What Fasting Does | Part 1

One of the elders’ wives had a word from the Lord to proclaim a fast, which I’m going to talk about in a moment, a Joel fast. And it wasn’t received with much enthusiasm. But eventually, I think the elders, of whom I was one, were kind of ashamed into admitting, well, we better do something about this.

And so we said we’ll have a certain period, we’ll fast and pray, and we’ll meet every morning at, I think, 5:00 a.m., was it? Well, I wasn’t there. Ruth and I were away when this started.

And I understand the first morning there were about 13 people. The congregation was about 500 at the time. And next morning, I think there were about seven. And then it was going, you know, the typical charismatic prayer meeting. The next morning, there was about four.

But then, a brother who was not an elder got a burden from the Lord, and he spent 24 hours weeping, and things changed.