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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 Prof. 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 organize 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. In fact 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 organized. 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 organized nationally while the
Easter Fasting Retreat should be locally organized. 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.
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