One of the oldest myths floating around the Body of Christ is this strange idea that fasting is a holy remote control we can use to manipulate God.
For years, many believers; including ministers have held on to this faulty theology:
“If I fast hard enough, God will have no choice but to do what I want.”
As though fasting presses God’s neck, and He starts saying,
“Okay okay… take it. Just stop starving yourself.”
Let me say this gently but firmly:
Fasting was never designed to twist God’s arm; it was designed to align ours.
If the motivation behind a fast is wrong, the spiritual consequences can be shocking. You may actually tune the radio of your heart to the wrong frequency. Because while fasting sharpens your sensitivity to the Holy Spirit; it also sharpens your sensitivity to other spirits.
And please, don’t forget:
Even Jesus, during His God-ordained 40-day fast, was visited by the devil.
Fasting doesn’t scare Satan. It attracts him.
So imagine fasting with the wrong motive; the devil will apply for permanent residency.
Some fast because they want “power” to become popular.
Some want a ministry “dimension” so they can intimidate others.
Some want to perform signs “so that people will know who I am.”
Beloved, that is the quickest way to inherit demons of deception.
You might even start seeing visions that God didn’t send; spiritual hallucinations sponsored by pride.
Now, consider Jesus:
He didn’t wake up one day and declare,
“From today… 40 days dry! Let me force my Father to show my power!”
No.
Mark 1:12 says the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness.
The initiative was divine, not carnal.
And when God initiates, He supervises.
When God sends, He sustains.
When God leads, angels follow. (Mark 1:13)
This is why people who self-appoint themselves into a 40-day fast sometimes end up with tragedy.
Many have quietly died doing a fast God never instructed. Their zeal was real, but their wisdom was absent.
Check the Scriptures:
Moses fasted 40 days; God initiated it (Ex. 34:28).
Elijah fasted 40 days; God initiated it (1 Kgs 19:8).
Jesus fasted 40 days; God initiated it (Mark 1:12).
There is no record of any 40-day fast powered by self-will.
Some people completed 40 days and came out with no more faith than when they entered. Others were divinely led into it and came out with encounters that launched them into new realms.
Fasting does not change God. Fasting changes you.
It declutters your spiritual ears.
It softens your heart.
It heightens your sensitivity.
It humbles the flesh.
It makes the human spirit more receptive to Heaven’s frequencies.
But remember: that same spiritual “openness” works both ways; divine and demonic.
So you must stand on safe ground.
And that ground is simple:
Let your fasting be driven by a pure desire to draw nearer to God; not to force God nearer to your agenda.
Fast, but not for the wrong reasons.
Starve your flesh, but don’t starve your wisdom.
Let God lead, and you’ll never be misled.
shalom!
#pstnath
Jesus is Lord
