Victory Christian Center

Fasting will loose things that are holding us back. I have been praying for creativity to be loosed and for depression to be lifted from people, and for cycles of sin and addictions to be permanently broken from the lives of people connected to our church family. These are promises in God's Word. When I say I am praying for creativity, I mean ideas that lead to excellence in every area of life and bring blessing because of the wisdom of God. We should be the most creative people on the Earth because of the Holy Spirit and the fact that we have access to God's thoughts when we pray and seek His face. Disappointments and failures and unresolved conflict can have a suffocating effect on lives. Bitter expectations can develop from the deep hurts of betrayal and injustice. We can repent of those bitter expectations and be released from the pain of past experiences. This time of fasting is a great time to talk to God about anything that might be a hindrance to His perfect will for us. Just read the following passage and think about things that can be restored, released, and rebuilt.


Isaiah 58:6-14 (Amplified Bible)

6[Rather] is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every [enslaving] yoke?
7Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house--when you see the naked, that you cover him, and that you hide not yourself from [the needs of] your own flesh and blood?
8Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, Here I am. If you take away from your midst yokes of oppression [wherever you find them], the finger pointed in scorn [toward the oppressed or the godly], and every form of false, harsh, unjust, and wicked speaking,
10And if you pour out that with which you sustain your own life for the hungry and satisfy the need of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity and gloom become like the noonday.
11And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
12And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of [buildings that have laid waste for] many generations; and you shall be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.
13If you turn away your foot from [traveling unduly on] the Sabbath, from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a [spiritual] delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor Him and it, not going your own way or seeking or finding your own pleasure or speaking with your own [idle] words,
14Then will you delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.