5 Keys to Fasting for Spiritual Warfare

You know, I'm multiple days into an extended fast, water only.

And I'm getting these revelations.

And one of them is, I was in a hyperbaric chamber today because I'm doing this therapy for my lungs because they got jacked as a result of COVID and pneumonia.

And I.

It's almost like I could hear the words of Paul being echoed in my spirit.

Like, beat your flesh into submission.

And I started imagining, like, my flesh being separate than my spirit spirit.

Like, if you imagine them being two separate people.

And it's like your flesh, what you're doing while you're fasting is your flesh is getting so weak that it's like, I don't want to talk.

I just want to lay down.

I don't want to think anymore.

But really, your spirit is saying, yes.

You finally shut up because you won't stop talking.

And you.

It's always when you're hungry.

It's always when you're sexually aroused.

It's always when you have anxiety.

It's always.

It's all happening in the realm of the flesh.

So it's like when you go multiple days into a fast, the deeper you go into the fast, the more you feel like you want to die.

Your spirit is saying, yes, die.

Like, yes, shut up.

Finally quit all that stupidity.

And that's what was going on in me, was I was feeling like, oh, man, I.

I don't know if I can do another day of this fast.

But my spirit was like, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Kill it.

Kill the whole thing.

I'm tired of listening to it.

And I could feel my spirit coming forward.

That's the best way I can explain.

It's like the weaker my flesh gets each day I go into this fast, the more my spirit starts to come forward.

And I'm like, oh, my spirit's bold.

It's my flesh that's always scared.

It's like, my spirit's wise because I've been taking in the scriptures all these years.

It's my flesh that keeps forgetting and is stupid.

It's like the battle is the flesh and the spirit.

And fasting is what you're doing when you're intentionally weakening your body to the point where it doesn't want to do it anymore.

And that's what enables your spirit to come forward.

So that's personally what I've been dealing with this time.

And the thing is, most Christians just.

They don't fast.

They lie about fasting.

They fast from other stuff.

But I'm talking water only old school.

Biblical style, fast, New Testament.

This is what they meant when they were doing it.

Because what will happen is, yes, you should weaken yourself.

You should, it's, it's borderline biological starvation.

You're not going to die.

Most of us got more than enough fat reserves to go extended periods of time.

But for me, as somebody who's been fasting for years and years and years, I'm pushing myself more this week.

And I thought to myself, this, this needs to be taught.

It's, it's almost like there's, there's phases of transition and I can't prove what I'm about to say biblically because there is no scripture for this, but there's something about a three day Mark.

And I, I almost feel like three days is the minimum to push past a threshold.

Because it's like you, three days, most people have never fasted three days.

You're watching this right now.

You, you're a Christian, you claim to be a Christian for years.

You've probably never only drank water for three full days.

I'm talking days and nights.

And, and the reality is what, when.

For people like me who've done extended fast, three days is a spiritual threshold because three days is like, oh, you're dead enough for your spirit to come forward.

And then you go to day five, then you go to day seven.

There's different benchmarks now.

If you've never fasted before, start with 24 hours water only do it once a week for a whole month.

Then go into the second month and try to see if you can go 48 hours and then do that once a week.

Then go into the third month and see if you can start extending it out.

And I'm telling you, there's different thresholds.

Like there are levels to fasting.

I don't care what anyone says.

I was just revisiting the text.

How in the Book of Mark, you know, they say that in early manuscripts it didn't say.

And some come out by, by fasting and prayer, but in transcripts they do.

And a lot of theologians have, and biblical scholars have debated, well, do we add it and do we not add it?

Because it's not in, in the oldest manuscripts, but it is in the, the newer ones.

And, and ultimately where they landed is we need to include this because the early church, these early manuscripts, even though they're not the first manuscripts, they included that some don't come out by prayer and fasting because they, they, the early church understood absolutely necessary for spiritual warfare.

And it's like they thought it was so important that they either it was always there or, and, or they added it because they felt like it was that poor.

So let's just keep it.

And so for many of you, it's like what's missing from my Christian walk?

Prayer and fasting.

And fasting.

And I'm telling you, it's like a, it's like a hidden secret.

But you'll, you can't watch teachings on fasting and experience the benefits of fasting.

You have to actually do it.

And I, for me, I feel like the guy who's calling everybody's bluff right now to be like, you've never done a water only three day fast you've never done, because if you did, your, your spirit would be leaping right now over what I'm saying, begging you to do it again.

And so my encouragement to you just even watching this right now is put push aside the plate, go through that protocol I just gave and, and, and let your spirit come forward and let your flesh take the backseat.

And you ain't going to physically die, but if you start feeling like you are, you're probably doing it right.

And nobody's going to love you enough to say that because we're so scared.

I don't want to have anybody, you know, my, what about my medication?

Whatever.

What about it?

There is no protocol in the bible about medication, but there is a protocol about fasting.

What about it?

You know, and you have to do some of this stuff under doctor's wisdom and, and, and doctors protocols, you know, in conjunction and they can help you figure that all out.

But I'd rather lean on the side of you actually doing what the word of God says to do, which requires faith, than lean on the side of caution.

Because caution is a cousin of fear.

And it's like for me, I stopped all of my supplements, I stopped everything and just said that I'm just doing this thing and I'm telling you I feel great physically after you cross that certain threshold.

And then what begins to happen spiritually, I believe is even more important.

And I just got out of a zoom right now where I was a guest on another, on another guy's show.

And I'm just sitting here, my voice is still hoarse, you know, because again you can tell my body's like going through it because I ministered last weekend.

But my point is, as I'm speaking on this guy's broadcast, he's getting blasted with the anointing so strong he's crying.

The guy interviewing me is crying and he's a renowned prophet.

And then all of a sudden he just starts laughing hysterically because, like, I released this word and the joy of the Lord hit him, and he just can't stop laughing.

Then I can't stop laughing.

And we just started going into a revival mode.

But the thing is, I believe it was directly connected to the fasting there.

It's.

It's like an unavoidable thing.

It's like, yeah, the fasting produced this.

This moment.

There's some things that you're not going to happen independent of fasting.

And everybody wants to be powerful, but it only comes as you experience being powerless.

When I am weak, then I am strong.

So the question I'm going to end with is, when is the last time you've made yourself weak?

That's what it means to be disciplined in the things of the spirit.

When I'm weak.

So when I'm weak from fasting, I say less, but it hits harder.

There's something about that.

There's certain anointings that can only be cultivated in prayer.

Then there's other anointings that can only be cultivated in prayer and fasting.

And I really believe that we need to go back to this ancient discipline and.