Fasting! Why?
...Have you watched the video I shared earlier?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p2wTUR2Uwk
Were you moved at all? It is the video of a Spirit-filled man observing a life of fasting!http://www.akshayatrust.org/ .
I know you've tried and met with some regrets,but that shouldn't stop you from giving "food for physical nutrition; love and affection for mental nutrition" to the needy around you.
There are too many distractions,too many indeed to cope with at a time,and so we have become very manipulative, and are now violent,"taking everything by force".
Isaiah 58:1-14.
Do you observe fasting at all?How long ago and how do you fast?
Many do their fasting for ONLY these two reasons;
1- Religious observation,and
2- "taking everything by force".
Many people today never do skip vocations and trips,meals and lunches,and all the others for the needy.Do you stop and give the homeless guy a dollar($1!) for food and a smile for love&affection?
"Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" (Isa 58:7-8).
Many quote Mat 11:12 "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." to mean something else.The violent man here is the devil,a.k.a, the thief that is making millions of people go hungry,homeless,naked,diseased and then dead(John 10:10).This is his works and it must be destroyed all around us.
In summary,this is the fasting God has chosen for you and I,and it is "to cut down on waste(excess food) and then distribute(love and affection)".
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