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    The Daniel Detox: 21 Days to Revitalize Your Body and Spirit
    The Daniel Detox: 21 Days to Revitalize Your Body and Spirit
    The Daniel Detox: 21 Days to Revitalize Your Body and Spirit
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    The Daniel Detox: 21 Days to Revitalize Your Body and Spirit

    By Don Colbert

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    From the author of the NEW YORK TIMES best-selling books The Seven Pillars of Health and I Can Do This Diet, along with best sellers Toxic Relief, the Bible Cure series, Living in Divine Health, Deadly Emotions, Stress Less, and What Would Jesus Eat? Dr. Don Colbert has sold more than TEN MILLION books.

    The Daniel Detox is a timeless resource for use every season.  It provides a twenty-one-day complete meal plan for cleansing the body of harmful toxins that is designed to restore you to health—mind, body, and spirit. This book’s versatility includes a partial cleanse over a three-week period to provide liver support against the effects of toxins, a one-week juice fast, or the total twenty-one-day protocol to both support the liver and detoxify the body.
     
    Colbert’s cutting-edge exposition on the spiritual and physical benefits of biblical fasting make this book unique. There are specific recommendations for how to heal some of the plaguing illnesses many of us suffer from such as:
    • Type 2 diabetes
    • Coronary disease
    • Benign tumors
    • Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis
    • Autoimmune diseases
    • Allergies and asthma
    • Psoriasis and eczema
    • Hypertension
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSiloam
    Release dateJan 5, 2016
    ISBN9781629987149
    The Daniel Detox: 21 Days to Revitalize Your Body and Spirit

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      Chapter 1

      HOW DANIEL’S FAST WILL HELP YOU DETOX—BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT

      I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

      —DANIEL 10:2–3

      FASTING IS AN ancient biblical and spiritual tool for cleansing the soul and spirit. Fasting is a key to genuine and deep spirituality. Throughout the ages people have used fasting as a tool for entering into deeper spiritual realms and getting to know God better. In the Bible fasting was considered a key part of entering into and maintaining a powerful and spiritually dynamic walk with God.

      To fast biblically, you must voluntarily abstain from food—partially or completely—for a period of time for a spiritual purpose. During a spiritual fast you deny yourself one of the most basic elements of survival, one that is loved and cherished by your body—food.

      Just why would any one of us even want to consider denying our body the cookies, cakes, ice cream, hamburgers, and pizza it so much enjoys? The reason is that fasting, when accomplished through the direction and enabling of the Holy Spirit, has the power to break the gripping control of our lower nature.

      UNDERSTANDING OUR TRUE NATURE

      Our fleshly appetite can be a ravenous animal, overpowering the spiritual man within us. When this happens, it seems impossible to say no to a craving for sweets, fast food—or even sex, gossip, or slander. These strong cravings and desires are a part of our lower, baser, or more animal-like nature. The Bible uses the term flesh when it speaks about these cravings and desires of our bodies, and it warns us that we must conquer these appetites. These desires include the following:

      • Laziness and lethargy that keeps us from exercising

      • Cravings for sweets and fats that cause us to eat too much of all the wrong foods so that we end up piling on the extra pounds and never properly nourishing our bodies

      • Out-of-control emotions such as anger and rage that can send us into a frenzy in traffic or cause us to say hurtful things to our loved ones, which we later regret

      • Loneliness, anxiety, depression, and grief that may trigger us to seek comfort in sugary, starchy foods

      Many more things come under the category of flesh. It can involve our thoughts, our emotions, our desires for inappropriate sex, our compulsion to binge on sweets, our inability to stop ourselves from gossiping, and much more. Flesh is nothing more than our needs, wants, and cravings in their undisciplined state.

      FASTING CONTROLS THE LOWER NATURE

      Since we are all born with these undisciplined needs, wants, and cravings, the key to our spirituality is yielding to the Spirit of God. The Bible encourages us to walk in the presence and power of the Spirit as an anecdote for living in the flesh. In Galatians 5:16–17 Paul says:

      I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.

      The carnal, unrenewed mind of the flesh is controlled and dominated by the thinking and reasoning of our intellects. Emotions also control and dominate this lower nature, which means that your feelings and desires control you. In addition to that, the carnal nature is also controlled by the five senses of taste, smell, sight, feeling, and hearing.

      But there is hope. The power of God is released through the Holy Spirit who works in us. Ephesians 3:20 tells us, Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us . . . It’s only as we live our lives in vital connection with God that we become able to crucify the lusts of the flesh and live and walk in the higher nature of the Spirit of God within.

      This process of crucifying the flesh must be accomplished daily through prayer, forgiving anyone who wrongs us (including ourselves), renewing the mind by regularly reading the Word of God, and by watching every word that comes out of our mouths. All of these things are like the hammers, pickaxes, drills, and machinery that operate at the rock quarry of our hardened flesh. In this effort, fasting is the dynamite that makes all of the other efforts easier and more effective.

      When the bathroom scale tells us that we need to lose weight, but we find it woefully impossible not to reach for one more slice of chocolate cake or bowl of ice cream, then we are encountering this powerful grip of our flesh. It has gained prominence over our mind, will, spirit, and emotions.

      One way to break the power of your flesh and bring it under submission to your spirit and mind is to fast. Do you have an out-of-control temper that flares up at all the worst moments, damaging relationships with those you love? Fasting can bring that flesh under control.

      Fasting feeds your spirit man while starving your natural man. It can soften your heart and cleanse your body to make you more receptive to God’s plans. Fasting can sensitize your spirit to discern the voice and internal promptings of God’s Spirit. Let’s take a look at some more spiritual applications of fasting.

      WHY WE SHOULD FAST SPIRITUALLY

      Fasting builds godly character.

      For starters, fasting builds character. By enabling us to surrender our lives to God in greater measure, we find more control over our tongues, our minds, our attitudes, our emotions, our bodies, and all our fleshly desires. Fasting also helps us to submit our spirits to God completely so that He can use them for His purposes.

      Even though many Christians have invited the power of the Holy Spirit into their lives, they continue to be led about by the insatiable appetites of the flesh. They live their lives pursuing whatever gratifies the cravings of the lower nature or their own selfish motives instead of the purposes of God. Many are good people who actually would like to live on a much higher plane of existence, but they just don’t know how.

      Fasting gives us the ability to build up character and integrity by allowing the Spirit of God to operate through us. The only real way to build godly character and genuine integrity into our inner man is by spending time in the presence of God.

      Fasting loosens the chains of bondage.

      Do you struggle with addictions or addictive behaviors? Sometimes addictions can even show up in our personalities rather than through debilitating behaviors such as alcoholism. For instance, perhaps you have never been an alcoholic, but when you get into a room filled with people, you have an obsessive need to be constantly talking or running everything and everyone in sight. An exaggerated need to control others or to control circumstances and situations can be just as much of a bondage as a drug addiction.

      Bondage comes in all shapes, colors, types, and sizes. So don’t be too quick to dismiss the notion that you may have some type of bondage in your own life. Most of us growing up and living in this imperfect world end up with some type of bondage—or we know someone struggling to be free from destructive, addictive behaviors. Perhaps you can think of loved ones who are bound by addictive personalities or behaviors. Fasting is critically important if you have children who need to be set free from drugs and alcohol, homosexuality, pornography, or some form of rebellion. Fasting can be extremely helpful when you are praying for a loved one’s salvation. Fasting can begin to break any spiritual stronghold so that peace and harmony can return.

      Fasting humbles us.

      Although the lower nature can seem amazingly powerful, fasting humbles it. Humbling the flesh is required if we want to live a clean, godly life.

      Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

      —MATTHEW 18:4

      And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

      —MATTHEW 23:12

      Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

      —JAMES 4:10

      Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.

      —1 PETER 5:6

      Fasting gets God’s attention because it is a key to humility. When we humble our flesh, we find favor with God. James 4:6 says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. In other words, the humility that can be obtained through spiritual fasting opens the door to God’s grace and favor.

      Fasting helps us enter 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 had 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 on to opinions or other judgments that are in error. The problem with error is that when we are in it, we think we are right. That’s why we need divine guidance for life’s major decisions.

      The Bible promises that the Holy Spirit is ready and willing to provide that guidance when you ask.

      However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

      —JOHN 16:13

      There are times in all of our lives when we are being led around by our own misjudgments and desires, and we don’t even know it. Regular fasting can protect us from the blindness of our own opinions and desires.

      Fasting will help us to be led by the Spirit instead of being led by faulty judgments. That’s why spiritual fasting is so very important.

      Fasting brings healing.

      Fasting is also a powerful tool for healing and restoration. Here is what the Bible says about it:

      Then your light shall break forth like the morning, your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.

      —ISAIAH 58:8

      Not only does fasting break the chains of wickedness, lift heavy burdens, and free the oppressed, but it also brings back your health.

      WHEN WE SHOULD FAST SPIRITUALLY

      Always fast as the Holy Spirit leads. In other words, just as Jesus was led into the wilderness to fast and pray, we should also be led by the Spirit into times and seasons of fasting. The New Testament never lays down strict rules regarding fasting; therefore, we should never impose strict rules upon others or ourselves. Legalistic fasting earned the Pharisee in the Book of Luke no brownie points with God. The times and reasons for our

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