Fasting! WOW! So much FUN ....... NOT!!!!

There are types of fasts different in the Bible.

 

 

1. Normal - abstaining from food. (Luke 4:2).

 

2. Absolute - abstaining from food and water; normally no more than 3 days. (Acts 9:9), Moses (Deut. 9:9), Israel (Ezra 10:6), Israel (Esther 4:16).

 

3. Partial - restricting diet of certain foods or a meal a day.  (Daniel 1:16), (Daniel 10:3).

 

Daniel 10:2, 3, “In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.”

 

Any of these fasts can help your spiritual condition and we must do it with the right spirit and right frame of mind.

 

Some will fast books or movies, others the internet while others deny themselves their favorite food(s) or drink.

 

Right now we are on a 30 day Daniels Fast and we let our teenager choose the item to fast; he selected soda pop!  This will be hard, I usually drink a can or bottle of pop with lunch and a glass or two of Ginger Ale or Root Beer with supper. 

 

My wife drinks lots of diet Coke / Diet Pepsi while my son drinks a lot of Mountain Dew.

 

But we’ve agreed together to do this fast for many reasons, my wife needs a job, he needs better grades and I need to know the next step God has for me.