Recently I took my car into the shop for some maintenance. As I was leaving, I heard a voice from a radio coming from the dealer’s van. The man stepped out, so I asked him what he was listening to. He told me it was a sermon. So, we got to talking. He shared that he had encountered some physical problems that the doctors couldn’t help, but he found a book called The Miracle Results of Fasting and said it really helped him.  

I asked his name, and he told me. Then I said, “I’m Dave Williams, and I’m glad to meet you.” He about fell backward when I said my name and acted like he was overwhelmed that I was there with him. In reality, it was a blessing to learn that my book had really helped him.

Many churches begin the year with a season of fasting and prayer.

After my first fasting book was published in 1997, I went on Trinity national television in Canada for a week-long visit on a daily Christian program. The whole week we featured my fasting book, and I shared teaching and testimonies all week long. People kept the phone lines busy ordering the book. We sold 40,000 copies of the book in the first month and had to reprint it several times. Churches all over Canada and the United States started ordering the book by the box loads. Harrison House Publishers wanted to take over the book, so they published it, and it became their 13th best seller.

People worldwide are looking for something that can bring them miracle results.

Fasting costs you nothing, hurts no one, and can bring amazing blessings to your life. For example, fasting has been known to:

• Bring deliverance from bad habits
• Prepare you for revelations from God
• Set you up for quickly answered prayers
• Bring you a constant and inexhaustible supply for your needs
• Rejuvenate your health and vitality
• Give you a longer life
• Give you loss of unwanted weight
• Slowdown the aging process
• Eliminate body toxins
• Eliminate food allergy sources
• Clear acne and other skin problems
• Defeat sinus problems
• Normalize your blood pressure
• Keep your arteries young
• Give you healthier cholesterol & homocysteine levels
• Assist in curing mental and emotional problems
• Give you increased energy levels
• Bring your body into spiritual subjection
• Break demonic forces in your life
• Bring deliverance from enemies too big for you

Psalm 35:13 NLT
… I denied myself by fasting

Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”

I Corinthians 9:27 AMPL
But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].

What Fasting is NOT

• Fasting from food is not dieting. It’s not a divine weight-loss plan.
• Fasting is not starvation.
• Fasts are not for getting others to say, “Wow, this is one holy dude.”
• Fasting is not for self-punishment. There were apocalyptic Jews of Jesus’ day who practiced extreme fasting in hopes of making themselves pure before the end-times arrived.
• Fasting is not to make you a burden to others. King Saul put his soldiers under oath of death not to eat, leaving them too weak to succeed.
• Fasting is not an excuse for being grouchy, stingy, or rude.

You don’t need to fast to be saved, at least not according to Scripture.Many millions of people live good and faithful Christian lives without ever fasting. But what rewards are they missing?

Two Men Miraculously Healed through Fasting and Intercessory Prayer

Pastor James Hamill of Memphis, Tennessee, had a bad report: “terminal cancer.” The church loved their pastor, so the board called the church to fast and pray. The miracle manifested, and Pastor Hamill went on for many years as a fruitful, powerful man of God.

Vernon Brewer of Liberty University got a bad report. Same thing. “Terminal Cancer.” The student body started times of fasting and prayer, and you guessed it Dr. Brewer was healed miraculously.

“Gateway to Spiritual Breakthrough”

Ronnie Floyd, a Baptist minister, fasted and prayed for his wife, who had a “terminal disease,” and she was healed. Pastor Ronnie says, “Fasting is the gateway to the supernatural.”

“The best of all medicines is resting and fasting” – Benjamin Franklin

Are You Facing an ‘Impossible’ Situation?

Gordon Lindsey, founder of Christ for the Nations, said, “Fasting is the key to the impossible.”

Dr. Bill Bright had this to say about fasting: “The Holy Spirit’s key to Transforming Your Life.” Fasting and prayer is one of the most powerful spiritual combinations on earth. 

True fasting brings humility and alignment with God. It breaks the power of flesh and demons. It kills unbelief and brings answers to prayer when nothing else works.

What Is Fasting?

Fasting is going without food to pursue or focus on something more important.

Through fasting and prayer, I am deliberately disrupting my schedule and declaring that knowing God is more important than food.

I Corinthians 9:27 AMPL
But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].