How to Fast and Pray for a Breakthrough

Do you want to know how to fast and pray for a breakthrough? Sometimes, the best way to get your breakthrough is through fasting and prayer. Let’s explore more about how to fast and pray for a breakthrough.

There was a time when I needed a serious breakthrough in my life, so I turned to fasting and prayer to get it.

I successfully fasted for 11 days straight, so I ate no food of any kind and drank nothing but water only, for 11 straight days. As you can imagine, I was in desperate need of God’s help!

During that time, I pursued God in prayer and prayed consistently to better my circumstances, which included moving to another state very quickly.

By the end of my fast, God heard and honored my prayers, and I was able to miraculously move soon after.

I’ll show you how to fast and pray in this article, so that you too can have successful prayer and fasting results as well.

In this post, you are going to learn how to fast and pray for a breakthrough. You’ll also learn how to know when to fast spiritually and much more.

After reading this post, you’ll know how to successfully fast and pray for a breakthrough and how to pray when fasting for a breakthrough.

This post is all about how to fast and pray for a breakthrough.

How to Fast and Pray for a Breakthrough

How to fast and pray Effectively?

To fast and pray effectively you must dedicate yourself and your time to God, as you seek Him in prayer and in other ways. When you dedicate yourself that includes dedicating your mind, heart, and body to the Lord.

What does that look like?

It’s going without food and drink (except water) for a set amount of time, which can be hours, days, or weeks. But during that time, you must spend time with God and continuously pray, praise, worship, meditate, read the Bible, fellowship, etc.

In doing so, it’ll bring you closer to God because your focus will be solely on Him. This gives God a chance to do supernatural things in your life.

Example:

For instance, towards the end of my 11 day fast I walked into a grocery store and did a little grocery shopping because I was preparing to break my fast the next day.

As I shopped, an old man walked up to me, began small talking, then suddenly started praying for me out of nowhere.

I didn’t know this man at all! But, I was astounded at this man’s prayer because he prayed for almost everything that I had been praying and fasting for, during the 11 days. Which were things that were very specific, and there’s no way possible that he would’ve known what to pray for if God hadn’t directed him.

That experience let me know that God heard my prayers as I fasted. And through prayer and fasting God aligned my path with a complete stranger who felt the urge to pray for me at God’s prompting.

Needless to say, our prayers were soon answered after I completed the fast. God’s word says, “where two or three are gathered in His name, there He is in the midst.” Surely He was in the midst of me and that man that day!

If you want a more detailed guide about how to pray and fast effectively and what to avoid while fasting, then this article will help you: “Christian Fasting for Beginners”

How to know when to fast spiritually?

When things get really hard and it seems like nothing is working, then it’s definitely time to fast and pray. Especially when you start experiencing back-to-back problems that are unexpected and seem to come out of nowhere. This signals that you’re being attacked spiritually to keep you from something that God has in store for you.

When you see this happening, the enemy is just trying to discourage you and make you lose your faith in God. But don’t fall for it! It’s the oldest trick in the book; instead, seek God more than you usually would through prayer and fasting. Because that’s what’s going to bring you through. Prayer and fasting is one of, if not the best way to fight the enemy spiritually.

How to pray when fasting for a breakthrough?

Prayer is extremely important when fasting for a breakthrough. Your prayer should clearly communicate what the problem is, ask God to help you, and lastly apply Biblical scriptures that’s in alignment with the problem you’re experiencing.

Here are two example prayers about finances and healing that you can say to God while you fast and pray:

1. Prayer for breakthrough in financial area

God,

“You are so worthy of all praise, Hallelujah! And praise be unto your Holy name. Thank you for helping me in my time of need and thank you for loving me, Lord.

Lord, I’ve been struggling financially and I need a major breakthrough that only you can give, in my finances. Times are too hard for me right now and I need your help Heavenly Father.

Help pull me out of the financial bind that I’m in.

I ask that you bless my finances and prosper them. Bless me with a mighty miracle and a quick sudden turnaround in my finances, in some way, shape, or form.

Tell me what to do and instruct me Lord; I will listen.

Lord your word says, “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”

I’m following your word’s instruction by humbling myself through fasting, and I’m casting my cares and concerns onto you through prayer, just as your word says.

I ask that you hear and honor my prayers and bless me with a successful fast that yields incredible results.

Your word also says, “God works for the good of those who love him.” I believe and trust that scripture Lord, so I ask that you turn this negative circumstance into a positive one for me.

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Lord, a scripture from your Holy word that I’m standing in agreement with is, “Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.”

I bind and rebuke financial scarcity and Satan off my finances. While I loose my financial blessings and increases to my finances miraculously.

I speak Psalm 121 over my finances, because I know and believe that my help comes from you Lord! Hallelujah!

Lord, I plead the blood of Jesus over my finances and I ask for a supernatural miracle concerning them.

God, I’ve prayed and done my part Lord, and I ask that you do yours by bringing the physical manifestation of my prayers to pass.”

In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

2. Short Prayer and fasting for healing

Lord,

“I come to you in prayer for a need that only you can fulfill. I’m praying and fasting for healing in every area of my life. Heal my body from sickness and disease. Lord, also heal and renew my mind and heart.

Drive out and destroy any and all sickness in me from its root. I ask that you destroy illness of all kinds. Heal my heart from brokenness, hurt, sorrow, pain, and trauma. Lord, I believe that by your stripes I am healed.

Lord, send forth your supernatural healing to heal me in every way that I need it.”

In Jesus mighty name I pray, Amen.

Scriptures to read when fasting for a breakthrough

Matthew 18:19-20,

“Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”

Ezekiel 34:15,

“I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign Lord; I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I’ll bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.”

Matthew 7:7-8,

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”

Ephesians 3:20,

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.”

Romans 8:26,

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.”

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