(Sixth part)
Memory verse (Isaiah 58: 6) “ Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness ”
When we are born again our spirit are born again as the life of God comes in. Our spirits are the righteousness of God. Our minds needs to be daily renewed by the word of God (Rom12: 1-2). Our flesh needs to be crucified. Gal 5: 19 teaches the works of the flesh. True you’re a child of God, your sins are forgiven but the flesh still have that desire to continue the old things it was used to do all those dark years of ignorance. And because of those fleshly desires, Satan begins to draw your mind towards them and finally people keep falling in those traps (Jam1: 13-15).
When I received Jesus in my life, there are things that disappeared from my life that day. But there are others that I kept on doing unconsciously, the Holy Spirit could convict me after I’ve done them and I could repent of them. I struggled with lie for a long time. I had another problem of masturbation, which I struggled with for about 9 years. I could feel bad after doing it and vow never to do it again, but after sometime the devil could throw those thoughts back in my mind and I could not resist. I did everything to do but could not be free. Until in 1996, I attended a prayer and fasting conference, we were fasting for our nation. I had never fasted longer than 24 hours before without food. This time the Holy Sprit conviction in me was so strongly that the first day I tried to eat bread in the evening, but I felt I was sinning. So, I stopped. I went for seven days without food, just a drink in the evening. After that fasting conference masturbation never came back, bless God forever. Because my body loved, it was bonded to it, but the prayer and fasting destroyed that bond. And many things changed in my life during that fasting and after. The fear of God came into my heart, my prayer life began to grow, I got baptized in the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues, imagine after 9 years in salvation! Anointing began to come upon my life; the call of God came upon my life that very day. God teaches that true fasting will loose the bonds of wickedness and set you free from sin and the lusts of the flesh. God wants you to have the best in your life, God wants to use you greatly, but there’re things that hinder his plan in your life, you would need to go deeper in prayer and engage in fasting, so God may have a way to bless you without any limit.
Next subject: “ Undo heavy burdens” …To be continued next Monday
