An Anchor To Our Souls

In the summer of the year 2007, I met a girl :-) I few months beforehand, I had undergone a life-saving and indescribably wonderful experience, becoming converted to Jesus Christ, and being baptized into His Church on February 18th. In the summer of 2007, a girl named Afton Johnson came home to Orange County, California to visit her family while she was on a break from attending classes at Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. She and I met at an institute of religion class at Cal State Long Beach on a Wednesday evening, sometime in the summer of that year. It turns out that a man by the name of Larry Johnson, who taught this religion class, and who had been very instrumental in my conversion, was also Afton’s dad. I remember her dad recognizing Afton in front of the class at the beginning, and I remember hearing her make a few comments during the class. I remember she had a sweet and soft voice and I was impressed by the spiritual maturity of her comments. ...

When Jesus' disciples couldn't cast an evil spirit out of a man, Jesus told them, "this evil spirit cannot be cast out unless you pray AND fast" - Matthew 17:21 When ye fast (not if) Matthew chapter 9 verse 15 " then shall they fast", Helaman they did fast oft, and Matthew: "this cometh not out but by prayer and fasting" Jesus was giving us a clue that fasting is a tool that can bring immense power into our lives. Most people don't use fasting to it's fullest potential. In order to do that, we must dive deeper into just what fasting is, and how to do it in order harness the ultimate power of it's potential. Fasting is the most powerful spiritual discipline of all the Christian disciplines. Through fasting and prayer, the Holy Spirit can transform your life. Fasting and prayer can also work on a much grander scale. According to Scripture, personal experience and observation, I am convinced that when God's people fast ...