God corrects the mindset of pastors and ministry leaders who claim that fasting, or bridal fasting, as some call it, will bring about His benefits. The question being asked is whether or not there is spiritual value in fasting. The answer is no and I’ll explain why.

We will get a chance to examine a list of fasting benefits promoted by Larry Tomczak in his article, The Benefits of Fasting in 2024, to see how his claims stack up against God’s standard, but first let’s look at the source of fasting to see why this deception got so deeply rooted in the false religious system.

Keep in mind that when we talk about spiritual benefits, we are talking about the life of Christ that God makes possible when we touch the spiritual tools that He sanctified by sprinkling them with Jesus’ blood.

Fasting is not a spiritual tool in God’s kingdom.

Fasting is a carnal tool used by those who are void of the life of Christ as they try to gain access to the presence, power, and wisdom of God by coming in through another door. A carnal tool will not become spiritual just because it’s given a new name. (Jn. 10:1)

All of Jesus’ tools are designed for our access to Him where an equal exchange takes place. God gave us new knowledge in Jesus’ new covenant that is a perfect reflection of Him. (Col. 3:10)

God gives us spiritual tools for us to exercise our will with His grace, to in turn receive the life of Christ in all 9 operations of grace that impact our hearts each and every time we use them. God develops our trust by initiating and sustaining this form of contact for the fruit bearing of our soul.

Whether we eat or we do not eat has no impact on God’s work in us.

Fasting will neither decrease the works of the flesh nor increase God’s presence and power and is not a catalyst to receive His wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.

1 Corinthians 8:8
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

In this verse, Apostle Paul is talking about the value of abstinence. Fasting will not help you to identify the works of the flesh, dim your appetite for them, or subdue them. Fasting has no effect on the exercise of our will with the things of Christ, and lastly, fasting cannot produce the fruit of Christ in the soul and therefore cannot purge the conscience, nor provide the means for our equal exchange with God. These are catastrophic failures.

In truth, fasting is a tool of the flesh, not a tool of Jesus’ covenant; it’s a religious, last-ditch “Hail Mary” effort. All the tools of the flesh are self-referencing, meaning that they use man’s fallen nature as a foundation and this foundation becomes the source to feed a desire to get closer to God on our own terms – and that’s what Apostle John says is a lie – a violent misrepresentation of the truth. (1 Jn. 1:6)

Fasting indicates a separation from God.

Some teach that fasting is a take it or leave it kind of choice, and they’ll say that if fasting works for you then do it and if it doesn’t work for you, then maybe God has something else for you. But God’s will is the same for each of us. He established ONE pattern in Jesus’ covenant to gift us all with the same spiritual tools to benefit equally from our contact with Him. We all have access to God when we come through the door of His new covenant.

God works in each of us individually in our daily growth cycles in different ways with the same anointing and in the same priesthood where we share the life of Christ each day. To one is given a word of knowledge, to another a dream, to another a vision, to another a prophecy, but we all share the same foundation of truth and we all prophesy Christ from the same anointing. We are all woven into one cloth of the stewardship and priesthood.

Fasting has to do with a frame of mind that is not covenant oriented.

God defines man’s natural state as separated from Him and in such a state, ministry leaders continue to try to purge themselves of the things of this world that they feel keeps them separated from God, and fasting is one way they go at the problem of separation.

This separation from God is something highlighted in Tomczak’s article where he states that fasting produces “a longing for greater intimacy with Him [God]”; and it’s #8 on his list of benefits, where he says that fasting “deepens communion with God”.

In recent years, God has been highlighting the language of separation that punctuates the writings of those still lost in the false religious system. Let’s examine separation language to discern what is being said. Anytime a pastor or ministry leader talks about,

1. getting closer to God,
2. deepening your communion with God,
3. going deeper in your relationship with God,
4. taking your Christian life to the next level,
5. removing barriers to your relationship with God,
6. removing generational curses,
7. getting deliverance,
8. greater fruitfulness,
9. facilitating breakthroughs…

(We are again dipping into Tomczak’s list, as the last 3 are also included on his list of fasting benefits.)

Anytime a minister talks about these things he’s talking about his separation FROM God, not his experience being joined TO God.

No such separation language is used by the apostles to define our faith because our experience with Him is already built into the elements of the gospel, which form the foundation of our faith. Each element plays a crucial and active role in our relationship with God by which we identify God’s initiation and our participation in His daily fruit bearing process.

When the 12 elements of the gospel are missing so also is the vital role they play.

God designed grace, faith, righteousness, justification, sanctification, holiness, peace, rest, charity, truth, regeneration, and the renewing of the mind in synergy with His stewardship and priesthood. These are living new covenant links.

This is the path the Holy Spirit takes to confirm Christ and create His divine nature in us. God fosters these living connections to assist us to live the life of Christ now, even as Apostle Paul instructed.

Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

To be crucified with Christ and to also share in His life has to do with the cycle God called us into. We die daily to our aspiration, principle, and imagination through our contact with the living tokens of Christ where the exchange of charity seals our faith with the fruits of righteousness.

None of the language of the covenant communicates that God is at a distance and therefore we need to move in closer, or that there are barriers to blessings that need to be removed and therefore justify carnal works such as fasting. That language reflects the separation of the soul from God and fasting will not change that condition.

A ministry leader works with what he does not have, but is desperately seeking. He’s in a position where he has denied Christ access by denying His spiritual government and denying Jesus’ foundation of truth. Pastors and ministry leaders who advocate fasting have not submitted themselves to build with the tools God sanctified for our contact with Him.

Being in a state of denial, a person does not benefit from covenant contact and continues to look at how he might validate his faith by smiting his flesh to bring it into submission to God; he calls himself and those under his influence to begin a spiritual cleanse.

If you are in this state… your thinking is always going to follow a natural course, to weigh one thing against something else to try to find the mobility of your faith. However, not having God’s true covenant scale in Jesus Christ means weighing your nature in the dark (against yourself).

Fasting follows a line of thought that borrows from scriptures that speak of denying self to live unto God and putting off the old man to put on the new man in Christ. (Titus 2:12; Col. 3:9,10)

We talked about this a bit earlier when examining the cycle God has called us into to share with Him. However, not having entered into covenant salvation through Jesus, God’s education never began and the features of the flesh that God addresses in your growth cycles for healing were never identified.

What that means is, even when you are fasting, the flesh (your aspiration, principle, and imagination) runs rampant, undetected, and still has free reign, ruling your perspective. And this is why the Apostle Paul identified that paradox.

2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Ministers promote fasting as having something that will satisfy what Christians are looking for, but it is not the real Godliness that God intended for you. Fasting lacks all the living connections to Jesus that God empowers, so you have permission from God to turn away from it.

When Apostle Paul speaks of bringing into submission the appetites of the flesh, he is not speaking of the appetite for physical food and he’s not talking about abstaining from certain activities.

1 Corinthians 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Apostle Paul refers to his own daily transition. He no longer lives according to the rhythm of life as he did in the past before he came to Christ.

The appetites that the Apostle Paul is speaking of subduing to Christ are the appetites that we all were born into that are associated with our first birth into this world. These appetites are rooted in the 5 features of the flesh: 1) the signature of the soul, 2) the moral code, 3) the God-Code, 4) the knowledge of this world, and 5) the fruits of iniquity.

Apostle Paul is talking about these collective natural features of his soul that he used to walk out bodily in this world. Satan works from these natural inclinations to take the mind captive, but now we are taking them captive to Christ.

The nature of man is to nurture his own identity to reflect self and to seek a relationship with God in this domain where his nature is allowed to rule.

Whatever your foundation is, so also are your justifications and discernment. This is why God will not allow our nature to be the foundation of our faith, nor will God permit our nature to be the starting point to reason with Him.

Pastors and ministry leaders are famously inclined to combine the natural features of their soul with scripture to pursue and build with their natural appetites to find the will of God. But just as oil and water do not mix, so also is the nature of man hostile against God. (Rom. 8:1-8)

Always remember: When a person is fasting, there are many self-reflective moments where distinctions are made. As he mistakenly spiritualizes his own nature, he looks within himself to see differences, and in these differences, he sees choices within his nature and he comes to an epiphany, but this is not the voice of God.

When distinctions are made outside of covenant, a person’s logic fragments truth into psychological categories and once the conscience settles into a perspective, it finds its own peace, but this is not the peace of God.

It is not possible to build with the features of the flesh and subdue them at the same time.

Apostle Paul addressed those believers who were neglecting Jesus’ covenant terms, while striving to get closer to God their own way.

Colossians 2:23
Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

We can observe a few things from Apostle Paul’s instruction in this verse. First of all, while Tomczak states that fasting “humbles our soul” (that’s #4 on his list of fasting benefits), here Apostle Paul states that neglecting the body (which is what fasting is all about) produces will worship and false humility.

What is will worship? It is a false environment that a person creates to fabricate the signs of a surrendered heart. The Apostle Paul begins his instruction in this verse by laying open that all false tools (fasting is a false tool) seem to possess God’s wisdom; for example, the merits of making more time for God and following through on a desire to get closer to God. But because God’s connections are missing, it is the wisdom of the world.

What is false humility? It is hypocrisy, whereas a person is true to themselves, while being false to God.

Apostle Paul is not cautioning against an outward show when fasting, but is pointing to man’s nature to bend his will to a form of philosophy that produces its own evidence. They are merely being true to themselves. This is not the pattern of Christ.

I want to share an example with you that opens up the dangerous deception in fasting and will help believers to understand what a spiritual footprint is all about and why it is necessary for discernment. This example is found in honey and it is something a lot of people can relate to.

Did you know that ultrafiltration is responsible for filtering out the pollen naturally found in honey, which basically removes its footprint from the honey. The practice of ultrafiltration left a question in the mind whether or not the substance you’re buying is real honey or fake honey, but it goes deeper than that.

Because some foreign countries were suspected of intentionally dumping contaminated honey into the United States, a lack of pollen would prevent tracking the source of the honey. Foreign countries that had a reputation of adulterating their honey could go on doing so by filtering out the pollen.

The only way to verify and thus certify honey was through examining the pollen that is inside the honey. The pollen identifies the plant the bee visited and the plant identifies its place of origin.

So, we see here a series of connections or a chain of evidence. The presence of pollen means that we’re able to track down the journey of a particular bottle of honey to trace its source.

Honey’s golden color might have the right appearance, it looks like what we would expect honey to look like, and it might taste sweet, just like we would expect, but without the presence of pollen, the substance can’t be traced back to its source to decide whether it came from a reputable supplier or someone that adulterated the product.

Jesus’ foolproof footprint is evidence that He is the source of our faith.

Just as pollen is the only foolproof footprint to verify honey’s source, so also are the elements of the gospel, the apostolic stewardship, the new priesthood, and the tools of Jesus’ covenant the only foolproof footprint that verifies the source of our faith – God Himself.

People complain about adulterated honey, and rightly so, and a new standard was set to remove ambiguity. Anything labeled as “honey” must contain pollen. And honey that has been filtered so as to remove all pollen should be called by another name.

This is a wonderful parable to understand how God certifies your faith. God says the same thing about all the things of Christ needing to be present in your faith to certify Himself as the source and thus the sustainer of your faith, beginning with apostolic governance. That’s God’s Kingdom Standard.

Is the source of your faith the foundation of man’s natural design? Then it does not meet God’s Kingdom Standard and should be called the philosophy of man, will worship, the kingdom of the flesh, and Satan’s influence, for he is the source of all false knowledge.

God is putting a challenge before pastors and ministry leaders to return to His Kingdom Standard.

God knows that ministers that operate in the kingdom of the flesh have contaminated the gospel of Jesus Christ by removing His covenant terms to qualify themselves. God’s KSAT brings to the attention of the people that He set a standard for us in Jesus Christ to qualify us for His inheritance.

We are only accepted into God’s kingdom and family by accepting the terms of His new covenant. In order to gain entrance into God’s kingdom and share in the inheritance of Christ, a person must first be equipped to function in God’s kingdom and discern (test) the knowledge they hear against God’s standard.

The early apostles confirmed this standard in their stewardship and that’s why God established the apostles as living gauges. An examination takes place by those whom God called into His restored government. All knowledge is tested upon the scale of Jesus Christ to determine its source.

Many read the Bible and quote scripture to prove their source, but the Bible is not the Word of God, Jesus is the Word of God. (Jn. 1:1-3; 1 Jn. 1:1-2)

Did you know: When the Bible is read by eyes veiled by the flesh, self is the starting point of a person’s reasoning with God.

Many wonder how to read the Bible from God’s perspective. What is God’s meaning of words that are commonly found in the holy scriptures: grace, covenant, gifts, sin, salvation, trust, love, priesthood, worship, transformation, spiritual growth, repentance, prayer.

When trying to put fasting on the table of faith, your first impulse may be to run to the Bible to work out how fasting could be a valid avenue to God’s presence and transforming power.

You might be tempted to say, “Wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to do these things: fast and pray, read the Bible, go to church, go to the altar, and go to conferences. It’s part of the seeking process.”

Something I want you to see is that God meant for you to understand that a covenant is needed. When a covenant relationship with God is not started, then scripture is coupled with repentance as a do-over or start-over button.

The many calls to repentance sound enticing because everyone wants a chance to start over, and you’re willing to believe for the moment that repentance is needed and that fasting would be a great door to open. But God is unapologetic about His call to covenant and to His sanctified apostolic stewardship to receive the foundation of truth.

God’s plan to restore apostolic governance must be met with unequivocal acceptance. Their absence eliminated the language by which believers communicate and take an active part in doing the will of God and walking in His power.

The chain of evidence that many pastors and ministry leaders claim is that the apostles fasted, Jesus fasted, the Bible talks about it, so we’re doing it.

The chain of evidence is contaminated by removing the covenant for which Jesus shed His blood. Man’s fallen nature is coupled with scripture to stand in the place of God’s covenant connections. A twist takes place anytime man’s fallen nature is allowed to become God’s standard.

Chief Elder, Apostle John, in his epistle said, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” (1 John 5:1)

Apostle John was not giving a formula for pastors and ministry leaders to remain independent of Jesus’ covenant and to justify believing in Jesus their own way. A word or two such as “believe” and “love” cannot be pulled from a verse to make your own golden standard.

God does not speak in a vacuum, but in the context of His new covenant.

God was always speaking of Jesus Christ and all the spiritual tools, the stewardship and new priesthood He would place in Him for us to live the life of Christ here and now with His active involvement. (1 Jn. 4:9; 1 Jn. 5:11)

Believing in Jesus is not cut off from His foundation of truth that He set within the 12 elements of the gospel. Our faith does not exist apart from the role God assigned to each element and our competent knowledge of that role so that we can mindfully participate with Him.

When we say that God means for us to love one another, God is not talking about what we know naturally about love, nor is God talking about a free exchange of ideas, but rather God links love to the new covenant priesthood where the anointing is active every day for each of us to function as we reciprocate to Him the likeness of Christ.

Believing in Jesus and loving one another, and the word “anointing” should not be considered as something separate from His covenant stewardship and foundation knowledge or it will be separated from His presence and influence.

What is left when the power and influence of Jesus is taken out is the nature of man that is spiritualized to represent Jesus, which God will not accept.

When reading about how God led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and all that is preached is that Jesus fasted, the pattern that God designed into the record of Jesus has been filtered out.

Jesus is our example: Jesus was NOT led into the wilderness to fast, but rather to set the example for us for our own growth cycle. The pattern that Jesus set for us is: revelation, resistance, and reward. We are called daily into this experience to overcome ourselves, Satan, and the world as the Holy Spirit works Christ in us. (Mt. 4:1-11)

God placed this cycle within His covenant to set the standard for our participation with His power and to restrict the flesh from voicing another path based on its own foundation and experience with sin and death.

In this new apostolic age, God is debunking the myth about fasting that had grown up around the absence of Jesus’ covenant and apostolic stewardship. As we work through Tomczak’s list of fasting benefits we’ll take it back to God’s parable about the honey that has no pollen, in other words, knowledge that has been stripped of the foundation of truth and faith that has been stripped of Jesus’ new covenant.

You might be thinking about your own experiences with fasting and how it felt like you grew closer to God. The different experiences that accompany a fast may hold that sweetness to someone who has been seeking and searching for something solid from God he can trust, but there are two basic failures with Tomczak’s list of fasting benefits that’s also found in fasting formulas across the board:

1 – Jesus’ footprint is obviously missing. We will see no living connections to Jesus’ covenant, His apostolic stewardship, or the elements of the gospel that contain Jesus’ DNA. We will see no links to the foundation of truth, or our new priesthood.

2 – The fleshly nature of man remains intact as the false standard of faith, and what this does is adulterate and contaminate your faith. Ironically, fasting is used to attempt to filter out fleshly appetites, but it does the opposite, it filters out truth and what a person knows naturally takes the place of Jesus. Truth is God’s filter to separate the kingdom of the flesh from the kingdom of God.

Fasting as well as other false tokens such a water baptism, deliverance meetings, psycho-phecy, declarations, foot washings, the laughter movement, and physical communion have been pushed on the church as ways to gain entrance to God’s presence, power, and blessings – but these are all self-referencing tools.

In the kingdom of the flesh, fasting has become a standard rite of passage to get more of God.

The challenge God places before pastors and ministry leaders is to return to His covenant standard in Jesus. God, in His wisdom, placed a restriction on our faith that says that He will only recognize Jesus in the things He sanctified with His blood for us to touch Him and labor with Him.

God’s restrictions are necessary to prevent us from joining ourselves to the things He does not use to work in us. God shows us why He excludes the kingdom of the flesh so we don’t use what we know naturally as building material for our faith.

God’s Kingdom Standardized Admissions Test (KSAT) speaks of returning discernment to the church through the apostolic key. All doctrine is standardized to Jesus, our cornerstone. We are going to go through Tomczak’s list of fasting benefits point by point to compare and test them against God’s standard.

1. Renews spiritual vision.

KSAT: Failing to filter out man’s nature, what a minister calls “spiritual vision” is coming from his aspiration, principle, and imagination that are used to envision God’s will and obtain His promises apart from His covenant. Apostle Paul instructed us to cast down imaginations. (2 Cor. 10:5)

The Bible is full of examples of what happens when God’s counsel is replaced with Satan’s promises, beginning in the garden of paradise. When Adam and Eve accepted Satan’s counsel in place of God’s word, they were vulnerable (naked) and sought for a covering among the trees, and they used fig leaves to shield their nakedness and hide from God. (Gen. 3:1-11)

They were looking to shield themselves from the light of God, which is a problem because God is the only true light and, therefore, the only true witness (covering confirmation).

Without the witness of God, a person has to find a substitute witness (covering confirmation) in the fig leaf. Spiritually speaking, that is our aspiration, principle, and imagination. How does God feel about that?

Jesus cursed the fig tree saying, “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever.” By cursing the fig tree Jesus was making reference to the shield Adam selected in the time of his vulnerability, and how it gave no substance to his soul, but rather reflected Satan’s counsel, which left him fruitless. (Mt. 21:19)

2. Brings a holy brokenness.

KSAT: Neglecting to join holiness to the role the other elements play, holiness stands alone, apart from Christ and is in fact a deceptive counterfeit found in man’s own nature, namely his moral code.

The moral code of the soul is imperfect, first of all because it is not Christ, and secondly because this original imprint upon the soul received influence as we developed our sense of right and wrong. Our moral code received its baptism into the waters of this world of sin and death; thus, the things we experienced (our culture, our aspiration) developed a moral center that is highly prejudiced to our own light.

People use their moral code to hold themselves to a higher standard, so it feels quite natural to think that God would also use the moral code to hold us to a higher standard, as scripture is looked upon to help define that and the Holy Spirit is asked to “help” us to apply that to our life.

We’re driving home the point that God does not use our moral code to represent Him. Nor does He empower our will to help us conform to our moral code. There is a big difference between placing a testimony in our soul that we would know that we are divinely created, and selecting this token to represent God.

The difference is in sanctification. Jesus shed His blood upon the cross to provide Himself as a point of contact and frame of knowledge for our sanctification. God uses all things of Christ to separate us from the world unto Himself and only accepts our faith on these conditions.

3. Purifies our heart.

KSAT: Omitting one’s sanctified growth cycle, the conscience continues to testify of God’s absence and the lips are silent, lacking the charity of the anointing. Neglecting the body does not produce the work of the Spirit.

Know this: The five features of the flesh are your natural senses, not your spiritual senses. When a believer does not know how to train his spiritual senses properly with grace and truth and the tools of the new covenant, he substitutes his natural senses for the spiritual things of Christ.

A believer tries to learn how to exercise his will for good, but he is merely exercising his will with his own moral code, desiring to do good, and to have good attitudes (showing compassion, being honorable and showing humility, seeking justice, integrity, showing good will, making better decisions, and changing for the better, forgiving, looking for the best in others, and learning from mistakes).

When the moral code governs one’s faith these pursuits are equated to a purified heart. The moral code is a fleshly tool that is used to tip the scales for holiness, but the moral code is the place from which introspection gives birth to resolutions for change: I resolve to go out of my way, above and beyond, to show kindness to friends, family, and strangers. I resolve to enjoy my own life without comparing myself to others. I resolve to make a difference. I resolve to stop competing with others.

To follow the moral code is to compete with self.

4. Humbles our soul.

KSAT: True humility is joined to the other 8 operations designed by God into His grace to impact our soul and is activated when we choose to exercise our will with all 9 tools of Jesus’ covenant. Grace replaces the aspiration of man and the truth of Christ replaces our principle, and the anointing replaces our imagination.

Neglecting to remain in the current of God’s covenant, humility is chosen from another source, namely man’s own moral code and it becomes a contaminant rather than a power for us to build with God.

The habit of the natural man is to watch for successful patterns and to follow that person or that teaching without discerning the kingdom it’s tethered to.

The Bible gives us many examples of what happens when the choice is not made to remain in the current of God’s covenant. For instance, Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, decided to deviate from God’s commandment through Moses and they started a new pattern. They selected a type of incense that pleased them, rather than the incense God chose, thinking that it would not make any difference because after all, incense is incense, right?

But God called their selection “strange fire” and placed a judgment upon that action, “and there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.” Even so, humbleness by fasting is strange fire, not born of the anointing, not the same as the humbleness God selected to empower by His grace. (Leviticus 10:1-2)

5. Releases spiritual guidance.

KSAT: God designed the foundation of truth as the pattern and record of Christ that directs our faith with all the things of Christ. The anointing acts as a catalyst to make all these spiritual things personal to each of us within our own growth cycles to guide us in our fruit bearing to God to thrive in His great and precious promises. (2 Pet. 1:4)

These are key ingredients necessary for the life of Christ in the covenant environment that makes our participation effectual by the Spirit. Neither the ingredients nor the environment changes over time because God does not change. Nothing of Jesus can be missing from truth and nothing of man can be added. That’s God’s standard.

Releasing yourself from God’s standard (that His foundation comes through His apostles), pastors and ministry leaders advocate a spiritual guidance system that is outside of God’s kingdom culture.

6. Subdues our flesh.

KSAT: I say it often and it’s worth repeating here that the God-Code of man is hungry for all the things that God designed within it, and when false knowledge continues to feed the God-Code, the fleshly nature of man is NOT subdued but rather rules the heart and mind.

The source of all false knowledge is the devil. The devil teaches people how to draw from themselves. Our source is either ourselves, which is a false foundation, or our source is Christ Himself, which is the true foundation.

When a person says that he desires God to subdue his flesh, that desire seems innocuous. But the choice to accept knowledge that links your faith to self rather than to Christ is not innocuous. Most can’t see what their independence from stewardship and priesthood is costing them.

The Bible gives us many examples of what happens when going full throttle with the God-Code to secure what we think belongs to us. For instance, the honor that Haman pursued became the noose that hung him. (Esther 6:6-12; Esther 7:10)

7. Heightens spiritual awareness.

KSAT: Satan uses the knowledge of this world to develop a spiritual awareness of the fruits of iniquity and then works a psychology from those gut feelings and impressions, but these intuitive leadings lack the power of God. Satan takes advantage of the desire for change and opens the window of the imagination to nourish the heart with false perceptions.

Insightfulness into one’s own nature is not spiritual awareness. God placed His scale in Jesus’ foundation knowledge to make distinction for Christ to develop a choice of faith that He rewards.

The Bible gives us many examples of misplaced spiritual awareness, for instance, king Saul sought the Lord, but “the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets”. In this void, Saul accepted the voice of a familiar spirit and interpreted what he saw in the light of what he thought he needed. (1 Sam. 28:6,14)

8. Deepens communion with God.

KSAT: Filtering the foundation of truth from your faith, your language changes and no longer reflects the living links of experience with God, but contains the missing links earmarked by the words like “deepen” and “closer” which plays back the false message that so many have received, that in this life we will never be as close to God as we ought to be.

When we talk about God’s communion with us, we’re talking about the new covenant priesthood, which begins by building the altar of Christ in our hearts, beginning with the element grace, and includes our daily growth cycles that have nothing to do with fasting.

Fasting is not a transitional power. Grace is God’s transitional power. When a ministry leader fails to function in Jesus’ priesthood, he cannot reciprocate what God is, and his language changes from the spiritual application to the natural application and he talks about the need to “deepen” his communion with God and may share revelations and dreams that come out of the fast.

The Bible gives us many examples of God giving dreams and revelations that are misused for self-promotion and self-justification. For instance, Laban received a dream from God and by it he claimed authority, but God corrected him through Jacob who spoke rightly about the dream and God’s true intention. (Gen. 31:24, 29, 42)

9. Clears our minds to hear God.

KSAT: God uses grace and truth to direct our minds to serve Him. Fasting cannot “clear” our minds to hear God’s voice because it cannot clear the mind of false knowledge. False knowledge is mixed seed.

The power of God only works with grace when it is joined to truth, the seed of Christ. Grace is only a force for change when it is regulated and filtered, and that’s the role God assigned to truth and the oversight of His apostolic government.

The Bible gives us many examples of the importance of discerning when the knowledge of this world and man’s nature is being mixed with God’s holy knowledge. For instance, God raised up the Prophet Ezra and the Prophet Nehemiah to return Israel to the pure language of His covenant. (Zeph. 3:9)

These two prophets corrected the practice of marrying “strange wives” by whom the Israelites had children, and in time, their children no longer spoke the Jews’ language, but spoke according to the language of their mixed parentage. (Ezra 10:44; Neh. 13:24)

Sometimes people might say that Ezra and Nehemiah turned things around for the Jews, but it’s more accurate to say that these chosen stewards were sent by God to bring correction, to return the people to the things of God’s covenant they had abandoned, neglected, and forgotten. They could not cleanse themselves nor clear their minds of the years of fellowship they had with false knowledge (strange wives).

10. Brings supernatural refreshing.

KSAT: While there are many things in our nature that promise to complete the soul, God designed the soul for Himself, and therefore, we can only find completion in the design of Christ, and that’s why He is our rest.

Rest is one of the 12 elements of the gospel and cannot be taken from the design of Christ and made to serve the nature of man.

To establish fasting as a living connection for one’s rest means that the true rest of God has been set aside.

11. Adds power to prayer.

KSAT: Our prayers are already empowered by the Holy Spirit when we pray in tongues. In addition, our prayers are joined to the stewardship and priesthood which tools God empowers with His witness for our return to Him, which we do daily.

When people say that they’re looking for “more power” or to “add” power to their prayers they are again speaking from a place of lack and separation from God that is born of the denial of Jesus’ covenant.

12. Brings deliverance.

KSAT: When your mind says one thing and your heart says another it’s because these two parts of your nature lost the equity (union) they once had with God when in His light.

When Adam was in the garden with God, before he transgressed God’s commandment to not heed Satan’s counsel, Adam’s spirit and soul were in perfect harmony with God. Adam was not conflicted, confused, frustrated, empty, or angry.

Now we can understand the conflict and why a person outside of covenant continues to seek deliverance rather than follow Jesus’ new covenant commandment to observe Him in our growth cycles where God awaits us daily to create in us His nature.

13. Brings greater fruitfulness.

KSAT: Fruitfulness in God’s kingdom is designed into Jesus’ stewardship and priesthood where we are a part of the process of regeneration and the anointing increases God’s fruits within us.

If you find yourself outside God’s sanctified process of regeneration, you’ll naturally feel a lot of conviction coming from your moral code, God-Code, and signature. It was thought that fruitfulness meant using scripture to get these convictions in line with God’s will to rectify a problem.

Reference is made to scripture, but no application is made to the divine pattern, which begins with stewardship and requires your participation in the priesthood.

It’s like white washing the natural man, but it’s still the natural man, it’s not the new man in Christ. It’s the natural man pretending to be the new man in Christ.

Each conviction about God’s will, the rightness or wrongness of a thing, a circumstance, an event, a person; each conviction about our signature gifts, each conviction based on the drive of the God-Code is passed on to the conscience to defile it. This is what God means when He says that man brings forth fruit unto himself.

Hosea 10:1
Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

14. Facilitates breakthroughs.

KSAT: The fruits of iniquity are a contradiction to the promise of life in Jesus Christ, so under false stewardship faith was tasked to struggle against this current to try to break through to God’s blessings. Over and over again the devil led believers onto this battlefield to fight a battle against the flesh using the flesh as weapons of warfare, thus leading the church into defeat.

We all experienced abuse while in Satan’s kingdom under his stewardship and tutorage. We learned how to work with his knowledge, and we struggled under the weight of sin (the system and knowledge of Satan).

The fruit of iniquity he formed in us confirmed the history of our first birth, as each cycle of death testified of the lack of the virtue of Christ. The fruit of iniquity offered many anecdotal stories about life’s challenges, life’s wounds, and the pursuit of better paths, but did not provide the new path in Jesus.

15. Cleanses the body and helps us lose weight.

KSAT: Apostle Paul encountered those who claimed spiritual and natural blessings in things that don’t represent God and His kingdom.

1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

Here Apostle Paul separates the kingdoms and says that while our physical body would benefit from exercise (and we can add healthy food choices), God’s focus is on the new covenant.

God attached His Godliness (the process of regeneration) to the life we now live now here on earth in Christ, using His tools by which we walk in the promised life of Christ, both now and forever.

We have seen how ineffectual fasting actually is. In truth, ministers are calling believers to fast from the covenant knowledge God designed to feed us. To deprive yourself of the stewardship and priesthood of Christ is to deny His heritage, which is to disinherit Christ.

God is challenging those who have broken the everlasting covenant by their logic. Logic fragments the fulness of Christ by the precept. God is challenging ministers to return to the anointing, which builds with truth and charity – this is of His fulness.