Many believers often try to take control of their spiritual growth — praying harder, fasting longer, and striving to obey better— with the hopes of influencing God through their own efforts. But this kind of approach yields no results because we don’t have what it takes to affect God. The true success of prayer and fasting, as Pastor Jeffrey Walter reveals in this message, is based on one key ingredient that we leave out: the grace and quickening of God.

In this message, “Fasting in Response to God”, Pastor Jeffrey Walter unfolds the purpose of the wilderness experience in causing us to lose confidence in ourselves and rather rely solely on the grace of God. He teaches on what must initiate true prayer and fasting and the grace that is available for these things if we do not seek to do it by our own strength but rather in response to God’s inward stirring. He also emphasizes the role we have to play in yielding, waiting and responding to this inward quickening.  

Pastor Jeffrey also explores what it means to remain in a passive, yielded state before God—ready for His quickening—and shows how fasting helps focus and deepen our affection for the things of God.

As you listen, may you be quickened by the Spirit into deeper intimacy with God, where every fast, every prayer, and every act of obedience becomes a divine partnership rather than a human performance. Shalom!

Scripture: Psalm 80:18-19 (KJV) 18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.