The Power of Prayer and Fasting
"Fasting and prayer? Didn't those go out of style decades ago?" The woman who said this to me was a godly woman, a woman who had been in the church all her life, and a woman intent on obeying the Lord. She knew her Bible. She was very serious in her questions. Yet for some reason, she had concluded -- at least subconsciously -- that fasting and prayer were no longer intended for believers in today's world. The truth is, fasting and prayer are for today! In fact, now more than ever! The combination of fasting and praying is not a fad or a novelty approach to spiritual discipline. Fasting and p...