Synopses & Reviews
There is nothing more powerful than fasting. Though it lasts for a short season, it brings long-term effects and blessings. This book is focused on the power of fasting to help you regain your edge when the circumstances of life deplete your spiritual energy and dull your spiritual sharpness. Best-selling author Jentezen Franklin sets the focus for the book by using the story of the student prophet in 2 Kings 6 who lost his ax head while working. The ax head flew off the ax and landed in a dirty, murky pond and sank to the bottom. Through this biblical example, Franklin will give us the steps to regaining our edge, which include:1. Make up your mind to admit it is lost.2. Confess that you have lost it.3. Confide your loss to someone in a spiritual position to help.4. Go the river (point of losing it).5. Watch the power of God make your lost edge swim to the top of the murky river.6. Pick up the ax and put it back on the ax pole (our part in regaining our edge; God will not do it all).
Synopsis
We all go through times when we feel like we are not living up to our full potential. This book explains how the practice of fasting is the gateway to the supernatural and has the power to recharge our spiritual energy. These all-new principles gleaned from Franklin’s twenty years of fasting experience will help you regain your spiritual edge.
Synopsis
We all go through times when we feel like we are not living up to our full potential. In Fasting to Regain Your Edge, Jentezen Franklin shows you how to recharge your spiritual energy through fasting.
Synopsis
Take your fasting experience to a new level and recapture your spiritual passion.We all go through times when we feel like we are not living up to our full potential. So many circumstances in life deplete our energy, dull our spiritual sharpness, and cause us to lose our edge. In Fasting to Regain Your Edge, Jentezen Franklin shows you how to recharge your spiritual energy through fasting. Full of all new principles gleaned from his twenty years of fasting experience, Franklin shows you how to:
- Experience fasting in a whole new way
- Regain your spiritual power in six steps
- Move from past hurts to joy, mercy, and grace
- See God move you into victory
About the Author
Jentezen Franklin is a New York Times best-selling author and the senior pastor of Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia and Irvine, California, a nondenominational church with nine thousand members. He is also founder of the Kingdom Connection Media Ministry, which includes international television and publishing ministries that have served the Christian community for more than thirteen years. Kingdom Connection is broadcast internationally on networks like TBN, Daystar, and local broadcast stations in the United States.
Table of Contents
Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Steps to Regaining Your EdgeThrough the biblical story of the lost ax head, this chapter reveals six important steps to regaining your lost spiritual edge.2. Extreme MakeoverGod wants to give all of us an extreme makeover, which will include freedom from bondages or addictions, and restoration of our self-esteem and confidence—a total spiritual rejuvenation.3. Develop a Pattern of DisciplineIt takes discipline to allow God to complete the work of a total wardrobe makeover and to move from hurt, past shame, and unforgiveness to a new wardrobe of joy, mercy, grace, and forgiveness. Includes suggestions for a 21-day plan for fasting to regain your edge.4. The Power of a Made-Up MindIt also takes determination to keep your restored spiritual edge. Using the true story of a highly decorated Viet Nam vet sharpshooter who suddenly lost his edge at the very moment he should take aim and fire, we learn the importance of the phrase: “I had made up my mind before the battle.” Franklin talks about the importance of making up our mind to be victorious before we even engage in spiritual warfare.5. The Benefits of a Long-Term FastFranklin lists some of the powerful benefits of committing to a long-term fast.6. Fasting for Defined DirectionFranklin uses personal stories in this chapter, relating the many times he has received personal spiritual direction after fasting.7. Fasting Gives You an Edge Over OthersFranklin tells how fasting sharpened his own spiritual edge in ministry and allowed him to accomplish spiritual ministry in ten years that has taken others much longer to achieve.