Thank u so much Gone. I definitely feel inspired! Do you need to spend a certain amount of time in prayer during a fast? Like more than a regular day? I pray a lot anyway..
I'm gonna check out cru,
Fasting was the act of going without food.
Mat 15:32 Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.
Fasting Was a Old Testament Practice after things go bad. Normally not under good conditions.
Psa 109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Est 4:3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was
great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Neh 9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with
fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
Joe 2:12 Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and
with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
The Fast some say set in the Day of Atonement set in Lev 16:29-31 Some say it was never mentioned until much later. God in Isaiah said a Fast is a day he has chosen.
Isa 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
Fasting to remove devils:
Many believe as I do these verses were added by someone. Devils could care less if you starve yourself. They have some believe to be proven forgery's and should not be in scriptures. Devils have to heed the name of Jesus spoke in faith, faith in that name.
Jesus mentioned Fasting once in Matt 6:16
The disciples did not fast When Jesus was with them or even had to.
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?
(Mar 2:18)
And Jesus said unto them,
Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
(Mar 2:19-20)
(Another Reason why this one go out but by prayer and Fasting thought to be a fake because they could not cast the devil out, or Fast to get the devil out as they could not fast. Yet Jesus told them it was because of their unbelief they could not cast him out.
Fasting is something we picked up from somewhere. Not scripture really because it's never mentioned to the Church. It's better to let your moderation be made known to all men, and live a fasted life.
Php 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
As the Lord Told Brother Hagin. I would rather you live a fasted life before me, not excess then to starve yourself for two days and eat like a hog after.
Be blessed.