The Fasting Edge by Jentezen Franklin

Author:Jentezen Franklin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Baker
Published: 2011-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

Connecting to Your Assignment

There is another way that fasting and praying make an important prayer connection in your life—to God’s assignment. I know this personally because I was on a fast when the Lord made my assignment clear, calling me to preach. Up to that point I was seriously considering a career in music. In the nearly twenty-five years since that time, He has continued to give me specific “alignment for assignments” during a fast. Many developments in my life and ministry since then have been made clear as I have continued to fast and pray, seeking God’s direction. Peter and Cornelius made a prayer connection, and both discovered God’s assignment. Peter was to break the long-held divide between Jew and Gentile by sharing what God had given him with Cornelius and his family. But it didn’t end there. Another connection was coming that would give us nearly half of the books of the New Testament. Fasting puts you in alignment for your assignment.

A young man named Saul watched as Stephen, a follower of Jesus who was full of the Holy Spirit, was dragged from the synagogue and brutally stoned to death outside of the city. As a young Hebrew devoted to the Law, this incident fueled Saul’s desire to stamp out the dangerous “sect” that followed Jesus even after His death. Acts 8:3 reads, “As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women,

committing them to prison.” On his way to the city of Damascus with permission from the high priest to arrest any followers he encountered, Saul’s world was turned upside down. He found way more than he planned to on that trip when he met the High Priest! As the story continues in Acts 9, Saul was knocked to the ground and engulfed by a bright light. He heard the voice of a man speaking. When he humbly asked who was speaking to him, he heard, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting” (v.5). At that moment Saul lost his sight and had to be led by his men the rest of the way to Damascus. He fasted there for three days, no doubt praying and pondering the unmistakable encounter he’d had on the road. But the Lord didn’t leave him like that. He had a connection planned. Fasting got him in alignment for his assignment.

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