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THANKFUL FOR JANUARY 2023

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Tuesday January 31, 2023

THANKFUL FOR JANUARY 2023

Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Colossians 4:2 [KJV]

Thanksgiving is a universal application if there is going to be a response from Yahweh. In the first place, you cannot enter into Yahweh’s presence without thanksgiving. Psalms 100:4 says, ‘Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.’ No matter the urgency of your case, you cannot secure attention until you come into Yahweh’s presence and you cannot be admitted into that hollowed court without coming with an overflow of thanksgiving. This is the protocol of the Kingdom and our King Father. Learn to overflow with thanksgiving, it turns your heavenly Father on at your presence. And listen, until you thank Yahweh for the last, you do not qualify for the next. Until you thank Adonai for the seen, you cannot receive the coming or expected. Thanksgiving is one of the prayer protocols and living protocol in this kingdom. You must learn and perfect that act and make it your lifestyle.

ACCEPTABLE FAST (6): EXTEND MERCY TO YOUR RELATIONS

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Monday January 30, 2023

ACCEPTABLE FAST (6): EXTEND MERCY TO YOUR RELATIONS

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?Isaiah 58:7 (KJV)

Fasting exposes one to see the vanity of this world and its possessions. It is easy to drift into a life of selfishness where nobody but you and yourself matters. You find that most times people are good to all but their own relations. They give to outsiders but when they get home, it is a different ball game. No wonder, Elohim is emphasizing that you are not to hide yourself from your own flesh. When you see needs in your family, don’t hide and pretend as though you are not seeing it. I Timothy 5:8 says, ‘But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.’ This is a very serious issue. Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood. Show mercy to your relations and ensure that they are not crying out to God for needs that you can meet. Know that Adonai placed you in their lives for you to be His extension to reaching them. That starts with ensuring that they have heard the gospel enough to make a decision whether to accept or reject the offer of salvation that Yahushua brought. So ensure that their spiritual needs are met. This is your first obligation as a believer. Acts 16:31 (NET) says, ‘They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”’ If you are saved, the next obligation for you is to ensure that your household comes to the saving knowledge of the Lord Yahushua.

ACCEPTABLE FAST (5): OUTREACH TO THE POOR

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Sunday January 29, 2023

ACCEPTABLE FAST (5): OUTREACH TO THE POOR

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; Isaiah 58:7 (KJV)

This is one major difference between scriptural fast and religious fast. When it is just religious, it lacks human compassion but Adonai expects us to remember the poor and downtrodden when we fast. This is because the heart of Elohim is constantly yearning to address the inequality that the wickedness of both humans and the devil created to foster poverty on people and you are His extension to reaching these poor ones. For your fast to be acceptable, it has to incorporate the welfare of the poor. Adonai never created anyone poor. People become poor because of poor choices and the wickedness of other humans and the devil. Most people are poor because of circumstances that is totally out of their control and their situation displeases Elohim. Your prayers are fast-tracked if you can open up your bowels to reach out to the poor. Notice these aspects that the Word lists: feeding the poor, providing shelter and clothing. No matter how small it is, plan to provide food to the poor. In your own level, try to see how you can support struggling families to pay for their accommodation. Instead of burning your used cloths, try dry-cleaning them and package for people you consider yourself better than and these people are not hard to find in your present locality.

ACCEPTABLE FAST (4): DESTROY EVERY YOKE

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Saturday January 28, 2023

ACCEPTABLE FAST (4): DESTROY EVERY YOKE

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? and that ye break every yoke?Isaiah 58.6 [KJV]

One of the things we connect to at the place of fasting is the anointing and the anointing is for breaking every yoke. Isaiah 10:27 says, ‘And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.’ John 12:24 says ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.’ In fasting, the flesh dies. That is why you must schedule a major fast this season. All these 6-6 wont help you much. Even three days dry is not enough. We are talking about 21 days to 40 days fast. This is the fast that mortifies the flesh and brings you into the anointing of the Holy Spirit. You need this anointing to break every yoke in your life and in the lives of the people in your world. You need this anointing to reign and rule in your business/career. Believers are lazy to go up and take their inheritance. No wonder, occultists are in power in many realms because they are ready to pay the price that the devil asks them to pay and most times it would even be fasting for days just to acquire power to dominate in their field. And you a believer is eating your destiny away day in day out.

ACCEPTABLE FAST (3): RELEASE THE OPPRESSED

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Friday January 27, 2023

ACCEPTABLE FAST (3): RELEASE THE OPPRESSED

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? and to let the oppressed go free,
Isaiah 58:6 [KJV]

All these things we are enumerating are the things that Adonai said are the fast He has chosen. That means for your fast to be acceptable to Him, you must strive to accomplish these in your fast. Adonai desires that no one lives under oppression of any kind. There are human being oppression to his/her fellow. When the author was leading a Teens’ Church, there was a case of a woman that would put her kitchen knife on fire and when it is hot, she uses it to beat the small girl that she was living with. When that issue came up, if this little girl remove her cloth, you would instantly start weeping, it was an eyesore. We immediately activated that girl leaving that house same day and locked up the woman in question. A delegation was sent to return the girl to her people. That is human being oppression and wickedness to his/her fellow. Just remembering that incident now, tears still runs down my cheeks freely. It was something I have never seen before. When they say that some human beings are beast, I saw it first hand in that case. This was a woman that comes to church that can perpetrate that kind of oppression what would those that don’t even hear the Word of Adonai do?

ACCEPTABLE FAST (2): MAKE LIFE BETTER (UNDO HEAVY BURDENS)

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Thursday January 26, 2023

ACCEPTABLE FAST (2): MAKE LIFE BETTER (UNDO HEAVY BURDENS)

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to undo the heavy burdens,Isaiah 58:6 (KJV)

Acceptable fast undo the heavy burdens. Adonai desires that life should be good for His creation. People should live in health, prosperity and peace. There should not be weeping, mourning and gnashing of teeth. This is the ideal of Adonai. However, the presence of Satan and his agents has brought untold heavy burdens upon people and Adonai is seeking for a person to stand in the gap and undo these heavy burdens upon humanity. So in fasting, you connect with power from on high as your voice is heard on high to undo heavy burdens. You don’t need to be a pastor or in the full time ministry to be used of God to undo heavy burdens. As a person you should stand for yourself and at least for your family members and ensure that no satanic burdens remain around you. Literally, this means, let those who work for you not be working under inhuman conditions. Don’t allow your workers work under conditions that make them sigh and mourn. Make life better for people around you. There are organizations today that are literal slave centres where people work under terrible conditions and as they work, their groans and sighs ascend to Adonai and this breaks His heart. Never be that kind of person that people around you are doing their work with bitterness and terrible conditions.

ACCEPTABLE FAST (1): LOOSE THE BONDS OF WICKEDNESS

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Wednesday January 25, 2023

ACCEPTABLE FAST (1): LOOSE THE BONDS OF WICKEDNESS

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,Isaiah 58:6 (KJV)

Scriptures lets us know that there are acceptable fasts. This means that there are also unacceptable fasts. As a rule of thumb, any fast that does not have impact on your flesh is not acceptable. Any fast that does not bring about a change in you of some sorts is not acceptable. Isaiah 58:3-5 enumerates unacceptable fasts. Fasting to show off; fasting that increases wickedness in you to your fellow human, fasting for strife and debate are not acceptable and hence your voice is not heard on high. Fasting is spiritual exercise to mortify the flesh, therefore it should eliminate the works of the flesh drastically with every session of your fast. Galatians 5:19-21 enumerates the works of the flesh, ”19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these? Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” As you fast, these things must be dropping from off you until you come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (see Ephesians 4:13).

FASTING EXAMPLES (7): ELIJAH’S FAST

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Tuesday January 24, 2023

FASTING EXAMPLES (7): ELIJAH’S FAST

And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.I Kings 19:8 (KJV)

Of all that the Bible would cite as an example of someone whose prayer was effective, earnest and heart-felt with tremendous power which was dynamic in its working, Elijah was chosen. It is important, therefore, for us to examine the secret of this great patriarch of the faith. And it is not even so far fetched or a mystery, what powered his effectiveness in his relationship with Adonai. We all are praying, so prayer is not the tool of Prophet Elijah’s power with God. And if you look at James 5:16 from the Amplified Bible, you would see that it was not just the prayer of Elijah that made him powerful. Prayer is good but until prayer is earnest that is heart-felt and continued, it cannot be dynamic in its working. What is it that makes prayer earnest? If we can discover what made Elijah’s prayer earnest, and apply same, we shall get the same result of power with Yahweh as Elijah because Yahweh is not a respecter of person but in every nation, whosoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him (see Acts 10:34-35).

FASTING EXAMPLES (6): APOSTLE PAUL’S FAST

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Monday January 23, 2023

FASTING EXAMPLES (6): APOSTLE PAUL’S FAST

And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.Acts 9:9 (KJV)

When I look at Apostle Paul, I am not marvelled as much at his usefulness in the hands of the Lord Yahushua because the way he entered the race was loaded. What I mean is this: from the very first day he encountered the Lord, he began a three-day dry fast. There are so many today that have been believers in Yahushua for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 years respectively that has not fasted for a three-day dry before. Apostle Paul’s introduction into HaMashiach (Christ) is with three days dry fast. There is something fasting does to your spirit-man. It establishes you in the Word of Adonai, firmly making it possible to believe the Word and dare anything. The daring nature of Paul was imparted to him on the altar of fasting. In his own words later, he said “in fastings often” (II Corinthians 11:27). Isaiah 58:8 says, “Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,” that is you will begin to swim in revelations and that was exactly the testimony of Apostle Paul. Because of the abundance of fastings, there were also abundance of revelations (II Corinthians 12:7), ‘And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.’

FASTING EXAMPLES (5): DAVID’S FAST

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Sunday January 22, 2023

FASTING EXAMPLES (5): DAVID’S FAST

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.Psalms 109:24 (KJV)

The Bible didn’t tell us how long David’s fast was but for anyone that is acquainted with long fast, one will recognize that it would not have been anything less than 40 days for fatness to start failing from his flesh. When one finish even a partial fast of 40 days, your flesh will tell you that it has lost a lot in terms of fatness, let alone when the fast is a total or complete fast. David fasted so much that he become so lain that evoked mockery from people. Psalms 109: 23-25 says, ‘23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust. 24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness. 25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.’ I truly understand what David is saying here. The author believes that David’s fast was nothing less than 40 days long. It takes that long for the effects that he described to be so. The author is a witness to that.