FASTING

                    
               

Most of us tend to starve our self’s in the name of fasting …  I’m going to break –down the ice between starving and fasting

1.       WHAT IS FASTING

Willing abstinence or reduction from some or all food and drink for a defined period and defined reason.

 Fasting brings us into a closer union with God. While our bodies are being

deprived of earthly needs and wants.

Fasting is a sacred time in which Christians abstain from food or other pleasures, and take the time to focus on God.

2.       STARVING

Cause to suffer from hunger

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FASTING

As I have said fasting is all about bringing us into a closer union with God, this can be done through

     PRAYING

Fasting and prayer are often linked together Luke 2:37 5:33, also confessing every one of your sins, and inviting the Holy Spirit to lead your life. Let Jesus know you wish to know Him personally. Acknowledge that He lived without sin, died in our place, on the cross for our sins and rose 3 days later, freeing us from condemnation, and giving us His free gift of eternal life. Humble yourself to ask forgiveness from everyone you have hurt; ask forgiveness from God. Forgive those who have hurt you. You do not want to enter into a fast holding grudge, carrying envy, pride, anger or hurt. The enemy will try to use those things to distract you from your fast.

     READING THE BIBLE

                

     Worship Him and praise Him for His attributes. Read God’s Word, and meditate that God will lend me His Wisdom so that I can input His Word into my life, and I can gain a fuller understanding of it. Pray for God’s Will to be done, and for the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Ask God to lead you in spreading His Glory into the world we live in.

  By taking our eyes off the things of this world, we can more successfully turn our attention to Christ. Fasting is not a way to get God to do what we want. Fasting changes us, not God. Fasting is not a way to appear more spiritual than others. Fasting is to be done in a spirit of humility and a joyful attitude.matthew 16-18 declares, “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

                                 Jeremiah 29:11

 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.