Notes from this week's podcast: Are You Waiting On God?...

What a privilege to pray for needs. 

What if you have prayed and prayed and prayed, and you really need to see the hand of God? 

Have you fasted about the matter -- asking God to intervene with a supernatural power to move in that situation?

Let's talk about what fasting can do to move the heart of God. (biblical, spiritual fasting)

Remember: Put fasting on a situation. 

Spiritual fasting is just a period of time that you voluntarily abstain from food or drink. And, during that time, you seek the heart of God. Within that, there's always an implied sacrifice. 

Fasting, according to the Bible, is to cover the mouth, to abstain from eating/ drinking. 

It's time where you sacrifice your flesh. It's a time when you're willing to use that time to fee on the Word of God -- not just going without eating. 

* "God, I need Your supernatural power working in this situation." 

In the example of loneliness: 1. Get God's opinion 2. Let Him be your close companion

If you do a 24 hour fast, we recommend starting at the evening and take it through the next day. Because as you sit before God, feeding on His Word and go to bed, that Word is activated in your spirit. It's working through the night. That Word does not return void. His Word is power. 

As you sacrifice before God, that supernatural power becomes even more powerful and you're more aware of it and it is put on your specific situation. 

In the example of physical illness or health issue: The greater the need, the greater the number (praying at the same time), the greater the power

Fasting state lets the system quietly work to repair certain things -- to begin to heal. 

In the example of a hard decision to make or direction: Ask for courage and humility

In the example of the new school year for our children or a prodigal child: Ask God for greater understanding to be more specific for my child. 

If you do fast, keep a journal to trace the hand of God. It encourages you for the next issue, the next challenge. Ask God to give you the grace to do it. 

When you see what God is waiting to do by being encouraged, reading it in Scripture, that you want to humble yourself. You want to give God the opportunity to work through fasting and prayers. And then you're willing to make the sacrifice. 

Perhaps God is waiting for you and me to make that sacrifice to join Him in a time of fasting to encounter Him so we can watch Him move in a supernatural way.