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Spiritual Fasting
"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." Matthew 6:18
Fasting helps us come into the presence of God - Have you ever desired to experience God's presence? Fasting can bring the healing and refreshing presence of God into an individual life and into the life of a family or even a nation.
After Moses fasted for forty days he was swept up into an entirely new place in God's spirit. He received the Ten Commandments and became the lawgiver of Israel. After Jesus fasted for forty days, the Holy Spirit empowered His life, and His ministry of healing and preaching was launched.
You too can receive the touch of God's glory upon your own life, just as Jesus and Moses did, through fasting and prayer. Fasting enables us to touch the world around us with God's love and power. Fasting can be a tool to access God's power to affect our children, our extended families, our cities and even the world.
Fasting brings divine guidance. When you are making critical decisions such as choosing your mate, changing a job, deciding to move, or other major life-impacting decisions, you need God's divine guidance to be sure you are not holding onto opinions or other judgements that are in error. The problem with error is that when we are in it, we think we are right. That is why we need divine guidance for life's major decisions.
Fasting brings healing - fasting is also a powerful tool for healing and restoration. Not only does fasting break the chain of wickedness, life's heavy burdens and free the oppressed, but it also brings back your health.
As you develop a life of fasting and prayer, you will find that God will lead and guide you. You will walk in the footsteps of great men and women who have gone before us - men and women who increased in purity of body, mind and spirit and who touched heaven with their prayers and nations with their passions.
These inspirational words on fasting are from a book by Don Colbert, MD
Tips on Fasting:
Commit the time of your fast to God for spiritual cleansing and renewal.
Set aside time each day for reading and mediating on the Word of God.
Be Quiet and Listen to the Word of God.
Record insights in a fasting journal.
Continue to pray unceasingly.
Other sites about Spiritual Fasting include:
Biblical Fasting
Please join with the Light of Life Community in its fast for a very special intention.
May God's Will be done concerning the Holy Ground at the Good Counsel Friary!
May God bless you!
This rather, is the fasting that I wish: releasing those bound, setting free the oppressed and homeless, sharing your bread with the hungry, clothing the naked and not turning your back on your own. Isaiah 58:6,7
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