PRAYER AND FASTING

*Prayer and Fasting*

_Definitions_
1. Personal commitment to renounce the natural to invoke the spiritual.
2. Dedication to a period of time to devote oneself to spiritual priority of prayer without food.
3. Willingly abstaining from natural pleasures for spiritual purpose.

*Benefits of Fasting*
1. It is a spiritual discipline.
2. Increases spiritual capacity.
3. It gives you sober mind.
4. Increases the hunger for God.
5. Physical health.
6. Physical healing.
7. Saves your money.
8. Spiritual freedom.
9. Gives you the nature of God.
10. Accelerates prayer answers.
11. Increases your intimacy with God.
12. Will make you be where God is.

_Points to Note_

~Fasting gives you capacity to continue in communion with God.
¤ Fasting propels you to your destiny.
~The attitude you carry in fasting matters a lot
~fasting gives you confidence to launch out into your assignment
~Flesh hinders productivity.
~Fasting increases your spiritual capacity to download more from heaven.
~It enables you to manifest the character of God.
~It allows the real you who is the spirit to come out.
~There is a dimension of spiritual authority you can't access without prayer and fasting.
~Fasting is realising power in you.

_Scriptural references_

Isaiah 58
Psalms 109:24
Joel 2:12
Daniel 9:2-3
Esther 4:16
Acts 13:1-2, 14:22-24