“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

We hope you had a wonderful Independence Day celebration yesterday. Don’t chips, barbecues, desserts and beers taste even better after you’ve been fasting? Thank you, Jesus for the bounty which you continue to provide to our land despite our horrific sinfulness.

We wanted to pass on three thoughts to you this morning ahead of our fasting today.

Yesterday was a sweet celebration. Today let us return to the cause of fasting for the restoration of American and our Christian churches with our very tiny sacrifices, offered with joy to the Lord. For those of you who don’t know, while we continue to send out these reminders twice weekly to encourage believers to fast with the minimum cadence Christians are obligated to render each week, some of us have committed to fasting six days each week unless there is a special feast day such as Independence Day this week in which case we will only fast five days. We are committing to this for as long as the war rages against our church and nation.

Our method of doing so is that on Wednesdays and Fridays, we fast for the full 24 hours as we obligated to do as a minimum as Christians. We fast on bread and water with butter or olive oil. On the other days of the week, (The exception being the Sabbath, on which occasion we do not offer any penance or any fasting), we would like to encourage you to join us for incremental fasting, above the minimum twice weekly required by our Lord.

Those days, let us encourage you to fast on bread and water for two meals & limit yourself to just one full meal. Bread and water fasting for the full 24 hours on Wednesdays and Fridays is very easy compared to Fasting in the Esther model with nothing to eat or nothing to drink.  Having one full meal on the other days is even easier.

We choose bread and water fasting because in one of her messages to the world, Mary, the mother of the Redeemer was explicit:

bread and water fasting is the best fast.

When we first heard that, with arrogance and ignorance, our thought was: hasn’t heaven heard about carbs and how bad bread is for us? We now understand that it is science that is so flawed and not heaven’s perspective. Science is beginning to come around, recognizing that 100% whole-grain bread is indeed very good for us. And if tragically you been compromised by so many poisons that you have what is now referred to as gluten issues, recognize that your issues are really with the poisons at harvest or the ingredients of your bread, and suggest you consider using foreign ingredients where those governments are not trying to poison their citizens.

So, we invite you to join us during this period of spiritual war that seeks to destroy every area of our lives. Join us and volunteer above and beyond the minimum required as a spiritual militia for King Jesus, fasting up to six days each week.

Perhaps your reaction is “that doesn’t sound like much fun.”

If so, consider how much fun it was to storm Normandy’s beaches to be shot dead before you even got to land. If incremental fasting seems too heavy a cross to pick up each week, consider the tragedy that many families never recovered from after their loved ones died for you and me in Normandy and so many other sites around the world be they soldiers, police, or firefighters.

Do we really love God‘s church? Do we really love America? Are we really grateful to the Lord for the effort that He made? Are we truly grateful for all of the sacrifices our Christian forefathers and fellow citizens have made for America?

If so, then make this tiny effort with us.

Every day, just a small sacrifice alongside of us offered to the Lord with joy as we unite on the spiritual battlefield.  Evil is betting that we will be too lazy to make the effort.  satan’s strategy is that Christians will do nothing more than pay lip service to our ancestors who died so that we could live in freedom. What say you?

There are so many wonderful Protestant pastors who we love to hear preach such as Jentezen Franklin who bring such richness to scripture. However, when these pastors speak of fasting seasons as opposed to the requirement for weekly fasting, they are putting their own cadence for fasting above what Heaven has said is required of us.  They are rejecting the explicit command from the Didache written in the first century, that obligates us to weekly frequency, ignoring that this was considered the word before editors decided it should not be part of the word.  We can also triangulate upon weekly fasting with Christ’s words, which seasonal fasting rejects and these pastors are refusing to acknowledge the significance of the miracles of Medjugorje, all of which say we must raise the bar – that we have forgotten we are obligated to weekly fasting.

Is important to understand that spiritual fasting is like a physical workout. As soon as your physical workout ends and you leave the gym, the physical benefits have begun reversing. It seems unfair, but it is true. Without discipline and a commitment to work out again that same week, out-of-shape bodies re-emerge. It doesn’t matter how great that one workout was, we must workout more than one time per week if we want to be physically healthy. We all know this. 

And imagine if in January you worked out every day and then said, “my fitness season is done now until next January.” What kind of shape would you be in come June let alone December? It is absurd to think that such infrequent and sporadic exercise can lead to health.  It is similarly absurd to think that sporadic or “when the Spirit leads I’ll fast” cadences will allow you to be spiritually fit in our battle with evil.

Why the emphasis on fasting? Because Jesus showed us in Mark 9:29 it is required to defeat evil when it is strong. Today evil is strong and today the church that does not fast has been bludgeoned.

And while we won’t delve into the reasons again today, be conscious that abstaining from other things such as TV are nice acts but they are penances and not fasting – fasting is from food.

Be aware of satan’s great deceit of the last decade too. If your discipline is intermittent eating, it is an indication your primary motivation is to look good, get more energy etc. – that is dieting. Fasting is for the Lord, not for us. Bread and water fasting is a beacon to heaven and hell that what you are doing is fasting because no one today would choose to eat bread three times a day for themselves – it is obedience and deference to God that leads one to this behavior following in the footsteps of 1^st century Christians.

If you truly want to protect your family, you must fast weekly. Evil can do a lot of damage between fasting seasons.

Secondly, we wanted to put in front of you again the words from the mother of our Redeemer from Medjugorje in June. This marked at least the second time she has explicitly asked believers to put the Bible in a place of honor in our homes. She has been adamant that we must read the word every day and we cannot let one day go by and think it is acceptable that we do not pray.

We do not understand why it is so important to have the Bible displayed in a place of honor in our homes, but the fact that she has asked us to do this twice signifies that there is something very important about doing so and we want to encourage you to do so in response to heaven’s request of us.

Thirdly and finally, thank you to Greta for her ongoing wonderful contributions to restoring the church and America and her contributions to us. Greta forwarded this wonderful video of the Bavarian Waste Company of Kentucky and its witness to the Lord by flying this flag that can be seen from so far away to honor Him. The company also has a large sign encouraging people who pass by on the highway to pray.

We wanted to thank them for their witness encouraging all of us to be politically incorrect, which means to be pro-Christ. We encourage any in the area to support them and also to witness with our businesses, in our schools and in our workplace.

The Bavarian Waste Company of Kentucky

Thank you for fasting with us today. You will be happy you made the effort for all of eternity.

Why We Fast – Our Core Fasting Intentions

1) We add the new fasting intention of taking back the church from evil. We submit the three-step process to achieve this victory is 1-Repent, 2-Prayer & Fasting and, 3-Imitate our Savior by throwing the evil leadership from the church. We will seek to emulate the Savior in our effort to End the USCCB, an organization that has been devastating to the church.  (“You shall know the spirit by the fruits” - Matt. 7:16)

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

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

4) 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 all patriots who put themselves on the front lines in combatting evil 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. 

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 and free them.

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