What does it truly mean to fast? Many Christians have adopted fasting practices that look more like modified Buddhism than anything the apostles practised. Paul never declared a 40-day fast of hunger — he was often without food because of the demands of ministry, not religious ritual. True biblical fasting is not primarily about food abstinence; it is about focus. When the early Church fasted, they were setting aside distractions to seek the face of God and hear His direction. Fasting is consecration — redirecting your attention and energy toward God and His purposes. Are you fasting, or are you just hungry?
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2. Prayer habits and the land of appointment
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So you can go and sell what is not your own for a price that does not end you. Don't lie. You're not fasting. You're busy. There are two mutually exclusive things. Fasting is focus. Fasting is what I'...
1. The instruction for a new level
1:03:00
I'm one person that believes that a man fasting can eat if necessary. If hunger is disturbing you, chop something. It has not broken the fast. Because your fast is not a physical fast, it's a spiritua...
4. True fasting and the honour of priests
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A Hindu, we say, to achieve enlightenment is not going to sit down. Not for a day, not for two. Not for a year, not for two. The Yidam says, 11 years, 12 years, I'm not sitting. Yes. You will not sit ...
8. The root of faith
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When they are running, they are running, running for a ball. Is that okay? Then you give them a stud, you know, a rough tackle. The guy falls down. If he was running on the road and you gave him that ...
1. Lift it up
1:15:00
Fast from now till tomorrow, God will not hear you more than he has already heard. Listen, you think hunger moves him? Unless you're a sinner. And I keep on telling believers who are committing sin, t...
1. Cast your burdens on the Lord
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I teach people how to fast and pray, meditate on the Word of God. That's proper fast now. You know what I mean by that. Not how to go hungry, but how to focus. Yeah, because when I'm talking, you have...
1. Different fasts
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They were sinning and judgment is about to come. And as a sign of their repentance, they went into what they call fasting and then wearing of sackcloth and lying down in ashes. Now, what do you mean b...
1. The effect of worship
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People say spiritual discipline. Let me tell you what they call spiritual discipline. It's not everything your eyes sees that you want to collect. If woman, they go, it's not your wife, carry your eye...
4. The mighty hand
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a man sees them and tells them why it is good to go on a 40-day fast. I think it's just pure confusion. There is nothing good about a 40-day fast. Absolutely nothing. There is no blessing attached to ...
3. Turning Aside to Look
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Let's continue what we have been speaking about for the last two meetings in our school of prayer. The book of Acts chapter 13. Now it says in verse 1, Now they were at Antioch, in the church that was...
Feeding well spiritually
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What am I saying? Listen, we must never forget that our victory in life is dependent upon how we put pressure on the Word of God and we must never let it go. There was something that Paul said when he...
Why He answers your prayers
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Now, what is a Christian fast? A Christian fast is time you take out to concentrate on spiritual things. Like today, I was at work the whole day. Let me just make it simple. In what a Christian fast s...
2. Restructuring for change
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Sometimes it is method. Sometimes it is timing. You understand? There are so many things that could be wrong. And like I said before, let me just release, I'm digressing, I'm not even going to what I ...
5. Comforted by His ordinances of old
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I'm careful when we want to regulate our lives by results. I'm very careful. However, if things are not going the way you expect them to go, if things are not turning out the way you expect them to tu...
1. God's provisions are in His promises
1:21:00
Listen to me, people of God, once you have left that place, that is a breaking of the... Listen, I'm not saying your fast has been broken, but if it could be broken easily, it has been broken. It is a...
The fasted life
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But human beings don't know that. You know, wake up in the morning, and say, put salt in water and put it in your eyes. You put it for two days, it does not work. Then you change it to sugar. They say...
2. You Need The Rhema Of God
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The Bible says in verse one, now they were at Antioch in the church that was there, prophets and teachers, and gave us their names. And it said in verse two, and while they were ministering to the Lor...
4. The right hand of Christ
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I'll give you advice if you really have to do serious fasting like that. Do it weekend, Saturday morning. No wedding, nothing today. Wake up early. Grab a Bible. Either you are doing it alone, or if i...
3. Birthing the prophetic will for each season
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We know that the word of God is our bread. He said that man shall not live by physical bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. He said by those words will man live. Very im...
Prophecy in the time for victory (When God wants your attention)
2:03:00
and freezes you in your seat for 30 days, you wouldn't My church, I didn't personally witness, but Pastor's wife was telling me They were doing fasting. The one girl, nice, did the fast, nice. She col...
The God that is so close
1:06:00
It can be from 4 a.m. till everybody wakes up. It can be from 3 a.m. till everybody wakes up. It can even be for 30 minutes every day. So nobody knows you are fasting, only you know. You are the only ...
6. The prayer in affliction
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If he had tossed toast to bread, he would not have fed 5,000. Somebody say, the world is working. The world is working. It's changing you. That's the primary thing it's doing. So when we take these Ps...
13. Long life and satisfaction
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If you fast to an extent that to walk out of your door, no issue. You're not serving God. You're pacifying your conscience. It's called indulgence. Do you get my point? That was what Martin Luther fou...
7. The way of glory and the righteousness of God
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For that reason, I've been praying about it for a long time like that. So yesterday night, I was praying. By the way, the fasting thing, who don't know me, they get confused there. God doesn't hear yo...
2. Power over sin and addictions
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Now, it's called depot preparation. Sustained release. He was digesting it one layer a day. You want to compare yourself with that? You ate bread yesterday. Before you finish swallowing the last one, ...
Contemplating the cross unto healing
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these two commandments. I just said 99 for certain reasons, but I think it's closer to 100 of my problems. If they break these two, you know, commandments, the people will break them to various degree...
The inheritance of answered prayers
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You think those, what we call imams, I don't know what they call them. These imams that do things. They get answers. We don't discuss those things as believers. We discuss what is recorded in the scri...
Don't be afraid, go forward in righteousness, the Lord's help will come
2:03:00
say the other one before. Now, if you read that one that Isaiah said, this is the fast I have chosen— that's Isaiah 56, right? Now God said this is the number one fast I choose: correct your ways. It ...
Tapping God's hidden wisdom
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So my most friends will go to one of those churches. Every year they do seven days, mostly dry, partly wet fasting. The first few days, no water, no food, no drink of any sort. Nothing. By the third d...
5. The love of truth
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You want to start that in the morning? Say, I want to fast. I say, why you want to fast in the morning? What is the best way to start a fast in the morning? Take a glass of milk and one slice of bread...
3. The perfect way into His presence
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They come home, sit down, watch television till 12 midnight. They sleep till 6 a.m. Then wake up, rush, everything, go to the office. Then when they are sharing breakfast at work, no, when they are le...
2. The spirit of boldness
1:21:00
This is what prayer and fasting is for. This is a prayer of fasting that will liberate you into victory. You have to make a decision and it looks like you have to make it between now and day after tom...
5. The path of the Lord, the place of authority
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He said, but you're fasting. I said, yes, I am. He said, but you're eating. I said, yes, because look, the palms are disturbing me. How do you focus on spiritual things when your stomach is distractin...
Praying for Yourself 1
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Do you understand? I told you before that fasts are meant to focus you on spiritual things, not to increase the potency of your prayer. All right? So it's ideally, when he's on a fast like that, he's ...
There is a divine solution for every problem
2:15:00
When they behead you, we will know that for the gospel, you died. Not that you are going to walk in the morning. You go for construction site. You reach there. Ah, he said, would you help her now? He ...
9. Authority, the reward of faithfulness
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Assume you are fasting and suddenly the urge to poop comes. What do you do? Huh? You go, go. Why are you breaking the fast? My brother, sometimes the urge to eat also is the same category. It's distur...
6. Don't let the devil steal your faith
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I want you to bear that thing in mind. He was not hungry for 40 days. He just did not eat for 40 days. If you're feeling hungry, that's your problem. I'm not going to say that you must go and eat, and...
2. Faith and spiritual progress
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Let me not go into fasting matters. But many of Christians say, this walk of the flesh is still in our body, even though we think it is righteousness. Three days, no food, no water, waiting. It's a ve...
The principle of persistent prayer
1:04:30
People say they are pursuing their dreams. They are owing everybody. Everybody that does business with you, loses. You always gain. You are an evil person if you are like that. Once they do business w...
3. The fast of God
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He said, cry loudly, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet and declare to my people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins. He said, yet they seek me day by day and delig...
3. Standing firm in the reality (Col 1:15-23; 2:6-23)
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You need to go on a five day drive fast before you can be ordained a minister. Find another church. Christians make me laugh. I tell you the truth. I don't believe. No, no, I can't talk. Because like ...
23. The ordinances of Christ's mystery
1:19:30
And I pray that God will give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. That the eyes of my understanding will be what? Enlightened. Why won't I feel sorry for people? And after ...
Praying with Efficiency
1:22:30
You will not know that before God, you are one of the worst of sinners amongst Christians. Because your confidence is not at all derived from what you are in Christ. So I was meditating this afternoon...
4. Receiving God's gift
1:00:00
This is what I want to use to shock you again, although you have heard it before. If you think that because you fasted for six days, or seven days, or eight days, your prayer is more effective, you ar...
8. Fasting with this prayer
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99 says I have more insight than all my teachers for your testimonies are my meditation 100 I Understand more than the agent because I have observed your precepts so powerful. We'll come back to it I ...
2. The Law Of Justification
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I hope you're getting what I'm saying. Very strong. So you may be a man of activity who is trying to do something for God. If God looks closely and face is not radiating from there, he does not notice...
The believer's special advantage
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So one day I went to church. I bought a tape. I didn't like it for certain reasons. Bishop Oedipo preached both messages. That first one, somebody in church wanted it. I was in a tape shop. So we swap...
3. Turning your stones to bread
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Are you getting my point? For example, Jesus said, ask, all the other times you pray about food is, give us this day. And what? A daily bread. He said, don't concern yourself about the bread for tomor...
Be careful to pray valid points
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God can't do anything. That's just the way it is. What did I say? Let's start from the beginning. If we don't do anything, God can't do anything. That's the way it is. It is not as if we will get up a...
1. Understand the importance of prayer
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These are the men that came to David, and they had one purpose in mind, to make David king. Lord, cause men to come to us, in the name of Jesus. It's not common sense. Scripture, one after the other. ...
1. It is available for us
1:24:00
Some men, they are not married today, not because anything wrong with them, but God said they have a wrong concept of marriage. Same thing with women. Just say, Lord, teach me. Those are the real sins...
Faith-Rest life II. True manna gives life meaning
1:15:00
David said it. Thy testimonies are my meditations. Then did you take Psalm 91? It adores in the secret place of the Most High. Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He ...
7. Maturing and pouring forth God's wine
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I'm not saying it's bad, I just don't understand it. I don't know how deliberate hunger will improve your spirituality. I don't understand how it does. Sorry, I know you don't like me because of it, b...
3. Godliness, the path of dominion
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the small chick from certain death but he's saying that they are not allowing me go into the open space to go and play because you see the people who are trying to prevent the chick from going out to ...
3. The doer of the word
1:07:30
that he wants to move forward from that town to another town because this town is dry. And the man said to him, Elijah did not move forward when the book became dry. The word of the Lord came to Elija...
2. Diverse manifestations of God
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Temptation, oh my God. That's not the temptation. The temptation is that fast was supposed to end at six o'clock. Lectures ended at five. That was the temptation. As you stroll back to hostel, you got...
3. Preventing the Reign of Death
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If God likes to be shouting, jokes, jokes, I'm talking to you. You'll be shouting. How do I know? When Elijah wanted to hear him, he said, bring me a mystery. All you noisemakers have been making a lo...
The Healer, His clinic and His fullness
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He would walk around, and the Bible made it clear that he used to see clearly. He said his strength did not abate. His eyes did not grow dim. Now this is where I'm going. Have you ever asked yourself ...
2. The written treasure
1:15:00
a lot of Christians is part of idolatry. You know, it's, you know, drawn down from the days of penance. You want to suffer for God. You know what I mean by suffer for God? God, this is my stomach that...
3. The Reward Of Prayer
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Last week, I was on a 16-day fast. Hallelujah. Because if it had been on a 16-day heavy chopping, this and nothing would still have moved. Because it's not dependent upon your own fasting. I've seen p...
6. The meaning of discipleship
1:06:00
Your food is, abstinence from food is less important than abstinence from matches. People say they are fasting, they won't miss any Arsenal match. And you say you are fasting. You are lying, you are n...
5. A very personal God
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You commit one hour, why? In your heart, your thoughts. You've not done anything, no. You know, you've seen people, well you haven't seen them, I don't think they are common. But those days they used ...
9. Protect the anointing upon you
1:10:30
Anointing has a way, all right, of turning your head. You think you are holier than other people. You fasted more. When you see some people talk about their fast, I fasted for 40 days, 60 days. I said...
2. The lifestyle of worship
1:24:00
Please let me just read that from the New Living Translation. He said, one of them, one day as these men were worshiping the Lord and fasting, you notice that they were what? Worshiping. Now let me te...
7. The seven times of Elijah
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He said, but be drunk with the spirit. Each one is a spirit. Each one is a spirit. When you drink wine, you start having ideas. You start seeing things. You gather a kind of boldness that only the Hol...
Romans, Chapter 14 & 15
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And you, you know, you don't have a problem with it. You have never liked food all your life. They used to flog you to eat your food. You grew up, your wife used to beg you to eat now. Then you now be...
4. Working according to divine order
1:30
inside you. He did not ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac until he gave him Isaac. Please, I hope you are following what I am going to explain. That is just the way God is. God judges you according to tha...
4. The Practise Of Seeking
1:12:00
He does that. Many of those things are not recorded directly for your situation in the scriptures. But they are based upon the word of God. You need to take time out. That's what fasting is for believ...
1. We Have Been Justified To Life
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And then the woman he was telling me about, after getting food ready, serving the children, finally tapped the neighbor and said, excuse me, when Papa starts praying, wake me up. Laid down the mat on ...
10. The Life Of Prayer
1:12:00
All right? If you can. If you have private business, very nice. You can do like Daniel. Do many days fast. And the way you do is simple. If you walk, just leave the home late. Sleep early at night and...
1. The spirit of the work
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It was in a house God sent somebody to him to go and heal him of his blindness. Then after a while, he disappeared. He just used to go around Christians, you know. We hear Paul is not a Christian. Pau...
4. He is the centre of all things
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Believers Authority, one of the books he wrote when we were in school, we read this book. Because I hope I get the point I'm making. That is what Christianity is. Let's understand it. Like I said, as ...
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