Fasting
My goal for us as a church:
- To grow in relationship with God.
- To grow in spiritual maturity.
A mature person:
- Knows right
- Acts right
Medical benefits from fasting:
- Helps increase metabolism
- Help with weight management
- Supports blood sugar
- Improves gut health
- Supports heart health
- Helps prevent diseases
- Helps delay aging
- Aids brain health
- Helps reduce anxiety
- Supports your circadian rhythm
- Reboots your taste buds
GOD CREATED OUR BODIES TO FAST AND THEY WORK BEST WHEN WE REGULARLY FAST.
Luke 5:26 “Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”
Luke 5:30-32 “But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Luke 5:33-35 “They said to him, “John’s disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking.” Jesus answered, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast.”
Marriage feasts lasted up to two weeks:
- First week was the wedding celebration.
- Second week No work and guests would come and visit bearing gifts
- Then they would have to go back to work
Luke 5:36-39 “He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for they say, ‘The old is better.’”
Different types of fasts:
- Normal fast (no food)
- Intermediate fasting
- Partial fast
