Can Prayer Change a Nation?

Can Prayer Change a Nation?

Elvis Iverson
http://www.elvisiverson.com

Can prayer change a nation? Prayer is the beginning of change is a nation. To change a nation is a work of patience, and it take much time, and much years of prayer. In order to change a nation over night, this takes many years of sown seeds and watering, it is God who gives the increase. One thing you must believe that God wants to change your nation! –(Rev. 22:2)

Changing nations is a work of patience, and lifetime prayer work, you need to have revelation of prayer, and new revelation of prayer to continue in prayer, we need to hear the prophetic words over our nation, and take them to heart and in prayer. –(Prov. 29:18)

Within our local churches we need a heart for prayer, to pray for nations to change, as we pray we must change our life, then our prayers will have more force of change apply upon them. –(Jam. 4:1-10)

We need to have prayer centers in every city, where believers from many groups can come together in unity, love, vision to pray for their city and their nation. –(Matt. 21:12-17)

We need massive prayer movements led by apostles and prophets. –(Zech. 12:10)

Prayer is just one of parts that change a nation, changing a nation is a work of social transformation; it comes by faith action and supernatural action. This is why we must by grace and vision in unity take the seven mountains of our world in our nations and cities. Changing nations is a process of steps of faith action and supernatural outpourings. The church in the workplace must be established and the church must be reformed, and the ministry of the apostles must rise up the kings of the Kingdom. –(Rev. 11:15)

We need the pearl of great price, which is the revelation of the Kingdom of God, with this revelation in our hearts; the Kingdom of God will begin to unfold from the hearts of the believers to change our world for Christ. –(LK. 17:21)

However, we need a new vision of the end times, we need to change our old mindsets about the end times and begin to pray in faith and hope about the glory of the end times, this will help us to believe that our nation can be saved and give glory to Christ. –(Rev. 21:24-26)

We must do the work of prayer, and the ground work, etc. and take the seven mountains, have the pearl of great price, and change our mindsets about the end times to see changes come to a nation! –(Heb. 11:1)

I personal I have prayed much for the nation of India, and the Lord have shown me His heart for India, the Lord will call us to commit to pray for certain nations for change, this year for 90 days I was led to pray five hours five days a week for America, and other nations, and what the Lord wants me to pray, I believe that there is much prayer in our time then any other times before our time.

I believe the Lord will change America, and many other nations; revival and social transformation will come to America. Social transformation in one word is the manifestation of the Kingdom of God.

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Fasting and Praying for Israel

Fasting and Praying for Israel

Elvis Iverson
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God so Love the World that He gave and sent His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ to die and redeem us through His Blood and His resurrection. –(Jn. 3:16, Rev. 5:9)

God loves Israel, His focus a lot of His time on Israel, He will never leave Israel, and He will raise her up once again. God Loves the Church He wills to glorify His Church in the Earth, the church is His beloved Bride, and He will raise her up. God loves the world, He wants to heal and restore all the earth, and He wants to heal and redeem many people groups and nations to Him. –(Psa. 102:16, Eph. 5:25)

The Kingdom of God, Israel, the Church, and the World is His passion, He loves them all with the same love, but each are special in His Eyes, and we are to do likewise. An intercessor is to be passionate with what God loves, and pray forth the manifestations of His love, and fullness and fulfillment of His love. –(1 Jn. 4:7-11)

Israel is the apply of God’s eye, We are to be a blessing to Israel and the Jewish people, if we are God will bless us indeed, and we are to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, this is one of the prayer request that the Lord wants us to be faithful to pray. Those who love Jerusalem, God will prosper them. –(Psa. 122:6)

Jerusalem is a very heavy stone to any person or nation that will to control her; only the Jewish people and the Lord are to reign in Jerusalem. We as believers are to have a holy passionate burning to pray for Israel, Jerusalem, and the Jewish people. –(Zech. 12:1-9)

The Lord is calling certain believers to be Watchmen intercessors, which will fast and pray for Israel, Jerusalem, and the Jewish people. We are to pray until the Lord establishes and makes Jerusalem praise in the earth. We are to pray and fast for Israel, Jerusalem, and the Jewish people. –(Isa. 62:6-7)

There are those who are called with a special calling to pray and fast for Israel, however every believer in the Church is called to pray for Israel. –(Isa. 62:6-7)

When you fast for Israel, you fast for the promises of the Lord toward Israel and the Jewish people, during your fast you pray for Israel much. –(Isa. 58)

How to pray for Israel:

1. Pray for salvation to come to all of Israel and all of the Jewish people. –(Rom. 10:1)
2. Pray for the peace for Jerusalem, Israel and all Jewish people. –(Psa. 122:6)
3. Pray for Jerusalem to be established in righteousness far from oppression, far from fear, and far from terror, and pray that the Lord make her praise in the earth. –(Isa. 62:6-7)
4. Pray for the restoration of the Torah, the Feasts and the Sabbath and pray for Israel and the Church to come into a holy union and oneness in the Lord. –(Rom. 9,11)
5. Pray for the rain of the Holy, and outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and pray for the Lord to pour out the Spirit of grace and the Spirit of Supplication upon all of Israel and all Jewish people. –(Zech. 10:1, 12:10)
6. Pray for all of the Jewish people to have access and to be led by the Lord to return to the Promise land, Israel, and be restore spiritually and have revivals and great revival. –(Jer. 16:14-16)
7. Pray for the Lord’s protection, and to rise up the sheep Nations to protect Israel, the Jewish people and the Church. –(Matt. 25:32)
8. Pray for the New Apostolic Messianic Church to rise in Jerusalem, Israel, and among all Jewish People, and pray for the Lord to rise up Jewish apostles and Jewish prophets. –(Eph. 2:20)
9. Pray for Egypt, Iraq and Israel to come into peace and a holy alliance with the Lord and with one another, and that through them peace will come to the Middle East. –(Isa. 19:18-25)
10. Pray for times of restoration, times of progression, and pray for times of healing for Israel, and all Jewish people. –(Ezek. 47:1-12, Acts 3:19-21,Rev. 22:2)

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The Bridegroom Fast

The Bridegroom Fast

Elvis Iverson
http://www.elvisiverson.com

Many from around the world are being called and commission to pray and fast for the church. They are being anointed and giving grace to pray and fast for the church around the world, they have hearing ears to hear the Holy Spirit, to hear the apostles, and to hear the prophets, they see the Prophetic Holy Scriptures about the Church, God’s eternal purpose. –(LK. 5:33-35)

They have revelation of the Church, and the unity of the church, and the city church, and they have the revelation of the future and destiny of the church. –(Eph. 3:11)

The Bridegroom fast is a holy fast unto the Lord and on the behalf of the church, they fast for the church today, tomorrow, future and the end times, and her destiny. –(Neh. 1,2

This is a holy commission of fasting which, is a generational fasting from generation to generation, you are not fasting for a group, instead you are fasting for the whole church, and those called to this kind of fasting can see the whole church. –(1 Cor. 11:27-32)

There is the fasting anointing, and there are those called to the fasting life, an anointing and grace to fast much throughout their life, in this calling, there are divisions in fasting and praying, some are called to fast for one purpose, there are some called to fast for Israel, and there are some called to fast for the church, and there are some called to fast for a nation, or a city. However, all believers are called to pray to for the church, and all believers are called to pray for Israel too. –(Eph. 6:18)

What do you fast and pray for, when fasting for the church? You are to fast as led by the Lord, and it will help if you have a group who will fast together for the church, and the leading of the Lord in the fast. –(Matt. 18:18-20)

Here are some ideals for fasting and praying for the church:

1. Fast and pray for unity, the unity of the Faith, the Unity of the Godhead, and the unity of the Spirit. Fast and pray for a united church.
2. Fast and pray for the city church, regional church, national church, and the global church.
3. Fast and pray for the Lord to rise up the city church in every city in every nation.
4. Fast and pray for the Lord to rise up the New Apostolic City Church in every city around the world.
5. Fast and pray for the Lord to raise up apostles, prophets in the church around the world.
6. Pray and fast for the mature city church.
7. Pray and fast for the mature church.
8. Pray and fast for the Lord to sanctify and cleanse the church.
9. Pray and fast for the church to be a glorious church, a church full of glory, pray for the church to be filled with revivals, pray for the church to overflow with revivals.
10. Pray and fast for a holy church.
11. Pray and fast for an overcoming, victories and conquering church.
12. Pray and fast for reformation and times of reformation for the church.
13. Pray and fast for times of refreshing, times of restoration, and times of progression for the church.
14. Pray and fast for the church to rise up as the city of God throughout the world.
15. Pray and fast for union of the Church and the Kingdom of God.
16. Pray and fast for the union of the church and Israel.
17. Pray and fast for harvest, and pray for harvests of souls for the Lord, pray for the Lord to increase and add to the church.
18. Pray and fast for labors for the church.
19. Pray and fast for the saints to be rise up to do the work of the ministry, and the kings of the Kingdom to be rise up.
20. Pray and fast for the church to be filled with gifts, spiritual gifts, gifts of the Spirit, and the power of God.
21. Pray and fast for the outpourings of signs, wonders, prophesy, visions and dream upon the church.
22. Pray and fast for the Church to have hearing ear to hear the Holy Spirit, the apostles, and prophets.
23. Pray and fast for freedom, and liberty, and open doors and open gates for the church.
Pray for grace, and grace, and apostolic grace and apostolic anointing to pour upon the church from the Chief Apostle our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pray for the Lord to build, raise, increase and mature the church.


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Praying prayers for the City Church

Praying prayers for the City Church

Elvis Iverson
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Since 1991 I become a person of prayer and intercession, it was the Lord who placed a burden and passion for prayer, most of all I had a burden to pray for the nations, cities and people groups in addition, the Holy Spirit would give me teaching on prayer, etc. for the church. –(Isa. 62:6-7)

In 1993 the Lord give me a vision of a prayer ministry, and in 1999 I was lead to begin this prayer ministry, I believe it was to prepare a way for others, etc. the end of the last year this prayer ministry fulfilled its mission. During the time of this prayer ministry we prayed for nations, cities, and the body of Christ. –(1 Cor. 3:9)

I have always had a love for the church of the city, and the body of Christ and to see unity come to the church. When I moved to Omaha, Nebraska the Lord give me a vision of the city church, although I have already giving teachings on the city church, it was later when I heard of teachings of the city church from others, that ideals and seeds were planted in my heart, I believe this was a path that I was being led upon from step to step, then the Holy Spirit begun to teach me on the city church more. All of this led me to pray prayers of unity, and prayers for the body of Christ. –(Prov. 29:18)

I remember back a time age when I prayed to the Lord teach me about the future of the Church, and He has been teaching me ever since that time; therefore we must see the city church that is today, which is pastoral unity, then the next level that is coming which is apostolic unity, and the end time church; from all of this we are to pray prayers for the church, the city church and the Kingdom of God and all members in the Body of Christ. –(Jer. 33:3)

Praying prayers for the City Church:

1. Pray for the city church to arise in every city of every nation.
2. Pray for the city church to arise in unity, glory, power, anointing, signs, wonders, wisdom, prophetic, apostolic, revelation, authority, vision, and freedom.
3. Pray for city church unity to come to every city church.
4. Pray for apostolic unity to come to every city church.
5. Pray for unity to come among all congregations within every city of every nation.
6. Pray for territorial apostles and city church apostles to arise in every city church.
7. Pray for workplace apostles to arise in every city.
8. Pray for a pool of apostles to arise in every city.
9. Pray for a company of prophets to arise, and territorial prophets to arise in every city.
10. Pray for a company of intercessors to arise, and territorial intercessors to arise in every city.
11. Pray for city church networks to arise in every city.
12. Pray for city church centers to arise in every city.
13. Pray for the ministry to the poor and hurting to arise in every city.
14. Pray for a company of workplace believers to arise in every city.
15. Pray for revivals, massive revivals, and habitational revival to come to every city church.
16. Pray for revivals, massive revivals to come to every city.
17. Pray for reformation, and massive reformation to come to every city church.
18. Pray for social transformation, and massive social transformation to come to every city.
19. Pray for the mature city church, the fullness of the city, and every growth level of the city church, and pray the maturity of every level and growth of the city church.
20. Pray for vision and revelation of the city church to be release to all hearts in the body of Christ.
21. Pray for the national church to arise in every nation.
22. Pray for the national church to arise in revivals, reformation, unity, visions, dreams, signs, wonders, wisdom, revelation, vision, and blessings.
23. Pray for the global church to arise around the world.
24. Pray for the global church to arise in unity, power, grace, mercy, vision, revelation, prayer, networking, compassion, holiness, and glory.

I truly believe as we move forth in our time we will see the next level of city church, right now the Holy Spirit is speaking this now word to His apostles and prophets, and a prayer burden is being giving to us in order to pray for the city church of today, and the future. –(Est. 4:14-16)

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High Level Warfare

High Level Warfare

Elvis Iverson
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There is more then one battlefield, there is more then just one level of warfare; there is the battlefield of the mind, there is the battle of the church, there is the battlefield of the lost, there is the battlefield of finances, etc. then there is ground level warfare, we are called to pray, war and cast out demons on ground level warfare, there is occult level warfare, it is not so funny that there are Christians who are being mislead to cast spells upon other believers, we are called to take this level of warfare. Then there is strategic level warfare, which is dealing with principalities, etc. –(Eph. 6:12)

First and foremost, if we will establish the deliverance ministry in our new apostolic congregations, and establish a discipleship ministry with basic deliverance for all newborn believers, we will begin to see breakthrough in our congregations and the lives of believers. –(Col. 3:1-17)

The deliverance ministry, cast out demons, and ground level warfare is what is needed, all believers are called to cast out demons, and then there are those called to the deliverance ministry, and then we see the apostles in the New Testament cast out demons, such as Paul who had a great deliverance ministry. –(Acts 19:1-19)

In addition, there needs to be a strong intercessory ministry in our new apostolic congregations, and we need the establishment of the prophetic ministry in our new apostolic congregations. All these are needed to pray and war for freedom and liberty for our cities. –(Eph. 6:18, 1 Tim. 2:1-5)

There needs to be spiritual mapping of our cities, then we need to be prayerful over the information that we have found, and lead to identificational repentance, prayer walking, and praying over power points and spiritual stronghold in our cities, there are a lot to do before we enter into high level warfare. –(Josh. 1:1-9)

The next step we need to hear from prophets, prophetic words and visions for our city, what is God’s vision and destiny for our city, what are the prophets are saying about our city, and then commit those prophetic things to much prayer. –(Hab. 2:1-4, Acts 15:32)

Besides, we need citywide reconciliation meetings to break and weaken spiritual darkness in our city. –(Eph. 2:13,14,16)

Before we enter into high-level warfare, we need an apostle who is season in warfare that could lead with vision and revelation into high-level warfare. There needs to be at least three new apostolic congregations that come together to pray and war over our city. High-level warfare is to be done with more then one congregation. –(2 Cor. 10:3-6)

A believer on his own should never enter into high-level warfare, a church without an apostle should never enter into high-level warfare, and a congregation should never go alone into high-level warfare. A company of believers can do warfare to a certain point, but without apostles they should not go beyond those points of warfare. Above all if we are not led by the Holy Spirit then don’t enter into high-level warfare. –(Matt. 16:18-19, 18:18-20)

Preparation to high-level warfare:

1. Be lead by the Holy Spirit; be prayed up, with much fasting and prayer.
2. Follow the preparations leading to high-level warfare; deliverance ministry, basic deliverance, intercessory ministry, prophetic ministry, spiritual mapping, identificational repentance, prayer walking, praying over power points and spiritual stronghold, City-wide reconciliation, hearing from the prophets about our city.
3. Unity, vision, cooperation with at least three congregations.
4. A season apostle, who is season in warfare, to lead us into high-level warfare.
5. Be patience and prayerful.
6. Follow up with much prayer and worship.
7. Enter into high praise in high-level warfare.
8. Pray for protection, and ask those outside of your city, to cover you in much prayer.
9. Have citywide corporate services, and City church wide corporate services.
10. Promote Christ and unity among all believers.
11. Pray for establishment of the Kingdom of God, replace the kingdom of darkness in your city.
12. Raise up the city church in your city.

Moreover, we need to pray for massive repentance and the increase of Holy Spirit activity and increase of church attendances, and there needs to be city-wide, city church wide reconciliation meetings, and city church unity. –(Acts 2:40-47)

Notwithstanding, if massive repentance comes to our cities, and then high-level warfare will be much easy to follow through, the goal of high-level warfare is freedom, liberty, and repentance and social transformation and revival. –(Acts 19)

Furthermore, the day will come that high-level warfare will be wide spread in the church, and the kingdom of darkness will fall all over the world, and there will be societal transformation and social transformation all over the world in many cities and many nations. –(Rev. 22:2, 21:24)

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Famine of Relationship

Famine of Relationship

Elvis Iverson
http://www.elvisiverson.com

There are famines all over the church around the world, spiritual famines can bring religious spirits and take away spiritual hunger from the church. This is a day of restoration and progression of spiritual rains, fruitful lands, and the life of the Spirit. –(Amos 8:11)

There are spiritual famines: spiritual famine of love, spiritual famine of revelation, spiritual famine of healing, spiritual famine of the supernatural, spiritual famine of prophecy and visions, spiritual famine of vision and purpose, and spiritual famine of relationship. –(1 Sam. 3:1)

Much of the church today is in a famine of relationship, we lack relationships and networking, we don’t build around relationship, instead we build teaching, and programs, there can be no rivers of revelation without true wholesome biblical relationships. –(Matt. 15:3)

Yes we are to build on teaching, however we to build on love, first love the Lord second love one another. We need to be built on the two great commandments, which is love God, and then to love one another. We must learn to build upon relationship again. –(Matt. 22:37-38)

Yes we are to build on teaching, yes we are to build on faith, and yes we are to build on revelation from the Word, notwithstanding we are to build on relationship, without relationship there could be no river of revelation, and faith without love is religion –(1 Cor. 3:1-17, 1:10)

We are to receive those whom Christ has already received, we are to build on relationship with one another throughout the church in our city, region, nation, and global. We are to build relationships with other Christians outside our own groups, we may not agree on everything, but we are to receive those whom Christ has received. –(Rom. 14:1, 15:7)

Unity around the Cross of Christ, first unity with God, which means love God, second unity with one another, which means love one another; it is time to build on relationship in the church beginning in your city! –(Jn. 17)

Yes we are to build on common ground, common faith of the church, we are to teach this common ground, then to teach love for one another. –(1 Tim. 3:14-16, Jude 3)

In addition, within our own congregations begin to build again upon relationship with the Lord and then with one another. Build relationships in small groups in cell groups or home churches. –(Acts 2:42,46)

It is time for the famine of relationship to come to an end! Now here is prayer, let us prayer together in faith. –(1 Jn. 5:14-15)

Father we come to your throne through the Blood of Christ, this is the time of vision, of faith, of new beginning, this is a time of restoration, bless us to hear your voice in this hour and in days to come, anoint us to pray your will for the church around the world.

Father raises up Christian unity, rise up Christian unity, and rise
Up Christian unity, rise up Christian unity, rise up Christian unity, rise up Christian unity. Raise up Christian unity in all members, in our hearts, in our minds, in our homes, in our congregations, in our groups, in our ministries, in our companies, in our workplace and in our lives.

Bring forth rains of healing love, love, inner healing, joy, and
Restoration upon all hearts of the believers in all cities of all nations around the world.

Give Christian unity wings of healing, let us arise around the
Church in every nation, and in every city to bring healing, let the sick be healed, let the hurts of the heart be healed. And let us be healed from sin, and sinful lifestyles.

It is you Lord Jesus Christ who will arise with wings of healing in Christian unity and the unity of all believers in Christ, where there is unity there is health and healing in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

However, we cry with tears of spiritual pain, praying for unity and love. We have cried so much that our tears are no longer ours but the Lord in Heaven and in our hearts. Tears are flowing from our hearts for the church around the world.

Father forgive us of bringing this famine of relationship to the church, we have built on doctrine, but we have not built on relationship. We are to build on love, for the Lord first then second we are to build upon love for one another.

Establish the foundation of love with God, and love with one
another in the church again, including every believer in Jesus the world over and bring this holy restoration and progress to the church once again, and let us never lose love again.

If we will walk in love with truth again the gates and doors of
harvests and miracles will open up, many will come to know the Lord, our cities will change, our homes will change, our congregations will change, and miracles will become a lifestyle for the common believer.

Father lead us out of this famine of relationship, lead us to
love and relationship again, that we may drink of the Spirit again, lead us out today from this land of spiritual famines and lead us to the land of blessing, rain, revival, and love.

Father we pray end this famine of relationship in the church in every congregation, in every city, in every nation around the world. End this famine of relationship in our lives today, and give us clouds of love and relationship that are full of love and relationship, and rain mighty rains of the Spirit upon us today.

We pray bring unity in the church around the world.

We pray in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Restoration of Fasting

Restoration of Fasting

Elvis Iverson
http://www.elvisiverson.com

In my teen years the Lord blessed me with the witness of faithful saints who were faithful in fasting and much prayer. I to felt the deep leading of the Holy Spirit and burden of fasting, the burden of fasting is a liberty burned of the liberty of the Spirit. Throughout my teen years I fasted many times, and I prayed many times, I loved to fast and I believed in the power of fasting. Now in the last five years again I have been led to fast many times and to fast often and pray much, during this time the Holy Spirit begun to give me teachings from the Word of God, Word Revelation about the power of fasting. I believe that in my teen years of fasting was a time of preparation for my future ministry and my holy calling, you know our calling is holy, and during these last five years of fasting, I have seen breakthrough and the fruits of fasting when I fasted. –(Heb. 13:7)

We have come to a day in time, that the restoration of fasting is happening before our very ears and very eyes, a revelation of fasting and teaching on fasting is being giving to the church, fasting will become river of freshness in the church. –(LK. 5:33-35)

The Lord in His wisdom is pouring out an outpouring of prayer and fasting upon the church in our time, we are living in the beginning days of times of fasting and much prayer. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Prayer and the Spirit of Fasting, and we have entered into a holy outpouring of the Spirit of Prayer and a holy outpouring of the Spirit of Fasting. –(Zech. 12:10)

Fasting again will become a practice of faith in the church beginning in our days, beginning in this new season of sowing seeds of prayer and fasting to reap signs, wonders, manifestations of the Spirits, miracles, raising the dead, salvation of the masses, and revivals. –(Gal. 6:7-9)

As the church obeys the holy practice of prayer and fasting, revivals will rain like water upon the church, the more we fast and pray with revelation and prophetic anointing we will see the wells of past revivals reborn, and even greater and we will see the fulfillments of prayers and prophetic words about the coming revivals. –(1 Tim. 1:18, 2:1-8)

There will be prophets and apostles who will be raise up for the purpose to lead the church in prayer and fasting, this will be a great work of the Spirit that bring forth the will of the Lord and of the Kingdom in the earth in our generation. –(Joel 2:1)

Soon prayer and fasting will be practice by faith and by the leading of the Holy Spirit all over America in the Church, the deep callings of the Spirit is coming upon the Church in a heavy and deep spiritual prophetic burden. The reaping of these times of deep prayer and prophetic acting, will be massive repentances all over the church of America, and the Spirit of Repentance will be poured out all over America, great repentance is coming to America, and then this fire of great repentance will go to the nations of the world. It will begin within a city, when the believers of a city begin to fast and pray often, the signs of coming revival will be seen; then a gate of revival will be open. –(Rev. 8:3-4)

When we fast, we fast to change the ways of the world to the ways of the Lord, when we fast we fast to change the hearts of the masses, soon very soon an grace and anointing will come with deep prophetic insight into the power of fasting and the leadership of the Holy Spirit will lead great numbers in the church around the world in fasting, and this is only the beginning. –(Amos 2:11-12,8:9-12)

Furthermore, the restoration of fasting is beginning, the practice of fasting is going to be lay with the hearts of the saints around the world. Our eyes and ears are being open to the leading of the Holy Spirit in fasting and much prayer and the revelation of fasting is being release in our time. –(2 Pet. 1:2-12)

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A Time of Fasting

A Time of Fasting

Elvis Iverson
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There are times to fast, these are times that we must fast, there are fasting led by the Holy Spirit, however something through what we are facing we must fast to get through those times. We still need the leadership of the Holy Spirit in all times of fasting. Fasting is planting seeds for feasting times to come. –(LK. 5:35)

First and foremost there are corporate fasting times, when set men or set women of God lead by the Holy Spirit and by faith will declare a holy fast unto the Lord, during those times there will be corporate prayer services, for fasting must be done with much prayer. Fasting is a form of prayer, fasting add power to our prayers, and fasting is work of grace and faith. –(Joel 1:13-14, 2:1,2:12-17)

In coming days as the arising apostolic city church comes forth and new apostolic congregations come into an holy alliance with apostolic vision for their city and the church of the city, there will be times of corporate fasting, with corporate prayer gatherings at the apostolic city church centers. –(Joel 2:1)

In coming days as the church of a nation comes into unity and vision, they will come times of corporate fasting and nation wide prayer meetings all over a nation. Furthermore, as the church arise as the city of God, and the church arise globally as the global church, the whole church will come into times of corporate fasting and corporate prayer meetings throughout the church around the world. –(Acts 10, Acts 11:27-30)

As the new apostolic city church centers arise, there will be set fasting days every month, and even in a new apostolic congregation there is to be set times to fast at least once a mouth. The elders meaning plurality elders with a set elder, first among equals; should enter and set days to fast at least once a month. They should be men and women of prayer and fasting ministering unto the Lord; having a life of prayer and fasting. In addition, intercessor teams should set days to fast with prayer, and there could be teams set apart that has anointing to fast more times along aside of the prayer teams of a new apostolic congregation. –(Isa. 62:6-7)

Apostles and prophets are the foundational leadership of the Church and our Lord Jesus Christ is the Chief leader of the Church, there is only one chief leader that is Christ, the head of the Church, the Chief Apostle of the whole church. The Apostles and Prophets under the leadership of Christ and the Holy Spirit will lead the church into times of corporate fasting. –(Joel 2:1)

Apart from that, we come to personal fasting, every believe should set a day apart to fast and prayer unto the Lord at least every month. To fast and pray for communion and ministering to the Lord, for we minister to the Lord with fasting and praying, not just prayer along.

When you fast, you are to prayer, fasting and praying goes hand on hand, you ether fast by the leading of the Spirit or by faith, and before, etc. you fast you write down the reasons and purpose of your fast, then pray over them and thank the Lord for the rewards of fasting, also believe for fruits of fasting. –(Isa. 58, Matt. 6:16-16)

Notwithstanding, there are other times that we need to fast, it may be that we don’t want to fast, instead we have to fast, let those times be by faith and ask the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you during your fast, and fast with much prayer. –(Joel)

Times of suffering, trials, persecutions, hard times, and tests, etc. these are times that we need and must fast, do these times in faith not fear, not in worry instead in much hope and faith with patience. –(Jam. 1:2-8)

Fasting on the behalf of other believers, who are suffering, and fasting for the healing of those who are sick, fasting for believers to have deliverance, fasting for those who are suffering or going through persecution for Christ. –(Isa. 58, Jam. 5:13-18, Heb. 13:3)

Fasting for financial reasons, such as debts, financial sufferings, financial lack, financial setbacks, and financial goals and financial breakthroughs. –(Isa. 58)

Fasting for open doors and open gates for the good news, fasting for favor and open doors to minister the Word, fasting for success in ministry for the glory of the name of Christ. –(2 Thess. 3:1-5, Col. 4:2-4, Eph. 6:18-19, 1 Cor. 16:9, 2 Cor. 6:1-10)

Fasting for unity, fasting for city church unity, fasting for common ground and common vision, fasting to end divisions and stop strife, etc. and bring lasting unity in the church of the city, etc. –(Rom. 16:17-20, 1 Cor. 1:10)

Fasting for divine protection, fasting for protection from evildoers, fasting to stop evil works against you. Fasting for angelic protection. –(Ezra 8:21-23, Esther 4:15-16)

Fasting to stop and hinder terrorism, fasting against the demons of jihad, religious terrorists, spirits of hated and murder, the plots of terrorists, fear, violence, an evil spirits against America. –(1 Tim. 2:1-8)

Fasting on the behalf of your city, region, or your nation, even fasting for nations and cities and people groups around the world. –(Gen. 18:16-33)

Fasting against demon spirits, witchcrafts spirits, witchcraft prayers, and controlling spirits and religious spirits, etc. –(Isa. 58)

Fasting in times of spiritual warfare, fasting to gain ground and keep the ground in times of spiritual warfare. –(Dan. 9, Eph. 6:10-13,18-19)

Fasting for your future, vision, purpose, plan and goals, fasting for visions, revelation, and prophecy. –(Jer. 29:10-13)

Nevertheless, when you fast there could be spiritual warfare before your fast, during your fast, or after your fast, this is why we must pray for protection over our life and fasting time. Only tell a few people that you are fasting, never, never talk about that your fasting, you only tell those who need to know, like your mate or spiritual overseer, and your prayer support. –(Dan. 9, Matt. 4:1-11)

Furthermore, when you fast you don’t fast with fear or unbelief, instead you fast for reasons you believe in God, and that God is on your side, and that He will help you, and that you will have victory and overcome all things that your facing. When you fast you fast with faith that the Lord has always helped you, that you already have the breakthroughs, that you already have the fulfillment of prayers and prophetic words, and that God hears you and has made a way. You fast for you know what God said in His Word and that you’re in good hands and His mercy and goodness is coming, and has already came forth in your life. –(1 Cor. 15:57-58)

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