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Benefits of Biblical Fasting.

Writer's picture: Lady FortunateLady Fortunate

Updated: Jul 9, 2023


Dear Lady


My dear lady I am so excited to be back at writing on this platform again, its been a long much needed break as I focused on a few business commitments. A lot has shifted from the time I posted my last blog "the lady Fortunate Journal", I have seen God move in a mighty way. Thank you for the love and nudges that kept me reminded that this page needed some love, you are appreciated dearly. In the next blogs I will be sharing a few of my life lessons with you and mainly the lessons I gathered these past three years, I hope that they are going to be something you can use in your journey too.


Our topic today is benefits of biblical fasting, this is one of the most powerful biblical principles that has helped me immensely in reshaping and transforming the woman I have become today. God is a god who continuously moves us from glory to glory and from my last blog I knew a lot needed to shift and my only source of that change was God, so I took a lot of time in praying and fasting. Allow me to give you a little more information about the lady that is writing to you so we build a foundation of what I will be sharing with you today. I was raised by the most loving single mom, full of love, a queen at celebrating people, unfortunately she went to be with Lord when I was 12 years old and life automatically changed and my future became almost uncertain. There where days this girl was not sure if she will have money for fees but by God's grace my siblings fought for every step for my brighter future, they had grace to find educational foundations that made the journey of my high school and college days even much easier (but this is a blog on its own for another day). All this however cultivated a high dependence on God, I learnt at a tender age to fight for the future despite all odds and when I received Christ as my personal Lord and saviour I learnt how to fight with understanding and in him by seeking his word for total transformations.


My dear ladies I believe that quite a lot of you are currently in this season of praying and fasting as it is the beginning of the year, where corporate fasting is proclaimed by your local church or maybe you have taken time out to seek the Lord individually on a personal level. One thing about praying and fasting, it works and I will discuss some of those beautiful benefits that I have personally experienced and some that are reflected in the word of God. Please note, they are so many benefits but I will focus on just a few today.


1. Fasting releases God's supernatural power.


Now do remember that fasting does not change God in any way, God remains the same yesterday, today and forever more; however fasting positions one who is fasting for God's supernatural move and power. Fasting is a tool that we can use to stand against the devil and his minions, Matthew 17:21(NKJV) However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” Some battles the bible highlights that they need prayer and fasting for the issue to be completely dealt with.


2. Fasting creates an intimacy with God.


Fasting is one sure way to block every form of destruction, by denying the fleshly needs and allowing the spirit to take control. I love Myles Munroe's teaching on fasting effectively where he says, the proper way of fasting is not going on a hunger strike but replacing all the times you took to cook, for the word of God and prayer. Fasting allows for one to be positioned to experience his supernatural miracles. At some point after I got born again(during my college days) I remember I went on a individual fast as I was believing God for college funds and at that time we absolutely had no idea where we where going to get that money from. I remember my last day of my fast was on a Sunday and I had decided to break the fast at home, so when I got home I kneeled beside the bed and I remember sharply it was just after 1400hrs when I started the prayer and I'm not sure what happened in between but when I said Amen it was way after seven and it so dark outside and I was still in the same position I was in. The reality my dear Lady, is I still do not know if I fainted briefly due to hunger, or I slept due to exhaustion and needless to say it was very hot ( a great possibility :-) ), but I chose to believe that I went into a trance where God supernaturally changed the course of my life and my siblings. God did not only supernaturally deal with my fees after that, but I also began to experience favour that I had no idea even existed.


If you can imagine how people who genuinely love each; how they spoil each other just for the mere fact that they are in love. I am in the gifting Industry, with Adore Gifts we have the opportunity to deal with people that are insanely in love. We have this private service called the concierge gifting service, where we go in thoroughly in researching a gift that the recipient needs, through social trends, what they say in conversations, we ask their friends, the idea being to gift far and above what they ask for. So you can imagine if a mere person who is intimately connected to someone can go in depth in impressing and loving their person, what more of God who knows all things, he does not need to check your social media stories or ask anyone to really know exactly what your heart desires are. The more you genuinely become intimate with God, the more you will realise all things coming together without having to ask for them. Some people call it energies, or the universal attraction, I call it being intimate with the father.


Matthew 6:33 (KJV) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.


3. With fasting you experience peace and joy unspeakable.


There are situations that are designed by the enemy to take you out God's presence, to make you panic and doubt what the Lord has spoken. I need you to understand my dear ladies that the enemy has absolutely no power over our lives, we give him the power the moment we step out of the faith atmosphere. I like how the message bible puts it " Keep a cool head", the devil wants nothing than to get into your head and take you out of that cool head state.


1st Peter 5:8 MSG Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping. Keep your guard up. You’re not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It’s the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith. The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ—eternal and glorious plans they are!—will have you put together and on your feet for good. He gets the last word; yes, he does.


We praise, worship, meditate on the word and listen to sermons so we can create an atmosphere of his presence right, it creates that affirmation of who our father is and it grows our faith. No matter how bad the situation maybe, when you step into his manifest presence, God begins to speak and peace envelopes us.


Philippians 4:7 (NIV) And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.


The opposite is true about how the devil works, he plants a seed of doubt, fear, rebellion or anything that takes you out of God's presence, in isolation he breeds it so that an atmosphere for him to operate is created. I understand sometimes things maybe so bad that you don't even have words to speak or energy to pray, we all have been there at some point or the other, one thing I encourage my dear ladies is to put worship music or the word, let your spirit man feed on that, never allow yourself to be outside of his presence, eventually you will hear what God says about that situation. All you need to do is to STAY in God's presence. Sometimes as you find strength and start praying, the holy spirit might intercede on your behalf and before you know it, you might find yourself regaining your peace and faith in God. I'm not going to lie some situations you might snap out of them just like that but with some it might take more lingering in God's presence, but what I am certain of my lady, is that you will find joy unspeakable and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding.


This is one fruit I enjoyed the most in my year 2022, my year started with such an arrow from the enemy that it pierced me right through before I even started my fast, I became so weak to my ankles I almost decided not to start the fast. I remember my prayer partner stood with me in prayer and I remembered that I had made the commitment before the year ended, so I went in as planned, the devil threw in so many tricks and measures as the days went by and I felt like quitting most of the time but as I listened to the word, I would find strength to continue. I was so desperate for a new encounter with the Lord, I don't want to lie and tell you that after my 21 days I had received any tangible proof that I had been with the Lord, all the situations that the enemy tried to discourage me on when I started hadn't changed or moved an inch, but what I had found such a peace and a joy that I had never experienced before. This carried me throughout the year, because throughout most of my year, the enemy tried to prove that I had wasted my time praying and fasting but his presence just kept me enveloped, then one day to the glory of God, just like that I experienced an avalanche of breakthroughs and just like Daniel my answers where delivered.


Daniel 10:12-13 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia


4. Fasting gives you spiritual insight.


God speaks in so many different ways, some hear him through an audible voice, some through the word (rhema word of God), some through the witnessing of the holy spirit (or should I say the 6th sense feeling) and some through dreams or visions. We all have experienced one or more, because God is a speaking God. When we fast, our spiritual antennas are heightened and the communication with God is more clearer, God allows us if we obey to deal and amend certain things by his grace, that the enemy might have attempted.


Deuteronomy 29: 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.


My 2022 fast I felt led to document most of my journey and I decided to share day 21 mini record, however the fast for year 2023 took a totally different turn and I did not even have the grace to record, I found myself praying for things I did not understand at the time and some I still do not understand. I had my list of items I wanted to pray for but my spirit began to pick up things and me being me (I'm a bit stubborn sometimes) I would force my prayer points in play, assuming that maybe my mind was just playing tricks on me and I simply needed to focus more on my prayer points. However because I wasn't allowing the Holy Spirit to lead me in the direction that the Lord so urgently wanted me to go to, my prayer felt very dry, I felt like he wasn't there at all, i felt this uncommon heaviness, so I yielded because I began to realise there was something beyond me that needed intercession.


Esther 4:14 (KJV) For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?


My dear ladies we are called to be intercessors for our families, we are called in to stand in the gap and speak life and grace unto them. As I prayed this year, I found myself dealing with a heaviness and a darkness I did not understand, trust me if I tell you that half the time I really was concerned that maybe I was going crazy or I was simply being destructed but I would just yield and allow the Holy spirit to take over. Romans 8:26 (KJV) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. On day 20 (Saturday 28th of January Morning) of the fast, we woke up as a family to news of a failed attempted suicide, this happened in such a way that it could only be God who intervened so that we may call it an "attempt". My dear ladies only then did it make sense and I broke down in tears, he is God of grace and love, but how many times do we receive a nudge from the Holy Spirit where we later on say "but I felt it " and we do not obey. As you pray my dear ladies, some things might not be as evident as I experienced, but know that you might be interceding for the future of a niece, stopped an accident, dealt with a sickness attack or simply helped someone's path to be paved for a breakthrough or promotion.

My dear ladies I share all this with you to encourage you to continue, to start or to realise that even after you have finished your prayer and fasting hold fast to his word, yield to his leading,Numbers 23:19 (KJV) God is not a man, that he should lie; Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? , fasting works; Ezra 8:23 (KJV) So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us. You shall surely behold your answer, the God we serve is a very faithful God. Come I let you in on my secret of waiting on my answer especially after I have given God my own time frame and it passes, I hold on to this word and I never let go of the promise 2 Peter 3:8 (KJV) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. This verse always allows me to realise the supernatural timing of God, he is always working according to his supernatural clock which works to my greatest advantage Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

My dear ladies, I believe you have your own experiences and lessons on fasting, please be kind to leave them on the comment section; myself and other ladies would love to hear and learn from you. I have also downloaded a brief video for you below of my 21 day water fast experience, hope it encourages someone and you gather something from it.


Lots of love,


Lady Fortunate.






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