FASTING DYNAMICS
PART 3
Hosea 4:6
Also in fasting, the position of your heart matters more than the abstinence itself.
Fasting should come with a sobriety of heart not just abstinence from food or a physical activity your heart must be in mourning or be humbled, it must be sober, Daniel 10:2.
You can fast and abstain from make up certain kind of fashion or dress in a particular way as a physical way of expressing your sobriety of heart, it is called a state of mourning but it must not just be a physical thing it must come from your heart.
You must rend your heart, not only your clothes, Isaiah 58:5.
Lastly, fasting must be accompanied by good works to make it acceptable, Isaiah 58:5-7.
There are different purposes that one can fast for.
There are fasting that you observe just to keep you fit spiritually and build your sensitivity, those are regular fasts.
Another fast is coperate fast, that you do along side with others for specific purpose like beginning of the year, mid year and end of year fasting e.t.c
There is fasting to seek the face of God concerning a particular matter.
FASTING is a sacrifice that has weight in terms of the spiritual result it gives
I remember a church I attended some years back and whenever it is fasting period, the pastor usually give us the option of either choosing food fast or sleep fast(vigil). So it is either you do 21 days fasting or 14days vigil.
What he is really concerned is the weight of that excercise in its ability to subdue.our flesh and enhance our spiritual sensitivity.
When we begin to see fasting from the stand point of the spiritual weight it carries, we will be more flexible in choosing our modality or method of fasting.
If you did 40days vigil, 12am to 3am, it will carry the same spiritual weight as someone that did 80days of fasting and prayer, because to abstain from sleep is more difficult for your flesh than to abstain from food.
So vigil has more spiritual weight than food fasting. The real goal is the spiritual weight of that spiritual excercise.
You must study yourself to know which spiritual excercise works for you the most that is give you the most spiritual result and stick to it.
Don't because a great man of God you know did 3days dry try the same. It may not work for your body type and you may destroy your body going for that.
Watch what works for you, keeping vigil may work more for your body type than than abstaining from food.
Let's stop copying what works for others and force it to work for us when our health is screaming no all the way.
If God could have respect unto the request of Ezekiel to not use human dung to prepare his Food in the era of the law what makes you think He will not listen to you even much more in the era of mercy?
What really matters is the result not just the activity.
Find what works for you long or short fast. Food or water fast, vigil or fasting and stick to it.
And if by reason of old age or health challenges you can't continue a certain kind of spiritual excercise again, ask God to show you another spiritual excercise that has equal spiritual weight that you can engage in.
Many of the people we look up to and try to follow are sometimes too far away from us that we don't see other details and nitty gritty of their lives.
We only hear the part they tell us and we follow blindly like that without having any regard for the limitations of our own body.
In the equation of fulfilling your destiny, your body is as important as your spirit and you must take care of your body. Failure to do so is foolishness not spirituality.
Listen to men of God, but also listen to the signs that your body is communicating to you and if need be, you can stop and restrategise, it doesnt make you less spiritual but wiser as to the devices of the devil, 2Corinthians 2:11.
Paul told Timothy to stop using only water but also to use some wine for his frequent illnesses, 1Timothy 5:23.
God is interested in your total man, not only your spirit and your soul. He wants to sanctify you wholly, spirit, soul and body, 1Thessalonians 5:23.
Don't give room to the devil to take advantage of the neglect of your body to cut short your destiny.
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PRAYER: Father, open my eyes to areas of my life where I have been neglecting the care of my body in a bid to be spiritual. Father help me to have regard for your natural laws as well and not only your spiritual laws. Fill me with your wisdom to finish my assignment and to finish it strong in Jesus name.
PEACE.
SALVATION PRAYER
Anything short of you being born again and living a life of holiness and purity hurt Jesus so much. But you can make things right here and now by saying this simple prayer and mean it genuinely from your heart:
Lord Jesus I come to you today. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I cannot help myself. I repent of all my sins and I forsake them. Jesus, I invite you into my life, be my Lord, be my Saviour.
Wash me by your precious blood, forgive my sins and write my name in the book of life. From this day, I promise to follow you all the rest of my life. Help me Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. Congratulations you are now born again!
PEACE
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