52 Day Miracle

Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough

1. First Key to 52 Day Miracle is you have to have a Burden that’s Great.
   1. Most large godly visions are born out of a burden—this 52 Day Miracle Vision was born for our people, our church, but also our city.
   2. Do you have a burden that is so great you are willing to weep, mourn, fast, and pray? (Nehemiah 1:3-4, NIV)
   3. We have become so busy and worried we don’t stop and allow God to burden our hearts and minds like he wants to.
   4. The starting point is we have to have a burden for those hurting and helpless—we are the answer to Jesus’ prayers. (Matthew 9:35-26, NCV; Matthew 9:25-38, NIV)
   5. Nehemiah’s burden for his people was so great he wept, mourned, prayed, and fasted for days.
2. Second Key to having a 52 Day Miracle is we have to know or learn how to activate that burden.
   1. God is the God of mercy and when He sees us burden, mourn, fast, and pray for the very thing He wants to come about it activates His Power in a supernatural way. (Ezra 8:21, KJV)
   2. Fasting helps afflict our soul—helps us to become humble before God.
   3. When we fast on purpose with a purpose, it can cause us to become burdened about the right things the right way—then God answers our prayers. (1 John 5:14-15, NKJV)

• Third Key to having a 52 Day Miracle is the Choices you make. (Nehemiah 1:4, NKJV; Isaiah 58:5-6, NKJV)
  1. Fasting is a choice—it is the choices we make that greatly determine success or failure in our life.
  2. Fasting for results on purpose with a purpose—our way of coming to God for the answers and relief.
     1. Loose the bonds of the wickedness.(Matthew 12:29, NKJV)
     2. Undo heavy burdens. (Matthew 11:28-30, NKJV)
     3. Oppressed goo free. (Exodus 3:9-10, NKJV)
  3. Challenges for the week:
     1. Would you ask God to give you the right burden for the right people?
     2. Would you be willing to fast this week? (Matthew 17:21, NKJV)
     3. Types of Fasting:
        1. Fast from one meal a day.
        2. Fast for one day next week.
        3. Fast until next Sunday.
     4. Important Insights:
        1. Make some special time for God and His Word.
        2. When hunger pain comes let it remind you to pray and ask God what He would have you pray for.
        3. Have target prayers—pray for specific people or specific answers.
        4. The key is not to get what you want, but to find God’s will in the matter, that’s all that matters!