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    Choosing God’s Fast: Biblical Strategies for Conquering Life’s Challenges
    Choosing God’s Fast: Biblical Strategies for Conquering Life’s Challenges
    Choosing God’s Fast: Biblical Strategies for Conquering Life’s Challenges
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    Choosing God’s Fast: Biblical Strategies for Conquering Life’s Challenges

    By Dr. Moses V. Goldmon

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    Prayer and fasting is a spiritual discipline that enable us to live a more focused and victorious Kingdom life. The essence of fasting is self-denial. The foundational purpose of fasting is to seek God’s presence. This book explores what fasting is, why Kingdom citizens should regularly practice this time tested spiritual discipline, how to fast effectively and when people should fast.
    The basic premise of this book is that if the people of God will rediscover the spiritual discipline of prayer and fasting, we will experience God working through us in increasingly powerful ways to solve seemingly unsolvable problems. Drawing heavily on biblical and practical insights from Mark 9, Luke 5 and Isaiah 58, this book teaches people how to pray and fast effectively.
    While there are many other biblical passages that address fasting, these passages, are some of the most insightful and comprehensive recorded in the Bible. Specifically, they provide insight into God’s purpose for fasting, fasting effectively and the benefits of fasting.
    One of the many benefits of fasting is the deliverance from evil and demonic spirits.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 22, 2014
    ISBN9781939389404
    Choosing God’s Fast: Biblical Strategies for Conquering Life’s Challenges

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      Introduction

      28 "And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked

      Him privately, ‘Why could we not cast it out?"

      29 So He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing

      but prayer and fasting.’"

      (Mark 9:28 – 29, NKJV)

      Prayer and fasting is a spiritual discipline that enable us to live a more focused and victorious Kingdom life. The essence of fasting is self-denial. The foundational purpose of fasting is to seek God’s presence. This book explores what fasting is, why Kingdom citizens should regularly practice this time tested spiritual discipline, how to fast effectively and when people should fast. The basic premise of this book is that if the people of God will rediscover the spiritual disciplines of prayer and fasting, we will experience God working through us in increasingly powerful ways to solve seemingly unsolvable problems. Drawing heavily upon biblical and practical insights from Mark 9, Luke 5 and Isaiah 58, this book teaches people how to pray and fast effectively. While there are many other biblical passages that address fasting, these passages, are some of the most insightful and comprehensive recorded in the bible. Specifically, they provide insight into God’s purpose for fasting, strategies for fasting effectively and the benefits of fasting. One of the many benefits of fasting is deliverance from evil and demonic spirits. Consider the following passage.

      And when He came to the disciples, He saw a great multitude around them, and scribes disputing with them. Immediately, when they saw Him, all the people were greatly amazed, and running to Him, greeted Him. And He asked the scribes, What are you discussing with them? Then one of the crowd answered and said, Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not. He answered him and said, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me. Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth. So He asked his father, How long has this been happening to him? And he said, From childhood. And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us. Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help my unbelief! When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, Deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him and enter him no more! Then the spirit cried out, convulsed him greatly, and came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, Why could we not cast it out? So He said to them, This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting." (Mark 9:14 – 29, NKJV)

      There are several important principles in this passage. First, there is a strong relationship between prayer, fasting and deliverance. The boy in the parable was possessed by a spirit that prevented him from talking and would periodically throw him to the ground, causing him to wallow around, salivate profusely, grind his teeth and become tense and stiff. Second, people who are experiencing seemingly unsolvable problems look to the people of God to help them in their situations. This man knew that the answer to his son’s problems required him to be delivered from the spirit that possessed him. To his credit, he came to the people (Christ’s disciples; the church if you will) who should have been able to help him. Unfortunately, they could not. Like many of our contemporary healing and deliverance ministries, the disciples were more than willing to try. However, they were unsuccessful. Third, we must have faith in and practice the presence of Jesus the Christ if we are to successfully conquer life’s challenges. When the man in the parable told Jesus of his son’s situation he also pointed out that the disciples could not cast the demon out of the boy—i.e. the church did not possess the knowledge, wisdom and power to help the man and his son. Jesus immediately pointed out the man and the disciples’, lack of faith. Fourth, when we engage in true spiritual warfare, the situations and circumstances that we seek to conquer sometimes get worse before our deliverance or breakthrough comes. When the disciples brought the man’s son to Jesus, the evil spirit that possessed him attacked him. Fifth, healing and deliverance requires both faith and confession. As Jesus challenged the man to exercise faith in his ability to deliver his son, almost simultaneously the man affirmed his belief and confessed his unbelief. Today, many believers have been conditioned to think that to confess our unbelief demonstrates a lack of faith. I contend that this is far from the truth. Both the adversary and God are already aware of our unbelief if it exists. True faith relies on the power of Christ, not on the faith of the believer. Therefore, it takes faith to confess our unbelief because we must believe that Christ can deliver us despite our shortcomings. To confess unbelief is actually a demonstration of faith in Christ. When faced with seemingly unsolvable problems it is especially important for us to confess our unbelief. Sixth, when we invest private time in the presence of God it affords us an opportunity to seek answers to the things that we don’t understand in an uninhibited manner. Notice that in this narrative, the disciples did not ask the Christ why they could not cast the spirit out until they were in private.

      Practicing the Presence of God

      "And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. ‘Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.’" – (Acts 3:16 – 19, NKJV)

      People (including Kingdom citizens) are often faced with challenging situations and circumstances that have no apparent solution. The key to overcoming such challenges is to practice the presence of God. Here, I use the phrase practicing or practice the presence of God to mean developing a habit of sitting or lying still in a quiet place in order to experience God’s presence. During these private times with God, we should expect God to both speak to us and move on our behalf.

      The practice of being in God’s presence (particularly when facing crisis or major decisions) requires a measure of faith, wisdom, knowledge, understanding and discipline that most people have not acquired. However, unlike the father in Mark 9, we often fail to recognize and confess our unbelief. Thus, rather than practicing the presence of God, we seek to solve our own problems using our own knowledge and ability. In most instances, we fail.

      Some may argue that the parable in Mark 9 should not be taken literally or that it should not be applied in a manner that connect one’s personal faith to our ability to trust God to deliver us from life’s challenges. By life’s challenges I mean things such as sickness, disease, tragedy and other debilitating circumstances. However, like the father in the parable, we can and should trust God to provide divine solutions to human problems. In fact, doing so is essential to our ability to manifest the Kingdom of God. Too often people accept difficult situations and circumstances as the way things are and resolve that we must learn to accept and live with them. I contend that there are supernatural solutions to the majority of life’s challenges. However, these solutions are only available to us through the wisdom and miraculous power of God. Consistently engaging in the spiritual disciplines of prayer and fasting is a pre-requisite to our ability to access God’s wisdom and power in a manner that manifest Divine solutions to these challenges. Jesus’ answer to the disciples question in Mark 9:28 – 29 highlight the importance of prayer and fasting to those who are facing seemingly unsolvable challenges. Jesus suggests that when prayer and fasting are aligned with the will, purpose and timing of God, we experience the miraculous works of God.

      This book is borne out of a burden to usher God’s people into God’s presence in a way that cause the truth that there is nothing too hard for God (Luke 1:37; Jeremiah 32:27) to be actualized in our lives. I am often amazed at the number of people who express a future hope that God will answer their prayer in a manner that provides relief from the negative situations and challenges that have persisted in their lives for years. In essence, many of us have been praying, fasting and trusting God for a long time. I realize that God is sovereign and that there are some prayers that are not answered in accord with our desires (II Samuel 12:14 - 22). However, in most instances believers accept and live with burdens and circumstances that God can and will deliver us from when we seek such deliverance. Sometimes, we don’t overcome because we fail to ask (James 4:2). At other times, we ask with motives that are inconsistent with God’s will, purpose, plan or timing (James 4:3). Yet in other instances, we ask in faith and in accord with God’s will but fail to account for the spiritual resistance that we encounter when we seek to conquer life’s challenges (Daniel10:1 - 13). This book will help you to engage in the spiritual disciplines of prayer and fasting such that you can conquer this resistance. In his informative book Dressed to Kill, Rick Renner stated the

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