21/02/2026
Stop Fasting.
Abraham and Sarah had the problem of childlessness, they didn't fast before God answered their prayers for fruit of the womb. Same goes for Elizabeth and Zachariah, Hannah, Rebecca, Rachael and the Shunemite woman.
Jabez didn't fast before God answered his prayers. Hezekiah didn't add fasting to his prayers before God answered him. The woman with the issue of blood, the paralytic, the Syrophoenician woman, and the list goes on. I'm trying to see anyone that received special favor from God because they fasted.
When Jesus was asked; "why are we and the disciples of John the Baptist fasting but yours are not"? Read up Jesus's answer and see if it agrees with your mindset about fasting. David fasted for the child he had with Bethsheba to live, God didn't grant that petition.
In all the places Jesus taught about prayers, he never mentioned fasting as an ingredient or requirement for answered prayers. He didn't for once ask his disciples to fast, but he taught them to pray. This is not accidental, it is intentional.
Your petitions and prayers to God for breakthrough, fruit of the womb, job, life partner and any other material favor is not made more powerful or appealing to God by fasting.
50 days fast and prayer for husband? Only a Temu husband can come from such. Don't ask me what a Temu husband is because I don't know either.
The people of Nineveh fasted for God's mercy and as a sign of repentance. They weren't fasting for any material favor.
Our Lord Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and nights. He wasn't fasting for power or any material needs, he fasted to tame the flesh and overcome the inevitable temptations.
Stop fasting if you are doing it for material needs, especially those of you who are still struggling with poverty. You barely eat enough to survive and you want to fast to thrive, haba na.
Spiritually, fasting is a discipline to control the flesh and put our carnal desires in check. It is not an extra incentive to God to make him answer prayers for material needs. Stop fasting if your reason is so that God will see how hungry and starved you are and give you child or job or financial breakthrough or any of sorts.
Fasting for self discipline and for health benefits should be a weekly routine and ritual for you, not a season of marathon hunger strike for quick answer to your prayers for material favors.
I have seen people go demented and mentally deranged from such marathon fasts, yes. Many more get manipulated by those exercises, but let's leave these dimensions for another day.
I'm waiting for those who will cite the instances of Esther, Daniel and Mk 9:29 .
I dey wait.
Father Oluma
