Why You Shouldn't Fast As Believers
Warning: This post might awaken some religious spirit.
Fasting has its own benefits but the followings are just religious mindsets that do not lead to those benefits:
❌ When we fast, God hears us
❌ When we fast, our prayers get answered faster
❌ When we fast, God forgives us and heals our land
❌ When we fast, we are genuinely repenting
❌ When we fast, we get more power and anointing from God
❌ We can fast from media, TV, games, etc. (That is simply called 'breaking a bad habit', not fasting)
❌ When we fast, we can move God's hand
You will never find these in the New Covenant. God had to explain it to the religious ones (Isa 58:6-7).
✅ Biblical fasting has always been food. Let's not change the Word for our own comfort. If you can dethrone your stomach (gullet), you can dethrone your god (Phil 3:19)
✅ Fasting reminds you that you are dead (Rom 6:6-13) because you are first a spirit being, alive in Him
✅ Fasting helps you to stay more focused and more conscious of who God is in you (Rom 8:9)
I would like to add that fasting helps you in personal healing. In the natural, fasting allows some parts (tissues and cells) of the body to regenerate and repair. But it is way more powerful when you get the principle in the Spirit.
I'm not saying that fasting produces divine healing. But fasting trains you to deny the visible and the physical so that you magnify the invisible and the spiritual (Rom 8:6). Most believers cannot minister healing to themselves while they can minister healing to others.
Why? Because the symptoms in the flesh appear and feel more real than the Spirit of Life inside them. When you fast, you are training your flesh to shut up so that if you have symptoms in your flesh next time, you know how to shut the flesh up and use a loudspeaker in the Spirit.
Don't fast for the wrong reasons. You don't gain any brownie point with God. Fasting is not work-based. That's pure religion. Fasting is grace-based because you have been made complete in Him.
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