FASTING AND PRAYING, SPIRITUAL WARFARE.

Fasting Empowers Us For Spiritual Warfare 

One Scriptural statement of the purpose of Jesus’ ministry reads as follows:  "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work."  (See 1 John 3:8.)  Our ministry as followers of Jesus is not only to advance the kingdom of God but to enforce the destruction of Satan’s kingdom from people’s lives.  This requires not only spiritual revelation but spiritual power.

It was after Jesus empowered His disciples to heal the sick and drive out demons (see Matthew 10:1) that they had difficulties delivering a demonized boy from a spirit of infirmity causing seizures that would throw him into fire or water to destroy him.  (See 17:15-16.)  Jesus Himself delivered the boy from the demon of infirmity.  He explained to His disciples, as we saw earlier, that they could not cast this spirit out because of unbelief but would indeed be able to expel such spirits through prayer and fasting combined.  (See verse 21 in the NIV footnote.)  As we’ve seen, fasting debunks that unbelief that hinders our prayer lives and thu....  In doing so, fasting is instrumental in empowering our ministries.

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