They say all you need to manifest the Spirit (to walk in the gifts of the Spirit and the power of God) is to spend hours in prayer and days in fasting as frequently as possible. But then I see some people doing all those; spend every night in the church praying, and fasting to the extent they grow very tiny, yet they have very little or no significant manifestation of the Spirit.
The amount of time they spend praying and fasting far surpass the manifestation they are seeing in their lives. I believe it is because we have emphasize the wrong thing. It is not really the activity called "prayer and fast" that causes the manifestation, rather it is intimacy. I have discovered that why people come out of prayer and fasting without the full measure of manifestation that is deserving of such prayer and fasting is because when they pray they do not pray with their hearts fixed on God, and their minds are wondering about.
When they fast they only do it as an activity. It should be all about intimacy, pressing in to get so intimate with God to the extent that they become one with Him. Just spending time loving Him, tuning your heart to His heart, your mind to His mind, trying to cause an alignment that would lead to such intensely intimate fellowship that oneness becomes a reality in you.
Yes, pressing till your heart enters into His heart and becomes one, and your mind enters His mind becoming one mind, that the whole of your being presses so hard and deeply into the Godhead that His fullness begins to flow freely through your members. If you've spending hours every day praying in tongues and your mind is wondering most of the time, or you are not truly pressing into God's heart, you are all about you (what you want, your selfish desires) then you are wasting your precious time.
You think it is all about this religious activity called prayer, you feel that as long as you are doing it then we are achieving something. We get caught up doing the activity that we forget to tune our minds and hearts to His—what a waste of time and energy. Then we go into fasting and we think it is all about refusing to eat. You starve yourself as much as you can, thinking you are achieving something.
It's all a wast, you might call it sacrifice and think God cannot turn His eyes away from such sacrifice, but it is a waste. The sacrifice that Jesus did on the cross is enough, all of God's attention has already been turned towards you. You don't need to struggle to catch His attention; you don't need a special fasting, a special sacrifice, something that is so tempting that God cannot resist. Christ death has already made you irresistible to God.
What you need now is to tune yourself to Him, enter into such intense intimacy with Him that will cause you to become one with Him, allowing His fullness to freely flow through your members. I have seen those who were not even after manifestation, they were just pursuing God, desiring intimacy with Him, and all of a sudden they find all this flow of abundance and even ridiculous and unbelievable manifestation in their lives, and they were embarrassed by it.
They even try to hide it, but the result of intimacy (which is pregnancy) cannot be hidden. Pursue intimacy with God and you will be embarrassed by the kind of manifestation you will see in your life.
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