Obtaining Breakthrough and Spiritual Power Through Fasting

We teach why fasting is a discipline that costs and how that cost leads to real spiritual power. We trace the path from suffering and crucifying the flesh to resurrection power, new wineskins, and a sharpened spiritual edge.

• fasting as chosen discipline rather than special grace
• pressing through hunger to receive alignment and strength
• suffering, death, then resurrection power from Philippians 3
• why some mountains move only by prayer and fasting
• upgrading consecration for a new season and next level
• old wineskins vs new wine and restoring elasticity
• sharpening the axe head for effective ministry and clarity
• practical encouragement to hold steady until breakthrough

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Chapters

• 4:10 Power Through Fasting And Prayer
• 6:11 Show Support And Mission Of The Program
• 10:27 Fasting As Discipline And Cost
• 12:05 Hunger, Alignment, And Being Fed By God
• 17:45 Suffer, Die, Then Resurrection Power
• 21:31 Prayer And Fasting For Breakthrough
• 26:48 New Wineskins, New Wine, And Sharpness
• 33:49 Exhortation, Prayer, And Calls To Go Deeper
• 38:45 Schedule Update And Final Encouragement

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 4:03

An encounter with God that costs nothing will mean nothing in your life. I want to talk to you today about how to obtain breakthrough and spiritual power through fasting. It's that time of the year where everybody's zoning in on a 21-day fast or a 40-day fast. And I believe anybody that's going anywhere in the kingdom should be taking time in the beginning of their year to fast, to align themselves with God, to hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying for your life for this day and hour. But this is the thing. If I'm going to sacrifice, if I'm going to do that, what am I going to reap? What exactly am I going to be able to inherit as a result of the sacrifice that I am going to make in these next 21 days or wherever you are in the middle of your fast? I want to talk to you about that and more. And all of that, you're not going to want to miss on this episode of Dimensions. Yes, power. The power of the Holy Ghost through fasting and through prayer. We're all in an endeavor right now, operating, trying to get to that next level, tapped into 2026, getting ourselves aligned, gonna shake off some calories from uh Christmas and Thanksgiving and the cookies and all the different things that we were indulging in, and now we throw our body into this shock to go fast. Oh, it's gonna be good though. It's gonna be good because you're gonna get yourself into alignment for what God is saying and what he's doing in this day and in this hour. But before I go any further, as always, I'd like to let y'all know. Would you take a moment right now to like, subscribe, follow, and share, and let everybody know that you're watching Dimensions and if you've been blessed, let somebody else know and give them an opportunity to be able to see this because we are coming at you at the very least five days a week, Monday through Friday, every single evening at 8 p.m., unless something else happens, you're gonna see us here Monday through Friday, jumping in here. Why? What's the reason? To give you oil in your lamp, love in your heart, and to keep sin eleven out of your life, to help the bride of Christ prepare for the return of Jesus Christ because he is coming soon. Come on, somebody. He's on the way, and we want to be prepared. And that's why it's so important to have episodes like this that you can tune into, get filled up, get saturated, hear what God's saying in the prophetic now, find out what the forecast is and what the Spirit of the Lord is saying, and then you can keep that oil in your lamp, that love in your heart, and that sin eleven out of your life. And so I'm really excited to get into this with you because I believe that we're in the middle of fasting, and most people are at this time in some capacity. But let me say this too. I want to first start, right? Let's just jump right into it because I think a lot of times when people think about fasting, we think about all the sacrifice, and we have to understand that there is not a grace for fasting. Let me explain that. Uh, it is a discipline, it's not a grace. It's not like some people have a grace to fast, others don't have a grace to fast. Now, I'm not saying that God can't ever call you to do something in empowerment, but I'm saying as a as a as a system, it it cost. As a as a teaching, as an understanding, it costs to fast. There's nobody that says, I fast all the time and it doesn't ever bother me. That's the whole purpose behind it. It is to suffer. It is the crucifixion of the flesh. Does it mean that God will not help you? Well, of course he will. Does it mean that God's not going to support you? Of course he will. He's going to gird you up and help you, but it is going to cost you something. That's why I started off this broadcast saying this: an encounter with God that costs nothing will mean nothing. And if you want to have a true encounter with God, even in the beginning of this year, it's got to cost you. I'm going to talk to you about some things. A lot of times people do a fast that how can I make it as easy on me as possible? And that is the wrong mentality to have going into fasting. How can I make it as easy on me as possible? What can I do to cheat around it? You know, you're you're supposed to suffer. It's just that simple. There's supposed to be a sacrifice. And a lot of people, you know, when they're sacrificing, don't understand that you have to learn to push beyond your feelings. And if you can't, now watch this. If you can't crucify the power of your belly, if you can't crucify your hunger pains, how in the world do you expect devils to move? If you can't even deal with your own passions and get those under subjection and say, no, you're not going to eat today. No, you're not going to drink that. No, you're not going to do that. If you can't do that, you cannot expect spiritual power in your life. And I'm going to talk to you more about that in a minute. There are some things that won't break through until you fast and pray. There's new anointings that do not come until you fast and you pray. But as you fast and pray and you seek the face of God, God will honor it, He will reward it, and He will bless you in supernatural areas in your life. But let me say this to you. Very important that you understand this. You know, people say, a lot of people want to know, what do I do when I get hungry? What do I do when I do this? That's the whole purpose behind it. You press through it. You tell your flesh and your emotions, you do not have any authority here. You do not have any power here. And this is what is amazing. In the 23rd Psalm, it says, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Now, watch this. One of the great things about fasting is that it actually forces the hand of God to feed you. Now, watch this. Not what just you want, but he will give you what you need, where there's a lag. So what you're doing is you are forcing your physical body. You're saying, Normally I will feed on things of the earth, whether it's television, whether it's food, whatever it might be, I'm gonna feast on those things. But you say, you know what? I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna put myself, I'm gonna put myself into a place of hunger. And as a result, because God is a good shepherd, you can't lack. So he has to come in and begin to feed you. So it forces the hand of God to begin to feed your life. Now that doesn't mean you get everything that you want when you fast. What I mean by that, he will give you spiritual strength. That's why Jesus came to the point. He said, when he said turn the stones into bread, he said, man does not live by bread alone, but what? By every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. So when you go on a fast, it allows ourselves to come into an alignment, and the Holy Spirit will then begin to speak to us. The Father will begin to speak to us and download things into our spirit to help us along the way. So when you're fasting, you put yourself into a place of hunger. And that's why the Bible says, Blessed are those that hunger and thirst after righteousness for what? They shall be filled. So you're supposed to experience hunger pangs. You're supposed to be hungry. You're gonna feel the weight of hunger. You're gonna feel the frustration. You're gonna feel all of those things. You have to learn to push beyond it. There's no other way around it. There's nothing you can do. Now, some people say, well, I'm gonna eat this and eat that, but that's all you're doing is allowing your carnality and your flesh to dominate your existence. All you're doing is giving your flesh, you're saying your flesh has more power over you than the spirit. That's all that's happening in that situation. So it's very, very important that you understand you have to learn how to press through it. There is not a grace for it. It's not like, well, man, I'm gonna have a grace. Now I'm not saying there aren't times that God doesn't help you. I'm saying that you're gonna feel it at times. It's just, you just press through it anyways. You just make a conscious decision that I'm not going to allow that to affect me. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna stay there until the flesh is destroyed. I'm gonna stay there until my flesh is crucified. I'm gonna stay there because listen, even if you went 21 full days with just water, it's not going to kill you. You're gonna feel like you're dying. There are times you're gonna feel lightheaded, there's times you're gonna feel a little weak, there's times you're gonna feel cold, you're gonna your body is going through a shock. I mean, all of that is there. But he's a good shepherd. So he will send you things, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, it could be in the morning, it could be in the evening, one of those days you're gonna tap into the presence of God, and guess what's gonna happen? Supernatural power is gonna be there. Some people never tap into supernatural power because they don't wait long enough for their flesh to die. As soon as their flesh craves something, they feel like they're gonna die. That's just a spirit, just the enemy trying to keep you powerless, telling you, feast on this, feast on this, feast on this, eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it. You can't make it without it. You have to have this. No, you do not. Man does not live by bread alone, but every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. And so you have to learn to press beyond those things that you're feeling, those things that you're sensing, until you see spiritual breakthrough and power come. And ladies and gentlemen, it will show up if you will wait for it. You will never see the power of God in your life until your flesh dies. Now go with me if you would to the book of Philippians, chapter number two. I want you to go there real quickly. Philippians chapter number two. Uh I'm sorry, Philippians chapter number four. I want you to see this here because this is very, very important that you catch this. And if you catch this, this will really be a game changer for you, and it will change things in your world. You know what? I am slipping right now. I guess I probably should have. I didn't plan on going here. That's the reason why I'm doing this, so I apologize. It's actually in the middle, it's one of them. On the four chapters, Philippians chapter number three. Uh, I want you to go there real quickly for me. Philippians chapter number three, and I want you to take a look at this because this is really gonna be a blessing to you. And uh, this here is something that a lot of people do not grasp, and it's very important that you get this because this here will shift everything in your world when you understand this. You've got to grasp this in the name of Jesus. Come on, somebody. So, Philippians chapter number three. I want you to go there if you would. I want to look at verse eight through 11. Philippians chapter 3, verse 8 through 11. Now look at here. It says, Yet indeed I also count all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss. So listen, there's something about Jesus that if you suffer with me, you'll reign with me. It is it is appointed to believers to suffer. When you put yourself into a place of affliction, when you afflict yourself intentionally for the purposes of knowing God, and you cut yourself off from the things of the world, then what God does, he begins to press into you, and there's a power that comes upon you. How, why? That's just what God has chosen. We because many times we gravitate to the things of this world, and we are so bound by this world, and we want the things of this world, and we food is our passion many times, and we got to eat and we got to do this, and all these types of things. And we're cutting ourselves off and telling our flesh, this is not what satisfies you. It is he that satisfies. So it's account, it is important that we understand that we must account ourselves as those that must suffer. Okay? Now look at this. He said, I count all these losses of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is through the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith. Now look here at verse 10. Very important, that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his suffering, being conformed to his death, if by any means I may attain to the resurrection of the dead. So watch this. You will never tap into resurrection power until you have suffered and you have died, that I may know him in the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his suffering, being conformed to his death. So therefore, I have to suffer, I have to die, and then the power of resurrection will come into my life. So it's very, very important. We understand it. That's the reason why this what do I got to do? You gotta press forward. Who for the joy, come on, somebody, Hebrews chapter 12, that was set before him, endure the cross, despise the shame. Who for the joy? The other side of the cross. Resurrection was on the other side. So you have to understand that when you're fasting and praying, a lot of times people don't understand fasting and prayer. And so they've never done anything of true sacrifice. Most people just try to cater to a diet that's gonna make them feel better. Uh, you know, how do I, how do I get through this time and just eat something and some, and I heard one person say something they said, matter of fact, some people on the Daniel Fest eat more than when they did beforehand because it's an addiction to food. We're craving food, we're craving sustenance. And so as a result, we just need to cut it off and say, you know what, I'm not gonna do any of that. I'm gonna cut things away that I know that that I want and teach myself, no, you're not going to have that right now. Get yourself some water, get yourself some juice, some tea, or whatever it is that you want to do, and then say, you know what, I'm not going to fill my mouth with a bunch of food. Uh now it's not wrong that you do the Daniel fast if that's what you choose to do, however it is that you choose to do it, but you know, be very careful of allowing your flesh, though, to dominate you even in the Daniel fast. That can happen as well. So this is the reality, though. You have to suffer, you have to die, and then the power of resurrection will come into your life. Now, how do we obtain breakthrough and spiritual power through fasting? I'm so glad that you asked. Go with me to Matthew chapter 17, verse number 20. Matthew 17, verse number 20, and verse number 21. And look at this here. As a matter of fact, let's actually start in verse number 14. We're going to read through 21, because we're going to see here about power. And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, saying, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffer severely, for he often falls into the fire and often into water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me. And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the child was cured from that very hour. Then the disciples came to Jesus private and said, Why could we not cast him out? So Jesus said, Because of your unbelief. For surely I say to you that if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you, albeit this time does not go out except by prayer and fasting. Now, watch. I want you to catch this. Some of you right now, your next level of breakthrough is going to come at the price of a different level of consecration. Let me show you what I mean. There are some things God will not allow to be removed out of your life until your hunger for it to break through surpasses your desire to. Have worldly carnal things, earthly things, even. It didn't have to necessarily be carnal when I say like sinful, uh, earthly things. Sometimes there is a price that has to be paid for that type of power. You want certain things to move, there's always a price. There's a price when it comes, watch this, to prayer and fasting. There's a price when it comes to crucifying the flesh. There's a price when it comes to obedience. There is a price when it comes to seed sowing. There are times that certain breakthroughs don't happen. There are different avenues that God can use to bring breakthrough in your life. But when you're talking about moving spiritual things, many times it comes by the way of prayer and fasting. And because what happens is there's a level of faith you have to get to that your carnality and your earthly draw cannot get to. So there must be a crucifixion. And I believe there are people watching right now that God wants to take you to the next level. And how you have fasted in previous time and years is not enough. When you're ready for God to bring a breakthrough in your life, many times it will cost a little bit more. You'll have to go deeper. I remember when I was believing God for a spouse, I had always done like a sunrise to sunset fast. So I would go from like time I got up to five o'clock and then I would eat. And that was just my fast. And that was a sacrifice at that point in my life. And I remember when I wanted this, I remember the Lord said, no, no, no. I want you to go from sunrise to sunset, but I only want you to do the Daniel fast in the evening. That was the first time I ever did anything like that. So I didn't eat anything all day and I only ate one meal and then I ate it. And I remember God's power came upon me when I began to submit to that. And I believe there are people listening and watching right now that you're in the middle of the fast, but you know the sacrifice needs to go up, that needs to go up in order to get to the next level. And there are some things that don't go until your faith level gets to the level that it needs to get to. And that doesn't happen unless the Spirit of the Lord gets you to that next place. And there's sometimes you maybe look and say, man, I need more. I need more. Will it require more sometimes? Sometimes it requires more of you in order to get to that next place. And so you've got to say, okay, God, I know how I fasted in the past isn't going to work now. There are times where if you want a new level, you've got to have a new level of consecration first. There's a new level of sacrifice. There's a new level of suffering. There's a new level of commitment. I know that many of you right now is like, oh my gosh, this is so difficult. This is so hard. Oh my goodness, that's the flesh. And you say, What do I have to do? You've got to press through. You've got to make a decision to press through. You've got to make a decision that you are going to break through. That you're going to say, No, I'm going to fight. I'm going to press. I'm going to break through in the name of Jesus. I'm going to do whatever it is that I've got to do. I'm going to hold on to the horns of the altar. I'm going to keep pressing. No, I'm not going to listen to my belly. I'm not going to listen to my mind, but I'm lightheaded and I'm feeling dizzy. Listen, it's not if you go one full day without food, it isn't going to kill you. I mean, you can go three days without even any water before it'll begin to affect you. You know, it doesn't mean you don't feel it. It's just that we're so used to giving our flesh what it wants. We're so used to feeding. Listen, if you go on the Daniel fast and you cut all that sugar out, by the time you finish those 21 days, you will be, you won't even crave it anymore. But we're so used to giving it. We don't realize how much we snack. And I want a cookie here and I want a sandwich here and I want this here. And I'm drinking this here, and I got to go have this here. Oh, I'm hungry. No, it's just your stomach is just craving. And so therefore, you're just constantly eating and feeding. And then when you shut it down, your body is in a habitual state. So now you're breaking your flesh down. You're telling your will no, and you're used to just giving it whatever you want. But when you do that, it releases spiritual power into your life. Some things, ladies and gentlemen, do not go until you pray and until you fast. And I'm talking about fast means closing your mouth, not stuffing your mouth all day with others. Even when you're on the Daniel fast, be careful that you're not getting into a place of where you're just so full of food that you're not even really a sacrifice and you're constantly feeding. Because see, sometimes you can even fill up on the Daniel fast and you're still going to be craving some things because something still needs to die. And so what happens, you're feeding yourself these things, and you're still like, well, what is that? Why? You shouldn't be hungry. You've ate, but what is it? It's the it's the flesh. And that's what robs you of power. You have to get to a point where it's important enough to kill that part, to crucify that part. And what did he say? I will know him in the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his suffering, being made conformal to his. Think about that. You have to learn to fellowship with the suffering. Wow. Fellowship to walk with suffering, to experience it, to feel it, to welcome it, the fellowship of suffering. Wow. That means two fellows in a ship, in the same ship of suffering. I understand what Jesus went through. I understand what he felt. He wants, see, if you watch this. If you get all of the perks and the benefits but never understand the price, you become a spoiled brat. I'm gonna say that again. If you get the perks and the benefits but don't understand the price, you will become a spoiled brat. Jesus will not do that. If you don't want to pay the price, now listen, this is the thing. The price, I heard a man of God say this, so very good. He said, the price is not for the creation of the product. It's not for the anointing, it's not to create it. Jesus did all of that. The purpose behind the price that we pay is for the delivery. It is for the delivery. He paid the price to create it, to make it available. We pay the price to have it delivered to us. And that is such a great point because it's do you want it? It's available. Like, for example, if you were to, if you said, man, I want a brand new pair of Jordans and they're$250. You didn't create them, but you got to pay the price to them delivered. Somebody else paid the price to create them, but you pay the price to have it come to you. And so it's in the store, you got to pay the price to get it, not to create it. Jesus created the product, he created the anointing, the blessing, the favor, all those things. What we do is pay for the delivery. That is such a great point right there. And so I want to encourage you, wherever you are, you're in a season and you know you need to move to that next level, say, okay, God, I'm willing to pay the price to go higher than I've ever gone before in my life. Very, very important that we understand that. Now I want you to go with me as well to the book of Luke, chapter five, verse 33 through 39. Luke chapter number five, 33 through 39. Now, this is what I'm gonna talk to you. See, now, when you need a breakthrough in your life, you've got to fast. There's some things that don't break through until you fast. There are some things, I remember there was one season my wife and I knew that we knew that we needed a breakthrough in our lives. And so God said, I want you to go on a three-day fast. So we went on a three-day fast. And after the end of the three-day fast, within 30 days, things shifted in my life. It shifted. Sometimes there are doors that don't open, there are portals that do not open until you fast at the level and the threshold of the breakthrough that you need. And only God and you can determine that. I I can't tell you what it is. I can just tell you that if it doesn't cost nothing, it's not going to mean anything. There are times that it's going to cost you to get something. And I believe there's also people listening and watching right now that because of what even I've shared about 2026, and one of the things the Lord spoke to me, I'm just telling you what he spoke to me. He said, I want you to up your fasting in 26. I don't want you to do what you've always done. So I want you to go to the next level. He said, if you want a new wine skin in your life, sometimes you got to pay a price that you haven't previously paid. And how you fasted in one season is then how you're going to fast in this season. You've got to make a decision that I'm going to pay the price in this season to go where God's called me to go. Luke chapter 5, verse number 33. Then they said to him, Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers? And likewise those of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink. And he said to them, Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? For the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast. Then he spoke a parable to them and said, No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old one. Otherwise the new makes a tear. And also the piece that was taken out of the new does not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined. But the new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved. And no one having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says the old is better. Wow. So therefore, think about it for a minute. What he's sharing here is one, there are mantles that come. You're talking about a piece of a garment. There are mantles. You don't put a new mantle upon an old one. You don't take old clothing and tie it to a new one. I mean, it's just pretty simple to figure that out there. And it'll pull and tear and mess up the old one. The old will begin to infect the new. But then he also says, no one puts the new wine into old skins. And I love this here because the wineskins in those days, now we have bottles, but in those days, those skins, they would expand and contract with the fermentation of the wine. And after a period of time, they would get to a point where they were rigid and they would burst the bag because it lost the ability to be to have elasticity. Fasting and prayer gives you back your elasticity. It gives you the right heart and the spirit. So then the new wine he's putting within you can move throughout your life. And when you don't fast and pray, your carnality will constrict. Your flesh will constrict the new thing that God is trying to do in your life. And I believe there are people listening and watching right now that God is ready to bring you into a new season. You're in a new season. And this fasting is going to take off the old wineskin and put a new garment on you and put a new wineskin on you. And then there's going to come a filling in your life. And as you begin to fast and as you begin to seek the Lord, as you begin to call out to him, you're going to begin to see an elasticity come back into your life. And God's going to fill you with a new wineskin. Fasting also keeps your axe head sharp. It keeps you sharp. So then when you're striking, you're hitting things. When things are dull, think about it. Whether you've got a razor blade, I have a, I just bought a new razor blade. I'm a DeWalt fan. I love DeWalt tools. And I got this really nice, it's like real expensive for a razor blade. What a beautiful handle slide. And you got these razors, and it has 10 different razors that you can put in its pocket. And when the other one gets dull, you bring around. First, you can turn it around. After that, eventually you got to toss it out. You got to go get a new one. Well, when you fast, many times after a while, the grace that you walked in, you know, it's like, okay, it's not cutting the way it used to anymore. It's, you know how people say that ain't cutting it. You know, it basically it's not sharp enough in order to do that. When you fast, it sharpens your point. It sharpens you. So when you cut, it doesn't take as much. And it doesn't mean that I can't, like, I was cutting down some. Um, that's why I went and actually bought it just recently. I went and got it because I was cutting. And after a while, when I first got it, I was slicing right through cardboard because you know, you got all these gifts for Christmas and all these things. So I'm slicing through the cardboard and I mean I'm doing after a while, I had to cut. It took so much energy. Matter of fact, if you're not careful, when you start using, think about this for a minute. When you use dull knives or razors, you can end up hurting yourself. So while I'm cutting, I'm realizing what if this thing breaks or it rips? So many times it'll rip and it's still breaking it, but it's not a clean cut like it was. And you have to be careful that you're not pushing too hard or you can hurt yourself. And it takes all of this energy because the blade has grown dull. Some of you are listening right now. Even while you're in the middle of a fast, you know your blade is still dull. It's something still missing. Maybe you need to up the price. Maybe you need to go a little bit deeper. Maybe you need to go a little bit further. Maybe you need to say, you know what, I need to do a little bit more. You can't go into a new season with old wineskins, and what you did to get what you did to get the old wineskins is gonna be what you did to get the new. Come on, it's time for you to up your fasting so you can get spiritual power, spiritual breakthrough. And it brings you into alignment with him so then he can flow and move into your life. And he's not gonna pour out new wine into an old wineskin. So I want to encourage you right now to go ahead and start fasting. Get the new wine, get the new mantle, get your axe head sharp again. Don't, don't, don't do whatever, don't do the least you can do to say, I made it through the 21 days. What's the sacrifice? Are you feeling the suffering? Is there the battle? Do you feel the weight of it? You should, and you've got to learn to press through until the anointing comes. You've got to learn to break through until the anointing comes. You've got to learn to crucify the flesh until the anointing shows up in and through your life. Now look at it here. This is what he says that no one having drunk the old wine immediately desires new. For it says the old is better. Now, if you don't put a new wine skin on, you will desire the new thing. You'll want to go back to the old because it's what you're accustomed to. And now what's happened, now watch this. Now what's happened is that the old wineskin has been formidable to the old wine. And so as a result, it fits. But yet still, when you don't want the new, because the new is going to make you outside of your comfort zone. When you fast, not only does it sharpen your blade, it also gives you back that elasticity. So then you can move with the Holy Spirit. And so when you fast, God will strip you of the old, bring a new wineskin, and then put new wine on you. You've got to shed. See, some watch this. Fasting sheds off the old wineskin. It gets rid of it, it purges it off of you and says, okay, make me a new wineskin again. Sometimes we have to repent. Sometimes we have to go back and say, Lord, you know, there's things in my heart that need to shift or change. So then times of refreshing can come from the presence of the Lord, whatever it is that it might be. But as you're fasting, God will show you you can get into alignment. The new wineskin can come, which is a new heart, a new mind, a new, a new outlook, and then the new wine can come. So my prayer right now is Father, in the name of Jesus, wherever we are, that Lord, we would have a new wineskin, that Lord, we would get a new blade. And Father, there would be a new mantle and a new garment that would come upon our lives right now. I pray for every person that is watching and listening right now that a new anointing would come upon them from the top of their head to the sole of their feet. Father, we can't go in to this new season with the old blade, old anointing, and old mantle, the old cloth, the old shirt. We can't go into it with that, Father. We need the new in our lives. And if you need a new anointing, I just want you to lift up your hands right now as I pray for you. Father, in the name of Jesus, I release into them, Father God, the grace, Father, to walk in a new anointing. I pray that they will have the faith to be able to walk in that next level. They will have the grace to be able to walk through whatever they need to walk through. Now, ladies and gentlemen, when I talk about not having a grace, what I mean by that, there isn't anything that comes to you that means it doesn't cost anything. When you're really fasting, it costs. When you really sow, it costs. It just, but you understand the joy that's set before you. So you endure the cross and despise the shame. So when I say there's not a grace for it, what I'm actually saying to you is that there is not a grace where it doesn't bother you at all and it doesn't, it doesn't cost anything. No, it will cost you, uh, but God will grace you to walk through that. But there isn't something that just completely removes it away and that like an anesthesia, if you will, that causes you not to experience it. Well, how you know you reach the anesthesia is when you've died and you've killed that part of you, and then God will resurrect and bring something brand new into your life. So, Father, I thank you right now for just anointing every person. Lord, wherever they need a breakthrough, wherever they need a mountain moved, whatever it is that they need, Father, that this would be the season, Father God, that they would shift. Father, we can't go into this next season with the old wineskin, with the old wine, with the old mantle, Father, with the old cloth, Father. We can't go into it with the old blade, Father. We need the new. Sharpen our axe heads, sharpen our blade. Give us a new one, oh God. Father God, I pray, Father, for your anointing to fall down upon us. And Lord God, that your grace would come upon us as well. And Father God, that we would fellowship with your suffering, that we would be made conformable unto your death, that we might know you and the power of your resurrection. And Father, we thank you. Come on, just thank him right now for that presence, that anointing that's coming upon you. Father, there are mountains that need to be moved right now, that can't be moved any other way. Father, we know that it's going to cost to get to that next level. There are anointings we need, Father. There's favor we need in order to do what you called us to do. Father, that we can't get any other way until we come to you and we fast and we pray. Until we pay, if we want the ultimate, we've got to pay the ultimate price. And Father God, we thank you. And Lord, I give you praise, Father, for mountain-moving faith right now. Supernatural power coming upon your people in the name of Jesus. Power to fast, power to pray, power to do what it is that you've called us to do. And Father, we thank you. And we honor you and we bless you and we love you today. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost. Power is coming to you. Hallelujah. Power to fast and to see breakthrough. I believe there are breakthroughs, and I believe there are new anointings, but you've got to be fasting in a way that's going to bring breakthrough. And I don't know who this is for, but there's somebody that God's saying you've got to come up another level. You've got to come up a level. If you want that next level, you've got to come up. And I believe that even as you follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, there's going to be breakthrough in and through your life. Now, listen, I might come to you tomorrow at 8 o'clock. You might want to tune in. I feel like I need to be on seven days a week throughout this time. So I'm going to jump on Sunday. I'm going to jump on Saturday during this 21 days of fasting. Our fasting is from the 3rd to the 23rd. I'm going to be on. So I'm going to come on tomorrow and I'm going to come on Sunday as well because I want you to walk in that power. And I'm going to be meeting you here. So as you're fasting and as you're praying, you can press into the things of God. Hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying. Walk in a new level. Walk in a new anointing and walk in breakthrough. You need breakthrough in your life. This is how you're going to get it. You need a new anointing. This is how you're going to get it. And God is going to richly, richly bless your life. So know that I'm praying for you. I love you. I believe that God's doing great things in and through your life. I believe your best and your blessed days are out in front of you and not behind you. And by surprise, I'm going to be here tomorrow night on Saturday and Sunday. And if you have not downloaded the Dimensions app, go get it. So then you can hear this and put this in your spirit. I believe it's going to minister to you. Press through the flesh, press through your feelings, and watch what God will begin to do in and through your life. God bless you. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow.