Purpose of 'Daniel's Fast'...WHY?

[MrsMcD]

Originally Posted by LUKE2447

so a eat healthy "fast" is somehow spiritual blah blah and they are doing it only for 21 days. uh yeah great awakening and God is really going to bless the heart of the still future glutton.

I don't judge whether or not God is going to bless them.

[LUKE2447]

Originally Posted by Cindy

I don't think I qualify as a glutton. With food anyway, other things like I may be.

you may not be but I can point to many that simply do this fast and go right back to eating unhealthy and thinking God is blessing such ignorance. It's like eating unhealthy and knowing it and asking God to change his natural law so you can continue in destroying your body when sick from whatever. sry God does not reward a lawless heart and that includes eating bad.

[LUKE2447]

Originally Posted by MrsMcD

I don't judge whether or not God is going to bless them.

reading with context is good.

[MrsMcD]

Originally Posted by LUKE2447

reading with context is good.

You are being negative toward the fast. You should give credit to people for at least trying.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by LUKE2447

you may not be but I can point to many that simply do this fast and go right back to eating unhealthy and thinking God is blessing such ignorance. It's like eating unhealthy and knowing it and asking God to change his natural law so you can continue in destroying your body when sick from whatever. sry God does not reward a lawless heart and that includes eating bad.

I don't always eat healthy, my real problem has been not having an appetite. Or eating at all. Some days are better than others, sometimes I am actually hungry, more of the time I am not. THAT is not healthy either. So, I TRY to eat healthy when I eat, but I don't always.

[LUKE2447]

Originally Posted by Cindy

I don't always eat healthy, my real problem has been not having an appetite. Or eating at all. Some days are better than others, sometimes I am actually hungry, more of the time I am not. THAT is not healthy either. So, I TRY to eat healthy when I eat, but I don't always.

not eating is not necessarily unhealthy within certain limitations. Hunger is relative to schedule of how you normally eat and you train your body in that. Do some research on limited eating and why people live longer eating very little.

[LUKE2447]

Originally Posted by MrsMcD

You are being negative toward the fast. You should give credit to people for at least trying.

again read my context. Give credit for what doing a temporary measure which should be a life change? I already did say talk about a fast after correcting the diet. I am being negative toward certain people which are most people that DO that fast. FAST shows temporary vs a normal diet. most don't eat healthy and use it as a feel good of I did something and then never change anything. It's not just fasts but other things we do as humans to prop us up mentally to feel good about whatever. Fasts are good but how people use this fast from all the churches I have seen. sry but it's rather sad as it is nothing but a temporary thing to build team building or group motivation and never deal with the real issues in the churches when it comes to food.

[Cindy]

Originally Posted by LUKE2447

not eating is not necessarily unhealthy within certain limitations. Hunger is relative to schedule of how you normally eat and you train your body in that. Do some research on limited eating and why people live longer eating very little.

I know why, it's getting back to where I need to be that is hard. I would like to get to at least 90 lbs. But, I hardly ever weigh myself, for fear that I am not gaining.

[MrsMcD]

Originally Posted by LUKE2447

again read my context. Give credit for what doing a temporary measure which should be a life change? I already did say talk about a fast after correcting the diet. I am being negative toward certain people which are most people that DO that fast. FAST shows temporary vs a normal diet. most don't eat healthy and use it as a feel good of I did something and then never change anything. It's not just fasts but other things we do as humans to prop us up mentally to feel good about whatever. Fasts are good but how people use this fast from all the churches I have seen. sry but it's rather sad as it is nothing but a temporary thing to build team building or group motivation and never deal with the real issues in the churches when it comes to food.

I understand what you are saying.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by LUKE2447

That would be a matter of opinion and relative and for the most part i am talking about the general mindset of how people are. IMO nothing special about the fast at all really.





It is short term feel good. Most people don't eat healthy at all. Yet eating healthy is now a sacrifice to feel good before God as some great offering before him. I know this is relative but how about eat right in the first place and take control of your health then talk about fasting. How often I can point to this pathetic insanity in the culture. It's disgusting among the churches. Talk about a whole bunch of spiritual quackery people throw out after some fasts making claims of this and that. While yes I believe God does honor what people do in sacrifice for him. The whole of the heart for a 21 day fast to go back to the normal? sry not buying it and I see it every year.

Then why did Daniel do it? Daniel 10.