Fasting and prayers prepares the ground

before He began His ministry, our Lord Jesus Christ embarked on a 40-day fast. According to Matthew 4:1-2, He was led by the Holy Spirit into this exercise.

Do you allow the Holy Spirit to lead you? Has He ever led you to do some fasting before? If He has, did you obey Him, or did you make excuses why you couldn’t fast?

From the experience of the Lord Jesus Christ,

we can see that fasting is necessary to equip us for the work of the ministry.

When God commits a specific assignment into your hands,

do you make out time to seek His face through fasting and prayer,

or do you jump into the assignment without seeking His direction, assistance, wisdom, protection and grace to succeed on the assignment?

 If you seek Him for assistance, it shows you realize your limitations and recognize that it is only through His power you can succeed in the assignment.

In any case, Jesus told us that we cannot do anything the way it should be done without Him (John 15:5).

If we fail to seek His face, it shows we have confidence in ourselves, believing that we do not need Him to help us on the job.

Beloved, you cannot do any divine assignment the way you to do it without the backing of the One who sent you.

From today, never embark on any assignment,

be it spiritual or secular, without first seeking God’s face in fasting and prayer!

In addition, when people are being prepared for the work of ministry, prayer and fasting are needed to equip you spiritually. This was practiced in the early Church. Acts 13:3 says,

“And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.”

When some prophets and teachers gathers themselves together to minister to God the Holy Spirit selected Paul and Barnabas from their midst. To take the gospel to other nations. What did they do after this?

They took time to pray and fast with them before releasing them to go and do the work. Even today, fasting is still needed to equip the various levels of the church workforce.

From the level of foundational classes for young covert and above, we should encourage praying and fasting as a means of equipping the saints for the assignment ahead of them.

Conclusion

So in essence any good thing you embark on must first be subjected to prayers and fasting.