Jesus Fast , livre ebook

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© 2016 by Lou Engle and Dean Briggs
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Endorsements
“ The Jesus Fast is an inspiring summons and call to rally the troops for the kind of prayer and fasting that has historically preceded the revivals of old. Lou reminds us of the original Jesus movement, ushered in through the prayer and fasting of John the Baptist and Jesus Himself, awakening us to what God is doing as this generation presses in to see revival with a capital R manifest across the earth.”
Dr. Ché Ahn, apostle, Harvest Apostolic Center, Pasadena, California; apostolic leader, HRock Church
“In desperate times, God puts His trumpet to the mouths of extraordinarily passionate and radically committed change agents, leaders who are willing to live their message and lead the charge. You do not simply hear or read one of Lou Engle’s messages, you experience it; you don’t just learn, you become. If you want more power in your Christian walk, and you want to make a difference in these perilous times, read The Jesus Fast !”
Dutch Sheets, Dutch Sheets Ministries
“God has used Lou Engle to call the Church to another level of consecration to the Lord, and not only to believe God for an awakening in their day but to actively engage that call through prayer and fasting. The urgency of the call to fast and pray is tied to the urgency of the hour we live in. The Jesus Fast will awaken within you a passion to fast and pray, not out of obligation but out of a sense that God has called us to take part in shaping the course of world history. This is the call of every believer. I, for one, have been ruined for anything else.”
Banning Liebscher, director, Jesus Culture
“I have never known anyone with faith like Lou Engle in the place of prayer and fasting. When I imagine what the ‘spirit of Elijah’ might look like at a practical, tangible level, I think of Lou Engle. What Lou and Dean write in this book has the potential, if taken seriously, to change the course of history.”
Brian Kim, president, Antioch Center for Training and Sending (ACTS)
“As you read this book, prepare for your life to change. Within these pages you will hear a call, an invitation to leave the comforts of normal Christianity and experience a lifestyle of consecration to God that will lead you into His world, where His voice becomes clear and the miraculous becomes possible. Your heart will burn with fresh passion to dream the dreams of God and to see a global awakening.”
Karen Wheaton Towe, founder and president, The Ramp
“Lou Engle’s commitment to shaping nations through prayer and fasting has intersected with the pulsing desire of today’s young believer for authentic Christianity. Lou lives what he preaches. His new book, The Jesus Fast , is sure to connect with today’s radical remnant while also challenging the slumbering majority to follow Jesus into the wilderness of physical hunger in order to emerge in the fullness of spiritual power. Read it!”
Dr. Billy Wilson, president, Oral Roberts University
“There’s a silence before signs, a wilderness before wonders. There’s a moaning before miracles, a groaning before ‘great grace’ like what was on the apostles. Supernatural breakthrough is preceded by a supernatural breaking of the heart and soul. Through Lou Engle and Dean Briggs, God gave us The Jesus Fast as a divine escort into consecration and revelation, preparing a generation for the greatest manifestation of God’s glory in human history.”
Eddie James, director, Eddie James Ministries
Dedication
From Lou:
To my best friend and wife, Therese, who has borne the weight of care for the family when I have gone away to fast. Hers is the fasting reward.
Sweetheart, thank you for giving me wings to fly.
From Dean:
To the rising army of fasting intercessors, forged in the wilderness of dreams and despair, till Christ be formed and promises dawn.
And to my beautiful, incredible wife, Jeanie, who has lovingly walked the hard road with me. Babe, it’s dawn.
Contents
Cover 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Endorsements 5
Dedication 7
Foreword by Daniel Kolenda 11
Foreword by Bill Johnson 13
1. My Call, and Yours 17
Section 1: Preparing a Generation 25
2. Flashpoint of Revival 27
3. Summoned to the Brink of History 41
4. Mustering the Army of the Dawn 53
5. Nazirite DNA 61
Section 2: Fasting Fathers and Fruitful Sons 79
6. Daring to Shape History 81
7. Releasing Generations of Inheritance 97
8. Inaugurating War in the Heavens 117
Section 3: From the Nazirite to the Nazarene 141
9. John: A Fiery Heart to Prepare the Way 143
10. Jesus: Bind the Strong Man, Release the Harvest 159
Section 4: Harvesting Every Nation 179
11. Understanding the Hour 181
12. The Global Jesus Fast 199
Appendix: How to Fast, How to Pray 209
Notes 215
About the Authors 221
Other Books by the Authors 222
Back Ads 223
Back Cover 225
Foreword
In Matthew 17 the scribes used a prophecy from Malachi—saying that Elijah the prophet would return before the “day of the Lord”—to contest Jesus’ Messianic claims. Since Elijah had not come, they argued, Jesus could not be the Messiah. When the disciples asked Jesus for an explanation, He replied,
“Elijah is coming . . . but I say to you that Elijah already came, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wished.” . . . Then the disciples understood that He had spoken to them about John the Baptist.
Matthew 17:11–13
Jesus’ response was clear. The Elijah prophesied by Malachi was John the Baptist, in the sense that he had come “in the spirit and power of Elijah” (Luke 1:17 NIV ). Yet notice something very interesting. Not only did Jesus say that Elijah “has come”—meaning John—but He said in the same statement that Elijah “is coming.” Who is this Elijah yet to come?
Many have speculated about who this coming Elijah might be. I have heard people say he could be one of the two witnesses mentioned in Revelation 11. But I believe the answer is much more profound and relevant to us.
Rather than a solitary man, a lonely voice crying in the wilderness, I believe an entire generation will arise in the spirit and power of Elijah before the Second Coming of the Lord. They will be a generation of John the Baptists preparing the way for the coming King. They will be burning men and women pointing away from themselves to the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. They will be the ultimate fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy:
“It will come about after this that I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind; and your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on the male and female servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.”
Joel 2:28–29
Can you see it? An army of Elijahs, of John the Baptists, filled with the Spirit of God, walking in supernatural power, seeing the invisible, doing the impossible and declaring the Word of the Lord with prophetic urgency, from the least to the greatest!
Many years ago the Lord said to Lou Engle in a dream, Stretch forth a wakening rod over the earth! When I read The Jesus Fast , I could feel that awakening touching my own heart—the contagious heat of a consumed life.
I am sure this book is a now word from a man who not only preaches a message but embodies it. As you read the pages of this book, your heart will be set ablaze as mine was. You will be challenged, convicted, confronted and inspired. Most of all you will be provoked by the prophetic call of a “voice”—a burning man calling a generation to “prepare the way of the Lord!”
Daniel Kolenda, president and CEO, Christ for All Nations
Foreword
The Jesus Fast is a dangerous book. Its sole purpose is to disrupt the life satisfied without revival and draw the believer into a Holy Spirit–provoked dissatisfaction. From that place we find our truest significance. The focus established in these pages is simple yet profound. This book summons a generation into its privileged role of shaping the course of world history. And nothing less.
What makes this book unique is that, while it contains an obvious call to prayer and fasting, the focus is not on the world calamities that exist all around us. That has been