Isaiah 58:8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Fasting fast-tracks physical and emotional healing. Dr. Albert Schweitzer says “Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. Fasting is the physician who resides within you”. Doctors and medical professionals have authenticated that fasting is the cure for most diseases. Dr. Isaac Jennings advocated that the body has its own way of self recovering from every kind of ailment. Asthma, Hay Fever, constipation, headaches, colds, skin disorders, arthritis, cancers, tumours, blood disease or disorder can be cured by prolonged periods of water fasting. Fasting is not divine healing but God’s prescription, therapy and remedy to illness.
The spiritual purpose of fasting is to get rid of the struggles and strife of the mind. Fasting should mould us and make us meek and modest. The Lord condemns striking wicked fist (holding grudge) and pointing of figures (unlawful judgements and fault finding) . Fasting and prayer will help us to get rid of the muck and mess in our thinking. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk” (Isaiah 58:9); you will reap the benefits of fasting.
Fasting is physical obedience to unbolt spiritual blessings.
The essence of Fasting:
- Supercharge: The ears of the Lord are tuned to the prayers of a fasting saint. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and He will say: Here am I (Isaiah 58:9). Fasting and prayer gets the attention of Heaven. When we feel that our prayers are not heard, fast and pray. Fasting breaks the brick wall of silence and coldness between us and God. Go on a food fast and a silent fast from social media to listen to the voice of the Saviour. Fasting supercharges our prayers.
- Speed-up: Our healing will speed up during our fast; “your healing will quickly appear”. This is not just a spiritual mystery but a scientific solution. Dr. Frank McCoy treated his patients by fasting and dieting methods. He says, “If more physicians should advocate this method of healing there would be less sickness”. Fasting speeds up healing. Fast-track your healing by fasting.
- Secure: Fasting is our sheath and security. “Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard”. As we humble ourselves in fasting, confessing, repenting and relenting, our uprightness will be our shield and the glory of the Lord will be our rear guard. Fasting will protect us from the bitter blasts of the enemy. The Lord will guard us from backbiting scoffers, bickering and betraying scorners. Fasting and prayer secures us from the snakes of the present and the scorpions of the past. Fasting secures our pathway.
Fasting is God’s methodology to fast-track healing and secure our future.
Isaiah 58:10 If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Help me to unlock divine health and healing through the golden key of fasting. Give me the grace to make fasting and prayer a discipline of my life. Amen.
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