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Preparing for Fast 20/20 Pt.1

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Preparing for Fast 20/20 Pt.1 

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Review (from unlocking the mystery of praying in the spirit pt.2)

    • “Preparation time is never wasted time.” “The fast is going to be a building on last year’s fast. Last year was preparation and plowing, this year is freedom and expression. The two will compliment each other.”
    • We started preparing for this fast in what most would call an unusual way… By looking at the biblical evidence and necessity of the baptism of The Holy Spirit and specifically the importance of praying in the Spirit. 
      • Every believer can and should be filled with the Spirit and pray in the Spirit. 
      • We looked at the difference between and the purpose of public and private tongues. Focused specifically on personal… 
      • We looked at the benefits of praying in tongues. (Refer to the podcast.. Notes are posted on Apple podcast and on website.)
      • The enemy will try everything he can to stop you from praying in the spirit regularly. 


        • What fasting is and is not?

          • Fasting is a physical response to a spiritual prompting for a spiritual purpose. 
          • Biblical fasting is restraining from food for a spiritual purpose. 
          • Physical obedience releases spiritual blessing!
          • Types of fast: Total fast, Partial fast (Daniel fast), short term and extended fast. 
          • Fasting social media and distractions should be couple with fasting food! 
          • Fasting is not a way to force God to hear you. Fasting is a way to get you to hear God. 
          • Fasting is not a way to force God to do something. Fasting is how we position ourselves to receive what He has already done. 
          • Fasting is not a way to prove how “spiritual” you are. Fasting is a way we grow spiritually. 
          • Fasting is how we humble ourselves before The Lord. 
          • Fasting is how we crucify our flesh. It is a way we dethrone the flesh and put The King in His rightful place. 

            • Your perspective will determine your response and what you can receive. 

              • Prepare yourself before you start. 
              • What will your attitude be during the fast? 
              • What is your plan? 
              • What is the length? 
              • Fasting is how we realign our focus on the things of God! 
              • PLAN AND COMMIT! Do not give yourself an out. 
              • If you fail, pick yourself up and begin again. 
              • God is supernatural! Expect supernatural things to happen! 

                • What to expect during and from the fast. 

                  • It will be difficult, there will be opposition, THERE WILL BE GRACE! 
                  • Do not separate yourself from other believers. This is a corporate fast. We need to lean on one another, worship together, etc… 
                  • Expect to hear God’s voice in the Word, dreams, visions, and revelations!
                    • Daniel prepared himself to receive revelation through fasting (Daniel 10:1-3). Scripture also speaks of a fasting reward (Matthew 6:18). Expect God too fellowship and communicate with you. 
                    • Daniels revelation was released but he didn’t receive until 22 days into his fast.
                    • Fasting brings revelation. Fasting positions us to hear from God. Maybe the revelation isn’t coming became your not positioned to hear it.
                    • Expect greater intimacy with The Father! 
                      • God is no respecter of persons, but He is a respecter of pursuit. Intimacy comes with pursuit! 
                      • There can be no consistent intimacy without consistent pursuit. James said draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
                      • Expect Breakthrough!
                        • Often breakthroughs come after the fast!
                        • Do not listen to the lie that nothing is happening. I believe every fast done in faith will be rewarded!
                        • Expect a release of the supernatural! 
                          • Fasting prepares us to move in the supernatural. 
                          • Mark 2:18-22 18 The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?” 19 And Jesus said to them, “Can the [a]friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. 21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. 22 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”
                          • A fast says I’m more  hungry for the unseen than I am for the seen.  
                          • I believe we are not moving or seeing the power of God manifest as we desire because we are hungrier for the seen than we are for the unseen. 
                          • Fasting is a place of surrender where our appetite for the unseen increases more than what we see!
                          • Until we hunger for the unseen more than we hunger for we can see we will limit God from manifesting fully! 
                          • Expect faith and power to increase! 
                            • Matthew 17:14-21
                            • Expect Clarity of vision! 
                              • 2020 vision! 
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