How A Nine Month Fast Changed My Life

Did I read that right? Did she go on a nine-month fast? Yes and it changed my natural and spiritual life with Christ. I’m not saying that you have to establish your walk with Jesus by doing a fast, but it definitely catapulted me into my journey. I pray that while reading a small portion of my testimony it will bless you or maybe give you some ideas to help you on your walk with Christ. So let’s get into it!

My Testimony

My testament started when I became a mom. My son was always different from other children and I started realizing that around the age of three. I will not tell the specifics of his testimony because I want to leave some of his story for him so he can reveal it when he is ready. They diagnosed him with autism and ADHD which I never accepted nor came into agreement with even before I got saved. Eventually, the teachers convinced me he needed an IEP, so I went ahead and complied, but I still refused to accept he had autism. Even when they would speak it, I would shake my head no and state he doesn’t have that. They thought I was crazy, and I felt the same way about them. 

One day, I got a call from school stating that he broke his arm from jumping off the slide at recess. So I rushed to the school and took him to the hospital. They cast his arm, and we went home. Breaking his arm led to another health concerned that shook me! I took him to doctor after doctor and there was nothing they could do. So I started to feel hopeless. I wanted to ask God to help him, but I was sinning like it was nobody’s business so I knew He would not hear me, or so I thought. 

Now, I grew up in church, but I only went because my mom made me. The city I grew up in was boring, so the more activities I could join, the better. I joined the choir, the praise team, and the dance team at church with no relationship with God. I knew of Him, but I’d never gotten to know Him. So I recognized He could help me, but at that time in my life I had put Him on a shelf because I was doing my thing.

Then my son’s health became worse, and my mom kept telling me to get saved. I did not want to hear that because I was having a good time in my sins. Then one day my son was super ill, and I had had enough! I cried out to God and gave my life to Him in my living room by myself. I told him, “I’ll give my existence to You if You heal my boy. Not only that, but I’m going to go on a fast and I’m not coming off until You heal him.” God didn’t say a word back. So day one of my salvation, I was on a fast.  

My fast was from 12am to 12pm every day.  I would get up at 4am every morning to pray. I set three times to pray by myself and joined two prayer lines a day. That’s five prayer times a day and I didn’t miss one prayer for nine months. If I was out and my prayer alarm went off I stopped what I was doing, went to my car and prayed. Your efforts will show how much you want it. Don’t be the person who’s just complains and run to everyone else to pray, do something about your situation. Nobody is going to take the time to pray for you like you will pray for yourself. 

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a black or white type of person. I’m in or out. I don’t do Luke warm in any situations in my life. So when I was one hundred percent in with sinning, I didn’t even try to pray at all. Now that I was with God, I was going all in! So I knew I wasn’t coming off this fast because God was all I had at this point to get my boy healed. 

How Bad Do You Want It?

The number one thing you have to do is decide that you want to be free more than the devil wants you to be bound. You have to determine that your prayer altar will be stronger than the enemy’s altar. The most important factor on your mind needs to be God and communicating with God to solve the issues in your life. You cannot miss a day without prayer and reading the word of God. The key player in this game is consistency! If you don’t lock in to the mission, it’s going to take a much longer time than you expect to be free from bondage.

My Month By Month Journey on The Fast

Month 1-3

So, I gave my life to the Lord in my living room. Now what? I needed to find a pastor. I went through this season of trying to find a preacher to listen to online because we were going through COVID and the churches were just opening back up. I listened to the Bible all time during this season. As I was looking for a Minister I was weeding them out because although I had just gotten saved, my discernment wouldn’t let me listen to some individuals. Also, I was listening to the Bible all the time so some things I would hear individuals say didn’t line up with what the Bible was saying. Remember, I was raised in church, I just didn’t have a relationship. I knew right from wrong I was just religious. 

I found a pastor that I loved and still do! He taught me the foundation of my prayer life. WHITFIELD HARRINGTON!!! Powerful man of God! I listen to him to this day. Also, during this time I was dying from the fast I was on. Haha! I hadn’t fasted a day in my life! So I was HUNGRY!! I was just settling into keeping a prayer schedule and being consistent with it. I wanted my son’s healing more than anything, so I stuck with it. Likewise, I taught my son the Bible, and we had prayer every night. He learned how to pray scripture for his healing. We also played the Bible in his room at night, and we saw a big difference in his sleeping patterns. He slept all night. 

Month 3-6

OK so now I’m used to fasting. Kind of forgot I was on a fast because it was becoming a lifestyle at this point. The scriptures that I was listening to come back to my mind when I would listen to people or God was talking to me. I didn’t know this was God speaking to me until I heard a sermon that taught five different ways God speaks to us. Then I realized God was communicating to me the entire time. He started by speaking scriptures to me until I learned his voice. Then He started speaking other things to me and I wouldn’t reveal them to anyone but I would watch them come to past. I would be blown away!! 

I also didn’t want people to say you just got saved two minutes ago. How can you tell me what thus says the Lord? So I would just hold everything He said to myself. I also notice that my boy wasn’t having as many problems, but the health issue wasn’t completely gone. So I started taking him to different pastors so they could take him through deliverance. They prayed but NOTHING happened!!! I called a deliverance minister on the phone and that man told me that God informed him I was going to take my child through deliverance. When I got off the phone, I said “if this man didn’t want to do the deliverance, that was all he had to say! Talking about I’m going to do a deliverance, and I’ve only been saved for two and a half minutes!” Haha! So I said ok let me continue praying. 

Month 6-9

Ok, now I’m in love with God. I loved going to prayer because He would have little nuggets of revelation for me. I was receiving three to four dreams a night! God was exposing my family bloodline to me. He was revealing all kinds of things I needed to break in the family bloodline. The motive for the fast wasn’t for my son anymore. It was for the love of God. I had transformed into someone else. I had gotten closer to some family members but some family, I knew that this was the beginning of an inevitable end. Not only that, but I put down many bad habits. Likewise, I was getting cleaned up and didn’t realize it. 

I begin to think about how God would feel before I did certain things. I put Him first. Because I was consistent in prayer, I begin to get dreams of me gaining territory and authority in the spirit realm. I didn’t perceive what the dreams meant until God informed me in prayer. Little did I know I was breaking down generational curses that I never knew existed. I never entered the fast for that, but it was a by-product of my prayer and supplication. 

Breakthrough Testimony 

Two weeks before my son was healed. God advised me in prayer to never stop coming to prayer. I said I wouldn’t, but it wasn’t clear to me why He said that. So one day two weeks later I was walking down the stairs with a basket of laundry and I heard “HE WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER ONE AGAIN” I knew He was talking about my child and I knew God had healed him! Shortly after that, I took my boy through deliverance, and he was an entirely different person after that. The pastor didn’t lie! God didn’t want anyone else to do the deliverance. He was training me to do it and I had no clue! My son is no longer on the spectrum! No longer has an IEP! He does all of his school work by himself and gets good grades. He has no more health problems at all. God healed him in totality!!

At this point, I didn’t even realize it had been nine months. One day, I was looking at a picture we took around the time I became saved on my phone that dated back to nine months. I was like, wow! I’ve been fasting for nine months!!! Then I became a little sad. I was thinking, ok… he is healed, but I don’t want to stop fasting because I don’t want to back off of the relationship I’ve been building with God!

Then I realized that’s why He stated don’t stop coming to prayer. He knew He was about to heal my son, but I didn’t. So I kept fasting for two more weeks and then I broke the fast. Then God said I want you to go on a 7-day fast. So one week later, I went on the fast. While fasting, I destroyed a few generational curses because my fire was still hot from the nine-month fast and God used that to set me free. 

The Lessons

God has taught me so many valuable lessons during this journey with Him. He brought me through all of this, so I could tell my testimony to you. No matter how bad it looks, I know a God that specializes in healing and deliverance. To be honest, the worst you are, the more he wants you to come to Him. He loves taking a piece of coal that someone set in the trash and making it into a diamond that’s set on display for the world to see. 

I went through a transformation on that fast. Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. I thought I was fasting for my son, but God use it to clean me up, break family curses, stop bad habits and so much more. I wouldn’t be where I am in life right now if I wasn’t on that fast for so long. This generation loves everything to come quickly. If we don’t get it when we think we should, we quit!

God has his own clock, and people can’t manipulate him. We have to do things in His timing. You might not understand it in the waiting period, but it will be clear when you get your breakthrough why God made you wait. If I would have quit at month three, my son would be in terrible shape and you wouldn’t be reading this. Lock in with God, be patient and don’t give up. What you think your reward should be most like will be one hundred times greater if you do it God’s way.

Let my testimony be encouragement for you to keep going and don’t stop pushing until you receive the breakthrough you need in your life. 

I hope this blessed you!

With Love,

Your Sister Tiffani!