What Does Fasting Do?
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Oh I like that .... matter of need and frankness in the sight of our Maker... and I can't relate to your experiences but it all sounds lovely hope to be there spiritually 
That the Lord would guide people to fast is enough reason to suggest its significance. Why fast on a particular day? What does it do? What does it accomplish? Does it make you sensitive to the Spirit of God, and His leading? Maybe it makes it easier to commune with God, not entertaining the things of the flesh?
There seems to be something about fasting that cries out to God and He inclines His ear to your prayers and petitions, much like laying oneself prostrate before God in surrender saying “You are my source.”
There seems to be something about fasting that cries out to God and He inclines His ear to your prayers and petitions, much like laying oneself prostrate before God in surrender saying “You are my source.”
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Biblical fasting has to do with the discipline of sharing the gospel on a day set aside from normal work( 6 days) as that needed to maintain these bodies of death.
It has nothing to do with the work depriving oneself but everything to do with sharing our bread, both the literal bread and the hidden Manna, the word of God, the gospel .
Starving oneself does not bring us closer to be heard on high .It is not the kind of fast that can drive out lying spirits called demons . It is not that which comes out of a man that defiles them or gives them the spiritual unseen strength .
Defining the bread as to its kind is needed .
One bread as manna which literal is a question. What is it? , The bread of unfamiliarity leads to eternal life. No lukewarm familiarity with God not seen. We walk by faith the unseen eternal
God is not a man a us. Familiarity breeds hatred and contempt it was cause to be misunderstood byjesus's own family. Men looking to the flesh of familiarity .
It leads to the grave and returning to the lifeless spiritless dust it was formed of.
It would seem men have turned it (not eating) into a sign gift as a way of confirming something outwardly .
It has nothing to do with the work depriving oneself but everything to do with sharing our bread, both the literal bread and the hidden Manna, the word of God, the gospel .
Starving oneself does not bring us closer to be heard on high .It is not the kind of fast that can drive out lying spirits called demons . It is not that which comes out of a man that defiles them or gives them the spiritual unseen strength .
Defining the bread as to its kind is needed .
One bread as manna which literal is a question. What is it? , The bread of unfamiliarity leads to eternal life. No lukewarm familiarity with God not seen. We walk by faith the unseen eternal
God is not a man a us. Familiarity breeds hatred and contempt it was cause to be misunderstood byjesus's own family. Men looking to the flesh of familiarity .
It leads to the grave and returning to the lifeless spiritless dust it was formed of.
It would seem men have turned it (not eating) into a sign gift as a way of confirming something outwardly .
I would think we would look to the spiritual understanding hid from the lost revealed in parables. .
How would that apply when fasting for blood work .Can it be offered as a fast to be heard on high?
Why did the man in Luke 18:12 boast he fasted twice on the sabbath and on the same sabbath day gave 10 % ?
How many meals fits the Orthodox understanding at that time? Three? Unlimited ?
How would that apply when fasting for blood work .Can it be offered as a fast to be heard on high?
Why did the man in Luke 18:12 boast he fasted twice on the sabbath and on the same sabbath day gave 10 % ?
How many meals fits the Orthodox understanding at that time? Three? Unlimited ?
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Most acceptable fast to the Lord is to help others....Isaiah 58.
But we do know that fasting is also still applicable by reading the scriptures. Jesus said that after he departed then they would fast.
Matthew 9:15
“And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.”
You are not supposed to tell others when you are fasting this is between you and God not to get praise of men.
Matthew 6:17-19 King James Version (KJV)
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
In Matthew 17. Jesus also instructs the disciple on how to have more strength with God. He rebuked them for their faithlessness and said...
21. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
But we do know that fasting is also still applicable by reading the scriptures. Jesus said that after he departed then they would fast.
Matthew 9:15
“And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.”
You are not supposed to tell others when you are fasting this is between you and God not to get praise of men.
Matthew 6:17-19 King James Version (KJV)
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
In Matthew 17. Jesus also instructs the disciple on how to have more strength with God. He rebuked them for their faithlessness and said...
21. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
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