Loved one in Christ
Jesus, I believe you are growing in the strength of the Lord. One important
spiritual truth you must not ignore in life is the visions the Holy Spirit
reveals to you in the season of a dream.
Dreams play a vital
role in our lives. Ignoring your dream is a sign you are weak in the spirit.
God communicates to us in several ways. One of the most frequent ways the Holy
Spirit speaks to us is through dreams.
Prophets in the old and
new covenant prophesied that God would speak to us through dreams and visions
(See Joel 2:28-32, Acts 2:16-17). If you don't remember your dreams, it's a
sign the devil has captured your soul.
If you live in willful
sin, you will find it challenging to remember your dream because sin makes your
spiritual atmosphere dark. Spiritual blindness and weakness is another reason
you cannot remember your dreams.
Invisible sins such as
hatred, jealousy, pride, lust, fear, ungodly anger and malice weaken your
spirit. It gives demons the spiritual license to capture your soul and build a fortress
(ungodly philosophy) in your soul (Meditate on 2 Corinthians 10:3-5). When this
happens, you will find it challenging to remember your dreams and recognize the
voice of the Holy Spirit.
If you cannot remember
your dreams or you don’t dream, it means you are dead in the spirit. Feed more
on God’s Word, fast and build a consistent prayer life to revitalize your
spirit and soul.
If you live in willful
sin, repent from such an act because it gives the devil and his minions the
license to dominate you. Until you destroy the enemy’s legal ground, you can
never receive freedom.
Repentance is the first
key to break the enemy’s legal ground. Enforce the blood of Christ Jesus in
prayers to silence the evidence of the enemy in the spiritual realm because the
blood speaks (Meditate on Hebrews 12:23-24, Revelation 20:10-11).
The blood of Christ
Jesus has the power to silence accusations of the enemy. Stand on the
righteousness of Christ Jesus in the season of spiritual warfare. Silence in
the spiritual realm makes the enemy dominate you.
Enforce the authority
of God’s Word by declaration and profession because power lies in your tongue. Connect
with people who walk on the path of the Holy Spirit and disconnect from
hardened sinners because most of them are carrying strange spirits.
If you follow these
divine truths, you will always walk in victory in the spiritual realm. In this article, I will share one of the secret spiritual principles and weapons you
can use in the season of warfare.
The Power of Fasting and Prayers in the Season of Spiritual Warfare
Fasting is one of the
secret spiritual weapons many Christians ignores in their life. Anytime you
ignore fasting and prayers, you become a weak opponent in the spiritual realm. It
takes Spirit-led fasting and prayers to break certain chains in the spiritual
realm.
Daniel fasted and prayed
for twenty-one days for God’s intervention. In the second heavens, the demonic principality
(Prince of Persia) hindered Daniel’s prayer by blocking the angel of God who
was delivering his request.
Daniel’s persistent
fasting and prayers paved the way for God to intervene. God used Archangel
Michael to break the stronghold of the demonic principality that hindered
Daniel’s prayer. What would have happened if Daniel failed to persist in
fasting and prayers?
Fasting means denying
something you treasure and focusing on God for an answer. You can fast by
depriving yourself of food, games, work, and pleasure. In the season of fasting,
concentrate on God and things that glorify Him.
Separate yourself from
things that will block you from accessing God in the season of fasting and
prayers. One important divine principle you must know about fasting is that
conscious sin must be far from you.
If you are in the act
of willful sin and embark on fasting and prayers, you are wasting your time. Fasting
demand humility, repentance from evil deeds, and total focus on the Holy Spirit
(Meditate on Matthew 6:16-18, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Isaiah 59:1-3).
You don’t fast because
you don’t have money and other basic needs and wants. Fasting is a season
affliction. Fasting to show that you are spiritual is a waste of time, energy
and resources. Our soul goes through distress when we embark on fasting and
prayer.
During fasting, our
flesh fights us. Our body or flesh generates thoughts of hunger whiles our soul goes through trauma. In the season of fasting, our spirit receives divine
energy from the Holy Spirit.
It is like charging
your phone when the battery is weak. Our spirit (battery) receives divine
empowerment (power) when we connect it to electricity (fasting). Some scientists
and researchers believe that fasting heals our body.
Fasting has become part
of my life. When I’m fasting and praying, I feel spiritual and active in the
Lord. In the season of fasting, the tone of my body becomes fresh. Other times,
too, I feel like I am dying out of hunger!
When I break my fasting
and prayers with heavy food, I become sin conscious. Fasting is in dimensions. You
can fast for six hours, twelve hours, twenty-four hours, three days, seven
days, twenty-one days and forty days.
Fasting without the
direction of the Holy Spirit can harm you spiritually and physically. I have
heard of people dying after fasting. Fasting without wisdom is dangerous. If
you are fasting for one day or three days, you can ignore food and water.
Fasting beyond three
days and nights without water can harm your body. Some people fast with water
only while others take fruit, vegetables, light food like soup and porridge. I
love drinking water when I’m fasting because it keeps me active.
The most important
thing is to allow the Holy Spirit to lead you in the season of fasting and
prayers. Break a long fast with water or a light meal (watery foods). Our Lord
and Saviour Christ Jesus did not enter the wilderness to fast and pray until
the Holy Spirit led Him.
The Holy Scriptures
declared that Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit after fasting and
prayers (See Luke 4:1-14). This means Spirit-led fasting opens the door for
spiritual power. Demons submit to the power of the Holy Spirit, and it takes Spirit-led
fasting and prayers to receive divine power and clearance from the Trinity.
Christ Jesus could
perform great miracles after He fasted and prayed for forty days and nights. He
could cast demons from people and healed the sick after fasting and prayers. This
means Spirit-led fasting enhances spiritual power, anointing, and authority.
Some disciples of
Christ Jesus could not cast out a demon from a boy because they ignored the
principle of fasting, prayers and faith (See Matthew 17:14-21). A deliverance
minister, I worked with fasted occasionally.
I knew some of his
secrets came from his fasting life. Anytime he operates in the church, manifestations
took place. You will hardly find him eating. He knew demons submit to a higher
power, and the best way to receive such divine power came by Spirit-led fasting
and prayers.
God knows the motives
of our heart. If you are fasting for divine power and your motives are evil,
you will attract evil spirits. The only time fasting works is when your heart
is right with God.
It is said that Kathryn
Kulman fasted and prayed consistently. Through her consistent fasting and
prayer life, the Holy Spirit could use her to perform notable miracles. Almost
all the vessels God used in the stream of miracles were men and women who
fasted and prayed.
Men and women God used
to use to change atmospheres (revival) in countries, cities and villages were
vessels that fasted and prayed consistently. I recommend you read God’s
Generals by Robert Liardon for more wisdom keys.
Before Nehemiah could
build the walls of Judah and set the Jews free from oppression, he fasted and
prayed. Nehemiah’s persistent fasting and prayers soften king Artaxerxes heart.
The king allowed Nehemiah to build the walls of Judah and set the captives free.
The Ammonites, the
Arabians, the Ashdodites, Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah opposed Nehemiah
and his people but to no avail. Nehemiah won the battle in the spiritual realm
through fasting and prayers, so he never lost the physical opposition the enemies projected on him.
Nehemiah applied the key of the midnight hour. He scouted
the enemy’s land in the midnight hour and prevailed. In the book of Esther, we
find a profound lesson. Haman (an Amalekite) planned to destroy the Jews
because Mordecai (Esther’s nephew) failed to honour him.
Mordecai had a reason
for not bowing to Haman because Jews reverence God only. Haman used his
treasures to deceive King Ahasuerus by making laws to kill all the Jews in the one
hundred and twenty-seven provinces ranging from India to Ethiopia.
Through the wisdom of
Mordecai and Hadassah (Jewish name of Esther), the Jews embarked on three days
and nights of fasting and prayers with no food and water. The Holy Scriptures
declared that King Ahasuerus could not sleep when Esther, Mordecai and other
Jews fasted and prayed for God’s intervention.
The fasting and prayers
of the Jews tormented king Ahasuerus’s soul. The king ordered Haman to honour
Mordecai because God made the king remember Mordecai's good deed. One thing
about Spirit-led fasting and prayers is that it turns things around.
After three days and
nights of fasting and prayers, Esther (wife and Queen of King Ahasuerus) entered
the king’s court. Deioces, the king of Media, made a law that no one could
enter the king’s court in the Persian kingdom unless invited, including the Queen.
Everyone in the palace knew this because it was a law among the Medes.
Anyone who breached
this law faces death. Queen Esther knew the law. She knew the wrath of king
Ahasuerus. Esther knew king Ahasuerus divorced Queen Vashti for her
disobedience, yet she dared to enter the king's court after the three days and
nights of fasting and prayers.
The question is, why
did Esther, Mordecai and the other Jews embark on three days and nights of fasting
and prayers? Might they have known some secrets in fasting and prayers? Esther
made a profound statement.
Go, gather together all
the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor
drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and
so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I
perish, I perish.
Esther
4:16 KJV
Queen Esther could have
risked her life by using her title as the wife and Queen of the house, but she
applied the key of fasting and prayers. Esther knew her beauty could not save
her, Mordecai, and other Jews.
She needed the favour
of God and the favour of the king. Let’s see what happened after Esther entered
the king’s court without the king’s invitation.
Now it came to pass on
the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner
court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon
his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
And it was so, when the
king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in
his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his
hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Then said the king unto
her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even
given thee to the half of the kingdom.
Esther
4:1-3 KJV
Remember that Queen
Esther risked her life with premature death because king Ahasuerus did not
spare the beautiful Queen Vashti for her disobedience. The Holy Scriptures
declare that Esther obtained favour in the king's sight.
The king held out his
golden sceptre to Esther, which means she must live. One powerful mystery about
fasting and prayers is that it opens the door of favour in our lives. It
doesn’t matter how wicked a king, leader and group is; if you fast, God and His
angels handle the case.
The heart of the king (pastor,
father, boss, judge, or any authority figure) is in the hands of the Lord
(Meditate on Proverbs 21:1). Fasting creates an environment for the Holy Spirit
to dominate anyone deciding your case. Esther requested a feast for Haman.
Child of God, be careful of every opportunity that comes your way. Haman did not know that the feast was a trap. Don't honour every invitation because some are outside God’s will. Read and understand every contract before you sign. Know these truths.
- Haman might have escaped the deathtrap if he had rejected Esther’s feast.
- Nehemiah would have died at the hands of Tobiah the Ammonite if he honoured his invitation.
- Tamar would have escaped sexual defilement if she had rejected Amnon’s invitation.
- Amnon would have escaped premature death if he had rejected Absalom’s invitation.
The trap Haman set for
Mordecai was the same trap Haman fell in. The three days and nights of fasting
and prayers opened the door for God to save the Jews. The gallows Haman
prepared for Mordecai was the same gallows the king’s servant hanged Haman.
Through fasting and
prayers, Mordecai made another law to counter Haman’s decree made on behalf of
king Ahasuerus. The Jews had the right to fight anyone that attacked them on
their misery day.
The new law Hadassah
proposed made the Jews received reinforcement from the king’s soldiers because
Mordecai earned higher authority in the kingdom. The enemies that desired the
Jews death died instead.
God gave victory to Mordecai, Esther and other Jews because they fasted and depended on God.
Mordecai became the second in command in the kingdom because the Jews placed
their faith in God. They fasted and prayed with all their heart, and God turned their shame into fame.
Child of God, nothing
is impossible in the sight of God (Meditate on Luke 1:37). It is time to embark
on fasting and prayers because fasting produces power, mercy, miracles and
favour. Like the Jews, they received favour because they fasted, prayed and
relied on God.
You have prayed for a
long time. It is time to add fasting. Fasting will not kill you. You may go
through some pain in the beginning. Press on, and your body will adjust. If you
want God to deliver you from unreasonable enemies and receive victory and
deliverance, embark on fasting and prayers.
I have received series
of deliverances, power, and divine growth in the spiritual realm through
fasting and prayers. The Holy Spirit reveals several visions to me in the
season of fasting and prayers.
Trust God for a turnaround
as you embark on a Spirit-led fasting and prayers. I recommend you read my series of books for more profound
revelations.
As I prayed in the
Spirit, the Holy Spirit revealed to me that the book of Esther reveals Christ
Jesus and the church. King Ahasuerus is a symbol of the Heavenly Father.
Hadassah (Esther) is a symbol of Christ Jesus.
Mordecai is a symbol of
the Holy Spirit. Haman is a symbol of the devil. The Jews are symbols of
Christian believers (the church). The enemies of the Jews are the minions of
the devil. The three days and nights of fasting and prayers was the season of Christ Jesus death and
resurrection.
Divine
Key: Lean on Christ Jesus because He is the solution.
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