Paula White - The Power of Fasting

1/22/14

(http://youtu.be/x4fr7uHpMqw)

Practice self-denial

food and sex - we can't deny, strong drives

when we're fasting we're crucifying our flesh, denying our flesh.

It doesn't move God but begins to move you.

No food- tuned in to the things of God (clearing channel and getting frequency right)

"NOT if you fast, but WHEN YOU FAST"

to fast, to pray, to give--> our spritual weapons

God says nothing is impossible, the boundary is what I have put myself.

The life that God put us in is much larger than the one now, we need to come up to the ascended place.

Whatever that's blocking it, we need to get rid of.

4 types of fast (praying while fasting):

1) normal: no food for a definite period of time, liquids only

2) absolute: no water, no nothing (only Jesus/Moses did this)

3) partial: omit certain food on a certain time

4) rational

Benefits:

1) breaks poverty (Job)

2) brought forth a spouse (Rebecca)

3) loses the bands of wickedness (Isaiah)

As long as we are in this physical body, we have physical struggles, some of the temptations are beyond our ordinary willpower. Our nature is rebellious.

4) Release people from bondages of sin/strongholds

Habitual sinful behaviors that victimize/enslave people. We love God but we're trapped (sexual addiction, overeating, overspending, depression, suicidal, overthinking, overanalyzing, anything that becomes a habit)

There's something that cannot be cancelled out of us. that's something that can only be broken by prayer and fasting

Something in the ancestral bloodline that needs to be broken by Jesus' name

Sometimes fast/pray repeatedly until it's broken off, somethings so strong. 

The necessary steps:

1) we need to recognize/renounce the thing controlling you. (we all got our issues)

2) we need to acknowledge our own effort to deceive ourselves (we're going through religious routine and not getting any results, because our hearts are not open)

3) we need to forgive (others to elminate bitterness and to gain freedom, and for Satan not to outwit us) - our ancestors' trespasses as well

Let God put forgiveness in our hearts. Unforgiveness is a cancer that can kill us. We need to honor ALL authorities of God (submission)

4) we need to take responsibility for our actions (they made me mad? No, you made you mad) - take ownership of what I can do

5) disown sinful influences that come from associations (people fatal to our faith, anything rottening our spirit)

Line ourselves up with God's word! Fast for real, fast for breakthroughs. The devil is a liar.