One of the really great blessings to me has been that we find things we can incorporate into our diet that are very healthy for us and it has helped us train ourselves to live with less fat and empty calories.
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I was taught that there are many types of "fasts". (I was under KF and Joy Haney for many years before he went to HQ.) Not all fasts have to be necessarily food per se. I definitely think there is a time to bring our body under subjection and do without food - however, a Daniel Fast can do that just as well as a water fast. We have so much junk in our diets that we ARE bringing our bodies under subjection when we do without all the refined stuff. My son and his wife do DF at least once a year. No meat, no dairy, no refined flours, sugars, etc. It is usually an extended 21 to 30 day fast. I have known people who will periodically do 7 to 10 day media fasts. NO type of media (radio, internet, videos, etc). Doing a Daniel Fast every January is no different that when we were told that we had to "fast one day a week". Everyone in the church has a specific day that they fasted (most did on Wednesday).
I personally believe that God honors whatever we do when we deprive our bodies (and even our minds) and use that time as a time to draw closer to Him.
JMHO
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I am hearing a lot of folks talking about this fast. I have been away from the mainstream too long, I guess. I don't understand the purpose behind this fast...can anyone enlighten me??
Thanks!
It's a diet not a fast. I do believe that if it is a sacrifice for you then God will honor it, but it is not a fast. Every so often I do something that most call a "media fast". No books, talk radio, newspaper, ect and I believe that God honors it and it is good for me but its not really a fast.
I am struggling with denying self, working on it. Food is not included.
An episode of
The First 48 on A&E showed that what was first thought to be a homicide/suicide, turned out to be a family that were on a fast that starved to death. If memory serves they didn't have water, either.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
What is the Biblical purpose of fasting? People fast for revival. I don't see that as a Biblical reason to fast. Crucifying the flesh is also not a Biblical reason to fast.
What is the Biblical purpose of fasting? People fast for revival. I don't see that as a Biblical reason to fast. Crucifying the flesh is also not a Biblical reason to fast.
Psalm 69:10
10 When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting,
That became my reproach.
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