Benefits of fasting:
1. Helps you to war in the spirit, it is spiritual warfare. There are battles you will never win until you fast, bondages in your family's bloodline that can only break when you fast.
2. Helps you to undo heavy burdens. There are some people you will not be able to forgive until you fast. You may want to move on, but you just don't have the grace and the ability to let go. Someone hurt you so bad and you're like, God I want to forgive but I don't have the ability. When you fast God will give you that ability that you'll just feel lighter.
3. It causes you to walk in power, free the oppressed. Not only are you able to lose bonds of wickedness or undo heavy burdens but you will have the power to bring Deliverance to other people. The devil knows people who have authority in the spirit. He is not scared of every believer; just because you call yourself saved doesn't scare him. What scares the devil is when you know your authority. It doesn't matter whether you're young or old.
4. It breaks every yoke. I have essentially already spoken about that but the Bible says this, I've given you what will break every yoke; not some yoke every yoke. I pray that I'm already stirring you enough to make a resolve that even when you feel like eating, you say no.
5. It causes the light of God to Break Forth(light breaks forth like the morning) Is there darkness in some areas of your life? Do you want the light to Break Forth? Begin to fast, your light shall break forth like the morning and not only that when the light came, the Bible says; God divided the light from darkness. In the name of Jesus this year God is separating light from Darkness. Wherever there has been darkness in your life let the light of God be in Jesus name.
6. Brings healing, I am talking about physical healing. There are certain diseases that will simply go away when you fast. This has been proven by doctors as well (Your healing shall spring forth speedily).
7. Enables you to walk in righteousness. Certain bondages, habits and sins will only break when you fast. Personally, I've been able to overcome addictions and lusts of all kinds. The devil runs away; you don't even know where he has gone because you're fasting.
8. It releases the glory of God. The glory of God means the weight of God; the heaviness of God. Some of us are weighed down by so many things, I pray that you now begin to feel the weight of His Glory Hallelujah!
9. It will cause you to have swift answers. (verse 9 - you shall call and the Lord will answer you will cry and say here I am) you're going to begin to see your answers.
10. Fasting brings Clarity (verse 11 - the Lord will guide you continually) are you in a place of confusion? Are you in a place where you don't understand what to do? You don't know where to go? It is time for you to fast, you will get clarity.
You have to get to a certain point and say, you know; I have always eaten. I know I love this, but for the sake of what God is about to do, for the sake of the yokes that must break I will deny myself what is rightfully mine that I may see the glory of God.
