WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ON FASTING?
Scripture indicates that we should pray to our Heavenly Father during a fast to seek His will, guidance, and provision for our lives. Prayer with fasting and meditating on God’s word will strengthen our faith and trust in God. God will renew and build us up spiritually during a fast. Fasting is about devotion and surrender, but not about earning.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF FASTING?
Fasting will intensify our dependence on God by weakening our dependence on food and other things that might be a distraction from God.
WHAT TYPE OF FASTING CAN ONE DO?
Complete Fast: Using liquids only, typically water with light juices as an option.
Selective Fast: Removing certain elements from your diet. One example is the Daniel Fast during which you remove meats, sweets, and bread from your diet.
Partial Fast: Abstaining from eating any food in the morning or afternoon. This can either correlate to times of the day or from sunup to sundown.
Soul Fast: Removing something not food-related from your life for those with health or diet issues that are prevented from fasting from food. For example, you might stop social media or television for the duration of the fast and then carefully bring that back into your life after the fast.
HOW DOES ONE CENTER THEIR FAST ON GOD?
Clarify the purpose of the fast. For example, for hearing God’s will or to be renewed and strengthened spiritually.
Specify the kind of fast you will do.
Prepare your heart and mind and body for fasting. For example, remove food or the object/item being abstained from during the fast.