John Eckhardt - Fasting for Breakthrough and Deliverance

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FASTING FOR BREAKTHROUGH AND DELIVERANCE

by John Eckhardt

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Eckhardt, John, 1957

Title: Fasting for breakthrough and deliverance / John Eckhardt.

Description: First edition. | Lake Mary : Charisma House, 2016. | Includes

bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015037798| ISBN 9781629986463 (trade paper) | ISBN

9781629987019 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Fasting--Religious aspects--Christianity. | Spiritual

warfare. | Exorcism.

Classification: LCC BV5055 .E25 2016 | DDC 248.4/7--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037798

Portions of this book were previously published by Charisma House as Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual, ISBN 978-1-62136-625-6, copyright 2014; Unshakeable, ISBN 978-1-62998-594-7, copyright 2015; Prayers That Rout Demons, ISBN 978-1-59979-246-0, copyright 2008; Prayers That Break Curses, ISBN 978-1-59979-944-5, copyright 2010; Prayers That Bring Healing, ISBN 978-1-61638-004-5, copyright 2010; Prayers That Activate Blessings, ISBN 978-1-61638-370-1, copyright 2011; Prayers That Move Mountains, ISBN 978-1-61638-652-8, copyright 2012; Gods Covenant With You for Your Family, ISBN 978-1-62136-012-4, copyright 2013; Gods Covenant for Deliverance and Freedom, ISBN 978-1-62136-579-2, copyright 2014; and Gods Covenant With You for Life and Favor, ISBN 978-1-62998-014-0, copyright 2015.

CONTENTS

This kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.

MATTHEW 17:21

Y OUVE COMMANDED, REBUKED, prayed prayers, done warfare, and shouted, but theres more that needs to be broken off your life. Its time to add some fasting to your warfare strategy. There is no other way around some demonic strongholds. No shortcuts. You have to fast and humble yourself until that thing breaks and leaves your life.

Demons are different in terms of their wickedness. There are demons that are stronger, more wicked, unclean, and stubborn, and higher in rank, ability, and intelligence. The longer a demon has been in your family or in your life, the harder it is to remove because its roots go very deep. Demons such as rebellion, pride, witchcraft, Jezebel, poverty, and lack may only come out with a high level of faith.

Sometimes it seems as if they cannot be dislodged, and people will get discouraged and frustrated and feel they have failed. In Matthew 17 the disciples of Jesus encountered a demon in a young boy and could not cure him because of their unbelief. Unbelief hinders us from dealing with strongholds. It takes faith to dislodge the enemy. Fasting helps you overcome unbelief and build strong faith.

This is the supernatural combination that Jesus gave His disciples in Matthew 17: prayer and fasting. I am not saying that when you fast you will earn brownie points with God or that you are working your way to enjoying Gods blessings. We dont fast to be saved, please God, or go to heaven. There is no law that says if you dont fast you will go to hell. We fast for breakthrough and revival, for family and loved ones. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God!

Some things take fasting and prayer. There is no other way around. There are those kinds of demons that just dont give up. They are strong, proud, arrogant, and defiant. They are familiar spirits that have been in your family. But you have to get to the point that you dont care how messed up your family is; you say, It is stopping with me. This is not going on to another generation. This is it, devil. If my grandmother or grandfather didnt stand against it, if my mother and father didnt defeat it, Im going to defeat it. I refuse to be poor, broke, sick, rejected, messed up.... No!

Sometimes you have to do something unusual, extraordinary, and beyond the norm to see breakthrough. Normal church, normal Christianity, normal preaching, and normal praying are not going to get the job done. Some little sweet prayer is not going to do. Religion wont get it done. It is going to take an anointing that destroys the yoke. When you fast, the anointing increases in your life because you are so into the Spirit. The authority of God, power of God, and faith of God comes alive when you lay aside some things and fast. You will find yourself getting stronger and stronger. Shouting doesnt do it. It is the anointing that does it.

Isaiah 58 talks about how we can fast to break every yoke to undo the heavy burdens. Fasting makes room so that the oppressed go free. Fasting breaks bondages and causes revival. When you are dealing with a serious issuemaybe you are dealing with something you dont know how to handlethe best thing to do sometimes is to let go of some food for a little while. Pray against that thing. Man may not be able to help you, and you may not know how to defeat it, but with God all things are possible.