Seven Tips to Supercharge Your Fast
These seven tips will get you out of a rut and keep you on the straight and narrow road,you will advance faster than you could have imagined.
1. Get Together With Other Christians and Pray
During times of corporate fasting the church needs to assemble more, particularly for prayer.You will appreciate the energy and anointing you receive to help you keep going.Then pray for them daily. If you are a student, pray for the classmates who sit in front of you, behind you, and on each side of you. Ask God to move mightily in their lives and give you favor with them.
It's a good idea to meet with other Christians as much as is comfortable while you're fasting. Their encouragement and prayers can make the difference in the success of the fast.
2.
Get Separated
The Israelites cut themselves off from any non-believing influence. This doesn't mean you should cut yourself off from co-workers, friends, or unsaved family. What it does mean is you deliberately, willfully purpose in your heart to focus on God and stay away from non-believing influences. This may mean a person, a television show, a radio program, certain magazines, the Internet, or books.
Your spirit is especially open during a time of fasting. You are more sensitive to everything—godly and ungodly influences. If you allow something in that is impure, it will have a deeper effect on you. It's impossible to avoid going to work or driving down the street for the duration of a fast, but you can put a guard over your senses and control your thoughts, mentally rejecting thoughts that hinder or oppose what the Lord is doing.
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Confess Your Sin
. The apostle John wrote,
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
During times of fasting, we see things in our lives that we need to confess. There's nothing better than the clean feeling confession gives you in your spirit during a time of fasting. Name these sins specifically to the Lord and renounce them. You will feel so free!
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Confess the Sins of Past Generations
Why would we want to dig up the sins of our forefathers? Because there are some people who are saved but not delivered. There are people who love God but are in bondage. I believe that there are things called generational curses that are passed down. Have you noticed how certain problems afflict certain families for generations? Heart trouble, anger, crime, drug abuse, obesity, and gluttony. These sins become generational curses that the devil uses to trip up each new batch of children.
We may not even know the sins of past generations, but we should confess that we come from a line of sinners and then, through the blood of Jesus,
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Spend Extra Time in God's Word
They stood where they were and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God.
Nehemiah 9:3
The people in Nehemiah's day gave themselves constant exposure to God's Word while they fasted. If you want to supercharge your fast, spend more time in the Word. Listen to tapes of the Bible or preaching and teaching. Let your open spirit absorb all the rich nutrients of God's Word.
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Confess the Word of God
...and spent another quarter [of the day] in confession....
Nehemiah 9:3 (insert mine) This confession is different from acknowledging sin. This means to confess what God says is true. It means verbally affirming the Word of God. For example, you would say, "I'm an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony," or, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Speaking the Word with faith will get you through the times when your body feels weak.
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Worship
Worship is heart-to-heart communion with God. Jesus said true worshipers worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. Never will your worship soar like when you're fasting! You will have confessed your sins, confessed your forefathers' sins, been filled with the Word, gathered with other believers, and put off anything that would contaminate your mind. That's a recipe for supercharged worship!
Toa Maoni Hapa Chini
