Category: Spiritual Warfare

UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF PRAYER AND FASTING

Isaiah 58:3-11

⭕️Prayer and fasting is not an old testament thing that went away with Jesus.

⭕️We don’t fast as a religious practice.

⭕️We fast in order to catch God’s attention on certain matters.

⭕️Fasting causes God to see, if you do it correctly.

⭕️When you add fasting to your prayer, you amplify your voice to be heard on high (by God).

 Isaiah 66:2

⭕️A fast can be acceptable or not acceptable.

1 Kings 21:27-29

⭕️Fasting can reverse curses.

⭕️No bad situation is permanent with God.

⭕️God doesn’t look at what you did yesterday, He will look at your decision to go for Him now.

⭕️Prayer and fasting can shape the destinies of nations.

⭕️Be careful that you’re abstaining from food and not spending time in the word of God and prayer.

⭕️Fasting is just a booster to prayer (fasting is supporting prayer).

⭕️Your voice must be heard in prayer.

⭕️Your abstinence from food should lead you to having more time to pray and study the word of God.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE PRAY AND FAST?

1.LIGHT WILL BREAK FORTH (Isaiah 58:8)

⭕️Prayer and fasting enhances revelation.

⭕️Light is life.

⭕️Light is victory.

⭕️To have light is to be favoured.

⭕️Nobody will admire something in the dark. Beauty comes alive in the light.

2.REVERSAL OF EVIL VERDICTS (1 Kings 21:27-29)

3.PRAYER AND FASTING HELPS PEOPLE TO DISCOVER THEIR GOD-GIVEN PURPOSE (Acts 13:1-2, Jeremiah 1:5, 33:3)

⭕️Everything that God created was created for a purpose.

⭕️We may not discover our purpose if we don’t pray and fast.

⭕️If you don’t discover God’s purpose for your life, you will be living another man’s life.

⭕️Every child of God has an ordination from God (they have already been ordained by God). What is needed is for each one to discover and activate it.

⭕️There is no school you can go to, to discover your purpose.

⭕️Those who hate prayer and fasting hate their next level.

⭕️What God has called you to do is what will keep you alive.

⭕️Until you discover your purpose, you are wasting away your life.

4.ENHANCES (FACILITATES) ANSWERS TO PRAYER (Isaiah 58:9)

5.FACILITATES THE BIRTHING OF NEW THINGS (Isaiah 58:8, 60:1-2)

6.PRAYER AND FASTING RENEWS POWER AND INCREASES POWER LEVELS (Isaiah 40:28-31)

THE POWER OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING AS A LIFESTYLE

Psalm 100:1-5, 34:1

⭕️The lifestyle of thanksgiving leads to daily liftings.

⭕️It is impossible to find those who praise God at the same spot you found them yesterday; new things are always happening in their lives.

⭕️Praise and thanksgiving can indicate how spiritual someone is.

⭕️Most of the kingdom giants are thankful people.

⭕️When a person loves complaining, it is a sign that thanksgiving is not present.

What is thanksgiving?

1. Acknowledging God’s act on your life, the lives of others or the things He has created (Malachi 2:1)

2. Appreciation in advance (expectation) (2 Samuel 7:18, Romans 4:20)

⭕️Thanking God for what He has done is easier than thanking Him in advance.

⭕️It takes faith to thank God in advance, for what He has said.

⭕️Many prophecies (promises) come to people but they do not come to pass because they have not learnt to thank God in advance.

What is praise?

1.Celebration of God’s faithfulness and His character.

2.Celebration of the integrity of God’s word (Psalm 56:4, 10, Hebrews 11:11, Romans 4:20)

⭕️Thanksgiving focuses on the acts of God while praise focuses on the personality of God.

⭕️Have expectations in mind for why you are praising God.

⭕️Praise releases God’s power into any situation.

What are the channels of expressing thanksgiving and praise?

1.Clapping our hands (Psalm 47:1)

2.Shouting (Psalm 47:5)

3.Testimonies (Luke 17:15-17, 1 Samuel 1:27, Psalm 92:2)

4.Singing

5.Dancing (Acts 2:47, 42, 46)

⭕️People who remember what God said can’t stray, they will have answers.

⭕️Any area of your life where the will of God is not at work, you are not at rest.

Exodus 33:12-16

⭕️Glory is what will separate us.

⭕️Refuse people to tag you as common because you are not common.

⭕️If you’re going to walk in the spirit, there are many things you need to change.

⭕️Christianity is hard work, you have to train yourself how to think and talk if you’re going to matter tomorrow.

⭕️Matured people are measured on how they talk.

⭕️We talk the language of the world and that is why we manifest the world’s results.

⭕️In the kingdom we don’t speak our mind, our feelings or how we see things; we speak the mind of God.

⭕️We have our own language.

⭕️Nothing can stop a man who thinks and talks right.

⭕️Our mouth helps to program our mind.

⭕️As you talk differently, you will begin to think according to how you’re talking.

⭕️Your identity is your point of reaction.

⭕️Daniel 5:11, Isaiah 58:8

⭕️Wisdom is light.

Romans 8:29-30

⭕️We were saved to experience glory.

POSITIONING FOR NEW THINGS (PART 2)

HOW TO PREPARE AND STEP INTO NEW THINGS

1.Perceive the heart of God (Jeremiah 23:18, Job 33:14-15, Hosea 12:10, Acts 16:9, Job 9:11, 1 Kings 18:41, 44, Isaiah 42:9-13)

⭕️The five spiritual senses are also the five spiritual senses.

⭕️From your dreams you can perceive battles, the ends and beginnings of seasons.

⭕️Angels also appear in our dreams.

⭕️When you wake up in the morning, your reaction to your dream shows whether you have received it or not.

⭕️He wants us to know and perceive, whatever the method that He uses.

2.CHANGE YOUR FOCUS

⭕️If you only have pictures of your past and not your future, at the slightest provocation you will go back.

⭕️Have pictures of the future where God is taking you.

⭕️You cannot step into the future you don’t have in your mind.

⭕️The picture you see in your mind and your talk must line up (you must talk right).

⭕️Lack and want is a mentality.

⭕️Demons love to colonize families. They do that by ensuring that parents pass on the information they know through their talk.

⭕️What you say either releases your future or makes it tight.

⭕️We are not supposed to talk anyhow.

⭕️We should talk based  on our dreams, what God is doing in our lives.

⭕️You can be bound by your own words.

⭕️Your own words can tie your future.

⭕️Say the new things that God is doing in your life.

Hebrews 12:2

⭕️Be surrounded by pictures of the new things God is doing.

⭕️What you look at affects how you feel.

⭕️When you look at pictures of a bright future, it will generate good feelings.

⭕️Sit down and develop images from the word of God you heard.

⭕️There is nothing new for you if you can’t think new.

⭕️ Every seed has to be planted.

FACTS ABOUT SEEDS

1.A seed is alive and contains life.

2.A seed is creative

3.A seed contains the very nature of the plant

⭕️God’s seed, which is the word of God, carries God’s spirit.

4.A seed is smaller than the plant it produces

5.A seed does nothing until it is planted

6.A seed begins its growth in secret (underground)

7.A seed takes time to grow

8.A seed is not affected by others

9.A seed will stop growing without nourishment

10.A seed is persistent

11.More seeds planted will result in more harvests

12.Every seed produces after its own kind

13.In most cases, a seed does not look colourful compared to its fruit

BUILDING YOUR FAITH

Numbers 13:24-33

⭕️Every promised land has giants.

⭕️If you are not willing to invest into something you will be a nobody.

⭕️Someone has chosen to invest time to discover something while another has chosen to spend time enjoying what is already available.

⭕️Bad news and good news will always come.

⭕️There will always be noise and bad news but it is your duty to tune to the frequency of heaven.

⭕️You must make a conscious decision to build your faith.

⭕️If you do not have faith, your destiny is at risk.

⭕️Faith is how we live, and by not having it we die.

⭕️Faith doesn’t beg.

Hebrews 3:12-4:2

⭕️A heart that doesn’t believe is an evil heart.

⭕️You need a daily building of your faith because satan comes to you daily.

⭕️Faith is what you need to take a stand.

⭕️You must labour to build your faith.

⭕️Faith is not for lazy people.

⭕️When you are praying and fasting, you are actually building your faith.

⭕️Reading the word of God without revelation will give you nothing.

⭕️Prayer and the word will enhance your spiritual perception.

⭕️You can’t perceive seasons and times when you are not spiritual.

⭕️The only word you believe is the one you practice.

⭕️Build your faith to secure your future.

⭕️You can’t enter whatever God has promised without faith.

⭕️When you are building your faith, it appears as if you’re wasting time.

⭕️Faith is.

⭕️A person who speaks “I am,” is in faith.

⭕️Don’t push it forward, faith is now.

⭕️Speak well, control your tongue.

Matthew 17 :20

⭕️A man of faith must measure his words, be slow to speak and quick to listen.