BEWARE OF PEOPLE THAT TELL YOU FASTING IS NOT FOR THE AGE OF GRACE – PASTOR ADEBOYE WARNS

 

There are those who will tell you that fasting is not for the age of grace, Paul the Apostle of grace said in 2 Corinthians 11:27 “I fasted often”. You can’t say you know of grace more than the Apostle of Grace himself. Why? 1 Corinthians 9:27, so I can subdue the flesh and the flesh will not cause me to be cast aside.

I want to finish my race very well. I want to be the winner. I have told my children that all these sports coaches will tell you that what is important is to take part in the race. I said is that so? How come they don’t give medals to losers. I don’t want to be a loser and none of you my children will be a loser. We will fast because fasting helps. It helps you to do several things:

1. It helps you to bridle your tongue
   When you are fasting, you will soon discover that talking takes a lot of energy. If you want to fast for a long time, you have to learn to keep your mouth shut. You don’t gain anything by talking. James 1:26.
2. Fasting helps you to control your temper.
   When you are on a long fast, you are too weak to fight. When you get angry easily, it is because you have lots of energy. Let me see you get angry when you have been fasting for 21 days and nights. You have just enough energy to move you from one place to another. Ecclesiastes 7:9 says control your anger for anger lies in the blossom of fools. Fast! You won’t get angry so easily, which is another way of saying you will not be a fool so often.

 

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How come the body hates fasting? Galatians 5:17. Your flesh always wants to fight your spirit. It can’t agree with the spirit. I have said before that if we do not say there is fasting tomorrow. You can wake up in the morning and not eat until 2 pm.

There will be no problem, you can be busy doing your job. Let us announce that there is fasting tomorrow and some of you will still be eating until midnight and as soon as you wake up from sleep, hunger will greet you. The devil doesn’t want you to fast and if the devil doesn’t want you to fast, that should tell you that fasting is good.

When you learn to fast, you realize that there are certain mountains in your life that have not moved but fasting moves them. Matthew 17:14-21 tells us that there was a demon the disciples tried to cast out and it refused to go. Jesus came and then the demon left.

The disciples came to Jesus quietly and asked how come we were not able to cast it out? Jesus said this one only goes by fasting and prayer. There are certain mountains that won’t move unless you back your prayer with fasting. You need to know that the spiritual controls the physical. Everything that happened to Job in Job 1&2 was because something had been discussed in the spiritual. In Exodus 17:8-13, when there was a war to be fought between Israel and the Amalekites, Moses went to the mountain top and lifted up his hands and Joshua was fighting downhill. As long as Moses’ hands were up, the children of Israel were winning the battle. When His hands came down, they started losing. The spiritual controls the physical.

 

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On one occasion, during the Convention, it rained on the Friday of the Convention and one of my children came to me and said ‘Daddy it rained on Holy Ghost Night of the convention’. I said Yes! He said ‘what happened, you are supposed to be on the mountain top praying’. I said it rained, I fell asleep it was the rain that woke me up. He said ‘Ah! Daddy, you slept?’ I am a human being like you, the devil must have known I was asleep.

When I woke up I said Daddy how can you let this happen. He said I put you to sleep so it can rain because the crowd coming tonight is going to be much. I want to cool down this place. The spiritual controls the physical. Don’t let anyone deceive you that what is going on the earth has no spiritual connotation, it has.

When you learn to fast, you align yourself with the spirit who is in a constant fight with the physical. Let me give you one case study very quickly and that is the case study of Esther. You know there was this man called Mordecai the uncle of Esther and there was this man called Haman an officer of the King. Haman expects everybody to bow down to him but Mordecai said I won’t bow to anybody except my God. Hanna said okay! I will hang you and I will destroy your people.

So Mordecai said to Esther who was then a queen Help us oh we are in trouble. Esther said you can’t go before our king without him sending for you. Mordecai said you better go in because if we perish, the fact that you are in the king’s house is not going to spare you. Esther replied in Esther 4:1-17, “gather the people together and fast for me and I too will fast and I will go before the king. If I perish I perish”. They fasted and miracles began. They even fasted for just three days and three nights. Esther appeared before the king without being summoned.

The first thing the fasting did was Esther found favour with the king. The second thing is instead of the king asking her to be killed the king spared her life. Fasting can change death to life. The next thing the King said to Esther, I don’t know what you are asking for but before you ask it is granted. In Isaiah 65:12, God promised that He will answer before you call. I will answer. Fasting guarantees an answer to your prayers even before you pray. When you fast, you get more than you ask for. Ephesians 3:20. Things got better and better. By the time you get to Esther 6 that the king couldn’t sleep and because the king couldn’t sleep, Mordecai was promoted. May I pray for those who will take fasting seriously from now on that those who will promote you, won’t even be able to sleep.

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