POWER OF FASTING.
Often recommend to people who are seeking a healing from the Lord that they fast before they come to our healing services. Those who heed this advice often receive a supernatural healing from the Lord very quickly. I tell people, “If your loved one comes to services, have them fast
beforehand. Ask them to drink fruit or vegetable juices, or to get by on
salad.” The observation of some kind of fast is important because it shows a desperation and determination to “touch the Lord,” who alone is the source of all healing. Demons cannot stay around too long when a person fasts, because fasting unto God creates a totally different atmosphere that welcomes the holy and repels the unholy. That is why demonic spirits get
very uncomfortable around a person who fasts.
Any pastor or minister who is in a healing and deliverance ministry of any kind should make fasting part of his regular lifestyle. It is the spiritual equivalent of an athlete working out at the gym. As you fast and seek God’s face, He will begin to plant an authority in you born out of intimacy with Him that the demons will recognize and fear.
I remember receiving a phone call in 1973 from two pastors who said,
“Brother Mahesh, we were praying for a man who is a homosexual and suddenly a demon began talking through him! We are afraid.” I said, “Well, just cast the demon out of him,” but again they told me that they were afraid. “But you are pastors,” I said. The men persisted, saying, “Please,come help us,” and finally I agreed to go.
I drove to their location and opened the front door to the house and found them hiding in the broom closet! When I said, “What are you doing
here?” they motioned toward another part of the house and said, “ He’s out there”
I had been fasting, and I went into the room where this man was waiting. The man had been a homosexual for 18 years, and when I entered the room, he was standing there as if waiting for a chance to intimidate again. I could see that the demon had come to the surface. He was literally staring out of the man. You could see it because the man’s whole countenance had been transformed into a mask of evil. He saw me and said in an incredibly evil tone, “Oh, another man. Come in, I’d like to have fellowship with you.” Now it was my turn to do the talking by the power of
the Holy Spirit.
“You want to have fellowship with me? Do you know what the Scriptures say? ‘.if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.’
“Now demon, can you say, ‘The blood of Jesus’? [The thing could only growl at this point. The cocky tone disappeared instantly.] Demon, say ‘the blood of Jesus’ now! Come on!”
The man’s hands started twisting, and I could literally hear bones cracking. Then the man’s ankles began to twist in a contorted manner, and he fell on the floor and started writhing. I said, “Stop doing that. Say, ‘the blood of Jesus.’ Say it now!” Finally he went, “The bl—, the bl—.” Then the man seemed to regurgitate, and the demon came out screaming.
I returned to that area five years later, and a man knocked on my hotel door. I remembered his face, but the last time I had seen the man, he was lying on the floor while two ministers huddled in a broom closet in another room. This time, he said, “Brother Chavda, I want to introduce you to someone.” He stepped aside so I could see the young lady who was with
him and he said, “We have been married for five years, and I want you to know that when you prayed for me that day, I was totally delivered. Now I’m married and have normal desires.” Praise God! He is the great Deliverer.
Another time I was ministering in the morning service of a church in a university town in the Southwest. I had just come through a season of fasting and prayer, and the services were going very well in the large church building. The altar was so large that it could accommodate hundreds of people at once, and I felt like the Lord wanted to bless the whole audience at once, so I brought them all up to the altar. As the Lord anointed the people, many were falling or responding to God’s presence in different ways. Right in the middle of the altar service, the Spirit of God prompted
me to say, “The Lord tells me there are twelve homosexuals and lesbians here. If you’ll raise your hands and repent right now, the Lord will deliver each one of you.”
Twelve hands went up instantly. Eight of the people were lesbians, and when they raised their hands it looked like they were suddenly dropped to the floor by a blow from a large hammer! I knew the Lord wanted to do
more, so I went down to where they lay on the carpet. I didn’t know much about lesbians. I thought they all had men’s haircuts and wore jeans and bossed everybody around. One particular young woman had confessed that
she was a lesbian, but she defied the usual stereotype. She was a beautiful 21-year-old blonde-haired little girl, but when I looked at her, her entire visage turned dark.
I told her, “You are being delivered from a demon of death. In fact, it is a spirit of suicide. You tried to commit suicide just recently, haven’t you?”
She started weeping and pulled up the sleeves of her long-sleeved dress to show me the vivid scars from the day only two weeks earlier when she had slashed her wrists in an attempt to commit suicide. Right then and there, under the overpowering anointing of God, that young woman was totally delivered from the spirit of suicide and the spirit of lesbianism.
When I went back to that church a year later, I rejoiced to see that this sister was playing a key role on the worship team. She came up to me with a big smile and proudly pulled out a picture and said, “I just want you to know that I got married three weeks ago, and this is the man I married. Now I’m serving the Lord!”
I want you to see the people who are in bondage all around you. They are broken, hurting, and desperate under demonizing influences.
Psychologists cannot help them, nor can psychiatrists. God’s Word says that this kind won’t even come out by a simple command in the name of Jesus Christ—they do not come out except through prayer and fasting. That, my
friend, is what the Lord is asking us to do. Are you willing to pay the price to set the captives free? Are you willing to set the captives free in your church, in your neighborhood, and in your city?
We shouldn’t be satisfied to stop there. There are desperately wicked yokes of bondage choking the people in our inner cities. I want the Church of Jesus Christ to rise up in God’s glory. I’m tired of us shooting at each other when there are so many desperate needs out in the world. We are called to set the captives free, and the Lord has given us mighty weapons to pull down the strongholds.
Everyone seeking deliverance from an entangling sin or chronic weakness needs to get desperate. If parents want to see their children healed or set free of demonic oppression, then they need to get desperate for their children. If they are truly humble and desperate before the Lord as they fast for themselves or for their children, then they will often find that it becomes easy to experience or minister deliverance.
- Mahesh Chavda (The Hidden Power Of Prayer and Fasting)
POWER OF FASTING.
Often recommend to people who are seeking a healing from the Lord that they fast before they come to our healing services. Those who heed this advice often receive a supernatural healing from the Lord very quickly. I tell people, “If your loved one comes to services, have them fast
beforehand. Ask them to drink fruit or vegetable juices, or to get by on
salad.” The observation of some kind of fast is important because it shows a desperation and determination to “touch the Lord,” who alone is the source of all healing. Demons cannot stay around too long when a person fasts, because fasting unto God creates a totally different atmosphere that welcomes the holy and repels the unholy. That is why demonic spirits get
very uncomfortable around a person who fasts.
Any pastor or minister who is in a healing and deliverance ministry of any kind should make fasting part of his regular lifestyle. It is the spiritual equivalent of an athlete working out at the gym. As you fast and seek God’s face, He will begin to plant an authority in you born out of intimacy with Him that the demons will recognize and fear.
I remember receiving a phone call in 1973 from two pastors who said,
“Brother Mahesh, we were praying for a man who is a homosexual and suddenly a demon began talking through him! We are afraid.” I said, “Well, just cast the demon out of him,” but again they told me that they were afraid. “But you are pastors,” I said. The men persisted, saying, “Please,come help us,” and finally I agreed to go.
I drove to their location and opened the front door to the house and found them hiding in the broom closet! When I said, “What are you doing
here?” they motioned toward another part of the house and said, “ He’s out there”
I had been fasting, and I went into the room where this man was waiting. The man had been a homosexual for 18 years, and when I entered the room, he was standing there as if waiting for a chance to intimidate again. I could see that the demon had come to the surface. He was literally staring out of the man. You could see it because the man’s whole countenance had been transformed into a mask of evil. He saw me and said in an incredibly evil tone, “Oh, another man. Come in, I’d like to have fellowship with you.” Now it was my turn to do the talking by the power of
the Holy Spirit.
“You want to have fellowship with me? Do you know what the Scriptures say? ‘.if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.’
“Now demon, can you say, ‘The blood of Jesus’? [The thing could only growl at this point. The cocky tone disappeared instantly.] Demon, say ‘the blood of Jesus’ now! Come on!”
The man’s hands started twisting, and I could literally hear bones cracking. Then the man’s ankles began to twist in a contorted manner, and he fell on the floor and started writhing. I said, “Stop doing that. Say, ‘the blood of Jesus.’ Say it now!” Finally he went, “The bl—, the bl—.” Then the man seemed to regurgitate, and the demon came out screaming.
I returned to that area five years later, and a man knocked on my hotel door. I remembered his face, but the last time I had seen the man, he was lying on the floor while two ministers huddled in a broom closet in another room. This time, he said, “Brother Chavda, I want to introduce you to someone.” He stepped aside so I could see the young lady who was with
him and he said, “We have been married for five years, and I want you to know that when you prayed for me that day, I was totally delivered. Now I’m married and have normal desires.” Praise God! He is the great Deliverer.
Another time I was ministering in the morning service of a church in a university town in the Southwest. I had just come through a season of fasting and prayer, and the services were going very well in the large church building. The altar was so large that it could accommodate hundreds of people at once, and I felt like the Lord wanted to bless the whole audience at once, so I brought them all up to the altar. As the Lord anointed the people, many were falling or responding to God’s presence in different ways. Right in the middle of the altar service, the Spirit of God prompted
me to say, “The Lord tells me there are twelve homosexuals and lesbians here. If you’ll raise your hands and repent right now, the Lord will deliver each one of you.”
Twelve hands went up instantly. Eight of the people were lesbians, and when they raised their hands it looked like they were suddenly dropped to the floor by a blow from a large hammer! I knew the Lord wanted to do
more, so I went down to where they lay on the carpet. I didn’t know much about lesbians. I thought they all had men’s haircuts and wore jeans and bossed everybody around. One particular young woman had confessed that
she was a lesbian, but she defied the usual stereotype. She was a beautiful 21-year-old blonde-haired little girl, but when I looked at her, her entire visage turned dark.
I told her, “You are being delivered from a demon of death. In fact, it is a spirit of suicide. You tried to commit suicide just recently, haven’t you?”
She started weeping and pulled up the sleeves of her long-sleeved dress to show me the vivid scars from the day only two weeks earlier when she had slashed her wrists in an attempt to commit suicide. Right then and there, under the overpowering anointing of God, that young woman was totally delivered from the spirit of suicide and the spirit of lesbianism.
When I went back to that church a year later, I rejoiced to see that this sister was playing a key role on the worship team. She came up to me with a big smile and proudly pulled out a picture and said, “I just want you to know that I got married three weeks ago, and this is the man I married. Now I’m serving the Lord!”
I want you to see the people who are in bondage all around you. They are broken, hurting, and desperate under demonizing influences.
Psychologists cannot help them, nor can psychiatrists. God’s Word says that this kind won’t even come out by a simple command in the name of Jesus Christ—they do not come out except through prayer and fasting. That, my
friend, is what the Lord is asking us to do. Are you willing to pay the price to set the captives free? Are you willing to set the captives free in your church, in your neighborhood, and in your city?
We shouldn’t be satisfied to stop there. There are desperately wicked yokes of bondage choking the people in our inner cities. I want the Church of Jesus Christ to rise up in God’s glory. I’m tired of us shooting at each other when there are so many desperate needs out in the world. We are called to set the captives free, and the Lord has given us mighty weapons to pull down the strongholds.
Everyone seeking deliverance from an entangling sin or chronic weakness needs to get desperate. If parents want to see their children healed or set free of demonic oppression, then they need to get desperate for their children. If they are truly humble and desperate before the Lord as they fast for themselves or for their children, then they will often find that it becomes easy to experience or minister deliverance.
- Mahesh Chavda (The Hidden Power Of Prayer and Fasting)
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