Fasting
Fasting
As the Day of the Lord swiftly approaches, the magnitude of each Christian’s troubles and trials will increase. Demon oppression and depression increase daily upon us as the gauntlet is thrown down – every individual will be driven through spiritual conflict into complete surrender to Jesus Christ (i.e., to full obedience), or, be swept into the rising antichrist religious system, into full and complete rebellion against God’s Word!
How can we and our families meet this Satanic and demonic challenge – to overcome the buffeting and depressions we’re encountering in all our efforts to please God and to save our families? Here’s the answer: “For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? Therefore also NOW, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil…Blow the trumpet in Zion [i.e., wake up the church], sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly [not a hootenanny or sing-in]: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet [i.e., it is time to quit honeymooning and Disney-Worlding for real saints].
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the alter, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them [the heathen is ruling in most churches]: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?” Joel 2:11-17. Hallelujah, what a sight expressed prophetically of the persecuted and harassed church of Jesus Christ in the Gathering Storm – elders and youth, mothers and fathers, brides and bridegrooms, children and preachers together mourning and weeping, fasting and making intercession unto the Lord for His compassion on the church and nation!