Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

Isa 62:1-12, Joel 2:12
What is fasting?
• The act of abstaining from food and certain desires in order to seek God for a period of time.
• What is fasting?
The act of abstaining from food and certain desires in order to seek God for a period of time.
• Fasting is an expression of our willingness to connect to divine resources (Dan 2:18-19, Phili 4:19).
• Fasting is an expression of our helplessness without God (Heb 4:16).
• Fasting is an expression of our confidence that God will hear us (Psa 65:2, 1 John 5:14-15).
• Prayer with fasting is a highway (doorway) to the supernatural.
• When a person is fasting, they become sensitive to the spirit realm.
• Agents of the devil also fast in order to be sensitive to their realm.
Mat 16:16-18
• Demonic forces are higher than human and intellectual wisdom.
• Your access to God’s power helps you handle demonic forces cheaply.
• Your access to the power of God that defeats forces of darkness is made possible and accelerated through prayer and fasting.
• Prayer and fasting creates an atmosphere for divine interventions.

WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU IN PRAYER AND FASTING?
1. YOU MUST BE DESPERATE (Gen 32:26, Est 4:16)
• Desperation makes things change.
• Don’t postpone your problems, God’s time is now.

2. BE FOCUSED (Psa 27:4)
3. BE PRAYERFUL (Mat 17:21)
4. BE PERSISTENT (Acts 12:5)

5. BE WATCHFUL (Hab 2:1, Mark 14:38)
• Be watchful for what God will do and also for the tricks of the enemy to disturb your prayer and fasting.

6. BE GENEROUS (Isa 58:7)

– A set time is different from the running of a clock as per usual, a set time is only a moment/moments.
What happens when God remembers a man?
– He visits a man.
– Change comes when you discern the time that God set and you are right in it.
– It takes a going up in order to see what is coming.
Hab 2:1-3
– The reason why God is not appearing to you is because you are not ready.
– The company you keep and environment that you are found in can affect the dreams that you are having.
– When the heavens open, you will know what heaven is saying concerning your appointed time.
– A vision is God’s plan for your life as revealed to you.
– There is always a word from heaven that can change your story.

Meaning of salt
1. Salt is as a covenant (2 Chron 13:5, lev 2:13, Num 18:19)
– Salt acts as a preservative.
– It is instrumental in making things last longer.
2. Salt is symbol of friendship and loyalty, it does not change so it makes relationships to be long lasting.
– It is a symbol of God’s everlasting love for us.
3. Salt adds flavour to food (Matt 5:13-14).
– Jesus represents salt, He preserves life.

• • According to God, for us, it is an agenda for bright and shinning light.
  • What causes light to be bright, to shine?
  1. A focused light.
  2. Excessive light.
  Matt 6:22
  • What brings light to the body is the eye.
  • When it comes to spiritual matters, when your eye can see something that God is saying, capture that thing and let it enter you and you are focused on that, believe me, that particular light that came from God will light up your whole life.
  John 1:4
  • When we are dealing with light from God, you are dealing with life from God.
  • When you have encountered the light of God, you have encountered the life from God.
  • How you move from one place to another in life and destiny is by light.
  • Light is life and this is the light that comes from God.
  • The light of God enters you every time you receive a light from God.
  • The entrance of Gods life brings light (Psa 119:130).
  • When we are talking about the brightness and shining of light, it means it is in excess.
  • Light is in levels; every child of God has some light in them.
  • Where there is light, there is energy.
  • If the light is to be bright, it must be a focused light and it should be excessive.
  • Kings don’t come to any rising, they come to the brightness of your rising.
  • Kings love wisdom. When they hear that there are acts of wisdom they may not move unless they hear that it is wisdom that is superior to their wisdom.
  • When kings see that there is a wisdom/light that is brighter than their own, then they will be moved to check but before they go, they will gather information concerning the shining light.
  • God dwells in light.
  2 Sam 22:13, 15
  • Every land has demonic forces that predominantly run the affairs of the people living there. When a person of light goes there, they know.
  • Satan studies human beings in order to know their weaknesses and strengths so that he can destroy them.
  • You cannot defeat a system that you are part of.
  • Satan is not our problem and has never been our problem. He has been the problem of unbelievers.
  • Our problem is our ignorance, we don’t know who we are and what we came to do.
  2 Sam 22:18-20
  • A man of purpose and focus is a responsible man, he is a man of constraints.
  • A few things will help us if we are going to contact the shining light.
  Isa 40:28-31
  • Our challenge as Christians is waiting upon the lord.
  • If you are going to shine, you need serious empowerment.
  • Those who are in a hurry not to wait will never rise.

  What does it take for a person to ascend?
  1. Practical holiness / purity / righteousness.
  • Lack of being holy is the reason why satan can beat any Christian.
  • The foundation of God is holiness (Psa 24:3-4).
  • Iniquity will limit your potential (2 Tim 2:19).
  • Behind every behaviour that God despises is from the camp of the enemy.
  • The holy spirit makes you to live holy.

Dan 4:29-32, 2 Chron 16:9
• Every time you don’t acknowledge God’s hand in the good things that have happened to you, you risk being taken out of the way.
• Men easily take God out of the picture when good things have happened.
• God knows and sees those who are genuinely grateful.
Psa 91:1-5
• The wisdom behind a trap is usually higher than the wisdom of the thing or person it is intended to trap.
• There is spiritual terrorism at night.
• Ingratitude is evil in God’s sight.
2 Chron 20:3, 21, Num 14:1, 22, 28-32, Jer 30:19
• Complaining complicates matters.
• Humanly speaking, you feel better when you complain about your problems but it doesn’t make things better.

Job 8:7, Eccl 7:8
• Because satan has been around for a very long time and opposes every good thing God does, he does a lot of useless things towards the end of any cycle.
• Satan knows that according to God’s agenda, the end of a thing should be better than the beginning.
• Satan is always watching out for the end.
• When people are about to enter a new season, he will bring things that will confuse them and make them concentrate on circumstances in order for them to miss divine timing.
Hab 2:1-3
• The weakness of men is that they are not able to continue on the same path until the end.
• God programmed the earth to carry seed and produce harvest for man.
• The process of planting seed and producing harvest differs from one plant to another and from one animal to another.
• It is a problem when you don’t understand yourself and what God is doing with your life.
• It is a problem when you’re looking at what God is doing with another person’s life instead of looking at what He is doing with your life.
Job 14:14, Mat 6:22
• People fail in life because of divided focus.
Deut 5:32, John 7:6
• Discouragement comes in when there is comparison – when you are comparing where someone else is to where you think you should be.
• A man who knows that he is in God’s timing can never be discouraged.
1 Sam 8:5-6, John 13:3-5
• Do you know your race and are you running in it?
• An athlete who keeps looking at his competitors won’t have speed.
• When comparisons come into a marriage, it will soon collapse.
• God values process.
• It is important for you to understand your own process, what God is doing with your life.
• Spend time to find out God’s purpose for your life.
• If you allow yourself to look to the left and to the right, you will be delayed.
• It is only the end of the year, not the end of your life.
• Maintaining a heart of gratitude is how you stay clear of distractions.
Col 4:2
• We watch in the spirit by thanksgiving.
Pro 31:5-7, Eph 5:16-19
• If I am truly giving thanks to God while under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, I will forget the negative circumstances around me.
• You don’t forget the challenges you have because you are not drunk with the Holy Spirit.
• Don’t give thanksgiving that is mechanical, give thanksgiving that is Spirit-inspired.
• Thanksgiving has ability to shield your mind from the assault of the devil.
• It is not possible to be genuinely thankful and be depressed.
Phili 4:4-9, 1 Pet 5:7, Psa 100:4, 24:3
• Thanksgiving gives you access and that is why it is possible for you to thank your way into a higher level.
• When you genuinely thank God, you are given access to God and God is given access to you, thereby shifting you to another level.
• When we glorify God, He gives us wings to fly
Isa 60:8, 40:31, Jer 30:19
• If you are not grateful for where you are, you will not get to where you think you should be.
• Don’t call things that God is doing small.
• We block our next levels by ingratitude.

Luke 24:49, Acts 1:8, Isaiah 40:29-31, 64:1-3
• It takes power to fly.
• It takes power to change positions.
• It takes power to make movement.
• It takes power to move mountains.
• Mountains represent obstacles, things that stand in your way to destiny, to fulfilling what God sent you on earth for.
• The potentials in you are looking for power.
• It takes power for many things to work.
• It is very strange when children of God do not understand how important it is to have power in order to fulfill destiny.
Mat 28:19
• Without power you will be stagnated.
• It takes power to remove opposition.
• It takes power to break yokes that are limiting you (Gen 27:40).
Gen 32:25, 28
• It takes power to be freed from bondage.
• Prayer and fasting positions us for power.
• It takes power to prosper (Deut 8:18).
• To be powerless is a risk, we cannot guarantee how long you will live and whether you will fulfill destiny.
• How we travel the journey of destiny in this kingdom is by light, and light is a function of power.
• When you are praying and fasting, light will break out because of power.
• Light shows you where to go and drives out darkness where it shows up.
Mat 17:19, 21
• There are things that only prayer and fasting removes.

• Do not take lightly the power of sounds.
• It is when sounds are made that spirits travel.
• Singings, enchantments that are properly focused make spirits to move.
• If men want the involvement of spirits, they must make the correct sound required by those spirits.
Luke 21:15, Psa 81:15, 149:3
• If you keep quiet, don’t blame God because you didn’t allow Him to travel.
• Music invites spirits.
Phili 4:6-7, Prov 4:23
• All the battles of life are battles of the mind.
• If you don’t make the sound that is expected, you can’t attract the spirit.
Ezek 2:2, 2 Chr 20:15
• Be careful who you listen to.
• Sorrow has a spirit and joy also has a spirit behind it.
Rom 14:17
• Do what God says you should do and leave the rest for Him.
1 Pet 5:7, Mat 6:27-34
• Cast all your cares upon the Lord.
• When you don’t cast your burdens upon the Lord, you are proud and think you can handle it all by yourself.
• You are carrying prophecies over your heard but if you are not careful you can abort them because you are looking at what has not yet happened.

Hab 2:3
• Thanksgiving is a very important key when everything is going wrong.
• A cry for God’s mercy is also an important key.
• Don’t become obsessed with possessions.
• Rejoice for whatever God gives you per time.
• Some people lose confidence and change their confessions of faith because of a temporary situation they are passing through.
Job 8:7, Eccl 7:8, Dan 4:29-33
• There are two dangers people face in December:
1. Not giving glory to God for all the liftings in your life.
2. Not glorifying God because your expectations were not met.

Hab 3:17-19
• Rejoicing will compel God’s Spirit to come into your situation, as bad as it is.
• Leave what you cannot handle for God.
• Take the posture of a fool according to human beings.
• The natural posture is to be angry because of what has not worked.
• There is a force that is released from God towards a man who chooses to look at Him instead of the negative things around Him.
• Where you are is another man’s prayer point.
• If you don’t end this year with thanksgiving, you have no place in 2025.

Exo 19:10, Mal 1:6
• Most of our problems come from trying to relate with God from the human perspective.
• Our lack of preparation shows God we are not ready.
1 Chron 29:1
• Many christians treat God like a kid.
• Treat God with respect.
• Your inability to differentiate what is for man and what is for God shows that you lack wisdom in that area.
1 Kings 18:30-39
• If the altar of God is broken, God can’t be among His people.
• If the altar of God is broken in your home, satan will keep coming in.
• Altars are the meeting places for spirits and men.
• The weakness of men is exchanged for the strength of spirits at the altar.
• The strength of an altar shows the strength of a spirit amongst a people.
1 Kings 13:2
• Don’t expect fire to fall when there is no sacrifice.
• Repairing the broken altar is repenting and asking for forgiveness before you pray (2 Chron 7:14).
• True humility has submission in it.
• Submission is recognising the authority of another.
• It is important to repent and ask God to forgive us.
1 John 1:8-9
• Sin is a barrier to prayer.
Isa 41:21
• We should pray according to the will of God.
1 John 5:14
• When the will of God is known, you have confidence.
• Before you open your mouth to pray, find out the will of God.
• Faith starts where the will of God is known and faith is needed to receive answers.
Mark 11:24
• Express your desires to God in prayer.
• As you are praying, you are not done until there is a sacrifice of praise from you.
• Thank Him even for the answers you have not yet seen.
• If you look at God as a judge that needs evidence, it will change how you look at prayer.

DEALING WITH BARRIERS TO PRAYER
1. Confess and forsake your sins (Psa 66:18-20, Prov 28:13)
2. Forgive other people’s sins against you (Mat 6:12, 14-15, 5:23-24)
3. Get rid of spiritual pride (Luke 18:10-14, John 8:7-11, Prov 16:18)
4. Come boldly, not beggarly (Heb 4:16, Psa 34:2)