Mat 9:14 Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?
You will agree with me if I said that prayer, fasting and studying scripture are very expedient exercises in every Christian's life if growth and maturity in God is to be experienced. The problem is, many times people carry wrong mindsets about these three forms of exercise. Today am talking about fasting. Now first thing you have to know is that fasting never moves God towards you or your need.
Fasting moves you to receive all that God has blessed you with. God has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness 2 Peter 1:3 and has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places. Ephesians 1:3. Therefore, all Christians stopped lacking from the day they gave their lives to Christ. But God is a Spirit John 4:24, and when he was blessing us, he gave us spiritual blessings Eph 1:3 yet we need to use them in the physically.
It is pointless to poses the healing provided by the stripes of Christ if you still carry sickness in your body. Now what makes these spiritual blessings given us of a spirit God physical is faith. It makes the spiritual blessings and no lack we have physical Consequently moving you in what God gave you rather than moving him to you. So fasting and the word help you in your faith without which, spiritual blessings are not made physical. Now you are made of the spirit, soul and body 1Thessalonians 5:23.
Your spirit is after God and everything in him. Your spirit perfectly understands and knows the spiritual blessings God has given you but your body does not. Your spirit is contrary to your flesh and your flesh contrary to your spirit. Galatians 5:17 Therefore, the testimony of your spirit is not the same with that of your flesh and the more you are yielded to the flesh or spirit will manifest its results in your life.
So every time you fast, you are denying the flesh its desires and needs and declaring that you are not driven by it. Problem comes in when people only abstain from food. You declare that you are not driven by the flesh and that is it. You are still not yielded and leaving by anything. You have to leave by the word in studying scripture or prayer. Man does not live by bread alone BUT by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4.
From the mouth of God, there are words like you are rich 2Cor 8:9, you were healed 2 Peter 2:24, the lines have fallen on you in pleasant places and you have a goodly heritage Psalm 16:6, goodness and mercy follows you all the days of your life Psalm 23:6, all things work together for the good of you ROM 8:28, if God be for you, who can be against you ROM 8:31, no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper Isaiah 54:17 etcetera. When you fast, pray and study the word, you are yielding and consequently moving in those truth and more. So men ought to always fast, not to move God but to move in what God has done for them.
Ap. Andrew
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