Preparing For God to Move

Joshua 3:5

Joshua 3:5 (NIV)
Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.
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Consecrate
qadash - set yourself apart, become holy, prepare
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1. Fasting Gives Us Spiritual Understanding
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Daniel 10:2-3
At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips
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Proverbs 29:18 (MSG)
If people can’t see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed.
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Daniel 10:12
Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
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Isaiah 55:8-9 (NIV)
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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2. Fasting Allows us to move in God’s Power
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Mark 9:29 (ESV)
And He [Jesus] said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting.
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Azusa Street - Church on Fire
William Seymour arrived in Los Angeles on February 22, 1906 and began to hold meetings at a small store front church on Santa Fe Street. He was invited to hold a Bible study and prayer meetings at a house on Bonnie Brae Street. Seymour called for 10 days of fasting and prayer and on April 9 the power of God began to fall! God began pouring out His Spirit so intensely that people started getting baptized in the Holy Spirit! Soon people began coming from everywhere. After 3 days, there was no way of getting near the house. As people came, they fell under God’s power; and the whole city was stirred. The meetings were moved to a mission on Azusa Street. The power of God was so strong that creative miracles began to occur. Ears that did not exist formed in place. Arms that had been lost due to work accidents were reconstructed by the power of God. As the people prayed in the Spirit a literal fire would come out of the roof of the building. Causing onlookers to call the Fire Department because the building looked like it was burning. But when the Fire Department came the fire could not be put out.
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3. Fasting Brings the Rewards of Heaven
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Mathew 6:18 (ESV)
When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
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“If you want anything from God, you will have to pray into heaven. That is where it all is. If you live in the earth realm and expect to receive from God, you will never get anything.”
~Smith Wigglesworth
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“The Church has been negligent in one thing...she has not prayed the power of God out of heaven.”
~John G. Lake
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Joshua 3:5 (NIV)
Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.
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