Fasting and Praying

Today I will be coming to you from the PRAYER LINK. In Mark 9:25-29 JESUS spoke to the evil spirit that had kept a boy from speaking or hearing. JESUS commands the evil spirit to come out of the boy and not to bother him again. As the evil spirit left the boy screaming and made the boy shake all over then it came out, the boy looked dead. But JESUS took the boy hand and helped him up. As JESUS and the disciples had gone back home and were alone, they asked this question. Why couldn’t we force out the evil spirit. Mark 9:29 in the AMP JESUS told the disciples, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything, but by prayer and fasting.”  As believers prayer and fasting is very important. Prayer and fasting is a secret weapon of the born again believers. God turns things around and things happen when you begin to fast and pray. So whatever you are going through right now GOD wants to bring you out by way of you fasting and praying. Fasting doesn’t move GOD but it move us (the flesh) out of the way, sometimes we allow certain things to take first place in our lives, that hinders the Spirit of God from really moving like it should and it’s not big things, but it is those little foxes, that spoil our vineyards or harvest. So fasting, denying, and crucifying ourselves (or flesh) as believers along with prayer are very important.

Fast means to abstain from food, to eat sparingly or abstain from some foods. As believers we also can abstain from other things and deny ourselves. God expects us to deny ourselves daily if we are going to follow Him successfully. Deny means to restrain (oneself) from gratification of desires. Anything or anyone that is hindering us from walking in the purpose and plan that God has for our life, we need to get rid of it. HE expects the old man to stay crucified, crucify means to destroy the power of, crucify the flesh, to mortify. Mortify means to destroy the strength or function of, to subdue or deaden as the body or bodily appetites. We know there are many bodily appetites, which many crave outside the WILL of GOD, and some of those appetites have become out of control and have become a habit or even an addiction. As believers the Fruit of the Spirit is available to us, and within the Fruit of the Spirit is self-control, and God don’t expect us to allow anything or anyone to have such control over us, for 1, HE is a jealous GOD, 2, the price has already been paid on the Cross. But many have allowed it to get so bad, where they are making a statement like, “I can’t do without my coffee in the morning. If I don’t have my coffee, my day won’t go right.” That is giving too much control to the coffee. It is in GOD we live, move and have our being. Not through coffee! The things we say are very powerful! In order for the power of something, to be destroyed in our life we have to PRAY and add FASTING to it.


Many times we pray and God answers. Then a few months later, you or your loved one is facing that same situation. Sometimes every season or every year around the same time the same situation comes up. In Mark 9: 25b, Jesus said, “you dumb and deaf spirit, I charge you to come out of him and never go into him again.” So fasting and praying is a powerful weapon in the lives of  the believers, and you can get rid of some things once and for all through fasting and praying.