Intercession & Fasting (Daily Devotional)

Hello everyone, welcome. We are talking about overcoming the enemy. Today, we will look at prayer and fasting as helpful things to do to overcome satan and his works. There is an incident when Jesus is talking to Peter in Luke chapter 22, when He tells Peter that satan had a plot against Peter and yet, Jesus had prayed for Peter and thwarted this plot of satan and protected Peter through His prayers. There is some insight that we can gleam from this that when we pray and intercede for people, what we are doing is we are actually overcoming the plots of satan and we are putting a hedge of protection around them through our intercession. For us to overcome satan, prayer is a very important aspect to engage in. We can demolish the attacks of satan through prayer. We, as God’s people, know that we are led by the Spirit of God, so, there are times when we can hear the Spirit speak to us or impress on our hearts regarding various people, just to prompt us to pray for them. Let’s take these moments seriously as the Holy Spirit prompts us to do it because we are actually speaking protection over the lives of our loved ones. So, prayer protects and makes a hedge around people and intercession can protect people. We also see in Mathew chapter 17, when Jesus’ disciples couldn’t cast out demons and He said that this kind will not come out except by prayer and fasting. So, what did He mean there? How does prayer and fasting help in overcoming demons? Well, prayer and fasting and especially fasting has the capacity to intensify our faith, our passion and our focus. So, whenever we take time in fasting, our faith is being built up and we are overcoming our doubts, weaknesses and so, we are in a better position to use our faith. We are actually strengthening our faith and that is what fasting does for us and that is what Jesus was referring to when He was saying, if we can fast, we can overcome demons. Friends, I just want to leave this thought about prayer and fasting. When we take time to pray and take time to fast, our faith will be strengthened and we will see the hindrances that satan puts against God’s people uprooted. Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank you that we are already victorious because of the cross and that you are equipping us on how to take our victory and continue to enforce your victory, we thank and praise you, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

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