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Cultivating a prayer and fasting lifestyle.


 

A successful Christian believer is he/she whose lifestyle is cultivated in prayer and fasting. Every believer who consistently pray and fast carries much of power. The lifestyle of prayer and fasting gives you power over many things in life. 

Examples of  power that prayer and fasting give you include the following:

1.Power to overcome evil one Satan

Luk 4:8  And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

2. Power to overcome the flesh

Fasting and prayers help you to connect to the Spirit of God, therefore, the flesh becomes overcome 

3. Power for deliverance

Jesus said that some stubborn demons in our lives do not just go easily but by prayer and fasting

Mathew 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

4. Power to overcome sin

 Through prayers and fasting, you will be able to overcome sin since prayer draws you near to God

5. Power to be bold in the service of God

 On some occasions in life as you serve God, you need to develop boldness in doing evangelism work, rebuking sin, expressing the act of faith, and many others.

Peter and the disciples when they were threatened they prayed for God to give them boldness

Act 4:29  And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, 

Act 4:30  By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. 

Act 4:31  And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

  How to cultivate prayer and fasting as a lifestyle

-Consistent desire to seek God. This will motivate you to pray and fast

Psalm 42:1-2

-Cling to God for grace and mercy. Do not rely on your own strength and ability

 Hebrews 4:16

-Be rooted in the word of God and live the word of God i.e do what the word of God is saying and mean it. 

    John 1:1-5

-Seek the knowledge of God through other materials like books and teachings from other men of God who have been cultivating a lifestyle of prayer and fasting.

I believe that the Lord is going to help us cultivating prayer and fasting lifestyles in our lives. May God bless you.

Prayer: Lord I pray that you may help me to cultivate a lifestyle of prayer and fasting in Jesus Name.Amen



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