It
is our belief that every Child of God should at some point
in their Christian walk incorporate the discipline of fasting.
Many questions have risen out of the mouth of many Christians
concerning this topic. What is fasting? Why should we fast?
Why is it so important for me to fast?
Fasting is the voluntary abstinence for a time from various
necessities of life such as food, drink, sleep, rest, association
with people and so forth. The purpose of rejecting these
things for a longer or shorter period of time is to loosen
to some degree the ties that bind us to the world of material
things and our surrounding as a whole, in order that we
may concentrate all our spirituality upon the unseen and
eternal things.
So many times in the life of a believer, we are challenged
to constantly focus all of our attention on the things of
this world. And consequently, all of our decisions are fully
made based on what we can naturally see. Sometimes we allow
what we can naturally see to cause us to miss what God is
saying to our spirit. Jesus explains to his disciples who
faced a challenge and failed in Mark 9:29 that “this
kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”
So fasting allows our physical man (flesh) to decrease that
our spiritual man (soul) may increase. So it our prayer
that the believers will join us in developing a discipline
of prayer and fasting that we may become
more in tuned to the things of God.
Courtesy Chronicles Article, February 2003, by Pastor
James Jackson
