5 rewards of Fasting- Mike Bickle and Dana Candler

Jeremiah taught us that saying prayers is not what God requires. Spiritual language and grandiose statements in prayer do not impress God. He peers right into the depths of the human heart and sees our spiritual void and barrenness. This is where much of the church in the western world misses the mark. We may regularly attend church services and may even go to a few prayer meetings. Yet all the while God is calling us to live a radically different lifestyle necessary for us to experience deep intimacy with Him.

He is after something far deeper than regular attendance at prayer meetings. He wants to actually possess us.

• Fasting is not to move His heart, but to move our own. Our hearts are prone to dullness, we become hardened without realizing it.
• The Bridegroom fast is focused on desire: both understanding God's desire for us and awakening our own desire for Him
• God gives us more of Himself in accordance with our hunger for more. Until your capacity to receive from Him is enlarged by spiritual hunger, you will be limited in your experience of God. He will give according to hunger; thus, our first priority must become hungry. An awakened interest is not yet hunger, hunger is that we can not live without more, when we make radical alterations to our lifestyles in order to pursue God. God promised that HE WILL BE FOUND when He is pursued by anyone with a genuinely heart (Jer 29:12-14)