Our Lady of Medjugorje told us on August 25, 2011:
“…Today I call you to pray and fast for my intentions, because satan wants to destroy my plan…”
What does fasting do for us? Through what is written
below, taken from the FASTING booklet, by a Friend of Medjugorje, one
can easily see not only the good of fasting, but also the harm of not
fasting.
By A Friend of Medjugorje
Fasting should become a way of life.
Fasting is the cause of so much good, that as
Christians, not to use it would be like having weapons without
ammunition. Prayer is the cannon; fasting is the cannon ball; love is
the powder, once fired, which sends it. It may seem odd or hard to
accept speaking of prayer, fasting, and love in this way, but all of the
following are the exact terminology Our Lady has used in Her messages,
especially in regard to satan:
“conquer, protect, defend, advance,
retreat, attack, guard, armor, battle, defeat, struggle, surrender,
drive off, time of battle with satan.”
These, along with many other words, are clear messages that we are in battle, and fasting is your ammunition.
St. John Vianney was hated most by the devil because
of his fasting and fasting from sleep. We are in a great battle and the
weapons we have, such as the Rosary, becomes much more powerful coupled
with fasting.
August 8, 1985
“Dear children, today I call you especially now to
advance against satan by means of prayer. satan wants to work still more
now that you know he is at work. Dear children, put on the armor for
battle and with the Rosary in your hand, defeat him! Thank you for
having responded to my call.”
You, as an individual, have the power to alter and
impact the world. It is a mistake to underestimate the good you bring
into the world through your fasting and prayer.
It is time, in
this special time, to bring it back into the Church; for priests to
encourage it; for bishops to preach of it; for them to give examples and
witness themselves by doing it. It is to spread over the whole Church
and with it will spread the mantle of Our Lady to protect them in
leading us, through the Church, into the new time Our Lady announced on
Her Fourteenth Anniversary.
June 25, 1995
“Dear children, today I am happy to see you in such
great numbers, that you have responded and have come to live my
messages. I invite you, little children, to be my joyful carriers of
peace in this troubled world. Pray for peace so that as soon as possible
a time of peace, which my heart waits impatiently for, may reign…”
Start the next Wednesday or Friday and watch your life and those around you begin to change. God bless you.