.mhmin.org
Irabor, George B
Dimensions of Fasting Oct-Dec/2007
Grace Envoy magazine editorial
www.fountainofgracebos.org
Dedham, Massachusetts, USA
"If you fast at least one day a week, at the end of a year you will have fated
for 52 days. You will have tithed more than 10 % of your days to
God...CONSISTENCY in fasting helps to prepare you for the greater things in
God's kingdom...
1-3 day fast aid in subduing fleshly problems...3-10 day fast aids in breaking
yokes in your family...10-21 day fast aids in breaking...yokes over cites and
nations...When fasting for long periods of time, it is prudent to let a
spiritual authority or mentor know...to pray...you through any unforeseen
physical or spiritual difficulties...When God has a burden, He looks for a man
to SPEAK it and to birth it into existence." Mention is also made of our
not offending others by refusing to eat in their presence. Use wisdom,
mercy and kindness in dealing with others and self regarding whether or not to
break or alter a fast.
Kelley, Earthquake
Order book #1122 "Bound to Lose, Destined to Win"
http://earthquakekelleyministries.org/books/
Chapter 4 A Trip to Hell -
Earthquake attended the Utopian Temple Church of God in Christ and was
mentored under Pastor Joe Lee and Lucy Hughes who taught him about deliverance
and empowered him to overcome demonic spirits. Pastor Lee "went on
long fasts and cast demons out of people" including those who
would rededicate their "life to Christ and backslide again." Wisdom
without power is of NO use!
Lowery, TL
Walking in the Supernatural
book www.tllowery.org/
Web interview =
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3330728582264121859
www.deeperliving.com
At end of a 40 day water fast, a healing cloud manifested over
those congregants who were subsequently healed and delivered.
Mendez-Ferrell, Ana
Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood
www.voiceofthelight.com
Chapter 3 How Does This Great Mystery Occur?
"My husband fasts...He has fasted more than 200 days. On extended
fasts that lasted 40 or 50 days, angels have descended to feed him with a
meal of light, after receiving Communion."
Ferrell, Emerson The
Power of Fasting #1 live TV
http://www.vimeo.com/1107660
The power of fasting Vol.2 live TV
VOTLM
http://www.vimeo.com/1107660?pg=embed&sec=1107660
Prince, Derek
Shaping History Through Prayer and Fasting
www.derekprince.com
Christian Growth Ministries, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 33302 USA. (Prince was born in Bangalore, India.)
Book preface reminds us that American President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a
national day of prayer and fasting to be celebrated 4/30/1863 and
thereafter annually. Likewise, the God ordered Moses/Israel to "afflict
your souls by a statue for ever," which the Jews interpret as a requirement to
observe an annual day of fasting/repentance. See Leviticus 16:31.
This same Acts 27:9 Day of Atonement is called Yom Kippur in Hebrew.
Such fasting can be for repentance of personal or national sins. Combined
with prayer it can affect the outcome of war and national elections.
Chapter 5 I Have Seen History Shaped Through Prayer shares some of such
testimonies. This is called spiritual warfare.
Prince, Derek
Fasting booklet
www.derekprince.com
Free upon written request from
http://www.bennyhinn.org
Roberson, Dave
The Walk of the Spirit - The Walk of Power
Subtitle = The Vial Role of Praying in Tongues
Chapter 13 Prayer and Fasting - The Power Twins
Valentine, Gemma
How to Become Single after Divorce Oct-Dec/2007
Grace Envoy magazine
www.foundationofgracebos.org
"Abstinence is for the body to be cleansed from spirits that were transferred
during sexual activity outside of the covenant of marriage, or due to infidelity
during marriage, or for a period of purification and consecration of the body
before marriage...For a person to remarry after divorce, the (minimum) accepted
sabbatical rest is one year...The healing process may take longer."
Sexual strongholds need to be broken; then "there will be no sexual fantasies.
You could look at...the opposite sex or the same sex and don't feel anything
(immoral/seductive/forbidden/selfish)."
Wallis, Arthur God's Chosen Fast
Williams, Dave
The Miracle Results of Fasting booklet
www.mounthopechurch.org
Chapter 9 Defeating Leviathan reveals that Leviathan is an invisible
spiritual "demonic being that is sometimes loosed against the children of God
and the ministries of God," requiring a lifestyle of prayer and fasting.
He notes that the mouth of the creature does a shaking, but be forewarned that
the tail does a last sweep. "You may recall in the book of Revelation how
the tail of the dragon knocked the stars out of heaven. He dragged down a
third of them with his tail."
"God said to me, 'As a result of this fasting, I am
advancing your ministry by 10 years.'"
"DL Moody, Charles Finney, and Charles Spurgeon...all practiced fasting
regularly."
"Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine...said...'Our food should be our
medicine, our medicine should be our food, but to eat when you're sick is to
feed your sickness.'"
"Dr Dean Ornish says that after fasting just 12 hours toxins will begin to
leave."
"Fasting does for us mentally what it does for us physically. It removes
toxic thoughts from our minds."
"When we fast, we put our spirit in charge of our minds."
George McCluskey fasted every lunch time, first for his children, then for his
grandchildren, and then for his great grandchildren
"A 70 year old man...on an extended supervised fast...after 6 days, his enlarged
prostate had shrunk to the sixe of a young man's. Then his sinuses cleared
up. His breathing became normal. And on the 36th day a miracle
occurred when he regained permanent hearing in his deaf ear. A few days
later he found that his sex drive had returned, and he was no longer impotent."
Yun, Brother with Hattaway, Paul
The Heavenly Man
www.asiaharvest.org
Chapter Through the Valley of Death shares fasting deliverance prayer,
"Spirit of hunger, leave me now, in the name of Jesus Christ."
PERODICALS
Finney, Charles
"When asked the secret to his success in the ministry, Finney simply
said, 'The secret is prayer. I always get up at 4:00 in the morning, and I
pray from 4:00 to 8:00 every morning...I found myself quoting scripture after
scripture to the Lord, reminding Him of His promises...
Finney pled his case with God for revival in the cities where he would be
preaching based on the promises in God's Word...
There isn't one account given that Finney ever pulled down demonic strongholds,
prayed against devils, or dealt with ruling princes over cities, yet whole town
were won to the Lord where Finney preached."
Father Nash preceded Finney to each city where he fasted and
prayed for days at a time...
Regarding the Texas region, Mother Howard is cited for preparing the soil.
"Mother Howard began praying, taking 1 town at a tie and continuing to pray
until a Full Gospel church was raised up in the town she was praying for.
She'd pray from 10 AM until mid-afternoon. Then after supper, she'd begin
praying again and continue until midnight or later, depending on how the Holy
Spirit let her. Mother Howard was praying for souls."
editorial Timeless Teaching of Kenneth E Hagin - Praying for the Harvest
7/2008
Word of Faith magazine.
Audio Video RESOURCES
Ayres, Mel & Desiree have a Hollywood ministry based on
fasting.
An autobiography 7/28-8/1/03 or teachings may be obtained on
cassette.
www.sidroth.org/radiobroadcasts.htm
Brown, Ruth Destroying the Works of Witchcraft through Fasting and Prayer http://www.christisit.com/ Witchcraft Deliverance Prayer http://www.demonbuster.com/ruthbrown.html
Carothers, Meriln Fasting audio www.foundationofpraise.org
Dickow, Gregory From the Inside Out - Fasting From Wrong Thinking 5 CDs www.changinglives.org
Ferrell, Emerson
DVD - D4003 #3 Majors on fasting.
www.voiceofthelight.com
Ferrell, Emerson & Ana Mendez Experiences in Heaven
2 CD set
www.voiceofthelight.com
Emerson tempts us into the chocolate kingdom of God through the door of
fasting. Salvation saves our spirit, but not our mind/soul nor
body, for all practical purposes. The baptism of the Holy Spirit (the
sacrament of confirmation) takes us
one step further, but that is only the threshold into the chocolate kingdom of
God. When we actually enter into the heavenly places, the angels will feed
us/our bodies if necessary. For those who are very hungry for God, this CD is an
absolute must!
Fox,
Juennine
The Battle of the Mind
CD
www.fullnessministries.org
and/or
audio broadcast 8/7-11/2006
Click onto radio archives @ www.sidroth.org/radio.htm
Tuesday audio discusses how Fox did a sleep fast, which
resulted in a cloud entering her room with a hand coming out to anoint her hands
for ministry. A sleep fast is where/when/how she gave up part of
her regular sleep time (2-7AM) to pray, read scripture, etc.
Hayes, Norvel
How to Make the Devil Leave You Alone CD
www.nhm.org
4th CD expounds on story where follower of Satan was delivered after 40
individuals surrounded her and prayed in tongues throughout the evening.
(Here again we see the evidence where 40 is a significant number to God in the
spiritual world.)
Hickey, Marilyn
Prayer & Fasting I&II CDs
www.mhmin.org
Hickey, Marilyn
The Power of Prayer & Fasting
audio
www.sidroth.org
Radio interview with Sid Roth the week of 3/20/2006.
Marilyn shares how her dad had a nervous breakdown and was not expected to
recover and how her mom did a 21 day fast, resulting in her dad's healing.
Hickey, Marilyn Also see Marilyn's TV
June 5-11, 2006
interview with Sid Roth about mental illness of her own father and brothers
healed by God through her mother's fasting.
Order the video online (DIS372)
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Additionally she shares meeting S. Korean Pastor Cho's mother who moves
mountains through prayer and fasting.
She shares how her husband prayed
and fasted 1 meal and his friend Russell was discharged from a mental hospital.
She shares how God impressed upon her to do 7 meals a week fast (any
way that is convenient-not necessarily daily) as a lifestyle.
Hickey, Marilyn Prayer &
Fasting - The Ultimate Breakthrough video
www.mhmin.org
(Marilyn on a Joni Lamb TV 3/2006 broadcast (not the one above)
shares
how a pastor went into a hospital and delivered a woman from severe mental
illness from which no priest/MD could rescue her. This was done through
fasting and prayer.
[Perhaps she is referring to the
True story of Clarita Villanueva
- A 17 year old girl bitten by
devils in Bilibid Prison, Manila, Philippines
www.amazon.com
The Fascinating Case of Clarita
Villanueva
Witnesses to May 1951 story are the Manila police, attending physician Dr.
Marianna Lana, Mayor Arsenio Lascon, two local constables and several newspaper
reporters.
Also see A Look Through Secret Doors By John Mackim, 1969, Ace Publishing
] Marilyn's point is that when we need a breakthrough
or when get to a brick wall, we need to fast.
If we have fasted, then we need to do it again. If we have
fasted 1 meal a week, then we need to do 2. If we have fasted 1
week, then we need to do 2 weeks. King David fasted and prayed
21
days before his breakthrough arrived. Additionally, fasting needs
to be a lifestyle!
Stone, Perry Fasting - The Key to the Impossible http://www.voiceofevangelism.org Perry shares the stage with 90 year old Rusty (Thea Carter) who fasted 3 days a week most of his life. Cassette #2CT219 Also see Secrets of Paradise CD and Journey to the Underworld #JU-50 DVD.
Ten Boom, Corrie Tramp for the Lord
Chapter Authority Over Demons recommends fasting as part of
the armor of God. In Ravensbruck when
they were starved, she and her sister reversed the lack of food to a fast for
God, which resulted in their having power to cast tormenting demons out of their
barracks.
Wallis, Arthur
God's Chosen Fast
publisher Christian Literature Crusade
Includes The Normal Fast, The Absolute Fast and The
Partial Fast plus a summary of one 21 day fast.
Walters, Kathie Columba - The Celtic Dove
www.goodnews.netministries.org
Part 2 - Miracles
Irish Catholic Saint Columba was beseeched by a Rechrean island peasant to pray
for his marriage, as the wife would not consent to being intimate with him.
Columba entreated the wife, "Why, woman, do you try to drive your own flesh away
from you, when the Lord says, 'And they 2 shall be one
flesh?'
...That (legal/physical/sexual separation of) which you
speak cannot rightly be done, for you are bound by the law
(marriage/religious contracts you signed) to your husband as long
as he lives. For those whom God has lawfully joined, it is a sin to
separate.' And having said this, he added, 'This day let us 3 pray and
fast to the Lord.'" Subsequently she testified, "'Your prayer
to God for me is heard, for him whom I hated yesterday, I love today, for my
heart this night past has been changed.'"
Part 3 - Angels
In Iona woodlands praying alone Columba was assaulted all day by demons.
"It was revealed by the Spirit, they wished to invade his monastery with their
firey darts in order to kill many of the brethren... Nor was he alone strong
enough to drive them from his island until the angels of God came to his aid."
The demons fled "from the boundaries of this territory and have gone to the
Ethican land (Tiree)" to "'attack the monasteries of the brethren and bring
about diseases, the virulence of which many shall be attacked and die.'"
Subsequently, "Columba said by revelation the the Spirit, 'Baithene has, by
God's help, managed to defend the congregation of the church over which he
presides in the Plain of Lunge (Tiree). He has by fastings
and prayers kept away the invasion of the demons, for no one except the one
already dead will die this time.'"
Walters, Kathie Celtic
Flames
www.goodnews.netministries.org
Short spiritual biographies of Patrick, Brendan, Brigid, Cuthbert, Columba,
Kieran, and Comgall -
"Patrick went to a high mountain...in order to seek God and to fast
and pray. For 40 days he fasted with watching and prayer and
travail. Toward the end of the fast, the mountain was surrounded by
many demons in the form of large black birds, screaming and giving off a foul
smell. Patrick continued singing psalms and hymns to no avail.
Finally Patrick threw his bell at the birds and commanded them to leave.
They left and immediately he was surrounded by an angelic choir. Also the
angel who was always Patrick's companion, Victor, came and said,
"Everything you select shall be yours; every land - both hills and valleys,
glens and woods. Every petition shall be granted."
King Aengus, having become a Christian, had Kieran tell him what had
become of his missing harpists. Going to the location and after fasting
all day, "the (lake)
water (permanently)
drew back and revealed the bodies of the harpers. In
the Name of Christ, Kieran commanded them to arise, and, seeming to awake after
a sleep, they took their harps down from the tree and began to play sweet
music...The (dry) lake was
afterwards named, Loch na Cruitireadh, 'Lake of the Harpers.' "
Wright, Henry, who heads up a Georgia, USA
healing/deliverance ministry,
has a cassette called Insights into
Fasting which can be obtained at www.pleasantvalleychurch.net
Wright believes that most stubborn diseases and negative thoughts/emotions have
evil spirits as their root cause. He teaches
discernment/insight/recognition need to come prior to binding and casting out.
Web Sites
Chavda, Mahesh
The Hidden Power of
Prayer and Fasting
http://media.maheshchavda.com/
read PDF
or Adobe
Read Chapter One Utterly awesome reading. You will be glad
you read it. Includes the
healing of throw away children on psychiatric wards.
Cerullo, Morris http://www.mcwe.com/
Son, Build Me an Army
http://www.helplinetv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=288&Itemid=30
Chapter 3
"God spoke to my heart, just as
clearly as He has ever spoken to me:
'Son, fast and
pray for 3 days. On the 3rd day, I will heal your wife.'”
Chapter 4
"I prayed for 10 days, on my face face in the room.
I didn’t eat a morsel of food as I was praying.
I knew I needed God to move supernaturally in this situation, and I had to get
an answer from God...
But I did not stop praying when the apparent answer to my prayers had
presented itself.
Once again, I fell to the floor."
Dickow,
Gregory 40 day wrong thinking fast
http://www.thinkingfast.org/archive.html
www.gregorydickow.org
Refrain/abstain from negative thinking. Rather think on Him Who is your
medicine, your husband, your doctor. book From
the Inside Out: 40 Day Fast from Wrong Thinking
Shrinking From Thinking
8/23/2009 Proverbs 23:7, "As a Man Thinks, so is He.
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/changing_your_life_with_gregory_dickow/20091101/
The Gateway to Living Right
Take a fast from wrong thinking.
11/1/2009
http://www.lightsource.com/ministry/changing_your_life_with_gregory_dickow/20091101/
Fasting Site shares some of the negative side physical affects of fasting. http://www.falconblanco.com/health/fasting.htm
Franklin, Jentezen
The Power of Prayer and Fasting
2/2/2007
http://www.bennyhinn.org
TB broadcast with Pastor Jentezen Franklin, Free Chapel in Gainesville,
Georgia
Franklin, Jentezen
Fasting - The Door to Power #1
WATCH 1/21/2008
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For some, fasting is the
door/method/weapon that breaks strongholds in our and other's lives.
Franklin, Jentezen
Fasting - The Door to Power #2
WATCH 1/22/2008
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Franklin, Jentezen
Putting Jesus First
WATCH 1/23/2008
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Ferrell, Emmerson
Jejum Fasting #4 (English/Spanish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ_36PxFWuM
Ferrell, Emmerson The Lord Is Speaking
11/6/2008
http://voiceofthelight.com/VOTLM_us/PropheticWords.html
"The Lord...woke me this morning 11/6/2008 to write down the following:
'I have produced the fruit from the seed that was planted
40 years ago by the United
States. What seed you ask? The seed was the death of Martin Luther King, whom
this country murdered. Martyrdom always gets my attention and produces a
future harvest in the land of the act. Barack Obama is that fruit and America is
that land. There have been countless tragic murders in the United States
including those of the Kennedy’s, but they were not martyrs in My eyes.'"
Heflin, Ruth Ward
cynical biography
http://www.pfo.org/goldgirl.htm
"'One night in the great government conference center, she told of a
Japanese chicken farmer who was losing all his chickens to sickness. She told
him to have the chickens fast for two or three days, and when the chickens
fasted, they were all healed...
It was the chickens fasting for their own healing'...The great chicken healing
feat was supposedly done by David Yonggi Cho’s mother-in-law, whom Heflin
nicknamed 'Hallelujah Mama.'"
Hogan,
David, founder,
Freedom Ministries (PO Box 838,
Raymondsville, TX 78580), a pioneering mission among remote Mexican mountain
tribes.
We've had over 200 people raised from the
dead in our work. 11/1996 Renewal Journal
Revival among mountain
tribes in Mexico
http://www.joelnews.org/news-en/jn185.htm
4/6/1998 Joel
News
JN185
"I got together with my pastors and we
made a covenant to do a month's fast in September 1995. This was as well
as the 3 days on and 3 days off fast that we had been doing that year
anyway, so we were ready for whatever God wanted to do. That year every day at
least 365 people were fasting.
God hit me on the third day of that month of fasting, but I continued the
fast and on the seventh day he hit me again greater than I've ever been hit
in my life up to that point. But we continued fasting for the whole month.
The minute you think you are accomplishing something is the minute you should
repent.
Every sick person at the meeting was healed: the blind, the cancerous, lupus,
tumors, epilepsy, demon possession. Nobody touched them but Jesus.
My legs wouldn't work...When some people tried to get up, they would go flying.
It was awesome...The three of us were inside something like a force field of
energy. Anybody who tried to come into it was knocked out. It was scary.
The pastor said, 'He's got a list, Brother David.' And he started reading out
aloud from the list. I was looking around, and as he was reading from the
list people went flying through the air, getting healed and delivered. It was
phenomenal, what God was doing. And He's done it in every service in our work
that I've been in since then. It's been over a year. It's amazing. Wonderful."
Jewish fast - some insights - Qetoret and Prayer http://www.oller.net/asutton16.htm
Jewish fasting and fast days
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=59&letter=F
(print this article) (Notice by adding an e fast
become feast.)
Leaf,
Dr Caroline
Thought Life
https://www.drleaf.net/osc/thoughtlife.php?osCsid=b7faefb69779d80519b99d4b30569c04
"A habit takes 21 days to
create. Today is the first day of that 21."
Roberson, Dave The Basics Of Fasting audio on the web
40 day fast - some
good basics pages 7-11
kTrzgpd1qtoJ:ftp://opera5:0lf0rc3@ftp.operationlightforce.com/
For beginners, "in fasting we are not trying to get
something from God, but rather seeking to realign our hearts' affections with
His."
Fasting, once we choose/find one we can live with (omitting one
dessert/meal/sugar/coffee/TV each day/week) can become a life style.
Mendez, Emerson 11/6/2008 prophecy regarding the number 40 The Lord Is
Speaking
http://voiceofthelight.com/VOTLM_us/PropheticWords.html
“I
have produced the fruit from the seed that was planted 40 years ago by
the United States. What seed you ask? The seed was the death of Martin Luther
King, whom this country murdered. Martyrdom always gets My attention
and produces a future harvest in the land of the act. Barack Obama is
that fruit and America is that land. There have been countless tragic murders in
the United States including those of the Kennedy’s, but they were not martyrs in
My eyes...Where were those voices 40 years ago warning of the consequences of
the killing of My prophets?"
"I
am able to make what was sown in hate and unforgiveness sweet and redeeming...I
have finished the book, but you have not finished your training. This is your
greatest hour America, look up and know that your future is not in leaving this
planet, but in establishing My kingdom."
Mendez, Emerson - 2007
The Power of Fasting #1
The power of fasting #2
www.voiceofthelight.com
Silvoso, Ed
of Harvest Evangelism Swatting the
Fly as revealed by God from Paul Cox's
http://aslansplace.com/articles/
"The pastor found that the life cycle of the adult fly is
21 days in the summer.
The larva stage of the fly is a few days and the pupa stage is 3 to 7 days.
The
truth then became clear. If you can get rid of a fly and its offspring, then the
cycle of the fly’s generation is broken and you will be rid of all flies.
The Lord the told him to proclaim truth for 40 days. Specifically He told the
pastor to take an area of your life in which you want freedom.
Find 40
key biblical verses in that area and proclaim them as truth for 40 days."
Swatting the Fly of Anger
Swatting the Fly of Curses
Swatting the Fly of Depression
Swatting the Fly of Doubt
Swatting the Fly of Fear
Swatting the Fly of Lust
Swatting the Fly of Pride
Swatting the Fly of Rejection
Swatting the Fly of Shame
Swatting the Fly of Waste
40 day fast and prayers
http://www.cprmarriageministry.org/CPR_Need_A_Breakthrough.html
"He found it very interesting, and so do I, not surprising at all either, that
during a prayer for someone who is being tempted by demons, a horde of flies
came out of nowhere and descended upon this couple. Gazowsky says that he
found the "weakness" or vunerability, relates to the life span of flies.
Pretty much any species reproductive cycles range from one day to 40 days.
That is why in order to exterminate a infestation of flies from a crop, you have
to spray pesticides for 40 consecutive days in order to utterly destroy them.
If you stop short of 40 days, you only destroy the existing generation, but the
next generation will live on. This is a good point when it comes to generational
curse and breaking them also. You may be free of a sin, say addiction, that has
been a history in your family, and even though you are free, you see it
happening in your children. This leads one to think that a 40 day fast is
necessary to break generational curses off your family once and for all.
Throughout the Bible, 40 days represents cleansing and purifying. The flood in
Noahs time cleansed the earth of wickedness for 40 days and nights. Moses life
could be divided up into three different seasons of 40. He spent 40 years in
Egypt. He spent 40 years in the desert and 40 years bringing and delivering the
Israelites to the Promised Land. He also fasted for 40 days two different times,
once recieving the Ten Commandments and once interceding for the sin of the
Israelites and God spared them.
When Jonah went to Ninevah, he gave the inhabitants 40 days to repent of expect
judgement, and the king of Ninevah called a fast for the entire land, of which
they were awarded with mercy instead of judgement.
Elijah fasted for 40 days in the desert, and during that time he spoke with God
and recieved new direction, remember the valley of the dry bones, and
prophesizing, this is when it occurred. The word Eljah recieved during that 40
day fast also affected the next generation.
There is a prophetic release that occurs in and individual who fasts continually
for 40 days. This does not necessarily have to be from food either, it could be
from tv, or the computer, or anything unproductive to the Kingdom of God. Wonder
what kind of cleansing would occur and glory would be released if we fasted an
additional hour of every day for 40 days to spend in prayer with the Lord
(meaning dedicating without fail one hour daily for 40 days to prayer).
Flies represent demons in the Word, as do other animals. If you could see into
the spirit world, many demons resemble animals.
Do some of you remember me telling you about when I blessed my house when my
husband went out, the last time when he was in captivity to 7 demons, and within
24 hours these silvery very shiny winged fly looking creatures who could only
hop came up out of the bathroom floor, through the carpeting, and literally
covered the dining room floor as they marched, hopped that is, towards the side
porch door. There were millions of them, and within a hour there was not a
single one to be seen, they went under the door of the side porch and on out. I
called my pastor hysterically and he advised me I was such a skeptic about demon
possession that God showed me the manifestation of the demons that were still in
my home leaving when the house was blessed. These demon spirits attach
themselves to our lives, they carry off our spouses in captivity, into adultery,
or addictions. They are generational curses, mental illnesses, bondages,
strongholds of the mind, lust, perversion, and addictions of every kind, they
are divorce! The problem with most churches is that they just swat at flies for
a few days when they are right in their faces, then they go away for awhile, but
they keep coming back! Its time to clean house! It is time for a scriptural
season of cleansing. With cleansing, devils will start dropping like flies! Whoo
Hoo! Not only in your life, in your generation and in the future generations of
demons that are passed down to your children. Solomon wrote, 'Dead flies putrefy
the perfumers ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor.' Eccl. 10:1. Flies
would get into the special anointing oil, they'd get stuck in it, die, and spoil
the fragrance. Flies hinder the anointing in our lives. Worship gets polluted by
flies of fleshly desires, and draws one away from God and into captivity. This
is their job folks! It is time to get rid of the flies with 40 days of fasting!
It may be time for you to cast out demons from your spouses with 40 days of
fasting and praying!"
U Tube How to fast Properly -Christians http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAllT177o1o&feature=related
FOOD as a potential STUMBLING BLOCK
Genesis 3:13 NKJV The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Matthew 4:2-3 NKJV
2When He had (already) fasted 40 days and 40 nights, AFTER-ward He was (very)
hungry.
3Now when (then) the tempter came , he said, "If You are the Son of God, command
that these stones become bread."
Hebrews 12:16 NKJV Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
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