A study on Fasting

 I been doing some reading on Fasting and while I'm familiar with Fasting for weight loss I never thought about faith based Fasting.  It's rather interesting and the number of things you can use it for the get breakthroughs and deliverance on is astounding.  Seriously, the strongholds and sins that it can help you overcome would amaze you or at least it did me. 

You've commanded, rebuked, prayed prayers, done warfare and shouted but there's more to be done.  It's time to add some fasting to your strategy.  There's no other way around some strongholds...no shortcuts.  Sometimes fasting and humbling yourself is the break the hold.  Some demons are stronger than others or may be higher ranked or just flat out stubborn.  Some demons such as rebellion, pride. witchcraft, Jezebel, poverty may only come out with a high level of faith.  

Sometimes people get discouraged  and frustrated because they can't seem to dislodge the demon.  In Matthew 17 the disciples of Jesus encounter a demon in a young boy and because of their unbelief couldn't cure him.  Unbelief hinders our ability to deal with strongholds...it takes faith to dislodge the enemy and fasting helps you overcome that and build strong faith.  

As hard as it is to imagine some strongholds are generational, these would be things like substance or alcohol abuse, being abusive even being abused...I've read where young girls raised in an abusive house is more likely to enter into an abusive relationship.  It could all end here and now with you.  Standup and tell Satan "This is it, it ends here.  This is not going another generation, my grandfather/grandmother didn't stand against you, my father/mother didn't try to defeat You.  I refuse to be broke, sick, rejected...I AM going to defeat you.  

Isaiah 58 talks about how we can fast to break every yoke to undo the heavy burdens.  Fasting makes room so that the oppressed go free.  Fasting breaks bondages and causes revival when you're dealing with a serious issue or something you don't know how to handle.  Let's see some victories even if it requires you to fast multiple times...DO NOT GIVE UP!!!  Keep at it, keep going until you know you have victory.  You have to get so tired of the Devil that you say "Enough is enough" when your stomach starts to scream out tell it "Back up."

You have to be determined "No demon is going to control my life. I am a child of God and who the Son sets free is free indeed. I don't care how stubborn you are or how you try to hang on.  I'm going to break every finger of the enemy.  I'm going to break his wrists and his grip. Satan, you CANNOT have MY LIFE.

I've only hit the high spots here and my reading goes much more in depth but, it gets complicated as it starts describing how to fast and lists a multitude of prayers you can use with particular strongholds.  If this is something you've not thought of or something you have and didn't try...TRY IT!  You can probably google it and get a ton of information just remember to search for "Spiritual Fasting" and not for weight loss.  I'm making a plan an studying several different prayers and plan on giving it a shot.  The book I'm reading from is "Fasting for Breakthrough and Deliverance" by John Eckhardt.

https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/spiritual-growth/fasting/how-to-do-a-biblical-fast.html

https://www.navigators.org/resource/how-to-begin-fasting/?mwm_id=238263484277&APCode=W04&gclid=CjwKCAjw5p_8BRBUEiwAPpJO61Pr5SBUSlE8XA_OFieqo6CiKtunXP01FtUGZjb2hlBj8PbDWDSXYhoC65wQAvD_BwE

https://21days.churchofthehighlands.com/resources/seven-basic-steps-to-successful-fasting-and-prayer