Fasting is less about food and more about intimacy and urgency.
I am convinced that fasting is less about food and more about intimacy and urgency. Remember Esther, who, finding herself at a pivotal point in history, separated herself to seek God for the salvation of her people? She separated herself for the sake of one moment with her king. Or what about Daniel, who, understanding the times he lived in, saw his window of opportunity and sought the Lord with a fervency that led his people out of their captivity?
How can I care about playing church when there is an intimacy that unseats principalities? How can I care about my own personal preferences more than the dream God has for the earth? I want to run into something from heaven that breaks the chains of a city, that grants freedom to it as a whole and that infuses it with such a powerful peace that chaos is expelled.
How can I care about playing church when there is an intimacy that unseats principalities?
We have said it, and many more have said it for decades before us, that entire cities will be so dramatically impacted from heaven that their nature will change. They will be so changed that certain aspects of the kingdom will thrive wonderfully there. We will see miracles and signs and wonders like we have never dreamed.
Cities exist for God.
The earth is required to respond at the presence of God. Our intimacy with Him changes us to carry His nature, till Christ be formed in us, till we are literally carrying the atmosphere of heaven here on earth. The truth is, we can see dramatic change at a city level. I would go far as to say this: Cities exist for God. It’s true that we as humans are uniquely crafted to carry the glory of God. But it’s also true that cities were made for heaven on earth. The infrastructure, the economic system, the educational system, the roads, the media; it all exists to carry heaven. What precedents will we pass on to the next generation? That we lived to build a church, or that we laid our lives down to see our cities saved?
