“Fasting for Complete Victory” with Jentezen Franklin

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I want to give you what I felt like God

laid on my heart about this year’s fast

second Kings chapter 13 and he said open

the East window and he opened it then

he’ll Aishah said shoot and he shot and

he said the arrow of the Lord’s

deliverance thereof deliverance from

Syria you must strike the Syrians at

APEC till you have destroyed them then

he said take arrows so he took them and

he said to the king of Israel strike the

ground so he struck three times and

stopped and the man of God was angry

with him and said you should have struck

five or six times then you would have

struck Syria till you had destroyed it

but now you will strike Syria only three

times it’s interesting when you notice

also verse 16 where he says that he he

said put your hand on the bow and he

said in verse 16 he put his hands on it

and Elisha put his hands on the Kings

hands these scriptures may not make a

lot of sense to you concerning the theme

of fasting that we’re talking about

right now but I want to tie them in in a

way that I felt like the Lord would have

me share today I’m preaching today on

fasting for complete victory fasting for

complete victory in your life victory is

when you completely overcome the enemy

it is the cutting off of Goliath’s head

it is the dancing on the grave of your

enemy it is not coexisting with partial

victory but complete victory means what

the scripture said Jesus assignment was

he said that I came to destroy the works

of the devil so I don’t know about you

but I am NOT interested in just partial

victory in areas of my life but I felt

like that this was a year and this was a

fast where God would give us in some

areas of our life complete victory how

many of you would like to see in some

area of your life some battle that’s

been kind of ongoing you would love to

see a complete victory in your family or

in your finances or in in some issue on

the job you know God knows how to give

us people complete victory and we’re

fasting for complete victory I want

complete victory over the devil the

world in the flesh complete victory over

our body our soul in our spirit over

habits over addictions over lust over

bondages we can see complete victory

come and things that God sets you free

from that you never pick up again that

you never go back to again that I

believe is God’s will for our lives

complete victory over our desires

complete victory over our emotions

complete victory in other words over

depression and worry and fear and stuff

that our emotions being so out of out of

control complete victory over our

actions so when you read this story it

lets us know that God said I want to

give you joash God said through the

prophet Elijah I want to give you

complete victory utterly destroy your

enemy the Syrians not partial victory

you’ve been having partial victory in

this area but I want you to have this

year and that this story happened he

said I want it to be the year of

complete victory and we’re fasting we

are not going to settle for partial

victory this year joash was king of

israel and he heard that elisha was

dying he rushed to the room where he was

dying and the prophet looked at him

and he understood even though he had

neglected the man of God and even

rejected his cut his teaching sometimes

he respected the man of God and he ran

to his bedside do you know that

everybody in

needs a man of God in their life

everybody needs a preacher everybody

needs someone who won’t just tell you

what you want to hear but they will tell

you what you need to hear and if they’re

true person that God is put in your life

they won’t just make you feel good

they will also challenge you and Elijah

was the man of God and joash runs into

the room I was thinking about how Betty

Lisha the Bible said had a double

portion of the anointing of Elijah but

before he received that there’s an

interesting scripture in 2nd Kings to

that said he took hold of his own

clothes and tore them into two pieces

and he took up the mantle of Elijah that

had fallen from him notice he had to

take off before he could put on a double

portion anointing and we have to rid

ourselves of some things before God was

sin the double portion anointing that

Elijah had and I believe that God wants

this anointing for complete victory that

comes on us comes when we rid ourselves

he had to rid himself of what he had on

and then put on that mantle that was

representing the double portion I want

you to know that this is a year that we

need to rid ourselves of besetting sin

rid ourselves of offense and

unforgiveness rid ourselves of pride and

arrogance on this fast let’s put off

some things so we can put on some things

rid ourselves of the lust of the flesh

the lust of the eyes the pride of life

and habits that we know that we have

filth in the spirit there you know your

spirit can get filthy we talked about

the flesh being filthy but sometimes we

allow our spirits to get contaminated

with with things that we pick up and in

hurts and offenses but when you put that

stuff off and that’s what you do when

you fast you humble yourself you’re

ripping pride off and arrogance off

you’re humbling yourself when you’re

fasting you’re saying

putting off this stuff so I can put on

that double portion of your presence and

your power I was reading the story the

other day about how that Joshua told the

children of Israel to cross the Jordan

and the Bible said that when they got in

the middle of the river is God made the

water stand up on both sides that he

gave them this commandment he said carry

stones from the place listen to the

words where men’s feet where the priests

feet stood firm in other words if you

are going to have complete victory

notice that they were to pick up stones

where the priests feet stood firm they

were standing in the middle of a river

that it parted and God told them where

they are standing firm that’s where you

pick up stones and you place them on the

bank and so that when your children come

generations later and say what are these

stones mean you tell them that’s how God

brought you over and it came from men

taking a stand a firm stand sometimes we

need to understand the power of taking a

firm stand a firm foundation of standing

and saying I’m not drawing back I’m not

giving in and the thing that I heard the

Lord say in my spirit it’s when we take

a firm stand that we are able to take

stones and place them on the banks for

other generations to pick up it’s when

you take a firm stand that you lay up

because it’s our convictions it’s our

personal convictions and even about

fasting and prayer we are picking up

stones that will be passed down to our

children they will come by and they will

even talk about the fasts that mom and

dad went on the fasts that we went on at

free chapel for after we’re dead and

gone we’re going to have stones that our

kids will pick up because we took a firm

stand a firm stand and said we are

declaring the next twenty-one days will

be days where we turn our

we turned the atmosphere of our home we

turn our lives we turn our hearts we

turn all that we are toward God and we

empty ourselves and we say Lord send

that double portion anointing and it

happens when you take a firm stand you

can’t just kind of fast and kind of when

maybe I’ll see how it goes you take a

firm stand or you won’t fast

successfully you stand there and you say

I’m doing this I’m you make up your mind

I’m going three days or seven days on

the total fast if that’s what God tells

you to do whatever he tells you to do

take a firm stand and remember when you

come out of that stand

you gonna have some stones and you know

what it’s gonna affect the next

generation it does you are never just

fasting for one generation when you fast

God is late

your children notice it everything you

don’t do it to be noticed to people but

people in your family that live with you

see that you’re not doing that any

whether they understand it or not they

there’s stones being put in their spirit

that no matter where they go and how old

they get they won’t ever forget dad and

mom fasted the scripture said that the

young man heard the prophet as he laid

on his bed give him some instructions he

said pick up bows and arrow he said pick

the bow up and pick the arrow up and

walk over to the window and opened the

window here comes my joash everybody

welcomed joash so there’s the young man

and there’s the old prophet and the old

prophet says take bows and take arrows

and then he said go to the window and

open the window because what was going

on outside the window was the battle

with the Syrians they could see the

battle from the position of the prophets

bedroom and he said take bow and take

arrows you know what to do with that

don’t you

he said pull it back

aim it you don’t look like you’re gonna

shoot anybody looked like you’re gonna

shoot somebody and this is what blessed

me about this story it said that the

Prophet got up out of his sickbed walked

over to the young king and put his hands

on the boys hands hands on hands the

strength of the young the direction of

the old the zeal of the young the wisdom

of the old but I don’t want you just to

see that here’s what I heard the Lord

say in my spirit the hands on hands

represents supernatural hands coming on

natural holds supernatural hands coming

on natural hands and when you fast and

you pray it’s not just you standing

there but the Holy Spirit is the

supernatural hands and there you are

trying to fight and win and there you

are dealing with issues but suddenly

there comes hands on your hands and it’s

the super night you see Elijah had a

double portion he’ll I sure had the

anointing Elijah represents the

supernatural power of God and we cannot

fight and win in our own might and our

own power it requires hands own hands to

raise a family and get them to heaven

it requires hands on your hands to build

a successful business and do what God

has called you to do

it requires hands on hands to have a

ministry that touches people and saves

us I’m scared to death to go into this

year just with my hands and my bow and

my arrow and what I think

I can do into the battle I thank God

that if we’ll fast and pray his hands

will come on our hands and he will give

us complete victory I need somebody to

shout if you believe he’s giving you his

hell and his hands on your hands I want

you to get it I want you to understand

it because what is going to happen as we

fast as God is going to put his hands on

her hands the day that I stop preaching

with the anointing the day that I stop

preaching with passion is the day I want

to stop preaching I’m telling you we

have enough church with just what we can

do we need his hands on our hands and

today I want you to hear the instruction

he told that boy to go to the window and

I hearing the Lord my heart God saying

I’m gonna give you a window of

opportunity but it’s going to take my

hands on your hands to do what I have

given you the opportunity to do and he

said shoot I want you to understand that

God will not give you an opportunity

that goes around the obstacles when he

said open it eastward

it was because that’s where the battle

was he was staring when he opened that

window he was looking right in the face

of the Syrian army

and God will not give you a window of

opportunity without giving you

adversaries that will try to stop you

from doing what God’s telling you to do

but there has to come a point where you

take the arrow and you don’t just look

at it and say what an opportunity but

boy look at the adversaries but you

actually shoot you say to the devil I’m

not going around you I’m not going over

you I’m

going through you I am going to see

complete victory in the mighty name of

Jesus in this area of my life come on

and praise God somebody God will not

redirect you around your adversary he’ll

take you through the battlefield and he

shot the arrow and God through the

prophet said now I’m going to give you

complete victory over this Syrians and

here’s the mistake the boy made he

basically folded his arms and said well

if God’s gonna do it he’s going to do it

reminds me of the story of Jesus on the

cross saying it is finished I have

defeated and humiliated Satan but we

think that’s all there is he did it but

then the Bible said the Prophet said

take arrows and he had three arrows

because he smoked the ground three times

he said take arrows and he said slight

the ground strike the ground and the

Bible said that the Prophet took those

three arrows and the young king did and

he hit the ground struck the ground

three times and stopped and I’m telling

you this is what I felt

he lied she looked at him and said if

you would have given it a greater effort

with those three arrows I gave you if

you wouldn’t have just hit three times

and struck three times kind of passively

but if you would have taken those three

arrows and you would have struck over

and over and over and over and over I

would have given you complete victory

over your enemy but because you didn’t

give real effort you just kind of sort

of said al-qaida and here’s the three

arrows Matthew chapter 6 said when you

fast

when you pray

when you give he said there are three

things that you would do if you’re a

Christian the duty of a Christian he

talked about seeking first the kingdom

of heaven in that chapter seek first the

kingdom and when you fast when you pray

and when you give and here’s what I felt

I felt that we we know too fast and we

know to pray and we know we ought to be

givers but it’s when we don’t give it

our full effort the 21-day fast is going

to happen but some of you you know

you’re kind of passive about it and

you’re kind of I don’t know I’ll see how

it goes and maybe I’ll do it and maybe I

want and you know and the Lord would say

to you I want to give you complete

victory I want you to grab these arrows

that fasting era is the same arrow Jesus

used when he came to a face-to-face

confrontation with the devil and he

didn’t just tap tap tap he took it and

he struck the enemy for forty days with

that arrow of fasting it hit Satan every

day it hit him and every day we’re

fasting for 21 days we are pounding the

powers of hell and pounding the gates of

hell and we are saying we are going to

give it our full effort that arrow of

fasting is what Esther used when Haman

wanted to annihilate the people of God

and she fasted for three days she took

that arrow I’m glad she didn’t just tap

with it I’m glad she didn’t just kind of

say well you know maybe I’m fast and

I’ll see how long then I can do it and

you know I really you have to take a

firm stand you have to say you know I

set how long I’m gonna do the total fast

how long I’m gonna do the Daniel fast

you know we’re gonna go 21 days but you

work out your own little pattern in

there but the bottom line is you don’t

kind of say well let me see how I feel

and if I feel okay

and I’ll probably do you have to grab

those errors say there’s gonna be some

prayer going on the next 21 days I’m

gonna have a time of Prayer a place of

Prayer there’s gonna be some fasting

going on there’s no if ands and buts

about it there’s gonna be some given

there’s gonna be some fasting there’s

gonna con I’m intense I’m giving my full

effort and God said if you’d have just

taken the arrows of deliverance that I

already gave you and took it serious I

would have given you complete victory I

want you to understand that if you’re

gonna fast you might as well go on and

make up your mind these three areas

means they were three areas the three

strikes were three areas they didn’t

give enough effort to he didn’t give

enough effort to it and that’s what I’m

saying to you today is I’m saying that

many of you know about fasting and

praying and giving but you gotta get

focused on it that’s why this is so

powerful these 21 days it’s like I’m you

you grab the arrows you get intense

about it you say God I’m coming after

you with all of my heart with all of my

mind with all of my soul with all of my

strength put all your effort in it put

everything you’ve got in it

don’t enter your fast casually don’t

enter it with a hit-or-miss attitude

plan to succeed I know when I’m gonna

eat and nothing’s gonna make me eat in

between I’ve got my hand on that arrow

and I’m not gonna let it go and I’m

pound in the ground because God has

given me an amount that I need to do on

the total fast or just liquid fast and I

know what I’m gonna do and I’m not gonna

alter that well I think I’ll try it till

I get hungry and at the first sign of

discomfort I’ll take that as the Lord

leading me and releasing me

don’t enter into it with a hit-or-miss

attitude I’m almost through but you have

to make a commitment upfront to pray

upfront to give up front too fast you

have to make a commitment not try and

see how long you can hold out I tell you

the Holy Spirit will partner with you

his hand will come on your hands Lori to

God I feel that in my soul we have

become so politically correct in the

church that we think all God’s capable

obvious what our pitiful little hands

can do but wonder if what would happen

if the Holy Spirit put his hands on our

hands and then we pray for somebody and

then we had Church and then we sung our

songs wonder what would happen in your

business if the Holy Spirit put his hand

on your hands and he started to prosper

the work of your hands cuz his hands has

come on your hands turn to somebody and

say I’m gonna have hands on hands his

hand is coming on your hands through

this fast spiritual passion has become

politically correct we don’t want to be

called fanatics we don’t want to be

called religious nuts well I’m just here

to tell you I don’t want to be called a

boring Christian either I want to be I

want God that’s what I’m fasting for I

want God to tear me up I want to cry

again I want to weep again I want to be

broken I want to be in God’s presence I

want to feel his spirit call me a

fanatic a freak or not know I want more

out of religion than sitting on a seat

and listening to people talk and leaving

anybody want more

anybody won’t complete victory in the

overflow and all over this room just

stand your feet open up your mouth and

for the next 30 seconds I want you to

lift your hands high I want you to turn

your heart toward God and I want you to

see his hands touching your hands

nail-scarred hands touching your hands

the Lord would have me say to you you’re

not in this alone this is not just your

battle but his hands are going to come

on your hands and if you think you could

do something with your hands before wait

till you get a double portion anointing

this year on your hands he will bless

the work of your hands through this fast

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