40 Days of Glory with Pastor Adama Segbedji – The Powerful Benefits of Prayer and Fasting

🙏 Why Prayer and Fasting Matter in This Season

As we embark on the 40 Days of Glory at Solution Chapel International, under the prophetic leadership of Pastor Adama Segbedji, we enter a sacred time set apart for intense spiritual discipline and divine encounters.

Prayer and fasting are more than spiritual duties—they are divine tools that position us for supernatural victories, healing, breakthrough, and alignment with God’s perfect will. This is not just abstaining from food; it is feeding your spirit with the Word of God, prayer, worship, and obedience.

Let’s explore in depth the 12 benefits you can expect when you engage fully in this sacred season.

🌟 12 Life-Changing Benefits of Prayer and Fasting

1. Spiritual Empowerment

📖 Luke 4:14 – “Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee…”
After 40 days of fasting, Jesus stepped out in power and began His public ministry. Fasting doesn’t weaken you; it releases hidden strength and activates dormant anointing. In this season, your spiritual fire will be rekindled, and your authority in the spirit realm will rise to new dimensions.

2. Divine Direction

📖 Acts 13:2–3 – “As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said…”
Confusion disappears in the atmosphere of fasting. When you fast, your spiritual ears are sharpened, and God’s instructions become clearer. You will no longer wander aimlessly—God will begin to reveal secrets, blueprints, and timely decisions for your family, career, and ministry.

3. Supernatural Breakthrough

📖 Isaiah 58:6 – “Is this not the fast that I have chosen… to loose the bonds of wickedness… to break every yoke?”
Fasting is a divine hammer that smashes invisible barriers. Yokes of delay, barrenness, debt, and generational curses are destroyed during genuine fasting. Expect doors that were previously shut to swing open supernaturally.

4. Healing and Wholeness

📖 Isaiah 58:8 – “Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily…”
Fasting brings healing to the body, soul, and spirit. Spiritually, it cleanses toxic emotions. Physically, it can help reset your immune system. Emotionally, you gain peace and stability. Miracles of healing from cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and depression have occurred during such seasons of consecration.

5. Victory Over Temptation

📖 Matthew 4:1–11 – Jesus overcame every temptation after a 40-day fast.
Temptation loses its grip when the flesh is subdued. Fasting disciplines your desires and restores dominion over sinful patterns. It helps you resist lust, pride, fear, anger, and other works of the flesh, empowering you to live a life of holiness and integrity.

6. Fresh Anointing and Fire

📖 Joel 2:28 – “I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh…”
Fasting is a spiritual refuelling station. It prepares your vessel to receive fresh oil from the Holy Spirit. When you fast, you become sensitive to spiritual things, and the fire of God falls afresh on your prayer life, worship, and preaching. This is your season to receive a fresh mantle.

7. Restoration of Lost Glory

📖 Joel 2:25 – “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten…”
Fasting is the gateway to restoration. God is not just able to restore what you lost—He will redeem the time and compensate you with double for your shame. Lost opportunities, broken relationships, aborted dreams, and wasted years can be fully restored in this season.

8. Acceleration of Destiny

📖 1 Kings 18:46 – “Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and he ran ahead of Ahab…”
Fasting brings divine speed. What would take others years to accomplish, you will achieve in months. It removes spiritual delays and stagnation. Like Elijah, you will overtake those who have gone ahead of you by the hand of God.

9. Uncommon Favour

📖 Esther 5:2 – “So Esther approached the king, and she found favour in his sight…”
Fasting attracts divine favour. It shifts spiritual atmospheres and causes kings, leaders, and influencers to favour you. Business doors will open. Policies will shift in your favour. Job offers and approvals that were stuck will be released during this fast.

10. Fulfilment of Divine Purpose

📖 John 4:34 – “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me…”
Fasting clears out distractions and recentres you on God’s purpose for your life. You will begin to move with focus and intentionality, refusing to waste your energy on what doesn’t matter. You’ll walk in alignment with God’s vision for your calling, marriage, career, and ministry.

11. Open Heavens and Supernatural Revelations

📖 Daniel 10:2–12 – “From the first day… your words were heard.”
As Daniel fasted, angelic encounters and revelations flowed. Fasting tears the veil between the natural and the spiritual. God will begin to speak to you in dreams, visions, and prophetic instructions. You’ll gain insight others can’t access through intellect alone.

12. Generational Protection and Blessing

📖 Ezra 8:21–23 – “To seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones…”
Fasting protects not only you, but also your family. It builds a spiritual wall around your household. Your children, spouse, and grandchildren are covered under the power released in fasting. The bloodline is secured, and cycles of destruction are broken.

🛐 Prophetic Confession of Faith

“Father, I thank You for this sacred time of prayer and fasting. As I press in during these 40 Days of Glory, I receive power, direction, favour, healing, and restoration. I break free from delay and stagnation. My eyes are open, my ears hear clearly, and I walk in divine speed. Let my generation reap the fruits of this sacrifice. In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen!”

🕊️ Worship with Us This Week at Solution Chapel International

Join us for the 40 Days of Glory at Solution Chapel International and experience divine transformation in every area of your life. Come expectant, and bring someone with you!

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Solution Chapel International
10 New Street, Three Bridges, Crawley, RH10 1LW

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• Wednesdays (Glory Midweek Services): 7:00pm – 8:30pm – Communion & Anointing

• Sundays (Celebration Service): 10:00am | 11:15am & 12:45pm 

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