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02-26-2009, 04:11 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
I know someone who recently completed a 21 day fast in which for 21 days this person ate no chocolate.
Some people fast "meats and sweets" like Daniel did ( Dan 10:1-3).
St. Theresa (the Little Flower of Jesus) said that prayer moves God's hand but fasting moves His heart. Actually, fasting is just saying "no" to our human/carnal appetite, whether we are fasting candy, tv, caffeine, tobacco, computer use, food, or whatever.
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02-26-2009, 04:14 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
Could exercising be a fast? The Lord knows how much I hate to exercise! I could turn on TBN while I'm working out! 
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02-27-2009, 12:52 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
 Wow!!! A little surprised there has not been much posting on this thread.
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02-28-2009, 08:06 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
As Sam said fasting when translated from the orignal language means "without food!" I don't agree you can fast from anthing else. As you are straving the flesh to enable the spirtual.
Abstaining from other things like technology is a sacrifice and God IMO honnors that!
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03-03-2009, 11:10 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
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Could exercising be a fast? The Lord knows how much I hate to exercise! I could turn on TBN while I'm working out! |
Look at me Lord, I'm walking on the treadmill, which you know I hate, and watching the Benny Hinn Show, which I know you hate... See how I afflict myself like so! The agony! AIIEEEEEE! j/k 
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03-03-2009, 11:13 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
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Originally Posted by jrpreacher
As Sam said fasting when translated from the orignal language means "without food!" I don't agree you can fast from anthing else. As you are straving the flesh to enable the spirtual.
Abstaining from other things like technology is a sacrifice and God IMO honnors that!
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That's just semantics. I think abstaining from anything for the sake of bringing your flesh into submission can be called a fast. Food is probably the hardest fast, because it's a basic human need--and probably the most effective.
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"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
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03-03-2009, 11:48 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
That's just semantics. I think abstaining from anything for the sake of bringing your flesh into submission can be called a fast. Food is probably the hardest fast, because it's a basic human need--and probably the most effective.
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You may be right, but when I fast from food, I find a closeness to God in worship, prayer, and in my thoughts that I don't find when I fast from other things.
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03-03-2009, 11:58 PM
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Re: When ye fast...
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Originally Posted by mizpeh
You may be right, but when I fast from food, I find a closeness to God in worship, prayer, and in my thoughts that I don't find when I fast from other things.
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I agree. Fasting from food, or the Daniel fast--those are the best, IMO!!!!!
I just think that it's okay to label other types of abstaining as fasts as well. (As long as it is something set aside or pushed away for a sacred purpose.)
If I were to tell someone I was fasting (which I wouldn't normally do, except for maybe my husband), I would clarify if it wasn't food, because usually "I'm fasting" means "I'm not eating." 
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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