The Joys of Fasting!

The Joys of Fasting??? Are you crazy, a Joy????? How can Fasting be a Joy????, especially when you fast for 21 days? What is fasting anyway?
These are great questions, and I am glad you asked!
To find the answers to these questions we need to do an inward examination.

First of all; (Sincerely ask yourself these questions)
Am I as close to God as what I can be?
Am I in need of a closer intimate walk with the Lord?
Do I desire to hear His voice more frequently, and clearer than what I can hear right now?
Are there things in my life that I would like to overcome?
Are there bondage's that have developed in my life, that I would like to be free from?
Is there a dream inside of me that only God can bring forth?
Is there someone that I know that needs salvation?
Is there any bitterness in my life?
Are there relationships in my life that are not what they should be?

If you answered yes to any of these questions then: This fast is for you!!!!

First of all what is a fast???
Simply stated: Biblical Fasting is refraining from food for a spiritual purpose!

It is that simple!

Some may decide to do a full fast - that is liquids only - you establish the number of days.
Some may decide to do a partial fast - from sun up to sundown.
Some may decide to fast a certain number of meals during the day, it is your choice, your free will enacted for the purpose of spiritual growth!

God is pleased when His people seek Him more than anything else!
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all of your heart!
That scripture follows Jeremiah 29:11 Where God said, For I know the thoughts that I have toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope.

Do you desire to know God's direction for your life? Seek Him! Fast and Pray! When we seek for Him with all of our heart we will find Him!

God gave me a word recently, He said For I will restore health to you, and Heal you of all your wounds!

Our God is the Healer of our lives, He is the healer of our emotions, He is the healer of our hurts, and past failures!

Those relationships that are in need of healing, God can bring healing, but it first starts in our own lives!

Fasting causes us to be more keenly aware of His presence and His will for our lives!
We begin to empty ourselves of ourselves and joyfully take on His attributes;
Forgiveness
Love
Compassion for others!

Isaiah 58:6 states: Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the heavy burdens, To let oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?
The word oppressed can be translated - Broken
There are so many people all around us who are broken in spirit and bound by sin!
Fasting can be a tool for freeing those who are broken and bound!

Oh the Joys of Fasting!
Those Joys are revealed when we see those who we are praying for set free!
Those Joys are revealed as we begin to walk with God on a more personal and intimate level! Those Joys are revealed as we begin to experience the compassion, love and forgiveness of God demostrated in real ways toward those he loves, the outcasts and rejected by society and religious self righteous people!

Fasting is not about becoming self - righteous it is becoming the hands and feet of Christ!
Isaiah 58:7 Is not the fast that I have chosen to;
Share your bread with the hungry,
And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out;
When you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Verse 8 Says; Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, and your righteousness shall go before you;
The Glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Verse 9. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer!

So I invite you to Join us in this fast and together lets not just see more of God but lets experience more of God!

And as we experience Him we will experience His Joy!