“It is important to fast as a Christian.”

— THE PROPHET OF THE BOOK OF MALACHI, Via Jesusislordradio.info

Why is it Important to Holy Total Dry Fast?

“Listen to me, The LORD is taken out for 40 days and 40 nights so He can be tested.

And down the line when you read, He comes back now and stands at the pulpit and He says “The Power of The LORD has Anointed Me, has come upon Me to preach the Gospel.” You see?

So when The LORD goes out into the wilderness, He can be able to encounter The Spirit of God, Then He can really be tested, and strengthened, and pruned, and empowered!

Now He can do the mission for which He was called.

Just a little bit of verse 6 of Chapter 4 (Matt 4:6-7) HE says “If you are THE SON OF GOD,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written: “He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’ ”

And The LORD begins to realize where He should draw His power from to be able to defeat the devil.

Actually let me tell you one thing, in that fasting, He broke the back of the devil. That’s why fasting is so critical.

What I am teaching today is so critical, because in that fasting & solitude, He finished the devil from there. Because He said, “It is written”, “It is written”, “It is written.”

HE threw the devil back to The Word, and the devil knows The Word, so he ran away.”

-Excerpt from the “Solitude” Teaching, via YouTube, by THE PROPHET OF THE BOOK OF MALACHI.

FASTING IS AN INVESTMENT By THE PROPHET OF THE BOOK OF MALACHI

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Whenever the LORD rises to call you –the LORD rises and calls you–  that is the time at which to rise up, and tell Him, “LORD I am ready.  I am willing.”  Because there is a perpetual conflict between the two in every heart all over the earth.  Every walking being is having that perpetual conflict on a daily basis. The Lord Jesus himself had that conflict, at the  Garden of Gethsemane, when the Spirit is saying this and the flesh was too weak. 

But listen to the point I want to come to, when I said every time the LORD calls you, please, if you can, accept.  And I know everybody can.  Why did I say so? 

Because, for example the fasting. I will relate this calling to the fasting we do. When you fast, whether it is two days or whatever, you are investing credit in The Kingdom of God.  It is an investment. Because you don’t know what is ahead!  When you are fasting, you are shielding even for your family! You are investing, even, not only for your Ministry, even your children. And so now you hear the story is different.  That the others are in drugs and what and what, but my son was always in church.  The LORD remembers your children.  Because you are investing! That is an investment.

The same thing with the calling of The LORD. When The LORD calls, in other words, He is saying: I want to deposit, I want to deposit my Priesthood in your home.  I want to deposit my Treasured Priesthood in your home. It is always important to accept; In the short run you may not know, But just the saying of “Yes”, Because you don’t know what is ahead! It is always important to accept. You are investing credit in the Kingdom of God.

BEGINNING THE HOLY DRY FAST OF THE LORD


The following instructions will help you inculcate fasting as a lifestyle in your Christian walk:



1) Begin by taking only drinks for 3 days

2) Break the fast and eat normally

3) The next fast should be 2 days dry fast and break by eating normally.

4) Then next time fast 3 days dry fast

5) Then 4 days dry fast

6) However when you do dry fast, you must break with fluids first then gradually eat light and soft foods like eggs, mashed potatoes, noodles till you recover well.

7) Avoid fasting when doing exams or having a work presentation or major undertaking (heavy manual labor).”

8) Do not fast if taking any medicine, breastfeeding, or terminally ill.

Isaiah 58:5-11 (Amplified)

5 Is such a fast as yours what I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself with sorrow in his soul? [Is true fasting merely mechanical?] Is it only to bow down his head like a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him [to indicate a condition of heart that he does not have]? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?

6 [Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke?

7 Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house—when you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you hide not yourself from [the needs of] your own flesh and blood?

8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking,

10 And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday.

11 And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.

Fasting Scriptures:

Joel 2:12Therefore also now, says the Lord, turn and keep on coming to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning [until every hindrance is removed and the broken fellowship is restored].

Mark 9:29 And he said to them, `This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.’

Acts 13:2While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate now for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.

Daniel 9:3So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.”

More holy fasting Scripture references: 
  • Ezra 10:6
  • Esther 4:16
  • Acts 9:9
  • Acts 27:33