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ABOUT US	You are invited to the EASTER FASTING RETREAT 2007 ... 3 Days of Fasting & Prayer. DATE: Thursday April 5 (5.00 pm) - Sunday April 8 (6.00 pm) 2007. VENUE: Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola. THEME: "Behold I send the Promise of My Father upon you, but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high." (Lk. 24:49). Come with all the family, loved ones, friends and relatives, male and female, boys and girls, old and young, all are welcome. COME AND HAVE A UNIQUE EASTER EXPERIENCE. For enquiries please contact: 08052726544, 08024137769, 08056156829. ORGANISER: THE FASTING FESTIVAL INC. Audio and Video Tapes, CDs, VCDs and DVDs of previous EASTER FASTING RETREATS & FASTING FESTIVALS are now available and can be sent to you on request. Make your bookings/requests now. Visit this website regularly for more news and update on Fasting Festivals and Retreats nationwide.
The Fasting Festival Incorporated started by the revelation of the Holy Spirit in 1970. The founder is the Lord Jesus Christ. During the Holy Spirit revival in the 60s and 70s the Holy Spirit directed Apostle Dr. Ademu Idama to take people out for prayers. This happened after the Apostle received the Holy Spirit in December 1969. The Apostle was instructed by the Holy Spirit to organise prayer retreats for those who had received the Holy Spirit, those wanting to receive the Holy Spirit, and anybody who wanted to receive the Holy Spirit to withdraw to a quiet place for prayer and biblical meditations. During these retreats, people would fast. until the Easter of 1974, the fasting retreats were generally for one day only. participants who were mostly youths gathered at the Apostle's residence for prayers on Wednesdays. During weekends participants would go out on evangelism moving from city to city, and village to village, preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, healing the sick, casting out demons, and the Lord confirming the Word with various signs and wonders. Participants came from various denominations, they did not form a denomination of their own. Infact the group had no name; it was simply identified by its Fasting Retreats. This is how the name: Fasting Retreat, later changed to "Fasting Festival" came into being. During the Easter of 1974, the Holy Spirit directed that a national fasting retreat should be organised. This retreat took place at the Government Secondary School, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. It attracted nearly eight hundred participants from all over Nigeria. The Retreat lasted for four (4) days during which a large number of people repented and were born again, many were healed of various diseases, demons were cast out of many people, a large number of people received the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, miracles, signs and wonders of all sorts took place. From that meeting in 1974 to date, every Christmas and Easter period, Fasting Retreats would hold. The period of Christmas and Easter were specifically chosen by the Holy Spirit for the Fasting/Retreats. In 1976 it was decided that the Christmas Fasting Retreat should be organised nationally while the Easter Fasting Retreat should be locally organised. In 1990 the Holy Spirit revealed to the Apostle that the Christmas Fasting Retreat should thereafter be called "The Fasting Festival" and it should last for seven days, starting on the Friday before Christmas and ending on the Saturday after Christmas. Participants are free to begin their fasting anytime before this date as they are led by the Holy Spirit. At all the Fasting Festivals and Fasting Retreats notable miracles take place, sinners repent and are born again, the sick are healed, demons are cast out, outstanding transformation take place in people's lives.