Fasting

Choose for yourself one of the four fasts listed below:

• A straight no-food fast (water only) for all three days.
• The “Daniel fast” (Daniel 10:3), where you don’t eat any “tasty” food, nor meat, basically eating only fruits and vegetables.
• A partial fast, miss one or more meals.
• A sun-up to sun-down fast.

Whatever kind of fast you choose , please be in prayer for the needs listed below. I know the Lord will honor you for your faithfulness and He will bring great things to pass in your life.

While fasting Intercede by faith for the following:

• The health of all our partners, members, television viewers, and attendees, of David Gonzalez Ministries and Mountain Faith Church. Pray for Salvation (deliverance) from the things that wage war against your souls.
• Personal soulish breakthroughs for all our partners and friends.
• Personal financial breakthroughs for all our partners and friends.
• A fresh vision and clear direction for this ministry and other ministries.
• Accelerated growth and complete debt reduction for David Gonzalez Ministries.

As you break your fast follow some of the rules listed below:

• Begin by drinking diluted juices only and fruit. No oranges or orange juice, because of the acidity. Do not yet drink milk right at first.
• Start out with soups that are light, raw vegetables and non-acidic fruits, no meats. Hold off eating white bread until your second meal.
• Eat eggs and a little meat, or fish, with your second meal. Hold off on coffee, sweets, alcohol, and chocolate until you have eaten at least three meals.
• Use wisdom for your health. Take a walk between meals, exercise lightly, pray in the Holy Ghost as you walk and thank God for the answers to your prayers by faith.
• Do not eat too much at each setting, until your body can handle food again.

Finally, please call, write or email what miracles God is bringing into your life as a result of the fast. We will share some of those on television, during our services, and on our website. Give your testimony and give God the Glory!!!

Scriptures to be edified by during your fast:

2 Chron 20:2 Then some came and reported to Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, out of Aram and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (that is Engedi).” 3 Jehoshaphat was afraid and turned his attention to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 So Judah gathered together to seek help from the LORD; they even came from all the cities of Judah to seek the LORD.

Ez 8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey for us, our little ones, and all our possessions.

Ester 4:15 Then Esther told {them} to reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maidens also will fast in the same way. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.” 17 So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.

Ester 5:1 Now it came about on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace in front of the king’s rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room, opposite the entrance to the palace. 2 When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king extended to Esther the golden scepter which {was} in his hand. So Esther came near and touched the top of the scepter. 3 Then the king said to her, “What is {troubling} you, Queen Esther? And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be given to you.”

Is 58:3 `Why have we fasted and You do not see? {Why} have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’ Behold, on the day of your fast you find {your} desire, And drive hard all your workers. 4 “Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast like {you do} today to make your voice heard on high. 5 “Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD ? 6 “Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free And break every yoke?

1Kg 21:11 So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent {word} to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them. 12 They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people. 13 Then the two worthless men came in and sat before him; and the worthless men testified against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Jer 36:6 “So you go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation the words of the LORD to the people in the LORD’S house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all {the people of} Judah who come from their cities. 7 “Perhaps their supplication will come before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”

Matt 6:16 “Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites {do,} for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 17 “But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face 18 so that your fasting will not be noticed by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees {what is done} in secret will reward you.

Luke :11 “The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: `God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 `I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.’ 13 “But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, `God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ 14 “I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Acts 13:2 While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 4 So, being sent

Jonah 3:4 Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” 5 Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. 6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered {himself} with sackcloth and sat on the ashes. 7 He issued a proclamation and it said, “In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, beast, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat or drink water. 8 “But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands. 9 “Who knows, God may turn and relent and withdraw His burning anger so that we will not perish.” 10 When God saw their deeds, that they turned from their wicked way, then God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared He would bring upon them. And He did not do {it.}