Who Rules Whom?

When you fast, your body will try to maintain its control. It'll cause you to feel like "I'll never make it through the day" and attempt to coerce you to go against what you believe G.o.d has told you to do. Your body will exert itself, and your sense knowledge- what you can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel-will try to dominate you. That's when you'll have a choice; Either let your physical realm rule, or rule your physical realm.

By choosing to continue your fast, you're telling your body, "Get in line! You need to learn that you won't starve by noon the first day. You're being retrained so you can do the things G.o.d tells you to do and receive your needs met through His Word." Your

body will rebel and answer, "No, I'll die!" That's when you say, "Okay, we'll make it a two-day fast." And your body will respond, "Two days! I'll die for sure!" You reply, "All right, three days!" Pretty soon your body will conclude, "If I'm going to survive this, I'd better shut up. Every time I complain, they add another day to the fast!" Over time, your body will yield.

After you get through the initial hunger pain, you can actually reach a place where you aren't hungry at all. It just doesn't bother you. If you go on a prolonged fast (the longest I've done was ten or eleven days) without food or liquids-other than water-you can actually get to a place where it seems like you don't ever have to eat again. You can bring your body into subjection to where G.o.d is literally ministering to you in a supernatural way.

Once that happens and you get off the fast, your body has learned something. Your body now knows that when you say, "By His stripes, I was healed," and it still feels pain, that there are realities beyond its ability to detect. You declare, "I'm healed whether or not I can see, taste, hear, smell, or feel it yet!" Your body will answer, "Okay," and submit.

But if you haven't ever fasted and disciplined your body, you'll pray, "By His stripes, I was healed," and your body will say, "You're still hurting. You aren't healed." You'll counter, "No, body, I am healed," and it'll respond, "Wait a minute here! Who are you to tell me anything? I tell you when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat. You haven't given me an instruction in years. You're completely dominated by your senses. Don't tell me what to do!" Your body will rebel, and you'll submit to the natural unbelief that comes through your senses.

Fasting breaks the dominance of your natural realm over your spirit. Prayer does too!

Train Your Body When you pray, you're speaking and listening to Someone you can't physically see or feel. Your natural mind and sense knowledge just goes bonkers, saying, "This is stupid! What am I doing?" But if you continue in prayer and make it a practice, you'll start seeing miracles and other things happen. There will be so much evidence that your prayer time is valid and G.o.d, whom you cannot see, is real that it will help retrain your physical senses. Your body will begin to recognize that there's more than what it can see, taste, hear, smell, and feel. Then when you want your body to act like it's well when it doesn't feel well, your body will go ahead and respond because it knows that there's more to it than what the natural senses can perceive.

But it won't work for a person who doesn't spend time in prayer and fasting. When they start trying to command their body to go against what they perceive with their natural senses, it'll rebel because they've never disciplined it.

Your body isn't evil; it's just natural and has to be trained. However, no one else can do this for you. You must train train yourself and exercise your senses. (Heb. 5 yourself and exercise your senses. (Heb. 5:14.) You may not realize it, but you had to train yourself to submit to your physical senses. As a soldier in Vietnam, many nights I had bunker guard. Both my hearing and my smell became much more acute in that life and death situation. We usually smelled the Enemy before we could see them. You can actually train yourself in these things!

Sixth Sense Just as your natural senses can be trained in the physical realm, they can also be educated in spiritual things. They don't have to remain carnal. They can be trained to discern spiritual truth. This is what fasting and prayer does!

I believe the Lord originally created mankind with six senses. That sixth sense was faith. Adam and Eve used faith just as much as they used their other five senses. When mankind fell, our sense of faith began to atrophy to the point that today many people are total strangers to it. But this ability to walk by faith does exist within us all. It just has to be nurtured and trained.

"But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil" (Heb. 5:14). 5:14).

Our senses must be exercised in order to operate in faith. That's what fasting and prayer do. They don't make G.o.d respond to you better. Fasting and prayer make you respond to Him better.

Stick With It!

When you spend so much time in His presence, His Word becomes like a sixth sense. You might not see, taste, hear, smell, or feel what G.o.d said, but you have faith based on His Word. Your natural mind will just accept that and say, "It's not discernible by these other senses, but that's faith. I recognize it and that's the way it is." You can train yourself that way!

That's what Smith Wigglesworth did. He spent so much time in prayer, fasting, and the Word that he hardened himself toward unbelief and what other people thought. He was sensitive to G.o.d and hard toward other things. When he prayed for someone and didn't see the manifestation right away, he just kept at it until he did.

Since the Lord has shown me these things, I stick with it now until I see the manifestation. If I pray and don't see a physical manifestation, I just make it happen. I know in my heart that G.o.d has already done His part. I understand that He's already released His power. Therefore, I'm not just asking and pleading with Him to do something; I'm aggressively receiving what's already been done, and I'm standing against Satan who's hindering the manifestation. I'm taking my authority, speaking to the mountain, and commanding things to happen!

When ministering to other people, there are things you can do that will quicken their faith. Sometimes I discern unbelief while praying for someone. It may not be evil or disbelief, but maybe this person is just dominated by natural things. If they're having a hard time receiving healing from G.o.d, I'll just push over into a gift of the Spirit. Then, using a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge, I'll talk to them about something emotional-perhaps about how they've been hurt. Maybe depression, grief, or tragedy had struck. So I'll use this gift of the Spirit to speak to them on something totally unrelated to their physical healing. Then they start receiving, saying in their heart, There's no way he could have known There's no way he could have known this. G.o.d is speaking to me through this man. this. G.o.d is speaking to me through this man. All at once, they open up and faith starts flowing. Once their faith is quickened, their heart says, All at once, they open up and faith starts flowing. Once their faith is quickened, their heart says, Yes, this is G.o.d. Father, I receive. Yes, this is G.o.d. Father, I receive.

Then I'll come back and speak to that physical healing that didn't manifest before. All of a sudden, they'll be healed. I've at least doubled or tripled the amount of people I've seen healed by doing this. That's what I mean by "making" it happen.

Positioned To Receive G.o.d has already done everything to heal everyone. It's not a matter of asking the Lord to heal, but rather our receiving the healing He's already given. That's the basic principle, but there are laws that govern how it works. You have to speak. So I talk to the specific parts of people's bodies and command them to respond. 1 take authority over the devil. Sometimes I do things to quicken the other person's faith. I don't do all of these things to manipulate G.o.d but to help people move into a position to receive.

Since understanding and applying these powerful truths, I'm seeing much better results than ever before-and you will too!

Conclusion G.

od has already done His part. His transmitter works perfectly twenty-four hours a day. He's constantly giving us everything we need.

Our receiver is the problem, not G.o.d's transmitter. We must learn to understand the spiritual realm and cooperate in faith to bring His provision into physical manifestation.

We must stop giving the devil extra power and glory. He's been completely stripped and defeated. Remember the parade!

We already have the supernatural faith of G.o.d. Therefore, our problem isn't lack of faith, but unbelief. Our simple, childlike, mustard seed of faith is more than enough to see anything done if there's no unbelief to counteract it.

If we truly believe G.o.d's Word and are acting in faith upon it but still aren't seeing the right results-nine times out of ten it's natural unbelief. Through prayer and fasting, we can break the domination of our physical senses and begin to exercise our natural realm to respond to the Lord and His Word.

This foundational revelation has totally transformed my life! 1 trust that this same revolution has now also begun in you. Therefore, I pray "that the G.o.d of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe" (Eph. 1:17-19). Amen.

Receiving Jesus as Your Savior Choosing to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior is the most important decision you'll ever make!

G.o.d's Word promises, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that G.o.d hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Romans 10:9, 10). "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13).

By His grace, G.o.d has already done everything to provide salvation. Your part is simply to believe and receive.

Pray out loud: "Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Savior. I believe in my heart that G.o.d raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!" "Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Savior. I believe in my heart that G.o.d raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!"

The very moment you commit your life to Jesus Christ, the truth of His Word instantly comes to pa.s.s in your spirit. Now that you're born again, there's a brand-new you!

Receiving the Holy Spirit As His child, your loving heavenly Father wants to give you the supernatural power you need to live this new life.

"For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened...how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke 11:10-13).

All you have to do is ask, believe, and receive!

Pray: "Father, "Father, I I recognize my need for Your power to live this new life. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit. By faith, I receive it right now! Thank You for baptizing me! Holy Spirit, You are welcome in my life!" recognize my need for Your power to live this new life. Please fill me with Your Holy Spirit. By faith, I receive it right now! Thank You for baptizing me! Holy Spirit, You are welcome in my life!"

Congratulations-now you're filled with G.o.d's supernatural power!

Some syllables from a language you don't recognize will rise up from your heart to your mouth. (1 Cor. 14:14.) As you speak them out loud by faith, you're releasing G.o.d's power from within and building yourself up in the spirit. (1 Cor. 14:4.) You can do this whenever and wherever you like!

It doesn't really matter whether you felt anything or not when you prayed to receive the Lord and His Spirit. If you believed in your heart that you received, then G.o.d's Word promises you did. "Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24). G.o.d always honors His Word-believe it!

Please contact me and let me know that you've prayed to receive Jesus as your Savior or be filled with the Holy Spirit. I would like to rejoice with you and help you understand more fully what has taken place in your life. I'll send you a free gift that will help you understand you understand and grow in your new relationship with the and grow in your new relationship with the Lord. "Welcome to your new life!" "Welcome to your new life!"

About the Author.

For over three decades, Andrew Wommack has traveled America and the world teaching the truth of the Gospel. His profound revelation of the Word of G.o.d is taught with clarity and simplicity, emphasizing G.o.d's unconditional love and the balance between grace and faith. He reaches millions of people through the daily Gospel Truth Gospel Truth radio and television programs, broadcast both domestically and internationally. He founded Charis Bible College in 1994 and has since established CBC extension colleges in other major cities of America and around the world. Andrew has produced a library of teaching materials, available in print, audio, and visual formats. And, as it has been from the beginning, his ministry continues to distribute free audio tapes and CDs to those who cannot afford them. radio and television programs, broadcast both domestically and internationally. He founded Charis Bible College in 1994 and has since established CBC extension colleges in other major cities of America and around the world. Andrew has produced a library of teaching materials, available in print, audio, and visual formats. And, as it has been from the beginning, his ministry continues to distribute free audio tapes and CDs to those who cannot afford them.