PREPARING TO FAST..

[Min.Tracey Estes]

MY HEART DESIRES TO GO ON A FAST, WHICH IS SOMETHING I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO IN AGES DUE TO SICKNESS.. I HAVE SOME "PERSONAL, PHYSICAL & SPIRITUAL" THINGS I WANT TO LAY OUT BEFORE THE LORD, I NEED SOME ANSWERS IN SOME THINGS, AND ALSO IN OTHERS I JUST NEED FOR GOD TO SHOW UP AND SHOW OUT ON MY BEHALF..

 

AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, I DO NOT HAVE FAMILY OR FRIENDS NEAR ME OR A CHURCH FAMILY HERE THAT I CAN CALL ON. SO I AM ASKING THAT MY FACEBOOK FAMILY, THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE FELT A PROMPTING OF THE LORD SINCE YOU STARTED READING THIS, WHO FEEL LEAD TO JOIN ME..

 

YOU CAN JOIN ME AS A PRAYER WARRIOR, INTERCESSOR, OR JOIN THE FAST ITSELF.. OR IF THE LORD LEADS YOU, ALL THOSE I JUST LISTED.. I WOULD PREFER PEOPLE WHO ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS AND WANT TO SEE RESULTS FROM GOD.. I REALLY NEED FOR HIM TO MOVE..

 

I HAVE A MADE UP MIND, AND I DO NOT WANT TO STOP UNTIL I KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT I HAVE HEARD FROM GOD.. IF THIS IS SPEAKING TO YOU, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE BELOW, AND I CAN BE LIFTING YOU UP AS WELL.. BUT I USUALLY REALLY GET ATTACKED REALLY BAD WHEN I FASTED IN THE PAST, SO I AM ASKING GOD FOR A DIVINE FAST IF YOU WILL...

 

I WOULD LIKE TO START THIS FRIDAY, SINCE HAS ALREADY BEEN A DAY CHOSEN FOR ME.. PLEASE ALL THOSE WHO DESIRE TO STAND WITH ME, LET IT BE KNOWN AS THE LORD LEADS YOU IN JESUS NAME..

 

Acts 13:1-3 (Amplified Bible)

 1 NOW IN the church (assembly) at Antioch there were prophets (inspired interpreters of the will and purposes of God) and teachers: Barnabas, Symeon who was called Niger [Black], Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a member of the court of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate now for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

3 Then after fasting and praying, they put their hands on them and sent them away.

 

1 Corinthians 7:1-3 (The Message)

To Be Married, to Be Single . . .

 1 Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations? 2-6 Certainly—but only within a certain context. It's good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to "stand up for your rights." Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out. Abstaining from sex is permissible for a period of time if you both agree to it, and if it's for the purposes of prayer and fasting—but only for such times. Then come back together again. Satan has an ingenious way of tempting us when we least expect it. I'm not, understand, commanding these periods of abstinence—only providing my best counsel if you should choose them.

 

2 Corinthians 6:4-6 (Amplified Bible)

4 But we commend ourselves in every way as [true] servants of God: through great endurance, in tribulation and suffering, in hardships and privations, in sore straits and calamities,

5 In beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless watching, hunger;

6 By innocence and purity, knowledge and spiritual insight, longsuffering and patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in unfeigned love;

 

2 Corinthians 11:26-28 (Amplified Bible)

26 Many times on journeys, [exposed to] perils from rivers, perils from bandits, perils from [my own] nation, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the desert places, perils in the sea, perils from those posing as believers [but destitute of Christian knowledge and piety];

27 In toil and hardship, watching often [through sleepless nights], in hunger and thirst, frequently driven to fasting by want, in cold and exposure and lack of clothing.

28 And besides those things that are without, there is the daily [inescapable pressure] of my care and anxiety for all the churches!

 

Matthew 17:20-22 (Amplified Bible)

20 He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith [that is, your lack of firmly relying trust]. For truly I say to you, if you have faith that is living] like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

21 But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

22 When they were going about here and there in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man is going to be turned over into the hands of men.

 

Mark 9:28-30 (Amplified Bible)

28 And when He had gone indoors, His disciples asked Him privately, Why could not we drive it out?

29 And He replied to them, This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer [a]and fasting.

30 They went on from there and passed along through Galilee. And He did not wish to have anyone know it,

 

Luke 2:36-38 (Amplified Bible)

36 And there was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having lived with her husband seven years from her maidenhood,

37 And as a widow even for eighty-four years. She did not go out from the temple [a]enclosure, but was worshiping night and day with fasting and prayer.

38 And she too came up at that same hour, and she returned thanks to God and talked of [Jesus] to all who were looking for the redemption (deliverance) of Jerusalem.

 

Matthew 6:15-17 (The Message)

 14-15 "In prayer there is a connection between what God does and what you do. You can't get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others. If you refuse to do your part, you cut yourself off from God's part.

 16-18 "When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won't make you a saint. If you 'go into training' inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. God doesn't require attention-getting devices. He won't overlook what you are doing; he'll reward you well.

 

Joel 2:11-13 (Amplified Bible)

11 And the Lord utters His voice before His army, for His host is very great, and [they are] strong and powerful who execute [God's] word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, and who can endure it?(A)

12 Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].

13 Rend your hearts and not your garments and return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in loving-kindness; and He revokes His sentence of evil [when His conditions are met].

 

Matthew 4:1-10 (Amplified Bible)

 1 THEN JESUS was led (guided) by the [Holy] Spirit into the wilderness (desert) to be tempted (tested and tried) by the devil.

2 And He went without food for forty days and forty nights, and later He was hungry.

3 And the tempter came and said to Him, If You are God's Son, command these stones to be made loaves of bread.

4 But He replied, It has been written, Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil took Him into the holy city and placed Him on a turret (pinnacle, gable) of the temple sanctuary.

6 And he said to Him, If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will give His angels charge over you, and they will bear you up on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said to him,]On the other hand, it is written also, You shall not tempt, test thoroughly, or try exceedingly the Lord your God.

8 Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory (the splendor, magnificence, preeminence, and excellence) of them.

9 And he said to Him, These things, all taken together, I will give You, if You will prostrate Yourself before me and do homage and worship me.

10 Then Jesus said to him, Begone, Satan! For it has been written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him alone shall you serve.

 

GOD BLESS ALL WHO RESPOND IN JESUS NAME

 

 

RESPECTFULLY, TRACEY