08/01/2024
IT WAS IN FASTING, I CAME OUT OF SICKNESS. IT WAS IN FASTING, I CAME OUT OF POVERTY.
IF YOU'RE FASTING, THAT PERIOD YOU HAVE SEPARATED YOURSELF: NO FOOD, NO WATER. DO IT PROPERLY.
WHEN YOU'RE FASTING, YOUR HEALTH IS ROBUST.
DON'T PLAY DOWN ON FASTING.
THE END RESULT OF PRAYER AND FASTING IS AN ERUPTION OF REVELATION.
- Pastor David Ibiyeomie on MAKING THE YEAR COUNT - PART 2 at Making The Year Count Service || Salvation Ministries - Home Of Success || 7th January 2024 || Part C
Now, let me say this to you if you read Ezekiel 47:1-5. He said: 'The River was to the ankles, to the knee, to the loins and rivers that cannot overflow'. Is that true? There are four levels: One to the ankle, one to what? Knee. One to the loins and then overflow. And I put it this way: Ankle: 30 percent. Knee: 60 percent. Loins: 100 percent. Overflow: Manifold. Church Gist. Some of you, where you are now, is ankle; some of you, in fact, no ankle because nothing - You don't pray, you don't fast. You just sing 🎵 Jesus is coming soon, Amen! I am telling you, Amen! 🎵 Build your spiritual capacity against the day of battle in order not to be caught unawares because the challenges will come.
Proverbs 24:10. So, some of you, the reason you can't stand those challenges is because your strength is what? Small. The strength is not talking about muscle, it's talking about spiritual what? Strength. You're spiritually so weak! Hear me, no shortcut oo, you must fast and pray, no shortcut. Every area of life: Marriage, there's challenge because your children, you have to pray for them to become great. Office, there are challenges - Your colleagues in the office, most of them are demonic. Church Gist. Business? Ah! Heavy challenge because there, some people put the devil on their tongue. Politics? Eh! There's no free place! Business? satan is there, politics? satan is there. Children training? Where will you run to? Even inside Church, there are some people who are devil incarnate, inside Church even here. You think everybody in Church is born again? It's a lie! There are people inside the Church, their hands are not clean. They enter here, enter here! Enter here, cause confusion. Church, you have to be spiritually sound.
Say: I can't play careless anymore.
It's very important to note that the end result of prayer and fasting is an eruption of revelation. When you're empowered, signs begin to flow, you get light from Scriptures. Look! Check anytime you're fasting and you read Bible, you'll be seeing light 'Pam-pam-pam'. Church Gist. It's in Isaiah 58, the Scripture of fasting. He said: 'Then shall your light break forth…' So, when you're fasting, your health is robust. Sickness will go because God will give you Scriptures upon Scriptures to come out of sickness. Are you getting what I'm talking about?
-May somebody's light break forth as I'm talking.
It was in fasting, I came out of sickness. It was in fasting, I came out of poverty. Are you getting me, sir? Church Gist. I was not fasting without, I was fasting and reading (the Word). The light came for the two subjects and I walked out of the two gallantly.
-God will give you an answer to your questions.
Please don't play down on fasting. Today, some of you, you listen to all manner of junks. Life story! I sent a pastor here when Bible School, we were just growing. I said: Go and do Bible School in Lagos - To do, after basics; he should go and do advanced; that time, we were just starting. So he went to Lagos and then a pastor under Bishop Oyedepo said: 'If you're fasting, Jesus did not say you should stay without food'. He said: Without food, you can drink water'. Church Gist. He said: 'Jesus was without food'. You know? People read Bible. He was working under Oyedepo, Oyedepo did not know that. He said, Jesus said: 'He was without food, so drink water'. So the Pastor came back and said: This Pastor said we should…' I said: 'Shut up! You can't work with me: Drink water what? When you break you break, it's no water and no food'! 'If it's three o'clock, three o'clock; six o'clock, six o'clock. So if you bring that kind of fasting here, you cannot succeed oo'.
Hear the story! The Pastor too is doing part-time now because he cannot stand full-time, so we removed him from full-time to be drinking water. And then the Pastor who told them to be drinking water (Laughing). After he left Oyedepo, he now went to Akwa Ibom to start Church. The Pastor oo, he started Church almost, for how many years, they were not up to 100. So he said: 'Akwa Ibom is too hard' so he left Akwa Ibom to another State I won't call so they won't know the Pastor. Church Gist. Till today, he's battling with Church as I'm talking to you. Now, he used to do as if he knows too much when he was with Bishop Oyedepo. Now, Church, they are not up to 200, he's my senior in ministry, long long years ago but nothing to show. My friend, be drinking water, be drinking! It is when you break you drink what? Water. Leave all this thing they're teaching on television. 'The Daniel fast! Newspaper fast! (Laughing). Television fast'! Go and fast them! Is it the devil you want to tell television fast? devil, 'Nwa ekwensu' - (Translated in Igbo Language: Child of satan). Even 'èṣù'! (Translated in Yoruba Language: devil). èṣù will look at you like this and say: 'My friend, you said: 'Television fast'? Okay'! You will go to office, they will do like this (Illustrating and laughing).
Look, I've seen things oo! My friend, fast! My wife's friend of blessed memory, gone - He's gone to be with the Lord. He passed on last year, he came early morning to visit us and I saw tea in his hand. I said: 'Pastor, I thought you said you're fasting'? He said: 'Eh! We dey take tea when we dey fast'. (Laughing). I said: 'Pastor, I'm not used to this kind of fasting oo, you're fasting and you're drinking tea in the morning'. He said: 'Eh! He's taking tea'. He went downstairs, they brought a mad lady to the compound. So, this lady was shouting and shouting, so (the) next thing I heard downstairs was: 'Tuai' (Laughing). He said: 'I'll slap you back'!! Church Gist. So, from the window, I now peeped, I said: 'What's happening downstairs'? I now went downstairs, saw pastor and her (the mad lady) wrecking. She looked at me with her mad state, the devil knows who is who. She that slapped him, she looked at me, I said: 'Sit down there'. She just sat down. I said: 'Pastor, what happened'? He said: 'Look at this lady oo' (Laughing).
Last year, I did everything, if money would save somebody. Money would have saved him - I paid everything but he couldn't survive it. You know? When challenges come, you will know whether you're fasting. I did everything, took him to the best hospitals but that's by the way. Please don't play with your life. Church Gist. All these; you know? Papa is talking. 'There is what we call: Daniel Fasting' (Laughing). 'You know? That kind of fasting is: You take vegetables but you don't eat. Just eh vegetables, it's not bad to keep you robust'. (Laughing). If you're fasting, that period you have separated yourself: No food, no water; you break, you break. If it's twelve, if it's three, if it's six. Do it properly.
