Isaiah 58:6-7 ‘Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?’
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Jonathan Edwards was the catalyst and foremost preacher of the Great Awakening which was one of the most intense outpourings of God’s Spirit in American’s history.
After his pastoral training, Jonathan Edwards had moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, to become the assistant pastor to his grandfather, Solomon Stoddard. After his grandfather died, Jonathan became senior pastor. He labored at Northampton for 21 years.
His intense life of prayer, fasting and studying the Bible led to the break out of a revival in 1735. As the revival swept through Northampton, overnight, the town was transformed. The citizens sang hymns in the streets, the tavern closed, the young people pursued God in bands, and it was impossible to get into church unless one arrived hours early.
By 1740, like a great flash flood, the Great Awakening rolled through New England. In July 1741, Jonathan Edwards accepted an invitation to preach at the neighboring town of Enfield, Connecticut. This town had remained spiritually dry, even in the midst of this Great Awakening.
Before going to Enfield, Connecticut, Edwards fasted for three days. When he got there, he delivered his now famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. His text was taken from Deuteronomy 32:35, and before the sermon was done, fire fell from Heaven and there was a great moaning and crying throughout the hall as the people repented massively and turned to God.
The stubborn yoke of spiritual resistance over Enfield was broken, when Jonathan Edwards engaged the power of fasting and praying.
The truth is that some kinds of stubborn spiritual yokes will not be broken except with the combined force of prayer and fasting.
Matthew 17:21 says: ‘Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting’
Some resistances will continue to persist, even get stronger until you decide to fast. Therefore in this season of waiting on the Lord, it is an ideal time to tackle any lingering mountain and stubborn yokes that seem to have defied solution.
Persistent challenges in your health, family, finances etc can all be handled in this season. Apart from the known problems, this season of fasting also presents an opportunity to deal with the unseen mountains and future hurdles the enemy may want to plant in the path of your progress this year.
As you begin to come against them with God’s Word, surely every such resistance will crumble. God has programmed fasting as a way for us to break stubborn yokes and destroy evil oppressions.
Fasting releases the yoke-breaking anointing that facilitates speedy answers to prayers.
God says in Isaiah 58:6-7 ‘Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?’
God has designed fasting to loosen bondages, undo heavy burdens and destroy yokes. It is our passport to freedom from every demonic hindrance. Therefore as we engage in fasting and praying, it will be the time to overcome every resistance and break forth into glorious new heights. Let us praise God for divine elevations because as we wait upon the Lord, we shall renew our strength and mount up with wings as eagles.
PRAYER: Lord, by Your grace I am overcoming every stubborn resistance to my progress and rising to glorious new heights of destiny in Jesus Name.
QUOTE: When you are living and walking in the supernatural everything natural becomes subservient to you – WORDBITE 222.
Shalom!
GOODHEART EKWUEME
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