Daniel 10:2-3 At that time I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks. I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over. Fasting is like housecleaning to the body. It gives a rest to the organs from the normal digestion routine...
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20 January 2022 – Fasting – Part 6
Esther 4:16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. Esther called for a ‘focused fast’. Her uncle (Mordecai) reminded her empirically that she was in the palace with...
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19 January 2022 – Fasting – Part 5
Numbers 11:4-5 The rabble(crowd) with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat!”. The top three essentials for survival are air, water and sleep. Permanent damage can be caused to the brain if there is no oxygen supply for 4 minutes and...
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18 January 2022 – Fasting – Part 4
Nehemiah 9:1 On the twenty-fourth day…the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads. Fasting and prayer humbles us before God. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors (Nehemiah 9:2b). The remnant of Israel after their return from the Babylonian captivity humbled themselves...
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17 January 2022 – Fasting – Part 3
Jonah 3:8 Let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. “Fasting is a personal commitment to renounce the natural and to invoke the spiritual” – Myles Munroe. Repentance, confession and fasting go together. The dietary laws of Israel were...
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16 January 2022 – Fasting – Part 2
Psalm 69:10 When I weep and fast, I must endure scorn. Fasting does not change God, it changes us. Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.4 Your fasting ends in quarrelling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists (Isaiah 58:3-4). Fasting, yet holding...
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15 January 2022 – Fasting – Part 1
Matthew 4:2-3 “After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. 3 The tempter came to Him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Fasting is a physical discipline to have a spiritual feast. Fasting is abstaining from food for a particular period of time, however,...