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Fasting For Spiritual Strengthening
January 6, 2008 | | 1,383 Views
Fasting is a powerful discipline for bringing the body under submission. You take total control. It suffers and you say no. A soldier without needs cannot be tempted and will not turn from duty.
Each great servant of God has had his/her time of fasting. It is an essential spiritual discipline and without it we are weak. It fortifies spiritual foundations, builds intimacy with God and strengthens resolve. We can hide behind a lack of confidence, feelings of inadequacy, fear of rejection, and fear of failure, yet we will never be fulfilled until we become courageous. Fasting, prayer and faith give us the courage to move past our fears into the realm of the unknown.
If you are spiritually dry, fasting and prayer will restore that fiery passion you had when you first came to Christ. If you are seeking direction, truth will be revealed. If you are in a spiritual battle, fasting gives the edge for victory. If you have a request before God, there is no position more powerful than fasting in humility and praise. The chapter on intercession was written for you.
When John baptized Christ, the Spirit led Him into the desert not for a vacation, but a preparation through fasting. Each day was another day closer to the suffering of the Cross. Any man would want to run from such a fate, but Christ used fasting to strengthen His resolve. One of Satan main tactics is to encourage any addiction or lifestyle that makes the body the master, where man is moved by every little whim of the flesh.
When God breathed life into Adam, the work was complete. No extra ears or missing brain cells. A perfect body in a perfect world; disease and sickness did not exist. But God heart was saddened. He saw the future, witnessed the Temple of God being degraded through pleasure-centered living and so the human body was created with a self-regulated, healing mechanism. Sickness, disease, injury or shock became the triggers for the body to enter the fasting state. When given the opportunity, the healing mechanism of fasting touches more than just the cells of the body but reaches the depth of the soul causing the intense, spiritual changes for which fasting is so famous.
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- Teetie: I don’t need to pray for anyone because I’m struggling with my own life right now at the weight of 80 pounds. I can be a bit selfish because I’ve bent over backwards for people who’ve just stepped all over me. I USED to be a very sweet person and I cared about...
- Tom Coghill: Hi Teetie, Clearly prolonged malnutrition damages the body. I am sure you were not juice fasting then eating healthy afterward. What is teach is nutritional saturation and controlled catabolism in a life and death race against cancer and terminal disease. Here in the Philippines...
- Tom Coghill: Hi Teetie It is hard to believe that a website can cause a self-image problem. You may have to look deeper into the root or a distorted perception of your identity and how you perceive the worlds around you and why you have to fit those distorted perceptions. Congrats on the...
- Teetie: “It sounds like it’s important for you to locate the blame outside yourself for your difficulties.” THESE SITES CAUSED MY ANOREXIA NERVOSA lol. I don’t know how you cannot understand that. I’m just a person who is against these sites and decided to leave a...
- Rhet: Teetie, It might be worthwhile for Tom to post an official warning for people who suffer from anorexia on this site, especially young people, but from what I know of people with body image disorders, it won’t make a bit of difference. This site did not go out and grab people. It does...
- Teetie: No. I said people need to be careful not that I specifically typed everyone here suffers from anorexia nervosa. I’ve read many posts on here in which people wanted to lose weight through fasting such as the posts above. So, people need to be careful because it can turn into an...
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angelabagassien
24 Sep 2008 at 6:52 pm
i need to start my fasting for spiritual strength.i am frighten because i have never been on a day fast.i want to fast for two days.
Tom Coghill
24 Sep 2008 at 6:56 pm
Welcome angelabagassien
Fear you should have excitement. Fasting is truly amazing and transformed many a life. Juice first before water fasting. Every prayer gets answered and wisdom comes with clarity. But 2 days,,,, mmmm just a warm up.
humbled student
09 Dec 2008 at 12:38 pm
I have been interested in fasting for about 12 yrs but not until recent have I practiced fasting for more than 10 days on water only in september 2008 I fasted 21 days but I incorporated both at night. Is this beneficial?
Tom Coghill
09 Dec 2008 at 3:28 pm
Hey your post makes no sense.
Tom
guidedjuicefast
09 Dec 2008 at 6:37 pm
Hi Tom - the phone at my Wellness Education Center is 406-755-8423. Call & I’ll give you my home & cell numbers also. Thanks, Jeanette Cheney