Fasting and Prayer
New: Part 3 added!
Tom Deckard teaches on how to have God’s power and anointing in our life, speaking from his over 30 years experience. If you want to know how to get closer to the Lord and get God’s power in your life, this teaching will help you.
“Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.” (Matthew 6:16-18)
Wrong teaching and wrong believing can be a detriment to anyone.
Fasting is to get you out of the way and let the Lord lead. When I am fasting, my discernment is way up and I know a lot about you - it pushes more into the supernatural than the natural world. He just reads “spirit” the reality of your life, where you are really living. I’m seeing you just as you are and that is what I can tell you. After the Holy Spirit comes upon a person he becomes another man.
Fasting must become a way of life. You have to bring yourself under a control. Fasting is humbling yourself before God, because we want to get closer to Him. I only fast because I have a purpose - getting closer to the Lord. Many go on fast to “make God do something.” Most think that we can force the hand of God - it does mean that you are getting closer to the Lord - and if you fast and pray that situation will eventually change. Once a year I set a time to spend with God 30 days or 40 days in fasting and prayer.
How do you know when the fast is over? When after you got rid of the appetite and fasten for a number of days you become hungry at the end of the fast.
Do not start with a 21 day fasts. Start with 1 day fast, 1 day a week, than work up to 2 days a week and then work yourself up to 3 days a week. Fasting is a way of life. It is not an elective. Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
Fasting helps the anointing, which breaks the yokes.
Tom Deckard
Part 1 of 3.
Audio teaching. MP3. Duration 49 minutes.
Part 2 of 3.
It is a condition of the heart - not how much that you are fasting. It is not the degree which we are capable of doing.
Breaking the fast when you are finished the fast. If you fasted over 7 days it needs to be broken slowly, intestines have shrunk and they need to be open (broth, a few crackers, vegetables).
With enough fasting, you will be able to hear the voice of God.
People ask me, “Where is a safe place in the last days?” There is no place in the US where God has designated for us to run to. If you fast and pray you will be at the right place at the right time.
Jesus fasted 40 days without water or food. Moses and Jesus could do that, but our bodies cannot do that.
The biggest detriment that we have it is us, we presuppose that God say this or that.
Es 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
You need to learn to fast because of the judgment that is coming upon this earth.
Should children learn to fast? Yes, they need to understand what it would be like to go one day without the food. With the bird flu, if you are able to go without food for 21 days, that food will last longer. The key is to understand, that it is purposeful. It is going to be a way of survival. In the third world countries I taught thousands of people to fast not as much because of the spiritual things, but physical. I teach them how to be “caught up”. Caught up into fasting - if you can get past the 5 days, you can go on a long time.
There are only three kinds of people in the church today, either sheep, goats or wolves. Ask yourself a wusstion, “Am I a sheep, or am I a goat, or am I a wolf?” Fasting will help you to become a sheep.
Fasting is mostly are caused by a need. Most of us don’t have a need to fast. Entire church has to operate in the gift of the Spirit.
Most people fast for me, myself and I. But there are other fasts also. How many times have you fasted when someone was sick?
Voluntary fast - you cannot eat because you are too upset.
Matthew 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
In order to make fasting a way of life, you need to sneak up on your flesh and start slowing - 1 day a week, 2 days a week.
The longer you go without food the closer you are seeing more into the supernatural world and work over into that world.
Zechariah 7:5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto Me, even to Me?
Are you seeking Me or are you trying to manipulate Me?
A lot of things begin right and then go the wrong way. Do not let fasting become a ritual. We have to learn to stop and see if we are going the wrong way.
Fasting will cause you to get things right between you and your brother.
Matthew 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? 15 And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. 16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
The 9 gifts of the spirit are for the entire church and we should all be working in those gifts. If you seek God on your own, you do not have to suck on my bottle to find out what God has for you, you have to fast yourself.
You should fast when people are sick. Ps 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Fasting is a way of humbling yourself. It is a powerful tool.
As a team and as a group those who fast as an organization can move mountains.
I have watched as the 7 churches that I apostled people were healed even before they got to the front. The devil will run from us. Fasting will cause the devil to run from us. 1:23
It is not too late to get started with the fasting.
Part 2. Audio. Duration 54 minutes. 2007.
Part 3 of 3. Duration 44 minutes.During the civil war Abraham Lincoln was concerned why the North had not won any battles. And he said to his cabinet, it has to be that they are in sin. He called the country and the cabinet to fast for 3 days and things turned around.People fast in fear of judgment or danger, wearing sack cloth.Joel 1:14 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 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.–People fast needing guidance. Acts 13:2-3: “As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.”Everybody has an anointing and when they speak into other people’s lives, they are causing for something to be changed or regulated - it has power. You should not have people that you do not know lay hands on you. It is important to know that you are led by the Holy Ghost and not by a familiar spirit.–People fast, seeking revelation. Daniel 9: 2-3: “In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.”
People fast, when they serve God.
Luke 2:37 “And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.”
People fast, when they cast out devils. Mark 9: “28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? 29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”
If you are going to get into deliverance, you are going to need to pray and fast.
There are 2 general kinds of fasting: 1) Proclaimed fast entered into by an entire congregation (2 Chronicals 20:3-7); 2) Personal fast of when you fast (2 Corinthians 6:5).
Fast can have a reward either from people or from the Lord. Matthew 6:18 “That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.”Do it in secret and be rewarded in open.
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