Prayer and Fasting; Your Weapons Against Unbelief | Kingdom Mysteries | Jun 25, 2025 | CR

Crystal Rivers | Kingdom Mysteries | Jun 25, 2025 # Breaking Free from the Unbelief That Binds You You must understand that your greatest enemy as a believer is not external circumstances, financial struggles, or even demonic attacks—it is unbelief. This invisible force acts like a constant flood washing over your soul, preventing God's word from taking root and producing the supernatural life you were meant to live. ## Repenting from False Identities Before you can experience breakthrough, you must repent from dead works—not just obvious sins, but the subtle lies you've believed about your identity. You are not primarily your nationality, your profession, your economic status, or your family background. You are a child of God first, and everything else flows from that reality. When you identify by worldly categories before your identity in Christ, you unknowingly open doors for unbelief to establish strongholds in your thinking. ## Understanding How Unbelief Operates When God's word is taught or when you read Scripture, something powerful should happen—faith should spring up in your heart like seed taking root in good soil. However, unbelief creates different levels of resistance. Sometimes it manifests as distraction (where demons literally snatch away what you just heard), sometimes as hard-heartedness (where truth bounces off without penetrating), and sometimes as competing priorities (where legitimate concerns choke out spiritual growth). If you find yourself leaving powerful teachings unchanged, unable to remember what stirred you, or making excuses for why nothing happened, recognize this as evidence that unbelief has successfully blocked God's word from reaching your heart. ## The Prayer and Fasting Solution Jesus revealed the key when His disciples couldn't cast out a particular demon: "This kind goes not out but by prayer and fasting." He wasn't teaching them to earn power through religious activity. Instead, He was showing them how to remove the unbelief that was blocking the power already residing within them. Prayer—especially praying in the Holy Spirit—doesn't charge you with new power. It drives away the "water of unbelief" so you can breathe spiritually. Think of it like removing water from a scuba tank. You're not filling the tank with air; you're removing what prevents the air from flowing freely. ## Moving Beyond Religious Routine Many believers pray for an hour or two daily and wonder why they don't experience breakthrough. While this is good, dealing with deep-seated unbelief often requires extended periods—sometimes days or weeks of concentrated prayer and fasting. This isn't about paying a price to God or earning His favor. It's about systematically removing the accumulated unbelief that has built up through constant exposure to worldliness. When you give yourself to protracted times of waiting on God, you'll discover that many of your prayer requests were already answered before you asked. Covenant promises that seemed distant become your living reality as the barriers of unbelief are dismantled. ## Faith for Life, Not Things Understand that faith isn't primarily for getting material possessions. Faith is the substance of things hoped for—and what you hope for as a believer is eternal life, the very life of God. When you use faith correctly, you're not believing for a car or house; you're engaging with God as your source and allowing Him to exceed your limited expectations. ## The Process of Spiritual Maturity Every gift of the Holy Spirit can operate despite unbelief—prophecy, healing, miracles can still flow through you even when doubt clouds your heart. However, true spiritual maturity comes when unbelief is systematically removed, allowing God's word to penetrate deeply into your consciousness and transform how you think, feel, and perceive reality. ## Practical Steps Forward Start where you are. If you can only pray for one minu