"If
you are serious enough about the personal and social tasks before you
as a Christian to take up the discipline of fasting, you can expect
resistance, interference and opposition. Plan for it, insofar as you
are able. Do not be caught unawares. Remember that you are attempting
to advance in your spiritual journey and to gain ground for the
Kingdom. That necessitates taking ground away from the enemy--and no
great movement of the Holy Spirit goes unchallenged by the enemy (14)."

