“There are simply no shortcuts to His Presence, and the surest path…is found in the powerhouse combination of prayer and fasting…Fasting is a choice for God and against the flesh. When you fast you are making a conscious inward decision demonstrated by an outward act that you want God’s power to flow through you, not your own.” Mahesh Chavda
The message of Anna’s life is that when we abandon ourselves to a spiritual lifestyle of ministering to the Lord with prayer and fasting, which trains us to perceive Him by the Spirit, we will be rewarded with knowing Him and seeing Him. (Pickett 1998) We see this in Scripture in that only a few people recognized Jesus for who He was even as an infant. One of them was Anna. None of the religious experts who were wise in their own eyes ever saw Jesus for who He was. God as an infant was already declaring that we will only know Him by the Spirit! We can only truly see His face—see Him for who He is—in Spirit and in truth, or not at all. Therefore, we must train our hearts to live by what is unseen. Fasting is a lost key to successfully doing this as seen throughout the Bible, but has been misplaced by the Church today. (Prince Fasting 1986)
Mahesh Chavda, who has completed twenty-nine 40-day fasts and numerous other long-term fasts (and has lived to tell about it!) says, “If you are not in the Spirit, then you cannot see the things of God and experience His glory. If you will pay the price to seek His face in prayer with fasting then you will experience a life transformation as you literally put on the strength of the Lord and the power of His might!” Cornelius in Acts 10:30-31 is one such example. He was a man who prayed and fasted for more of God. As a result he was the first Gentile to believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit. (Chavda Power of Prayer and Fasting 1998, 107)
Too often, we Christians are so carnal-minded and so sated by the things of this world, even good Christian works, that we lose our taste buds for what is best. But just as fasting sensitizes our natural taste buds, it also quickens our spiritual taste buds for discerning His Presence and other things of the Spirit. Fasting comes with the reward of heightened spirituality, which means we become more sensitive to Him than to even our natural senses.
Adapted from the Coram Deo Secret
http://www.marisarickerson.com/coram-deo.html
The message of Anna’s life is that when we abandon ourselves to a spiritual lifestyle of ministering to the Lord with prayer and fasting, which trains us to perceive Him by the Spirit, we will be rewarded with knowing Him and seeing Him. (Pickett 1998) We see this in Scripture in that only a few people recognized Jesus for who He was even as an infant. One of them was Anna. None of the religious experts who were wise in their own eyes ever saw Jesus for who He was. God as an infant was already declaring that we will only know Him by the Spirit! We can only truly see His face—see Him for who He is—in Spirit and in truth, or not at all. Therefore, we must train our hearts to live by what is unseen. Fasting is a lost key to successfully doing this as seen throughout the Bible, but has been misplaced by the Church today. (Prince Fasting 1986)
Mahesh Chavda, who has completed twenty-nine 40-day fasts and numerous other long-term fasts (and has lived to tell about it!) says, “If you are not in the Spirit, then you cannot see the things of God and experience His glory. If you will pay the price to seek His face in prayer with fasting then you will experience a life transformation as you literally put on the strength of the Lord and the power of His might!” Cornelius in Acts 10:30-31 is one such example. He was a man who prayed and fasted for more of God. As a result he was the first Gentile to believe in Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit. (Chavda Power of Prayer and Fasting 1998, 107)
Too often, we Christians are so carnal-minded and so sated by the things of this world, even good Christian works, that we lose our taste buds for what is best. But just as fasting sensitizes our natural taste buds, it also quickens our spiritual taste buds for discerning His Presence and other things of the Spirit. Fasting comes with the reward of heightened spirituality, which means we become more sensitive to Him than to even our natural senses.
Adapted from the Coram Deo Secret
http://www.marisarickerson.com/coram-deo.html
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