Fasting from food is to weak our body. While fasting from His words or prayer is to weak our faith in Him. I love the concept that we often overlooked is that sometimes we fasted from reading our Bible! We may think, "No way!"... although we may not intend to start that kind of fast, but we did! We have to eat, or we shall die. It is same with our spiritual food, we have to eat spiritually or we will die spiritually! Maybe we should fast from food and read Bible instead and die, it is better to die physically than spiritually!
There are a lot of different fast from food in the Bible... Jesus for 40 days before He started His 3 years ministry, Moses fasted for 40 days to bring His new laws to Israel, Daniel fasted for 10 and 21 days to see the visions and dreams, also to increase literature knowledge, Nehemiah fasted 3 days to inspect the wall and rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, Esther fasted with her people for 3 days to rescue Jews, and many others who may fast to repent. Like how David lied flat fasting and praying for 7 days for his son, and got up when his son died and move on. Maybe we need to fast to recognize that our faith are weak and we need to reverse it, and then move on to walk upon His path with increased faith! Paul fasted for 3 days when fish scales Walking deeper into His path for "Deep calls to deep" (Psalm 42).
We need to prepare our heart... maybe our soul are downcast, we need to remember Him and become thirst for Him day and night. Eating the Scrolls, the Bread of Life for only He can satisfy your hunger.
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" (Luke 17:5) the apostles who did many signs and wonders asked Jesus this! Also they asked Jesus, "Why couldn't we drive it out?" (Matt 17:19). Then Jesus responded with, (Matthew 17:20 Some manuscripts) "But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting." Why is that?! Because our spirit inside us are hungry and weak! Maybe our spirit is on a verge of suicide! We need to feed our spirit. Even the apostles who did signs and wonders forgot to feed themselves spiritually that they failed to cast out demons and ran to Jesus. Like how Peter failed to keep his focus and drowned and shout to Jesus. Like how we forgot to feed ourselves spiritually and we need to shout for His help.
We can start reading thru Bible from Lent to Lent together, the reading plan will appear at http://fromgardentocity.com/ coming soon. Also there is a facebook group called fromgardentocity where we can talk about Bible as we read thru it!
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