Fasting for Breakthrough and Deliverance

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly. . . . Then the LORD became jealous for His land and took pity upon His people. So the LORD answered and said to His people, Here! I am sending you grain, new wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied, and I will never again make you a disgrace among the nations. . . . Then the threshing floors will be filled with grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil. And I will compensate you for the years the locusts have eaten.

THERE ARE BELIEVERS who give. They believe God. They feel so bad because they can’t seem to get a financial breakthrough. They can’t seem to get employment or opportunities for their business. They can’t seem to overcome, and they get depressed. They begin to feel as though they don’t have enough faith, maybe they don’t believe God enough, or maybe they’re not saved like someone else, maybe they aren’t close to God, maybe God doesn’t like them, maybe God doesn’t favor them the way He favors others. It could be a stubborn spirit of poverty that’s been in their family for generations—a curse or a generational spirit—and that thing just will not let go. But I believe that with God nothing is impossible. It may be time to fast and pray until breakthrough comes.

In the Book of Joel, the prophet gave the people the proper response to the locust invasion that can help believers today as they seek deliverance in the area of their finances. Locusts represent demons that devour. Locusts represent the spirits of poverty and lack. The locusts had come upon Israel and devoured the harvest. Joel encouraged the people to fast and repent. God promised to hear their prayers and answer by sending corn, wine, and oil.

Corn, wine, and oil represent prosperity. Fasting breaks the spirit of poverty and releases the spirit of prosperity. I have seen countless numbers of believers struggle in the area of their finances. Prosperity is elusive to many. This is because the demons of poverty have not been bound through fasting and prayer.

In Deuteronomy 8:3, 7–9, 18 God allowed the people to hunger in the wilderness by feeding them with only manna. They ate manna for forty years. This preceded their entering the Promised Land. Fasting helps prepare a believer for the good land. This is a land without scarceness. This is a land with no lack. Fasting humbles the soul (Ps. 35:13). God rewards those who fast (Matt. 6:18). Tremendous blessings are released for those who understand the power of fasting and do it.

Fasting is one of the ways we can break generational strongholds of poverty. Fasting prepares a believer for prosperity by bringing him or her into a place of humility. God has promised to exalt the humble (1 Pet. 5:6). Financial promotion is part of this exaltation. God gives grace (favor) to the humble (James 4:6). Favor is a part of financial prosperity. Fasting releases grace and favor upon a person’s life. This will break the cycle of poverty and failure.

I break all assignments of the enemy against my finances in the name of Jesus.

I break all curses of poverty, lack, debt, and failure in the name of Jesus.

I seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all things are added unto me (Matt. 6:33).

I rebuke and cast out all spirits of the cankerworm, palmerworm, caterpillar, and locust that would eat up my blessings in the name of Jesus (Joel 2:25).

Lord, teach me to profit, and lead me in the way I should go (Isa. 48:17).

You are Jehovah-Jireh, my provider (Gen. 22:14).

You are El Shaddai, the God of more than enough.

Wealth and riches are in my house because I fear You and delight greatly in Your commandments (Ps. 112:1–3).

The blessing of the Lord upon my life makes me rich.

I am blessed coming in and blessed going out.

I am God’s servant, and He takes pleasure in my prosperity (Ps. 35:27).

Jesus, You became poor, that through Your poverty I might be rich (2 Cor. 8:9).

I meditate on the Word day and night, and whatever I do prospers (Ps. 1:3).

Let peace be within my walls and prosperity within my palace (Ps. 122:7).

I am Your servant, Lord. Prosper me (Neh. 1:11).

The God of heaven will prosper me (Neh. 2:20).

I live in the prosperity of the King (Jer. 23:5).

Through Your favor I will be a prosperous person (Gen. 39:2).

Lord, You have called me, and You will make my way prosperous (Isa. 48:15).

Lord, release the wealth of the wicked into my hands (Prov. 13:22).

Lord, bring me into a wealthy place (Ps. 66:12).

I give, and it is given to me—good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over (Luke 6:38).

Open the floodgates of heaven over my life, and I receive more than I have enough room to receive (Mal. 3:10).

Let every hole in my bag be closed in the name of Jesus (Hag. 1:6).

Rebuke the devourer for my sake (Mal. 3:11).

Let Your showers of blessing come upon my life (Ezek. 34:26).

Let my vats overflow (Joel 2:24).

Let my barns be filled with plenty and my presses burst with new wine (Prov. 3:10).

Command Your blessing upon my storehouse (Deut. 28:8).

Let my barns be full and overflowing. Let my sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands. Let my oxen be strong to labor (Ps. 144:13–14).

Bring me into a good land without scarceness and lack (Deut. 8:9).