Jesus is Coming

WHY ?

Dr. June Knight

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Healing Why Do We Fast?

◦ We are running a race – warfare tactic

◦ We need to humble ourselves

◦ Taking authority over our temples

◦ Allowing our Spirit-man to rise up

◦ To hear from God

◦ Heal our bodies

◦ To show God how serious we are about an issue or our lives/nation To prepare for spiritual warfare

Luke 4:1, 14 James 4:7-8 Ephesians 6:12

To strengthen Matthew 12:28- our faith and 29; 17:21; Mark build up our 9:29 spirit man Following examples of believers &

• fasted 40 days without bread or • The king & people of Ninevah ( water and God gave the Ten 4:11) Commandments (Ex. 34:28) • Jesus fasted 40 days and nights before • Queen Esther (Esther 4:13-16) his public ministry (Matt. 4:1-11) • Nehemiah (Nehemiah 9:1-2) • Anna the prophetess (Matt. 9:14-15) • (Psalm 35:13; 109:24) • Elders were appointed with fasting (Acts 14:23; Acts 13:1-3) • (Isaiah 62:6-7) • Paul (2 Cor. 6:5) • (Daniel 10:2-3) Why?

Seeking God’s forgiveness & as a demonstration of repentance and humility The king & people of Ninevah (Jonah 4:11) Prior to public ministry Jesus fasted 40 days and nights before his public ministry (Matt. 4:1-11) Watching for the fulfillment of prophesy Anna the prophetess (Matt. 9:14-15) Seeking God’s will Elders were appointed with fasting (Acts 14:23; Acts 13:1-3) For fruitfulness in ministry Paul (2 Cor. 6:5) To come closer to God, know His will, and fulfill His desires Zechariah 7:5 Advice on How to Do It Some people should steer clear of trying intermittent fasting:

• Children and teens under age 18. • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. • People with diabetes or blood sugar problems. • Those with a history of eating disorders.

Source -https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and- prevention/intermittent-fasting-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work

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Here are some intermittent fasting benefits research has revealed so far:

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under • Thinking and memory. Studies discovered that intermittent fasting boosts workingCC BY-NC-ND memory in animals and verbal memory in adult humans. • Heart health. Intermittent fasting improved blood pressure and resting heart rates as well as other heart-related measurements. • Physical performance. Young men who fasted for 16 hours showed fat loss while maintaining muscle mass. Mice who were fed on alternate days showed better endurance in running. • Diabetes and obesity. In animal studies, intermittent fasting prevented obesity. And in six brief studies, obese adult humans lost weight through intermittent fasting. • Tissue health. In animals, intermittent fasting reduced tissue damage in surgery and improved results.

Source - https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/intermittent-fasting-what-is-it-and-how-does-it-work Fasting Cycle

No Food

Discipline Prayer

Reading Word What to Expect During Fasting

Herbal tea with a Prepare for some Expect some drop of honey temporary mental physical discomforts Vegetable broth in (avoid black tea or Take short walks discomforts such as especially on the cold weather caffeinated teas or impatience, second day of the coffee) crankiness, anxiety fast.

Don’t use May experience Take power naps as Drink plenty of toothpaste after 2nd shedding on your able. water day – use baking tongue or white soda tongue Hunger During a Fast

• During the first several days of a fast, hunger may be intense. After that, hunger usually subsides but returns when the body has cleaned itself out or depletes its reserves. Of course, many of us often erroneously think that we are experiencing hunger, which is a physiological need of the body for nutrients. Instead, what we may be experiencing is false hunger due to any number of the following: low blood sugar; an irritation of the lining of the stomach; food-addictions; the discomfort of the body in utilizing reserves; a desire for stimulation; a genuine need for essential nutrients, expressed by a craving for foods dilute in those nutrients; tiredness experienced as a need for food, thinking about, stimulation from seeing, or smelling food, habituation to regularity; or a desire for distraction from a distasteful task or chore. False hunger may appear during a fast for any of the above reasons and especially when one is exposed to the sight or odor of food, but after the first few days of fasting, true hunger is absent. Source - http://www.chuckrowtaichi.com/Fasting.html

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Scriptures about it 2:12-13

• 12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: • 13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

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• 1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of their sins. • 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. • 3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

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•Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

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• And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

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• 12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

• 13 And they took their bones, and buried them

under a tree at Jabesh, This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND and fasted seven days. 2 Samuel 12:16 & 2 Samuel 12:21-23

1.David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 2.Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. 3.And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? 4.But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA 1 KINGS 12 - AHAB & JEZEBEL STORY 2 Chronicles 20:2-4

• 2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi. • 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. • 4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

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• And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. • Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

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•But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

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When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

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My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA This is a yoke Isaiah 58:6

• Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Corporate Fasts! 36:9 • And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

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• Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep

went from him. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Daniel 9:3

• And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplication s, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: Joel 1:14

•Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC JOEL 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: Jonah 3:5

• So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

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And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was

afterward an hungred. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY Matthew 6:17-19 – Heart of Fasting

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17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: MATTHEW 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

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• I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

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•And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

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• As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. • And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

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•And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

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1 Corinthians 7:5

• Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that tempt you not for your incontinency. 2 CORINTHIANS 6:5 ~FAST IN TROUBLE~

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in ; 2 Corinthians 11:27 •In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA • “There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the . She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.” • --:36-37 This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Fasting is a spiritual discipline which helps us to seek God and to develop spiritually • “Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. He will receive blessing from the Lord and vindication from God his Savior. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek your face, O God of Jacob.” -- Psalm 24:3-6 Fasting as Warfare • “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit…” • -–:1-2, 14

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND Thus we are fasting and allowing God to lead us in the next phase of this chapter We are submitting our will to HIS WILL

We are choosing to give God our ALL

We are in corporate agreement for God’s will to be completed in the Earth We need healing from rejection & shock of what’s happening in world We are in We need to prepare for what is coming

Tribulation We need God to move in our lives in a mighty way

& Need We need self-discipline

We need to HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE Help CHURCH in this hour! WATB.tv CONTACT US [email protected] We are the Bride Ministries Dr. June Knight, Pastor 134 1st Ave NW Winchester, TN 37398 931-915-8042

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