Fasting improves our physical and spiritual health. If you choose the type of fast that corresponds to your body’s strength, you can fast for seven days, twenty-one days, thirty days, or even forty days without any health issues.
Instead, your health will improve. NIH studies on the health benefits of fasting have confirmed that the correct type of fasting (a kind of detox) improves health. If your health improves during fasting, what about the length of your life?
Fasting also improves our spiritual health; that is why our spirit grows faster and is more sensitive (stronger) in the spirit realm as it is written in Mark 9:29 (NKJV): “This kind can come out only by prayer.” It was a deaf spirit. The spiritual benefits of fasting also strengthen your ability to resist spiritual oppressions.
Fasting contributes to our spiritual glow because we are in His presence, as we saw with Moses when he came down from the mountain in Exodus 34:29–30 (NIV). What do you think he was doing there apart from fasting in God’s presence? This passage illustrates the spirit of someone fasting.
Eat well before each fast, because the journey is difficult, especially at the beginning. (1 Kings 19:7 NIV)
Fasting is not about days but faith. If it were about days, there would be no need for faith; it would be just a sacrifice, and even unbelievers would do it effectively.
Put in your all with faith, and God will answer. Your fat belongs to God; use it for fellowship (prayer). Therefore, fasting should be a prayer rather than a weight loss program. Integrate prayer into your weight loss journey. If you don’t have life problems, fast for others rather than just wasting that opportunity.
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