Fasting for Breakthrough and Deliverance by John Eckhardt

Author:John Eckhardt
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2015-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves abundance with increase. This also is vanity (Eccles. 5:10). I will find my substance in God alone.

The Lord will satiate my soul with abundance and I will be satisfied with His goodness (Jer. 31:14).

Chapter 17

FASTING TO HEAR AND RECEIVE A WORD FROM THE LORD

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

—DEUTERONOMY 8:2–4, KJV

JESUS FASTED FORTY days in the wilderness. Israel was in the wilderness forty years. Jesus is the true Israel of God. Israel was allowed to hunger for forty years. God fed them with manna and suffered them to hunger, to humble them and teach them that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.

Fasting will bring greater humility to your life, and fasting will help you understand that you do not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. When you fast, you are saying, “I live by the word of God. The word of God is my strength. The Lord is the strength of my life.”

The prophetic word is a proceeding word. Fasting puts us in a position to receive the proceeding word and live by the proceeding word. Fasting helps you release the proceeding word. God can put His word in your mouth to speak and release.

In the above verse, we read that their raiment did not wax old. Fasting helps us keep our raiment fresh and new. Raiment is a garment. Garments can wax old through religion and tradition. We also see in this passage that their feet did not swell. “Feet” represent your walk with the Lord, your spiritual growth and journey to maturity in Him, and your ability to hear His direction for your life and follow it. Fasting helps keep your walk from being hindered.

FASTING WILL RESULT IN ANSWERED PRAYER

Then you shall call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and He shall say, Here I am.

—ISAIAH 58:9

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