14/01/2025
ANOINTING SERVICE - SUNDAY 12TH JANUARY, 2025.
THE WORD AND PICTURE EXCERPTS.
MINISTERING - PST ADENIYI O. SALAKO ( )
TOPIC: ENGAGING THE WONDERS OF PRAYER AND FASTING – PART 2
Introduction:
Fasting is not burden but a blessing of unfathomable dimension – Jer. 23:33-40
NOTE:
The cost (price) of prayer and fasting cannot be compared with the amazing weight of glory (prize) in returns – Psa. 63:1-3/2 Cor. 4:17.
* PRAYER is a powerful mystery allocated to the saints for Dominion.
- In the parable Jesus shows us how prayer is a powerful Dominion system.
- He talks about the judge and the widow.
* The Judge had no regard for God nor men but the weak widow kept insisting for him to avenge her adversary.
- And for a while he didn’t mind her.
NB: This is telling us also, that sometimes when you pray, we should give it time.
God is telling you that, that’s how it works at times.... Not He (God) didn't hear, But He (God) is saying be patient, give it time - MY TIME TABLE IS DIFFERENT FROM YOURS.
NOTE:
* Our staying power and consistency in prayer matters a whole lot.
------Show me a woman who can pray and I will show you a Deborah rising.----
- At the end, the heartless judge decided to grant the woman’s request because he became weary of her.
* This is scriptural revelation is telling us that our persistence can cause Satan to get weary.
* It's telling us that a day can come through consistent prayer you can wear the devil to let go.
NB: No matter how weak a man is, if he can sustain praying power, one day something must happen.
PRAYER:
* Something extraordinary, beautiful and pleasant will happen to you in quick succession this year in Jesus name. Amen.
There are things, situations and circumstances that will never yield to your command until you engage the force of prayer, and when couples with fasting, light on what to do to get quick results (solutions, answers etc) begins to shine – Mt. 17:20-21.
Matt. 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
There are heights you can NEVER attain without fasting and prayer – Mt. 9:14-15
We have 3 forces required to command dominion:
1. Faith: This is the arrow head – Eph. 6:16
Eph. 6:16 above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
2. Prayer: This is the 1st backup for faith to deliver
3. Fasting: This is the 2nd backup and unarguable, potent, irresistible force.
Jesus: – Luk. 4:1-2/14
Luk. 4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Vs. 2 being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Vs. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
NOTE:
Though He (Jesus) was ordained to be the savior; He couldn’t fulfill His God given destiny until he engaged the 1st backup of faith which is Prayer, and He garnished it with the irresistible 2nd backup of faith which is Fasting.
PRAYER:
- This year, you shall be blessed beyond measure.
- You shall not labour in vain this year.
- Your light will shine so bright this year in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
REMAIN EVER BLESSED