FRIDAY CORPORATE FASTING 16TH OF DECEMBER 2022

FRIDAY CORPORATE FASTING 16TH OF DECEMBER 2022

FASTING TIMES: THURSDAY 9PM - 6PM FRIDAY

TYPE: DRY FAST, WATER FAST OR FRUIT FAST

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Today’s Scripture Readings: Psalm 133:1-2; Luke 10:27

Psalm 133:1-2 “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity! 2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, Running down on the edge of his garments.”

Luke 10:27 “So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

A person's love for God must show itself in love for people, but for it to be genuine we must first have a personal relationship with God. Precious saints the Christian life is based on a personal relationship with the living God, whose ultimate desire is to be known by us as we are known by Him. See you must create a personal relationship with God especially in your private life, otherwise if done in the public alone it is only dead religion. If you do not know how to create a personal relationship with God, your spiritual life will be easily influenced by this world and all its trappings. There is a time to pray alone and there is a time to come pray with other members of the body of Christ. For when this is combined with private and public together in our weekly lives, you will see the supernatural grace upon your life precious saints. God wants to know you personally in the secret place along with in gathering with others corporately. You will flow in all dimensions if you build a relationship with God at home and in gathering with others – this brings about a double anointing.

See God reveals His heart, His thoughts, and His purpose to those who work in friendship with Him and love Him first. Our God has an incredible desire to reveal Himself. The apostle Paul describes it best to the Corinthians that the Holy Spirit is sent to reveal the very plan and thought of God.

1 Corinthians 2:10 “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

We also see that in the book of John that the meaning of external life is knowing God.

John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”

Therefore, it should not surprise us to see revival accompanied also by demonstration of the power and glory of God who desires us to know Him more and set us ablaze with holy passion. Those who think God has become quiet over the years or that God has retreated behind the clouds until the return of Jesus, really do not understand the passion God has for drawing people to Himself. He desires to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh to see revival precious saints. He desires for you to have encounters with Him that He may show you great and mighty things you have not seen before through the revelation of His glory. What do we mean by the glory of God? Well, there is a weighty shekinah cloud of glory and ultimately it is the goodness of God. Example just for you to be able to breath today, that is the goodness and glory of God. If you have seen the goodness of God in front of you, you have seen the glory of God precious saints and when we have been comforted by God, we then can truly comfort us with the Fathers love.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any [a]trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”

So, reach out to the Lord today and cry out for more of God’s glory and goodness in your life precious saints, for it is time for revival in the nations.

TODAY'S REVIVAL STORY

1971 – October: Saskatoon, Canada (Bill McLeod)

Wilbert (Bill) McLeod, a Baptist minister in his mid-fifties, had seen many people healed in answer to prayer, often praying with a group of deacons. He once anointed a woman with oil and prayed with her when she was dying of cancer. While Bill prayed the woman had a vision of Jesus coming to her and touching her. She was healed. Bill saw nothing.

Bill invited the twin evangelists Ralph and Lou Sutera to speak at his church in Saskatoon. Revival broke out with their visit which began on Wednesday 13 October 1971. By the weekend an amazing spirit gripped the people. Many confessed their sins publicly. The first to do so were the twelve counsellors chosen to pray with inquirers. Numbers grew rapidly till the meetings had to be moved to a larger church building and then to the Civic Auditorium seating 2000.

The meetings lasted many hours. People did not want to leave. Some stayed on for a later meeting called the Afterglow. Here people received prayer and counsel from the group as they continued to worship God and pray together. Humble confession of sin and reconciliations were common. Many were converted.

Taxi drivers became amazed that people were getting cabs home from church late into the night or early into the morning. Others were calling for taxis to take them to church late into the night as they were convicted by the Lord. Young people featured prominently. Almost half those converted were young. They gave testimonies of lives that had been cleaned up by God and how relationships with their families were restored. The atmosphere in schools and colleges changed from rebellion and cheating to cooperation with many Bible studies and prayer groups forming in the schools and universities.

Criminals confessed their sins and gave themselves up to the police. Restitution was common. People paid overdue bills. Some businesses opened new accounts to account for the conscience money being paid to them. Those who cheated at restaurants or hotels returned to pay their full bill. People returned stolen goods.

Christians found a new radical honesty in their lives. Pride and jealousies were confessed and transformed into humility and love. As people prayed for one another with new tenderness and compassion many experienced healings and deliverance.

Not all welcomed the revival. Some churches remained untouched by it or hostile to it. This seems common to all revivals.

Sherwood Wirt, editor of the Billy Graham Association’s magazine Decision reported:

“One day late in 1971 I read a strange report from Canada. Curious things were taking place in some congregations in the western provinces. Brothers and sisters, it was said, had been reconciled to each other; shop lifted articles had been returned; crimes were being reported by the culprits; church feuds were being resolved; pastors were confessing their pride.

“But then I heard this word: “We’re walking knee deep in love up here.”

“In November a team went to Winnepeg and told of the revival at a meeting for ministers. The Holy Spirit moved powerfully and many broke down confessing their sins. Rivalries and jealousies were confessed and forgiven. Many went home to put things right with their families. The ministers took this fire back into their churches and the revival spread there also with meetings going late into the night as numbers grew, and hundreds were converted or restored.”

Sherwood Wirt reported on Bill McLeod preaching at Winnepeg on 15 December 1971:

“I confess that what I saw amazed me. This man preached for only fifteen minutes, and he didn’t even give an invitation! He announced the closing hymn, whereupon a hundred people came out of their seats and knelt at the front of the church. All he said was, ‘That’s right, keep coming!’

“Many were young. Many were in tears. All were from the Canadian Midwest, which is not known for its euphoria. It could be said that what I was witnessing was revival. I believe it was.”

Bill McLeod and a team of six brought the revival to the eastern Canada when they were invited to speak at the Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto. The meeting there began at 10 am and went through till 1.15 am next morning. Dinner was cancelled as no one wanted to leave. They did stop for supper, then went on again.

When the Sutera brothers commenced meetings in Vancouver on the West Coast on Sunday, May 5, 1972, revival broke out there also in the Ebenezer Baptist Church with 2,000 attending that first Sunday. The next Sunday 3,000 people attended in two churches. After a few weeks five churches were filled.

The revival spread in many churches across Canada and into northern U. S. A. especially in Oregon. Everywhere the marks of the revival included honesty before God and others with confession of sin and an outpouring of the love of God in those who repented.

The German speaking churches were also touched by the revival and by May 1972 they chartered a flight to Germany for teams to minister there.

The Afterglow meetings were common everywhere in the revival. After a meeting had finished those who wanted to stay on for prayer did so. Usually, each person desiring prayer knelt at a chair and others laid hands on them and prayed for them. Many repented and were filled with the Spirit in the Afterglow meetings which often went to midnight or later.

Sherwood Wirt reports on his experience of an Afterglow. As he sat in a chair and people came to pray for him. They told him to,

Ask God to crucify you.

Crucify me? I wasn’t even sure the idea was theologically sound.

“To do what?” I stammered.

“Nail you to the cross” was the reply …

“Now ask God to fill you with his Spirit and thank him for it.” …

“You probably don’t have much of a sensation of blessing now… Don’t worry. The feeling will come later and how!”

She was right. It came. And it has never left …

The Holy Spirit used a divine solvent… to dissolve the bitterness in my heart… In his own time and at his own pleasure he sent a divine solvent into this troubled heart. It was like the warmth of the sun burning off the layers of fog.

I don’t know just how the love came in, but I know that all the bitterness I held against others including those near to me disappeared.

Resentment hostility hurt feelings you name it.

They all dissolved. Evaporated.

Went.

He commented on this laying hands on people for prayer, which was normal in Afterglows: “Call it revival, renewal, a fresh touch, an anointing, times of refreshing, or what you will. I needed it.”

That deep work of the Spirit continues now across the world. Its expressions vary with different cultures and denominational traditions. However, the divine Spirit deeply impacts those who continue to seek the Lord.

PRAYERS FOR TODAY'S FASTING PROGRAM

Let us pray saints:

1. Lord, let us know you more in our personal relationship, so we may comfort others in Jesus Mighty Name.

2. Lord help us to in unity with those around us, by the bond of Your Spirit in Jesus Mighty Name!

3. Lord we ask through the name of Your Son Jesus that you destroy every work of the devil delaying the fire of repentance revival coming to our lives in Jesus mighty name!

4. Pray that God will reveal His requirements for genuine revival in your life, family, church, community, and nation. Ask God to start that revival in your own heart and life that repentance revival will flow.

5. Ask God what He wants you to do today to apply what He has revealed to you and run with it. What actions will you take after this fasting day?

6. Pray for an alertness and an awakening from spiritual slumber, do that you may be ablaze. Ask the Lord to awaken the remnant body of Christ and draw more saints into the Body of Christ.

7. Declare readiness over God’s people for radical change that will come from a powerful move of God!

8. Decree that lives are being characterised by an increasing hunger for a new move of God and experience Your healing power in Jesus mighty Name!

9. Ask God to do a fresh work within our heart this weekend, that just as you moved in Canada, that you will start with us today and do great things in Jesus Mighty Name!

10. May revival come to each of our homes and change family members to be on fire for God in Jesus Mighty Name!

11. Lord we pray for Pastor Robert’s Meeting in Namibia that has started today, may You come and visit Your people as You have promised in Jesus Mighty name!

12. Any principality in the heavenlies delaying your progress and Gods messengers be removed in Jesus mighty name!

13. Any agent of satanic delay in my (office, home, school, place of work, city, and nation), withholding my promotion/graduation, revival may they be completely removed and rendered powerless in the mighty name of Jesus!

14. Father we ask that you please send angelic reinforcements from the 3rd heavens to release our blessings and arrest all demonic hinderances in the 2nd heavens, in the mighty name of Jesus!

15. Father for my shame, troubles, and delay, I shall receive double honour, in the mighty name of Jesus!

16. I refuse to give up until my testimony gives birth to many other testimonies and revival comes to my home, church, city, and nation, in the mighty name of Jesus!

17. Lord let your Holy Spirit fire fall upon each person's home today to stir revival in the hearts of Your remnant in Jesus Mighty Name!