Our Powerful Energy Source
Pastor Datha Thomas
I woke up yesterday morning needing energy. As much as I love coffee, I knew that the energy I needed could only come from the Word of God and not coffee or even a Vitamin B shot.
Isn’t it amazing how the Word of God is the answer to everything in our life? I was not going to let being tired stop or rob me of the blessing of fasting.
There is a word in the Greek, ‘energy’, which means energy or strength. This time of prayer and fasting is the time to not only read the Word but to quote the promises of God.
2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV) says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”. The Amplified version says, “My strength and power are made perfect and completed and show themselves more effective in your weakness.”
In the scripture in Colossians 1:11 in which Paul is praying for the believers to be, “strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and long suffering with joy”, the word, strengthened, is a form of dunamis, which means potential power or ability. Another translation of the word dunamis is the word kratos which describes the mighty power of God. This is written in the Word to show us that the strengthening of power that we receive is in line with the mighty power of God.
There is another word for energy and it is exousieas which means authority. We must not only read the Word for energy but speak the Word and release the strength of God and the authority of God!
The second powerful source of energy is praying in tongues. I have been praying in tongues since I was a young child. I can say I absolutely believe that these two principles will give you the energy that you need to finish this fast with great rewards in your life.
I heard Marilyn Hickey talk about the fact that she was 89 years old and she traveled all over the country. She was talking about how tiring these trips can be and how fasting can drain the body. She had learned how to take and quote the Word and spend time praying in tongues. Strength would always be restored to her body.
“If we would pray with power, we should pray with fasting. This, of course, does not mean that we should fast every time with we pray but there are times of emergency or special crisis in our work or in our individual lives, when men of downright earnestness will withdraw themselves even from the gratification of natural appetites that would be perfectly proper under other circumstances. There is a peculiar power in such prayer. Every great crisis in life and work should be met in that way.”
— R.A. Torrey
— Pastor Datha