The Daniel Fast

NUMBER OF DAYS TO FAST AND REASONS

One (1) meal a week to 24 hours fasting can be used for regular Spiritual maintenance and upkeep. Also can be used for problems and situations etc.

Three (3)days fasting for a crisis situation as we see in the Book of Esther. This also can be used for Healing for certain sicknesses and diseases.

Seven (7)days fasting for Divine direction if you are at a cross roads and want to know which direction to go.... 

Some reasons why a group should fast and Pray:

They are but not limited to -

·   For revival in the local church

·   Preceding a city wide crusade

·   Serious church problems

·   Financial need

·   Minster (Priest, elder, deacon etc.) has fallen into sin

·   A family is about to go through a divorce

·   Missionary abroad facing serious problem, taken hostage

·   Divisions and splits in church due to proud people

·   For the town or city to get rid of evil places and spirits

·   Leader of a church in scandalous relationship

·   If a Minister or his wife is afflicted by life-threatening disease like cancer etc.

When you face serious issues and problems in your life or in the local church or in any group or association, do fast and pray to solve problems. It will not fail.

Remember, fasting and prayer is the Ultimate Weapon ordained by God Himself for our victory and mastery over all evil forces which hinder our Spiritual progress and blessings. Use it consistently in your life and encourage your church to do so to transform your community.

EXCITING GROUP PRAYER SESSIONS:

The Bible teaches that not only should we have personal prayer time with God, but we should also pray with others in groups. This could be two or three or more even up to a thousand. The more the number it takes more organization to make it more effective. You could do this also as a family, with father, mother, and children.

Groups prayers produce explosive power if done properly because Jesus said, “If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that you ask it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.” Matthew 18:19. This is called the “power of agreement.” We see the power of this kind of prayer in Acts 2 when the 120 prayed with “oneness of mind” and the Holy Ghost fell on them. The rest is history with awesome power.

Group prayers can be made more effective by “Fasting group prayer sessions” by a few individuals in a home, or as a family or in the local church. This is all the more powerful.

You can literally transform the world conditions for the better by continual group prayers with the oneness of mind and agreement. Now remember, Satan, will fight it tooth and nail because you are going to put big dents in his kingdom and put him to fight and stop his evil actions in an individual, church, community, city, nation and the world! He will try everything possible to split the group by misunderstandings, wrong doctrines, too much talking and various other schemes.

The key to making a group prayer meeting effective and exciting is planning well and in advance. Surprisingly, many don’t think this is necessary. Most prayer meetings are conducted with absolutely no preparations at all. Many think you need to spend hours to prepare a good Sunday morning sermon but the prayer meetings can be done extemporaneously. This is why many prayer meetings are a failure and most people don’t come. An outstanding sign of effective prayer meeting are those attended by all ages, especially youth!

The most important activity of the local church is prayer ministry. When the church is strong in this area, then it will be strong in all areas. Souls will be saved all the time, at every service, finances will flow without any pressure from the pulpit, there will be peace in the congregation, believers will grow in grace and become strong and win souls and bring in new people to the church, and the church will make an impact on the community around it.

Prayer empowers, energizes, makes exciting every activity and aspect of the local church. Without prayer, everything is mere motion with no power or lustre.  You will be going through the motions every Sunday morning in church.

The Leader of the prayer group should be a mature Christian  with experience in prayer and the Bible, one who can detect the devil’s ways and stop it at the very beginning before it is too late with tact and intelligence and much prayer. The prayer leader should personally be praying and spending extra time on the day of prayer meeting, apart from his daily prayer time. The prayer leader should pray for the people who are coming, because weak believers will always find some lame excuse for not coming. They should lead  the group in prayer by standing , lifting up of hands, kneeling etc. The group should all participate in singing the worship and praise songs loud and clear as this also brings deliverance. The prayer leader should pray in tongues for 10 minutes with one or two people before the prayer meeting starts.

Without any exaggeration, group prayer meetings with fasting has awesome power!  This will bind evil spirits, it will bring revival in the church, city, town, nation , the world, sinners will be saved in the community,  serious church problems like finances will be solved, backsliders will  come back to God, during an election time , God’s chosen man/woman will be elected for any public office and when the country is at war, this group prayer and fasting will move mountains.

Also, the church should make use of Senior Citizens as prayer warriors. Many of them today because of advanced medical science are  in good health and are able to play Bingo, and participate in other recreations but are not challenged to pray. It’s a big waste in human resources. They must be challenged to organize group prayer meetings in their homes and in the church. What power the church will have when the Seniors  pray! They have time and can come anytime. If the church taps into the prayer ministry and the church will be breaking new grounds.