At Calvary Tabernacle, we conduct Fasting Prayer on every fourth Saturday of the month. Come and join our Fasting Prayer session to hear the Messages pertaining to Faith and pray for the bride, our nation, our ministry and for one another.
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Why Fasting Prayer is Important?
Fasting is a time you set aside when you need God to perform a breakthrough in your life on some spiritual level, whether you are dealing with personal problems, financial turmoil, health issues, or any other obstacle. We are often taught to deal with our struggles through prayer, which is fitting because prayer is a powerful thing. But we don’t hear much about fasting and the role it plays in the believer’s life. In fact, fasting could be the very thing that changes your spiritual life with Christ.
After His death and resurrection, Jesus left earth and ascended to heaven. Before He left He made it clear to the disciples that in His absence, while He is not physically here, fasting is to be a priority. “Jesus said to them, ‘The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bride-groom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bride-groom is taken away from them, and then they will fast” (Matthew 9:15). Fasting is the spiritual link to Christ while He is not here on earth with us.
Sacrificing the desires of the flesh is self-denial, and self-denial brings humility when your thoughts aren’t focused on yourself. Jesus tells us that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4). That is heavenly nourishment, not earthly food.
Bible Says
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD.
Joel 1:14
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief:
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Matthew 17:19-21
வேதாகமம் சொல்கிறது
பரிசுத்த உபவாசநாளை நியமியுங்கள்; விசேஷித்த ஆசரிப்பைக் கூறுங்கள்; மூப்பரையும் தேசத்தின் எல்லாக்குடிகளையும் உங்கள் தேவனாகிய கர்த்தரின் ஆலயத்திலே கூடிவரச்செய்து கர்த்தரை நோக்கிக் கூப்பிடுங்கள்.
யோவேல் 1:14
அப்பொழுது, சீஷர்கள் இயேசுவினிடத்தில் தனித்து வந்து: அதைத் துரத்திவிட எங்களால் ஏன் கூடாமற்போயிற்று என்று கேட்டார்கள். அதற்கு இயேசு: உங்கள் அவிசுவாசத்தினாலேதான்;
இந்த ஜாதிப்பிசாசு ஜெபத்தினாலும் உபவாசத்தினாலுமேயன்றி மற்றெவ்விதத்தினாலும் புறப்பட்டுப்போகாது என்றார்.
மத்தேயு 17:19-21
