{"id":2996,"date":"2021-02-04T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2021-02-04T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T06:06:14","slug":"understanding-the-blessedness-of-prayer-and-fasting-pastor-emmanuel-aikpokpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/?p=2996","title":{"rendered":"Understanding The Blessedness Of Prayer And Fasting &#8211; Pastor Emmanuel Aikpokpo."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2857\" src=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_20210117-200950-292x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_20210117-200950-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screenshot_20210117-200950.png 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fasting is not to proof points, fasting is not to make men know (Isaiah 58: 4-11). When you fast you come out better and not come out bitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fasting brings supernatural light which enhance your health and makes you live right for God.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happen When You Fast?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. When you fast God take over your battle (2 chronicles 20:4).<\/p>\n<p>Battles are real, they can come from anywhere. You carry Glory and the devil is on a mission attacking men with Glory.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. Fasting enhance access to divine guidance (Psalm 23:1).<\/p>\n<p>The Lord is a great teacher, He guide&#8217;s believers to perfection (Isaiah 58:11; Isaiah 48:17-21).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">You must understand that, whoever leads you determine where you go to. The leading of God should be your desire daily.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3. Fasting engender divine health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are many sickness that can&#8217;t be detected (Isaiah 59:19). Sickness<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> is a flood, and fasting raise up a standard against such.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The scripture says the Earth is full with wickedness (Job 33: 21-23).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. Fasting secures posterity (Pslam 22:30). Fasting is serving God (Luke 2: 35-36).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5. It empowers fulfillment of prophecies (John 5: 35).<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting is not to proof points, fasting is not to make men know (Isaiah 58: 4-11). When you fast you come out better and not come out bitter.\u00a0 Fasting brings&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[58,165,71,56,166],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quotes","tag-church-gist","tag-fasting","tag-lfc","tag-living-faith-church","tag-prayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrib.org.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}