MORNING TEACHING DAY 1 ( 03/01/24 )

BY SIR TINAANI NICK

WHY WE FAST?

The reason we fast is not because fasting benefits God. It’s because fasting doesn’t change God
it changes you. If you ever thought you fast to change God, think again. GOD is not changed by
your fasting
I want you to change that mentality, to think you fast so you can change God’s mind. You change
yourself through fasting. When we fast for example let’s say you have a weight you were
carrying, so fasting releases that load. This
month we will fast a lot so I made sure we have this small teaching as we go

Psalms 35:13 KJV

“But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul
with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.”

Fasting humbles you, it changes your state. Now the Bible says, God resists the proud. By
humility God can’t resist you.
I want to give you as an example: Let’s say a husband loves a
woman and He is resisting her because she doesn’t bath. Bathing is like fasting, it’s how a man
won’t resist his wife when she bathed. Does this
make sense, fasting humbles you and God cannot resist intimacy and to talk to you because
your soul state is broken and humble
So fasting what it does is it changes your state. It makes you irresistible.
It inclines you to the spiritual, this is how you get more intentional with your spirituality. Your
senses of the spirit become more active. God is compelled to speak to you because He can resist
the proud but the humble He cannot resist.
When you get a breakthrough when you’re fasting it’s not that God answered your prayer now.
It’s you who changes therefore positioning yourself for the grace and whatever you’re praying
for.
When I fast my primary goal should be I want to humble myself before God.
You don’t fast to say I want that job that’s not the goal of fasting I am trying to change your
perspective on fasting. You don’t fast to say I am praying for 21 days for
marriage no that’s wrong
You fast because you want to humble yourself before God so God can not resist to talk to you.
You fast and then God speaks to you about the behavior you want to change so you can get

married you don’t fast to say I want a man. That’s not understanding fasting. 😂

You fast to humble yourself before God and then God will tell you okay for you to get a million in
business do this and that, work on this and get that to get that million not to fast for a million
dollars
Fasting doesn’t change God.
So why are we fasting God told me prepare my people for the good I am about to give them
I am sending this teaching as I know most of you are fasting this season so you can just have an
an understanding of what it is to fast and what fasting does

Isaiah 58:6-7
6 “Is not this the fast that I choose:
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the straps of the yoke,
To let the oppressed go free,
And to break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
And bring the homeless poor into your house;
When you see the naked, to cover him,
And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?”
Hanzi is it not the fast that I told you about. Where you share your bread with the hungry. You
take the homeless in your house and you cover the naked.
True fasting is when you’re on a fast you make sure that the dollar you wanted to buy that food
you buy a street kid food. That dollar you wanted to buy lunch you give to
someone homeless. True fasting is when you’re fasting you even think of buying a small
grocery , to a grandmother in your area and you leave it at her house.
Don’t save all the food from morning that’s not true fasting. True fasting is you don’t eat
what you were supposed to eat in the morning that food you give it someone else.

I know I am delivering someone. 😂

This year if you need to be told to pray and fast, and be given a time table you’re not serious
with your life. Prepare your own days to pray and fast.

HOW SHOULD WE PRAY WHEN WE ARE FASTING?

Let me take this through , since mainly we are talking of fasting and then how then do we pray. I’ll take
you through the Lord’s Prayer which speaks of prayer and how to pray combine that with abstaining from
food then you’ll have fasting that brings RESULTS.

When Fasting:

1. Read the Bible ( Because you’re starving the flesh and feeding he spirit )
2. Give to the poor , or street kids , don’t keep your food the whole day
3. Create time for prayer , maybe set three alarms throughout the day
4. If you find any person bound set them free by prayer , deliver the captives

This is true fasting

What is prayer?
I am going to teach you in a practical way , not from the books, you’ve read or what you’ve
heard before, but how I’ve gone through experiences over time and life.
What’s going to determine our power , and our growth and our impact as a movement, is the
way we have invested in our prayer life. This movement we believe in prayer , the way we pray
has been very integral in the way we have been moving
In this season where many of you are wondering how we can build a relationship with God.
Prayer is very integral in building a relationship with God
The issue is most of us do not understand that basically prayer is communication with God. But
the problem with most of us is we want to have a relationship with someone that we don’t talk
to everyday. We are lazy to pray , we pray when we want something.
How do you ask your Father money , yet do not have a relationship with him. There’s one thing
that I’ve discovered. Have you ever realized that if a friend asks you money, or a stranger it’s
rare for you to give them money. If someone that you talk to everyday asks you money it’s easy
for you to give them. Why! Because there’s a relationship that’s there
A relationship is what holds a connection strong. If you can’t pray it means you don’t care about
a relationship with God. If you can’t spend 5 minutes to talk to God it means you can’t sustain
more conversations with Him.

Matthew 6:9 KJV

“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.”

Jesus disciples asked Him, Lord teach us how to pray, and then Jesus started by saying you say
our Father which art in Heaven. Now this is not necessarily to say you
have to pray this way exactly but hear me.
Our Father, was a statement which Jesus started. What’s happening to you is when you pray you
don’t know who you are hence your prayers are not getting answered. You don’t know God is
your Father hence you’re praying from a position of a slave? Who are you? When you pray?
That conviction to know I am a child of God. You’re a child of God I want you to know this. So
when you go and pray. Pray knowing God is your Father. I am saying this because most of you go
and pray from a position of unworthiness, you don’t know you’re a child of God, if you’re a child
you can ask anything from the Father and the Father can grant it because you’re a son.
From today I want you to correct how you look at yourself. Most of us are not getting answers to
our prayers because we have not corrected how we look at ourselves. We pray without knowing
you’re a child of God, you’re not sure if you’re one. This is where maybe you think you have
sinned and God doesn’t love you anymore. God loves you and you’re His child so pray knowing
God is your Father.
Some of you need to correct your conviction. Your inner conversations, whose are you? Your
inner conversations should be so confident that when you pray you pray from that conviction
and knowledge this is where most of us the devil is getting you. You pray like you don’t know
your position as a child of God. This is Our Father which art in Heaven.
Now that you’ve understood that a relationship is founded on communication, when you wake
up talk to your Daddy, when you sleep , when you walk, when you travel , every day even when
you’re walking you can be having time to pray, don’t be religious where you pray when you
kneel and you’re in a special place, any time is prayer time. This will create a lifestyle of prayer,
you can even set an alarm at 9, 12, 3 and 6 and pray 5 minutes each hour this will create a
lifestyle for you. 5 minutes chete pa time idzo
Pray from the position that you’re going to your Daddy , God , is your Father. Don’t go there
thinking does God love you or not that’s why your prayers are not getting answered, pray
convinced that God is your Father and you’re His child you’ll see how your prayer life will be
amazing
Go back on the Lord’s Prayer this week, and go on it everyday , you’re going to discover many
things about prayer. So what are we doing this week. You’re planning your year In prayer ,
fasting and planning. As you pray and fast write your plans and goals for the year .