FASTING MEANS:
ABSTINENCE, DENIAL, SACRIFICE, SEEKING, KNOCKING, LONGING, PANTING, THIRSTING, PLUNGING, DEPARTURE, NARROW PATH, SEPARATION, LOSSES,
DEATH, MOURNING, BURIAL, RENEWAL, ACTIVATION, BIRTHING, PUSHING, TRAVAILING, EVACUATION, ESCALATION, ASCENSION, GIVING, TAMING, DISCIPLINE, CONSECRATION, MEEKNESS, HUMILITY…
GOD CREATED YOU AS A 3-DIMENSIONAL MAN – SPIRIT, SOUL, AND BODY.
IT IS VERY EASY TO GET LOST IN ANY OF THOSE 3 DIMENSIONS WITHOUT KNOWING THAT YOU’RE LOST.
THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THOSE THREE DIMENSIONS IS YOUR SPIRIT WHICH WE ALSO CALL A SPIRITMAN.
THE PROBLEM OF MANY CHRISTIANS IS THEY DON’T KNOW THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE THREE DIMENSIONS AND THEREFORE, GAVE WRONG PRIORITIES TO A LESSER DIMENSION OF BODY, OR TO THEIR SOUL.
MANY CHRISTIANS DON’T KNOW HOW TO STRIKE A GOOD AND PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN THOSE THREE DIMENSIONS.
MANY CHRISTIANS HAVE SUFFERED AND STILL SUFFER HORRIBLE AFFLICTIONS, AND THEY DON’T KNOW THE REASON FOR THEIR AFFLICTIONS IS BECAUSE OF DISEQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN THEIR SPIRIT, SOUL, AND BODY.
FROM THE LIST OF 30 ABOVE, IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FASTING. ABSTAINING FROM FOOD AND OR WATER IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY TYPES OF FASTING YOU CAN DO.
IF YOU STARVE YOUR FLESH BUT YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL IS HUNGRY, THEN, YOUR ABSTENTION FROM FOOD AND WATER IS AN UTTER WASTE! IT IS BETTER TO FEED YOUR SPIRITMAN AND YOUR SOUL WITH THE WORD OF GOD, AND WITH MEDITATIONS, AND OBEDIENCE, THAN STARVE YOUR FLESH IN THE NAME OF FASTING! IF YOU CAN’T READ AND MEDITATE ON THE WORD OF GOD WHILE FASTING, THEN, YOU’RE JUST WASTING AWAY YOUR BODY WITH HUNGER STRIKE.
GALATIANS 6:7-8:
(AMPLIFIED BIBLE)
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap. For the one who sows to his flesh [his sinful capacity, his worldliness, his disgraceful impulses] will reap from the flesh ruin and destruction, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
(NEW LIVING TRANSLATION)
Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.
(KING JAMES VERSION)
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.