Hi everyone!

It had been quite some time since e last post..
I was thinking what to post just now & suddenly there was an urge that I want to share what I learn from my bible study yesterday for Victorious Living, Lesson 3: Prayer & Fasting

Before I start anything, does anyone have any idea what is the main reason for fasting?
Are you fasting because someone told you or ask you to do so?
I admit that whatever I am saying can be found from the Victorious Living book…I am still learning!

DEFINITION OF FASTING: The voluntary abstaining from food for spiritual purposes. (It is not dieting or going on a hunger strike).
The primary purpose for fasting is self-humbling. It is the scriptural means, ordained by God, for us to humble ourselves before Him. It is our own responsibility to humble ourselves, and this responsibility belongs to us only and not God.
It is not according to scriptural means that “God make us humble”, but according to God’s Word for us is always, “Humble yourselves”.
Do you know that just by fasting, God’s people renounced the NATURAL to invoke the SUPERNATURAL.

Do you know that in the Old Testament, David fasted to humble himself? Ezra and the exiles fasted for God’s protection? (Ezra 8:21-23). Jehoshaphat and his people fasted for God’s deliverance? (2 Chronicles 20:2-4)? & the Jews fasted annually for God’s forgiveness & cleansing?
2 facts concerning the Day of Atonement:
i) Fasting was man’s response to God’s provision of forgiveness and cleansing
ii) That atonement was only effective for those people who accepted it through fasting.

Fasting was actually practiced by Jesus. He had to pass through 2 critical experiences before He entered His public ministry. i) He had to be filled with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit. ii) He had to fast for 40days in the desert.
In Luke 4:1-2: “Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned………”
& in Luke 4:14: “Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, & the………”
The Holy Spirit was there from the time of Jesus’ baptism onward. But it was His fasting that released the power of the Holy Spirit to flow without any hindrances through His life and ministry.
It was actually through fasting that the church leaders moved from the natural into the supernatural. Hahas that explains about Pastor Kong!!! Woah!!!!


Hey people, do you know that fasting can actually changes us??


1) The power of the Christian life is the Holy Spirit
** Key to successful Christian living!!!
-knowing how to release the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives so that we can do the things we cannot do in our own strength


There is something I like e most – “Jesus is saying: “Don’t begin to minster until the power of the Holy Spirit has come to you.” “……….The extend of what God can do through us is depends on His supernatural power being released in us and through us.


2) Problem: Our old carnal natural opposes the Holy Spirit.


Equations for you to think !!!!


Carnal nature=old nature=sinful nature=the flesh
Carnal nature = in opposition to the Spirit of God
Carnal mind=corrupt way of thinking
*Therefore, if we yield to the carnal nature, means we are opposing the Spirit of God.


3) Fasting is God’s appointer way to bring the carnal nature into subjection
We are to be controlled by God’s destiny and purpose for our life and not what our body(flesh) dictate us/ control us, to succeed in the Christian life.



Fasting can actually change history
Jonah 3:1-10 : “ Then the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time : …….. ”
God is a very good God that He gives us 2nd chances, 3rd, 4th,5th………..never ending of chances !!!!!
He loves us so much!!!!



Joel 2:23-29
verse 28 “ And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons & daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions. "



Amen

Hahas tats all I want to share….hope tat u learn something !!!!
tata :P


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