So we want to Pick up where we left off All right, and where we were and we're dealing with kingdom keys to fasting see you can you you you have to be Fasted and prayed to be in this ministry because you know There's a whole lot that happens and a whole lot that goes on and you have to weather The storm you have to be resolved and you have to just know that That God got you that you heard him Because a lot of people will say man what you're doing don't make sense.
You don't take all of that Well, what does it take? What does it take when we've seen? All to Jesus I surrender What does that mean? Doesn't mean if your children are hungry and you bless them with chicken and rice with words He said okay, thank you, but It's not it's not doing it But then if you don't have the money to buy the chicken and rice What do you do What do you do when we say God I surrender myself the flesh Immediately fights you You're not thinking about food until somebody say fasting You think the flesh does not want to come in line? the flesh is ran by the Spirit of the Antichrist It's 24 hours in opposition to the will of God So I I I'm talking about me that I have to be careful Cuz I can slip into the flesh real fast Where does? Darkness dwell where where does darkness dwell? Tell you where darkness dwells darkness dwells on the border of light and And as soon as the light loses its brightness the darkness moves in immediately, there's no There's no middle ground with with dark and light Satan Doesn't make concessions with the people of God and God is a righteous God that has allowed us To always defeat the enemy, but we can't do it with a belly full of beans Jesus says these things somethings in our lives will not come but by prayer and fasting I Could not do what I do.
I've been in Lancaster for years And I preach to chairs more than I preach to people You go on my Facebook page and you will see I'm The camera is still I'm back there and I come here And I edit it and put it on YouTube and I act like the room's full. You don't hear nothing You don't see cuz there's nobody there Yeah, you know what Yes So if I get in the flesh I said forget that But I know I heard the voice of God And I know that my labor is not in vain And I know that it's placed me here to be a blessing to somebody else and I'm going to tell you now I gotta say this Some of the most notorious bad boys With a rap sheet in that village So you can murder somebody and drop them off in the bushes and that's it No autopsy.
You don't got the money for it And unless it's somebody high high DNA what what DNA? Yes, then these boys they call them youth Vandalized churches robbed people terror in the you talking worse than crips and bloods Guess what? They were baptized not baptized some of my need know who I was baptizing Some of the notorious boys today, well their day is over with it are lifting their hands and worshiping Jesus Because that village has a place to worship People know them boys There was a father who was a pastor who left God he didn't he didn't just leave the church left God Something happened in his family.
It was tragic. He blamed God. He went to the Hare Krishnas he got Statues and worship idols and sacrifice to false gods His son got saved in kingdom of God ministers kingdom ambassadors for Christ in that compound And we put him in school to learn construction His father came back to the Lord He brought his entire family and he brought his books and charms and amulets and things that he used To worship idols to Bishop Alex for them to be burned and destroyed that that let me tell you I didn't know that seven years ago when I'm preaching the chairs God wants to use us, but he needs to know if he can trust us There are people who had no hope They said there would never be a school This missionary is alive.
They called me a liar. They called me a frost. They called me because every time elections Politicians come to that sound familiar and promised them Lots of things and when they get elected, that's all they have. So when I come along, who am I? I Trust God and I said yes to God without fasting and praying I would not had the Wherewithal to stay because friends and family told me you're crazy So before the parents There's children in our school in the school didn't have a roof.
They wanted to come Because they have to send their children to other villages and in between this village and that Village bad guys come and steal children not just kidnap them but offer them to the devil for human sacrifice today in 2023 is what we're doing You hear about Boko Haram and terrorists, but you know what for some God's got this village protected So the mothers go around the property in the bush To see if we have not conjured up evil spirits is the reason why we have this school there very very superstitious They didn't see any idols.
They didn't see any Signs of altars and when they saw that they put their kids in the school Some things only come by fasting and praying and People your neighbors may not know who you are, but it's written in heaven who you are And people your neighbors may not know who you are, but it's written in heaven who you are People may never celebrate you around you. They may never think that you're anything but there are those that you are impacting because God Didn't cause to be saved so by a beautiful King James golden boss name wearing nice suits and ties Come to church go home and that's it.
That's not why he put us in this thing so Fasting is required even for leadership appointments Acts 14 23 and 24 if we would do this more we wouldn't see such shenanigans in the church It says and when they had ordained them elders in every church and had prayed with Fasting they commended them to the Lord on whom they believed The Apostles they had prayer meetings. They had fasting services and During the fast God says anoint this one Commission this one and I believe here Here in Lancaster those of you that are here with me that during this time God is going to call you to special service He has to He says when you give to the poor you lend to the Lord and I'll tell you what God is not getting his life's cutoff Today he pays his bills Esther we know the story of Esther how she was the Queen King Was one to kill the the Hebrews Mordecai was so jealous Esther had a secret and it wasn't that she was a king queen because going before the king she And he killed if he didn't go this is what she says Now that the Creator went out the king said I'm gonna all the Jews Go gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan and Fast ye for me and neither eat nor drink three days Day or night.
I also in my maids will fast likewise and So will I go unto the king which is not according to the law if I perish I'll perish When God is moving us we may do something and I'm careful about what I say though law says it's illegal But when God speaks and you know, it's God it supersedes and he's gonna take care of it Esther said hey my life is nothing her uncle Told her don't you understand the nation is in trouble and when the nation goes you go Could you one of us you might be the king's wife, but you are not exempt This is an example of how we can fix our economy how we can Fix the border issues how we can fix these liberal thinking that hasn't that's a referendum against God She said we're gonna fast for three days, let's call it dry fast We're going all the way in we're not eating and we are not drinking for 72 hours And then I'm gonna go into the cave and if I die after the fast I just died That takes faith That is what Esther that the fast saved the nation and I still believe that God wants to Save the nation in fasting.
So what is the definition of that? I know Last time after service you guys have some great questions, you know What to eat what not to eat Which are great and and I'll get to that at some point but I want to give an Understanding to why we will not eat food. Why is food? What's that with food? You know, the Bible doesn't talk about fasting from coca-cola Or fasting from soap operas or popcorn The Bible talks about going without food About going without water.
It's called Afflicting the body for a higher purpose and a higher cause And stomach pains and then cramps come you. Oh, thank you Jesus This is for a higher cause and higher purpose But if we know why we're doing it that we can last even though we get weak in our bodies So the definition the definition of fasting is the willful abstaining from natural pleasures for a spiritual purpose The willful abstaining of things that are pleasurable doughnuts with lots of chocolate thick Pleasurable Some people's crispy deep golden fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy is pleasurable Sitting in front of Netflix munching on a beef dog and mustard is pleasurable It is the willful abstaining from natural Pleasures for spiritual purpose the definition of fasting fasting is a personal commitment to renounce the natural Invoke the spiritual We need Supernatural Intervention and fasting Opens up our capacity to believe God God Has all that we need What if God was like Niagara Falls? and We had a two-inch pipe For all of that water to go through We won't get the full effect of the power of Niagara Falls So the larger the pipe The bigger the capacity for water to flow When we are so full of earthly pleasures things that Or that feel good it shrinks our spiritual pipe For God to move through us Because it tells us in Genesis that he gave us dominion.
We are sovereign on this earth, but our Sovereignty can limit the power of God flowing through us. So when we fast and we commit to the fast are Commit to the fast are we we naturally Involve more spiritual power to flow through us the serious We are the fast the greater the power that flows through us fasting is a deep it is the dedication To a period to devote yourself to spiritual priority of prayer without food So if you're the person that loves to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and make those eggs And then you drink that coffee as you know, the nice breeze coming in from outside you take that time To pray you take that time to dedicate and to hear God So here's some requirements of fasting Fasting is Okay Not just missing a meal We kind of laughed last time, you know talked about I'm fasting I'm looking at the clock and lining up my food When I'm in the you know, well, I got 10 minutes call.
Hey guys, I got 10 minutes What you gonna eat when you get through fasting? No fasting is not just skipping a meal fasting is Not dieting. So we have that Side effect, but that's not why we fast I'm grateful. I lost a few inches around my waist because my pants I had to To the to the dry cleaners to take out the waist. I didn't take out enough and I tell you I wear big shirts so much It is not pretty but that is not why we fast Fasting demands replacing The reading of the word and prayer with food So we're going to replace that time with food and we spend at least eight hours some people a day eating thinking about what you want to eat and then going to the store to buy if you don't have it and then preparing it and Then sitting down to eat it and then cleaning the kitchen.
That's a lot of time that you can dedicate to God Okay, it's dedicating time spent in meditation Prayer is not always talking Prayer is also meditating Pray for 15 minutes and meditate for 45 because God may have something that he wants to say You know, I have a brother that used to call when I was in the army, you know You buy them phone cards that they only last for a couple of minutes And I'll call him because it's have a few minutes to talk Yeah, brother.
Now. I called him now on my phone card and he started talking. He talked so long I just held the phone and He hung up when he got through. I'm like Hello After a couple of times I stopped calling him. I can't get a word in Dedicating time spent in meditation. Let's let God say something So what if how do we know what we heard is true? Well, God is not going to tell you something that's not found in his word He is not gonna The more we read the Bible we see God's character and then it's reinforced in different places So if you hear something that's outside of God's character, you know where it's coming from You Dedicating time spent in the word.
So we're going to meditate. So what are the effects of fasting? Fasting does not change God. I just want everybody to understand that we don't make God do anything It's okay, thank you for coming we're praying for you. All right, love God bless you God bless you. Okay. Thanks for coming Somebody said I fast and God move now you move to God Fasting does not move God. We cannot bribe God. We cannot hijack God We cannot make God do anything when you fast long enough It'll take the fight right out of you If you're a person that argue you fast long enough, you don't have a strength to argue You ain't oh, you gotta say.
Oh Jesus you will be on the floor. Oh Humbly I come to Jesus That stomach will make you call on God Fasting doesn't move him fasting increases our spiritual capacity Fasting breaks habits and Spiritual bondage food Drinking sex people. I know them personally Had a problem with cocaine. They had a problem with alcohol. They had a problem with cigarettes When they came into our ministry we fast and prayed often we fast hard, I'm telling you we If we had social media back then you wouldn't believe How hard we called on God? When I show you pictures of our church in Nigeria, I'll show you what they did on New Year's New Year's Eve Outside of so many people it couldn't be go inside outside with generators Worshipping after God hard and then came back for special needs And came back for church service that day and then went back for prayer that night I'm telling you you can't do that and stay honoring you can't do that In the flesh takes over.
I'm telling you fasting breaks habits It brings things in the line Now I can't help it comes in line so the effects of fasting Fasting quiets the heart to hear from God some people talk too Much if you're talking all the time God can't get in Talk it quiets I'm telling you it it gets you in a place that you love you said you you'll forget about food after a while because you're in such a spiritual place Honey you gotta go Okay, she has an appointment Fasting brings godly intimacy Where you can say Lord, I love you with no problem.
We'll take care of Aaron We say God. I love you. It brings godly intimacy You will be in charge of your body again Your spirit not your flesh because that's how we were created It brings us back closer to the state of Adam before he sinned Adam was in control of his flesh 100% but when he Sinned it broke that fellowship of God now The flesh is like a dog that got out the fence and can't wait to get down the street and around the corner It brings that in it tames that beast it puts that beast in place There are some people that do stuff.
You're like how in the world would they do something like that? but when they get saved they understand the power of Fasting they'll put down the food. Well, I mean it's gonna save me a whole lot of therapy It's gonna save me a whole lot of medication This is gonna save me blood pressure comes down when a person gets their blood sugar imbalance There's a spiritual effect and there's a natural effect when you fast So there are nine benefits.
I may be able to get through this fasting brings spiritual discipline That I can't help it Comes under it was a man. You're different. It's more than that. You just came to the Lord. You came to the Lord and crucified the flesh fasting increases your spiritual capacity Fasting clears your mind Sober gives you a sober mind. There are some folks that walk around drunk and never had alcohol because they don't make no sense when they talk They're here.
They're there and it can't complete nothing. They can't finish nothing. They have no direction today They won't want to be a synchronized swimmer and then tomorrow they want to be an actor They didn't want to be an astronaut. They're all over the place. You're like my god. What is this? You got a paintbrush in one hand and a skill saw in the other hand. What do you what are you doing? You've been in junior college for 10 years Because you're always changing your mind when you test it brings some clarity Fasting gives you a pure heart and a pure mind some stuff that'll make you fight some stuff, you know If I was if I was in the flesh, I didn't know God then I'd be fighting Superman But I'll be fighting because my pride will say huh? You don't believe huh? You know how many give me we're like bulls well We we start snorting and digging in the ground and we ain't backing up In the nightclub, you know 50 women in there and two guys are fighting over one girl.
It's just My god and giving with the pure heart so God can bless you fasting increases a hunger for the Word of God as a young man and Man I was in the Baptist Church. We didn't fast. We didn't have all this kind of music. We didn't clap our hands We didn't do we didn't Don't even say amen to laughter you to take to the back because it was religion. It wasn't a relationship But fast it increases your hunger for the word I I sat on the couch in the living room the lamp and I just got engrossed in the Bible The more I read it became like Netflix just playing and Rick by the time I finished Reading the Sun was coming up.
I got so wrapped up. It was wonderful Fasting aids physical health there are people in church High blood pressure hypertension Ulcers when you stop, you know, naturally when you stop eating, but the flesh said man, you better eat them cookies People have made New Year's resolutions But they're gonna do this and they do that, but they don't have the willpower to do it So they buy medications they go to therapists You know what? they can go ahead and put $5,000 an offer right here and just fast and they'd be fine because that's what they that's how much money they gonna spend on therapy for that year therapy and medication It helps you lose weight there it is.
Oh See see see you have a whole new wardrobe waiting for you on that side of the closet All the clothes that you wore before you gain weight now, you're wearing all the clothes on this side of the closet So when you lose weight, you have a whole new wardrobe I Got pants in my closet Rick that I refuse to throw away, but then I'm coming Fasting saves you money when people on it. We were on a 30-day fast You calculate how much money you spend on groceries eating out And you bring that money and you give it to the poor you give it away Bring it to the church.
You give it to the poor it saves you money Fasting purifies your body The toxins and all the things the body can finally breathe 11 benefits right on time Fasting brings spiritual freedom. It is so good To walk outside on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday knowing that you are free You can listen to Newsmax. You can listen to Nancy Pelosi. You can listen to the inflation I know I can't really listen. I channel, you know new channel, but It rises you up above the nonsense But people call you that like the gossip when you're in this place you just can't hear it Yeah This is why God created you all right, we can have fun, but some people major in nonsense fasting brings physical freedom Our bodies can breathe again or we can put that belt on and we can't wear I got three I got four belts hanging on mine For different weight classes Fasting gives you Spiritual giving you really give out of your spirit and God Rewards you and see What we saw is a result of people fasting and praying And then God bless us with the wherewithal to answer their prayer and we still have some left over We still are doing well Fasting helps your light shine as the noon.
They let your light so shine among men Fasting helps it Receives revelation from God stuff that you never thought that you knew starts to come to you fasting helps you speak with authority Fasting brings God's protection to your life. God will protect you It's written in his word fasting allows you to get your prayers answered because now we're not praying We're not Lord break their legs. I Know we may feel like yeah, I know It came to me But every person that I pray that God break their legs is probably 10 praying to God break my legs So whose prayer should God answer? But every person is boy wait till I get that cat alone in the alley there's 10 of them Wait till I get that cat alone In the alley, so fasting allows you to get your prayers answered because it gets your mind, right? Fasting brings intimacy with God fasting increases your memory fasting makes you spiritually sensitive to fight demons complete the blood some stuff is just demon possession fasting six Points of fasting Guidelines commit yourself to God in Consecration to the fast and prayer so commit to it pray before you start Pray when it's over Commit yourself.
I'm gonna commit to because he's fasting is free will He's not saying thou shalt fast 20 days No, if you say I'm fasting for two days one day one day a week 12 hours Commit to it Drink plenty of water at room temperature. Now. This is if you're going on extended fast. I've done extended fast after the third day I don't drink cold water. It tears you up because your body was it was 80 something Fahrenheit 98.6 98.6 right is the cold water in it you bring your body in the shock your body is repairing itself So you drink plenty of water room temperature to flush out the toxins you may get pimples you may get you know different places Because those toxins because you know, the skin is the largest organ.
So these are the physical things that are happening You're not dying. It's not the devil drink herbal teas cranberry juice raw apple cider to cleanse on an extended fast you want to stay away from Grape juice, I'm not grape juice, but Grapefruit juice in orange juice is very acidic You will be acidic already because your stomach is used to food it is gastric Gases that build up in your stomach then you drink some orange juice. You're going to inflame it So so you're on extended fast your stomach is growling It's burning the walls of the gunk and all the debris that's kicked up in your system And then you drink water to flush it out.
Okay, it puts out this drink water Um when gastric juices acids Reaction in the stomach drink plenty of water right away Have it set aside now some people say drink eight glasses of water, you know I say increase your water capacity when you're fasting Alright drink warm or hot fluids before bed and in the morning All right No juice With acid like orange juice, like I said pineapple juice tomato juice grapefruit juice. You want to stay away from that? Okay The longer you fast the better care needs to be taken when you break the fast, okay warm soup Vegetables are okay because your stomach is very sensitive It's it's back to can't handle them hard beans and french fries.
It's just Soup you're working your way back and there are certain foods that you won't even desire anymore because an Extended fast has got those toxins out of your body. So you don't even crave green leafy vegetables are okay food is okay No bread No carbs We know that say that Jesus fasted for 40 days, right? Do you think G you think Satan really cared about his nutrition? Why did he say turn these stones to bread? How can he didn't say turn these stones to palm fruit turn these stones to bananas turn these stones to vegetables? Because bread is yeast and it expands After I don't recommend a 40-day fast No food I Don't everybody that fasted 40 days left here as far as I know There was a woman in dr.
Monroe's ministry She ate bread after An extended extended fast and she died She ate bread it twisted in her intestines and it killed her Fasting without knowledge Satan was trying to kill Jesus eat some bread after that fast So no carbs All right. Amen. So so that is Fasting why we do it the biblical reasons for it the physical benefits of it the spiritual benefits of it and It will be a regular part of this ministry and we are fasting Until the 28th of February hold out.
Hold on, you know, I know this is I don't know if you have ever Fasted that long in that way But you remind me of me when I first came into the Apostolic Church. It was right in the middle of a dry 72 hour fast and I did not know what fast it was. I knew what it was I had never did it in my life, but I had the support of the congregation So that I kind of moved with that momentum and I was baptized with the Holy Spirit on a Friday night And I and I continued to fast Worked it was hot that summer.
It was high. It gets like, you know, I get hot here gets like that in Stockton and I and I was hammered the Word of God. I was in church four days a week My pastor said if you stay here for one year, you'll learn more than you would in Bible College And we was in church Covered the water fountain the people the community thought we were a cult And my mother and father didn't understand that and the elders of the Baptist Church They got together to kidnap me to bring to be brainwashed me They were upset and all I did was found a renewed Serious relationship with God at 18 years old.
You're crazy You supposed to be out there chasing girls and drinking beer and smoking weed. I was in the fast man. I was in it and Then we turn around and go to church on Friday or Monday And then car rehearsal and stuff or usher meeting on Tuesday and then Wednesday Bible study Monday was relaxed and he sat down in the chair and we read line by line by line by line by line and then Wednesday was more formal like a church service And always praying at the altar always the altar call lasted almost as long as the church service did And then we have Friday night live because people were used to run in the streets There was a hardcore people in that church and they they get busy on it They they can do whatever they want to do it with big on party on Friday Saturday and Sunday So we was in church on Friday Friday night live When everybody in that time and we're want the same we want to testify testimony and we went in Saturday we came to clean up Sunday.
We started all over again with Sunday school 11 o'clock and Sunday night for a whole year. I grew up in church
