Sermons

One of the enemy’s greatest tricks to the body of Christ is preventing us from discovering the mystery and treasure of fasting.

One of the greatest things about fasting is break through.

Being able to discover how easy God talks to us.

4 Types of Fasts

1.  Liquid fast – drink only water.
2.  Juice fast – drink liquids.
3.  Daniel fast – restriction from any meats.  Eat bland foods. Fruits and vegetables.
4. Total fast – fast from both food and liquids.

There is purging in fasting and also fasting affects your body.  The primary thought about fasting is your connection with the kingdom of God.

Matthew 6:16-18
Acts 14:23
Joel 2:12
Mark 9:29
Joel 1:14
Acts 13:2-3
Esther 4:16
Isaiah 58:3-6
Ezra 8:21-23
Luke 2:37
1 Cor. 7:5
Matthew 9:14-15
Matthew 5:6
Matthew 6:18
Matthew 4:4
Matthew 17:20-21
Nehemiah 1:4

It is connected with the Spirit because the stomach is connected to the Spirit.  The 1st temptation had to do with food.  Food was the avenue of the downfall of our human race.

The white-collar sins of the church this is #1.

Gen. 9:24 – Noah’s sin had to do with his appetites.

Appetites are gifts of God but when they become abused they become idols.

Test to see if appetite is an idol is whether you or the appetite is in control.

Phil. 3:18-19

The 1st temptation of Jesus was that of bread or food.  Destruction comes from eating.  Discovery comes from fasting.

Fasting is your obligation to seek the Kingdom of God.

 

The reason we are all so confused with what is going on in the world today is that this is a spiritual matter, not a physical matter.

We’ve let down the guard to search the spiritual.  You are a spirit with a physical body.  We can live by the flesh or we can live by the spirit.  We need a spiritual cure.

Matthew 6:5-6, 16

A way to enter the doorway of the spiritual.  If you don’t hunger after spiritual righteousness you will not know the way.  The way to enter the doorway of the spiritual is prayer and fasting.

Purpose of Fasting

God’s appointed ways for use to humble ourselves before God.

That’s the way you enter the spiritual realm.

The primary thing being humble does is that it destroys pride.

Pride will destroy your relationship with God and others.

Being humble will destroy pride.

Luke 14:11

Phil. 2:9-10

James 4:10

1 Peter 5:6

Leviticus 16:29-30

There is a strange connection between the stomach and the spiritual world.  Most of us are subject to our stomachs.  When it is the master it will destroy our lives.

Ezra 8:21

We won’t have the confusion if we learn to fast.

God is without an end to resources.

Humble ourselves before our God to seek from him the right way.

1 Kings 21:22-27

Our nation has angered God with our sins and God is saying, “It’s over.”

Jonah 3