Franklin Hall: The Gospel of Fasting

Franklin Hall was a Pentecostal "faith healing" evangelist best known for his emphasis on prayer and fasting. In 1946, he published a book entitled "Atomic Power with God through prayer and Fasting", which provided detailed information on the methods and benefits of fasting. Many of the "faith healing" revivalists in the Latter Rain Revival and Voice of Healing Revival used Hall's fasting methods in their meetings until they became more extreme. Hall wrote several books and tracts about fasting, including Glorified fasting, The fasting prayer, The Body-Felt Salvation (1968), Formula for Raising the Dead, and Our Divine Healing Obligation.
During the time William Branham toured with Little David Walker, Franklin Hall joined in the "faith healing" campaigns. His fasting method, along with William Branham's extremist doctrines, were the catalysts for the creation of the Latter Rain movement. Hall recognized the massive amount of money flowing through the revivals and even jokingly talked about it before the meetings started on live microphones.
Franklin Hall's religious views on fasting grew more extreme, however, and many evangelists in the revivals did not want to participate in starving themselves. When the Latter Rain began to die out in the 1950s, Hall blamed them for their lack of fasting. Hall began claiming that participants in the revivals should have a "body-felt salvation", implying that if they weren't starving themselves, they weren't really saved. The hunger pangs, according to Hall, would eliminate sickness, tiredness, and body odors. As a result of Hall's extremism, his audience quickly faded.
In 1956 Hall founded the Deliverance Foundation, a new cult formed around his "gospel of fasting". By 1970 it reported thirty-two affiliated churches and two thousand members. He also introduced new "Little-David"-style child preachers to his stage act, such as "Little Joey".
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[@dannyboi_663]

That's a very interesting recording. There's no telling what Branham said on tape yet to be discovered.

[@brothercaleb]

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[@deandresuccessw8391]

Thank you for the information.

[@BC-qb2if]

Thought: Franklin Hall's organization is still in existence as the Hall Deliverance Foundation Inc. in Arizona. Was the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI) responsible for which ministries became the large players in the Word of Faith/Healing ministries, like Kenneth E. Hagin? And the other ones, like the Hall Deliverance Foundation Inc., continued based on the tenacity of their founders?

[@karlyost3572]

Watching them that say good as evil and evil is good there is definitely nothing wrong with fast and if you're a true Christian even Jesus fasted for 40 days and he didn't starve and don't tell me it's just for him we can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us that's where we decrease and he increases I don't know what you're trying to prove all the time with these things but I don't like it and neither does God you trying to do away with the power of God by eliminating all these things no one stars when they fast after 3 days you drink water and you're fine you can fast for a long period of time without being hungry and then when you get off the fast you can truly eat the right kind of foods to get back in shape so whoa whoa whoa on to you such lukewareness God's going to spew you out of his mouth he'd rather have you hot or cold but he'd rather have you hot for the Lord you like the 10 virgins the five foolish ones instead of five wise the five had oil in their lamp and yes stay faster too and may the Lord speak to your hearts and show you by the holy Spirit that these things must be so

[@lesliewells1062]

The first book you showed by Franklin Hall had a toddler on the front of it. I sure hope he did not advocate fasting for children! Was Franklin Hall emaciated?

[@juhanipitkakari5999]

Colossians 2:20-23