PRAYING & FASTING PART 1
Fasting is considered the master key to making the impossible possible. Fasting helps you to become more sensitive to God and the many things happening around you in the spirit. There must be a purpose for fasting.
There are three kinds of fasting – the supernatural, the ordinary and the Daniel’s fast.
Supernatural Fast
An example of this is found in the story of Moses on Mt. Sinai. We are told that he was with the Lord for forty days and forty nights. He ate neither bread nor drink water (Ex.34: 27, 28). It is also said that during those days that God’s power came upon Moses so that even his face shown with the transfiguring glory of God. It was then that he was given the Ten Commandments.
In the natural man can fast only for a few days without food and water. With Moses we see this was a special one of supernatural character.
Ordinary Fast
This is also known as the total fast. This is where you do not eat food but you are permitted to drink water.
On entering the fast, if at the end of the first day you feel weak or have a great sense of hunger, you may take a small amount of nourishment. By the second or third day that feeling of hunger will have gradually diminished and weakness not so pronounced. For those who enter the total fast, it is important to know that such a fast should be broken slowly. One the first day after, drink only diluted juices, then a light fruit for a few days. Heavier foods may then be included.
Daniel’s Fast
In this fast we see from Daniel 10: 3 that it is no pleasant food. He did not refrain from eating altogether, but we are given the impression that he did not eat what he wanted or what he liked. It is suggested that he ate what was necessary to keep the body.
This kind of fast would usually be suggested to those who work while fasting. Also known as the non-total fast, this allows the drinking of juices. These juices supply sufficient strength to pray and seek God.
It is better to drink juices while fasting and have the strength to pray and fight against the enemy than to try the total fast and be too weak to pray. Only a small amount of juice should be taken, however, and sipping should do this. A hot drink with no milk may be drunk occasionally.
It is important to note that prayer must accompany fasting. Prayer is the emphasis of fasting and this is the time where one should be doing what Apostle Paul considered praying without ceasing.
There are three kinds of fasting – the supernatural, the ordinary and the Daniel’s fast.
Supernatural Fast
An example of this is found in the story of Moses on Mt. Sinai. We are told that he was with the Lord for forty days and forty nights. He ate neither bread nor drink water (Ex.34: 27, 28). It is also said that during those days that God’s power came upon Moses so that even his face shown with the transfiguring glory of God. It was then that he was given the Ten Commandments.
In the natural man can fast only for a few days without food and water. With Moses we see this was a special one of supernatural character.
Ordinary Fast
This is also known as the total fast. This is where you do not eat food but you are permitted to drink water.
On entering the fast, if at the end of the first day you feel weak or have a great sense of hunger, you may take a small amount of nourishment. By the second or third day that feeling of hunger will have gradually diminished and weakness not so pronounced. For those who enter the total fast, it is important to know that such a fast should be broken slowly. One the first day after, drink only diluted juices, then a light fruit for a few days. Heavier foods may then be included.
Daniel’s Fast
In this fast we see from Daniel 10: 3 that it is no pleasant food. He did not refrain from eating altogether, but we are given the impression that he did not eat what he wanted or what he liked. It is suggested that he ate what was necessary to keep the body.
This kind of fast would usually be suggested to those who work while fasting. Also known as the non-total fast, this allows the drinking of juices. These juices supply sufficient strength to pray and seek God.
It is better to drink juices while fasting and have the strength to pray and fight against the enemy than to try the total fast and be too weak to pray. Only a small amount of juice should be taken, however, and sipping should do this. A hot drink with no milk may be drunk occasionally.
It is important to note that prayer must accompany fasting. Prayer is the emphasis of fasting and this is the time where one should be doing what Apostle Paul considered praying without ceasing.
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