“If you … witness courageously, the truth will miraculously win.” – Medjugorje June 2, 2015

"When you pray, pray first for the Holy Spirit because when you have the Holy Spirit, you have everything."        - Medjugorje April 4, 1985

Thank you to each of you who fast with us weekly. Tomorrow is another exciting opportunity to bludgeon evil by means of our fasting. Instead of evil having power over your life, your family and those you love, fasting allows believers to go on the offensive and take back the lives of those dear to us while taking back the future of our nation. Tonight we thought we would share some Q&A based on the questions we receive most frequently. We hope it is helpful …

Fasting FAQ’s

I am new to fasting and my antennae went way up when I heard about it. I am totally in, but not sure how to begin. I would imagine slowly, but do you have any advice?

Excellent question! Since there are many forms of fasting, you might be thinking that you have to go without food, and that fasting will be hard. Although occasionally we do call for more stringent fasts, our regular Wednesday/Friday fast is not hard because you eat bread and drink water. So, to answer your question about how to begin, we would say buy a good wholegrain bread, have some olive oil or butter on hand, and just begin. What you are sacrificing is the variety of foods that you eat, and you are giving up your favorite foods, more than not eating. This will allow you to maintain the strength to continue fasting week in and week out while you are going about your daily duties. The most important element of your sacrifice is that you offer it to the Lord with joy and acknowledge before Him how tiny our sacrifice is for Him while he made the ultimate sacrifice for us.

I love to bake bread. I was wondering if I could put nuts, raisins, or seeds in it, or would this be breaking the fast?

You may put additions into your bread, or you may eat banana bread or zucchini bread, but the bread should be all that you eat. We don’t want to be Pharisees, but specialty pastries seem like a bridge too far. The idea is to eat simply and gratefully, not splurging on doughnuts, etc, which technically some may call bread.

What if I fast for two meals on bread but then I eat dinner. Is that a wasted fast day? 

Far be it from us to set rules, but we think that the fast should be 24 hours. If you only fast for two meals, then of course God receives that in the spirit it is offered. The Didache only specifies the days to fast, Wednesdays and Fridays. It doesn’t say if the fast of the early Christians was until 3pm, sundown or all day. It doesn’t say what foods to avoid or what to consume. 

If however you expect to be having a special celebration such as a birthday party on a Wednesday or Friday, then schedule your week to fast a different day that week or an extra day the week after. Although we believe adamantly that all Christians are held to the standard of fasting twice weekly as 1^st century Christians explicitly wrote, we also know that our God is a God of joy and celebration as He showed at Cana revealing Himself as the winemaker extroidinaire and ultimate party guest.

Why do you fast on bread and water for 24 hours then?

We have this practice because in one of her apparitions to the children in Medjugorie, Our Blessed Mother (the name Catholics call Mary, fulfilling Luke 1:42 and John 19:27) said that bread and water is the “best fast”, and that is how the visionaries fast. One of the visionaries said that a Christian who doesn’t fast is like a one-legged soldier in battle, easy to pick off on the field of battle.

What does fasting do anyway? 

It is a mortification which magnifies your prayers. “Mortification” is a word which comes from “mort” which means death. You are “dying to self” for a greater good when you give up what you are accustomed to eating or what you prefer to eat. In addition to fasting Himself, Christ sacrificed His life for us, so giving up abundance is such a tiny sacrifice in comparison.  And while understanding the “why” is above us, when God created the universe and deigned laws such as the law of gravity, when He chose the speed of light and when He architected every other law that would govern the physical, He also deigned the law of fasting. Under God’s rubrics, while evil would have power exceeding that of mankind, in His mercy He deigned that fasting would be the great equalizer and that when mankind fasted, the balance of power would shift – when fasting believers can overpower evil. (ref. Mark 9:29, Matthew 17:21 KJV)

What if I fast but forget to pray?

Well, then, you could have eaten because you really didn’t fast – you just dieted.

And in doing so you wasted the opportunity to transform your tiny sacrifice from a fleeting moment of inconsequence to an act of courage and generosity that will be celebrated by heaven for all of eternity because when one fasts, your fast forever impacts history.

Where does it talk about fasting in the Bible?

The Old Testament is laden with passages of fasting that triggers victory including the dramatic stories of Esther, Jonah and Ezra.  Jesus expounded on fasting’s power in the New Testament. In Matthew 17 and Mark 9, we read the story about a child possessed by a demon. The disciples, who had been successful in casting out demons and healing the sick before, had found this case resistant to their prayers. Jesus told them in private conversation later that fasting was what would have made the difference. Some battles and obstacles require fasting with prayers to be victorious. 

My Bible only has fasting as a footnote. How could that be just a footnote, if fasting is the whole point? 

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. All earlier translations including the KJV and the Douay-Rheims include the fasting reference as an essential point of the story. We wonder how “later scholarship” could erase it. Without fasting, the story doesn’t make sense. The protestants who oversaw these changes in some of the most popular protestant bibles today were later linked with the occult … and it makes sense doesn’t it? If you were evil, how powerful it would be to erase believers’ knowledge as to how to be victorious over evil. And while the names of the bishops who almost simultaneously whitewashed truth from catholic bibles are unknown to us, Catholics may consider the words of Pope Paul VI who was elected in 1963. The pontiff warned Catholics of their bishops and said: “The smoke of satan has entered the church.”

How many people receive this fasting reminder?

Over 5,000

How many people are actually fasting?

God only knows for sure, but we believe our army of fasters to be a significant force … to be a tipping point in ushering in the Holy Spirit to come to America’s rescue and to our aid as believers and families. 

For more information please see our repository of fasting information and two brief videos we commissioned on fasting at www.StJosephPartners.com/fasting

Why We Fast – Our Core Fasting Intentions

1) For the Holy Spirit to reign down upon America renewing our land as the Christian, capitalist meritocracy we were founded to be.

2) For the protection of our police, firefighters, military and their families from harm and that the Lord bless their courageous generosity on our behalf one hundredfold.

3) For the protection of the families who fast with us, and for God’s blessings of abundance upon them and that true to His word, we will be able to witness that He prospered us in famine.

Would you like to learn more about fasting?

We maintain a repository of ideas and information we have learned over the last decade while fasting weekly for America. From scientific studies on the benefits of fasting, to the differences between intermittent dieting vs intermittent fasting, to scriptural references regarding the power of fasting to the history of first century Christians who stated believers are obligated to fast weekly, we hope you will find numerous insights with our free resource located here.

Together let us also implore Heaven while fasting for intentions you have highlighted:

4) For Mike Lindell who is putting himself on the front lines suing over the election fraud that has taken place and for all of the warriors who are stepping up around the nation to fight for the gospel – May The Father cover them in the blood of our savior,  protect them and their families from evil and bring victory to their endeavors.

5) For priests, ministers and all who aspire to lead others to the Lord, that the Holy Spirit will reign down upon them as at Pentecost filling them to overflowing with an understanding of what the Lord wants, courage and the desire to preach what He would have them preach and protection and strength from all evil that comes against them. 

6) For the Americans jailed after January 6th who were admitted to the Capitol building by the police, and who were not found to have destroyed any property at the capitol yet who have been held captive ever since on our own soil - That God's Spirit will move quickly to bring justice back to this land by freeing them while enlightening Americans how to bring God's justice back to our nation.

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