Isaiah 58:6 ‘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?’

DAILY READING; Acts 19:21-41; Judges 11:34-12:15; Job 40

Charles Grandison Finney was a leader in the Second Great Awakening in America and has been called ‘The Father of Modern Revivalism’.
As a young man he studied law, and became a respected lawyer. However, after his dramatic conversion to Christianity, the next morning, Finney returned to his law office to meet with a client whose case he was supposed to handle. He told this man, “I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause, and cannot plead yours.”
And so began the new career of the man who would become the leading revivalist in the nineteenth century
As an active revivalist, he was known to fast regularly each week to keep his spiritual power and anointing from weakening. Following each fasting period, the presence of God would radiate so powerfully through Finney that people often fell under overwhelming conviction upon his entrance into a place.
The effect of Finney’s meetings was that whole communities were transformed causing crime rates to drop drastically and bringing many souls to Christ.
The zenith of Finney’s evangelistic career was reached at Rochester, New York, where he preached 98 sermons between September 10, 1830, and March 6, 1831. Shopkeepers closed their businesses, posting notices urging people to attend Finney’s meetings. Reportedly, during this revival, crime dropped drastically in the city as many people surrendered their lives to Christ.

Experiencing revival is not accidental. It is the result of deliberately assuming spiritual responsibility. Through prayer and fasting we will become revived and rightly positioned to be used by God to bring revival to the world.
When we humble ourselves in fasting and call upon the Lord in prayer, we will indeed experience a mighty move of the Spirit. The power of God will break the holds of darkness, bring diverse miracles and healings and usher in a great harvest of souls into God’s kingdom.
Indeed prayer and fasting is a Scriptural commandment that leads to the flow of signs and wonders and breaking of yokes.

God says in Isaiah 58:6 ‘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?’

To be mightily used by God to set captives free, we must be prepared to fulfill the spiritual requirement of fasting.
Fasting may seem unpalatable but it is a necessary price to pay so as to be constantly filled with the fire of the Spirit that destroys yokes.
As believers, fire is our identity. Psalm 104:4 says God makes His ministers flames of fire. To keep our fire burning bright, we must maintain a habit of praying and fasting.
As we do, God will work wonders in our lives and through us people will experience the mighty power of the Spirit.
Indeed as we take the time to wait upon the Lord, we will shine as lights in the world and become spirihtually too hot for any devil to handle.
We must understand that this year, God certainly wants to use us to make a big difference in the world. With all the great prophesies spoken over us this year, we cannot afford to continue in a state of spiritual complacency. Now is the time to engage the power of God to see the glorious fulfillment of revival in our lives.

As we engage the power of prayer and fasting in this season, we will overturn every resistance to our progress and experience the glorious new level of destiny God has ordained for us this year.

PRAYER: Lord, please help me to pay the needed spiritual price of praying and fasting to see the manifestation of Your glory this year. Thank You Lord for reviving me and releasing me to revive the world around me in Jesus’ Name.
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Illuminate your world for you are a star destined to shine. WORDBITE 222..