Fasting Quotes

“We must get to the place where we are desperate for God again. We must begin to desire Him more than food or drink. Let us be filled with the Bread of Life instead of the refuse of religion. Begin to make fasting a regular discipline, and see how God answers your hunger!”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Although fasting doesn’t get any easier with age, it does get easier with grace. When the Holy Spirit calls you to fast, He is preparing you for what is ahead. Fasting requires faith. As Jesus said, “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled” (Matt. 5:6, KJV).”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“To be diligent is to be persistent. It means to work hard in doing something and refusing to stop. God delivered the Israelites from Pharaoh’s slavery. He parted the Red Sea so they could cross on dry ground, but He allowed Pharaoh’s army to drown. Still, the children of Israel got out into the wilderness and started complaining. After all He had done for them, they were not diligent about seeking the Lord, and that older generation never entered into His rest, His reward. Faith is progressive. Faith never gets into a bad situation and says, “I’m just going to sit here and die. It’s over.” Faith never stands in the desert, having a pity party with everything drying up around it. You walk by faith. You don’t stand still, drowning in your misery. When you get in a wilderness, you keep walking; you keep going forward even if you are only making an inch of progress with each step. When you get into battles, you have to keep saying, “I will move forward.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“There is something about getting in a church where the anointing flows and you hear the Word of God preached. Faith does not come from programs, dynamite worship teams, or being with a group of people who are like you. Faith comes when you hear a man or woman of God preach the Word without compromise to all who will listen. That is the birthplace of faith. If this revelation truly takes hold of your spirit, you will never allow the devil to talk you out of being faithful to God’s house. If you want to please God, believe God. Too many Christians find that they are malnourished in the Word but well fed on the world, and they live defeated lives as a result.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“If you want to please God, believe God.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Now, if I were to choose what could be said of me, I would want my testimony to be “he pleased God.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“you will determine to set apart the first days of the year to fast, you will set the course for the entire coming year, and God will add blessings to your life all year long. Just as you set the course of your day by meeting with God in the first hours, the same is true of dedicating the first days of the year to fasting.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“In Matthew chapter 6, He names three things that Christians do: “When you pray…” “When you give…” and “When you fast.” He didn’t say “if” but “when.” If you have a time to pray and a time to give, then you should have a time to fast.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“When you enter into a fast at the beginning of the year with the body of Christ, you link up with thousands of people all over the world who also begin the New Year with a fast. One person fasting is powerful, but when a group of people begin to fast, it is multiplied strength! It is multiplied power!”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“When you fast, you abstain from food for spiritual purposes. I have heard people say that they were planning to fast TV or computer games or surfing the Internet. It is good to put those things down for a time of consecration if they are interfering with your prayer life or with your study of God’s Word or your ministering to the needs of others, but technically, that is not fasting. Fasting is doing without food for a period of time, which generally causes you to leave the commotion of normal activity. Part of the sacrifice of fasting, seeking God, and studying His Word is that normal activity fades into the background.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Jesus understands the difficulty of depriving ourselves of food. In Hebrews 4:15 we read, “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.” He also provides strength for us to overcome temptation in Hebrews 4:16. “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” With these promises in mind, the process became less unpleasant for me.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“It is still amazing to me that food was the enticement used to cause Adam and Eve to sin, resulting in the fall of mankind. I find it equally interesting that Jesus began His earthly ministry—to redeem us from sin—by abstaining from food.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Fasting simply breaks you and brings your faith to a new level.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“God also said that health and healing would follow fasting. Of His chosen fast God said, “Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily” (Isa. 58:8). Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart. Some people have tried and tried to truly forgive someone but have never been able to let the matter go. Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“But if you begin to fast on a regular basis, and you begin to honor God with fasting, prayer, and giving, you will see for yourself that it is directly linked to poverty being removed from your life.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“God said, “Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar” (Joel 2:17). On a house, the “porch” is the part everybody can see; it represents the more public aspects of your ministry. The altar represents private ministry. In the life of a believer, there should always be more private than public ministry to God. When you read about Jesus, you do not see Him praying in public nearly as much as you see Him praying in private. The Bible says He would often pray through the night and have intimate times alone with His Father. Out of those times in private devotion, public demonstrations of God’s power would be poured forth in healings, raising of the dead, abundance, and more. Victories are not won in public but in private. That is why fasting, whether corporately or individually, is a private discipline. Where there is little private discipline, there is little public reward.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“God desires to move powerfully in your life. His plans for you are always progressing and developing. He desires to speak to you, as one would speak to a friend.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“What is God saying about you? Is it, “Religion again?” Or does He dine with you, fellowship with you, and share with you deep secrets and plans for the future? Whatever you may be facing or going through right now, I want you to heed David’s call to magnify the Lord. If you are in a rut or a routine where your worship just isn’t cutting it, if you have not heard God speak to you in a long time, if your circumstances seem to be the biggest obstacle in your life, stop everything and begin a fast. One day, several days, some food, all food—the details are not as important as your heart’s desire to satisfy God with your worship and sacrifice.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“There are dimensions of our glorious King that will never be revealed to the casual, disinterested worshiper. There are walls of intercession that will never be scaled by dispassionate religious service. But when you take steps to break out of the ordinary and worship Him as He deserves, you will begin to see facets of His being you never knew existed. He will begin to share secrets with you about Himself, His plans, His desires for you. When you worship God as He deserves, He is magnified.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Flies represent demons in the Word, as do other animals. If you could see into the spirit world, many demons resemble animals. For example, the Bible said that when the seed of God’s Word is sown, the birds of the air come to eat it up (Matt. 13:4, 19). When Jesus said, “They will take up serpents” (Mark 16:18), He was referring to demonic powers. The Bible talks about treading on snakes and scorpions (Luke 10:19). David, in foretelling Jesus’s experience on the cross, said, “Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me” (Ps. 22:12). Those spirits came at Him, goring Him like bulls. Devils will start—you guessed it—dropping like flies! These demon spirits attach themselves to our lives as generational curses, bondages, strongholds of the mind, lust, perversion, and addictions of every kind. The problem with most churches is that we just swat at the flies for a few days when they are right up in our faces. They go away for a while, but they keep coming back. It’s time to clean house! It’s time for a scriptural season of cleansing. Devils will start—you guessed it—dropping like flies, not only those in your life and your generation, but also the future generation of demons that would be passed down to your children. Solomon wrote, “Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor” (Eccles. 10:1). Flies would get into the special anointing oil. They’d get stuck in it, die, and spoil the fragrance. Flies hinder the anointing in your life. Your worship gets polluted by flies of lust and perversion. We are supposed to walk in that pure anointing that pierces hearts, breaks yokes, delivers from bondages, and heals the sick. It’s time to get rid of the “flies” in your business, your marriage, your mind, your house.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Mr. Gazowsky and his wife were in a season of fasting and were praying on a beach in California. His wife had apparently walked a little farther down the beach and began praying for a woman they knew who was being tempted into adultery. The moment she spoke the woman’s name out loud, “a swarm of flies ascended from the ocean surface, as if orchestrated by an invisible conductor, and swept like a blanket across the water and onto the beach.”1 He rushed over to see if his wife was OK. When she told him she’d been praying for their friend, the Lord revealed what Gazowsky referred to as a “vulnerability in Satan’s kingdom,” that being the flies.2 When I read that, I immediately thought of Matthew 12:24, “Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, ‘This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.’” They were accusing Jesus of operating with the power of Satan, or as they called him, Beelzebub, which means, “lord of the flies.” How interesting that during prayer for someone being tempted by demons, a horde of flies came out of nowhere and descended on this woman. As Gazowsky found, the “weakness” relates to the life span of flies. You can study just about any of the species and you’ll find their reproductive cycles can range from a day to as many as forty days. That is why, in order to exterminate an infestation of flies from a crop, for example, you have to spray pesticides for forty consecutive days in order to utterly destroy them. If you stop short of the full forty days, you will destroy only the existing generation, but the next generation will live on. Just as spraying pesticides for a full forty days wipes out an infestation of flies, when we enter into a season of forty days of fasting and prayer, we can break free of the bondages in our own lives and in the lives of the next generation. As Gazowsky noted, “The devil is a short-term skirmisher.”3”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Don’t allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing. But if He is going to pour out new wine, our wineskins will have to change. Jesus said, “No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins” (Mark 2:22). I had never seen the connection between fasting and the new wine before. But if you look at this passage, Jesus had just finished telling the Pharisees that His disciples would fast once He was gone. Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing (v. 20). God can’t put that kind of wine in old skins. If you want new wine, new miracles, new closeness, new intimacy with Him, then it’s time to call a fast and shed that old skin for the new.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Every assignment, every call of God, every direction from Him starts somewhere. God has specific assignments for your life.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“And He sent them quail in such a great abundance they stacked it two and a half feet deep! And they ate and ate, and while the meat was in their mouths, thousands of them died and were buried there. And according to verse 34, that place became known as Kibroth Hattaavah, which means “The Graves of Lusters,” as a memorial to those who ate themselves right out of the Promised Land.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“The writer of Hebrews used strong terms to warn against becoming like Esau: “Lest anyone fall short of the grace of God…lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears” (Heb. 12:15–17).”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“They literally ate themselves out of house and home. They ate themselves out of the will of God for their lives. They ate themselves out of God’s provision and plan for their lives and out of His magnificent presence. But their stomachs were temporarily satisfied, and we still suffer the consequences of their appetites today.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“That pattern addressed three specific duties of a Christian: giving, praying, and fasting. Jesus said, “When you give…” and “When you pray…” and “When you fast.” He made it clear that fasting, like giving and praying, was a normal part of Christian life. As much attention should be given to fasting as is given to giving and to praying.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“Every assignment has a birthplace. When God has placed a dream inside you that only He can make possible, you need to fast and pray. Good or bad, what’s in you will come out only when you fast and pray.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God

“We can become overnourished on a hefty diet of church programs and activities, religious structure, and traditions of men and yet be severely undernourished when it comes to the deeper things of God. Do you know what Dr. Colbert refers to as the “single most effective answer to overnourishment”? Fasting.”
― Jentezen Franklin, Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship With God