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Fasting guide
Wherever you are in life or whatever
your needs today, fasting can benefit
you. If you are struggling with your
health or finances, maybe you need
guidance from God or protection for
your family, fasting can be a powerful
spiritual tool. Fasting is both a private
and corporate discipline with real
rewards.
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Possible Options:
1. A Normal Fast - skip the next three
meals
2. A Partial Fast - skip one or two meals
3. A Juice Fast - drink only fruit or
vegetable juices during meal times
4. A Daniel type Fast - eating only
vegetables and drinking water and
juices for a period of time
5. A Media Fast - remove the distractions of media by turning off
television, radio, etc. for a period of time in order to be released to
hear more clearly what God is speaking.
6. A Habit Fast - identify a habit that if changed, would help you have
more time and clarity to hear from God.
TWO CAUTIONS
1. Remember that fasting is not earning an answer to prayer or trying to
twist God's arm. God cannot be blackmailed... God wants to reveal His
love to us and answer our prayers, and He answers out of grace. Fasting
simply prepares us for God's answer. Fasting enlarges and expands our
heart and increases our capacity to hear and receive from the Lord.
2. Fast only if your health allows it at this time. If you are able only to do
a partial fast - do it in faith and God will honour your intentions - BUT do
it!!!
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This is the Fast I am committed to:(Please write in your faith commitment for FASTING ADVANCE)
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Luke 4
Mark 1:12-13: Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness. And
He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with
the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.
Even Jesus disconnected from the world to fast and pray. The Gospels of
Matthew, Mark and Luke speak of Jesus in the wilderness for 40 days and 40
nights. They also describe other times Jesus pulled away from the demands
of the crowds, His ministry and even His closest friends to pray.
There are times that we, too, need to pull away from the things of the world
and focus on God and His Church. The things of the world can certainly
include more than just food. In fact, in our world, it is more likely to be
television, movies, Facebook, Twitter, phones and internet that keep us
tuned in to the world. None of these things are wrong in and of themselves,
but they are avenues for a mental and spiritual crowd to gather around us
and drown out the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Fasting is a means of disconnecting from the distractions of daily life and
consciously choosing to bring God into greater focus. Giving up physical
nourishment is the first step in engaging that process.
During this time of Advance Fasting, we may feel physical hunger, but lets be
intentional about cultivating spiritual hunger as well. Lets draw away from the
crowds, and lay aside for a season the activities we use to nourish our souls.
Instead lets allow ourselves to enter a state of spiritual hunger. Jesus said
that being spiritually hungry is a blessed state, because we can be sure of
being filled with food that truly satisfies our deepest needs. (Matthew 5:6)
Are you disconnected from the things that nourish your body and soul?
What do you need to deny yourself so that this can be a powerful time in
your life?
Take time to pray and read Gods Word during the time you would
normally do what you are fasting from. God will honour your commitment.
Prayer:
Lord, give me a spiritual hunger that I have never known. Increase my thirst
for righteousness, for purity, for holiness, for You! Break the power of sin and
worldly habits that keep me from You. Pour Your cleansing, living water
through me and make me a vessel that You can use to refresh others. Make
me an instrument of Your healing and compassion. Use me in Your service.
Help me to remember the brevity of my life and to store up treasures in
Heaven.
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Proverbs 3
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