Fasting – Where Breakthrough Begins
A Breakthrough – sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development.
Going through the motions rarely produces change
1. SPIRITUAL BENEFITS: A physical response to a spiritual problem
The Physical Affects the Spiritual. Our choices affect our spiritual health.
Fasting ignites a hunger for God and provides direction – THE FUEL SOURCE OF ADDICTION IS STARVED.
To break a bondage, you must pray, seek God’s grace, and starve it!
Discipline is part of the Christian Faith
We will crave more of what we feed. Fasting silences the voice of the flesh.
Love vs. Favor – [but I love Him more]
Are we awaiting the return on the Bridegroom?
Through fasting, our body becomes a servant instead of a master. “When you fast” (Matt. 6:16).
In Matthew 17:21, Jesus said that a certain evil spirit does not go out of a person except by prayer and fasting. The principle is found throughout Scripture: Fasting applies pressure to the spiritual realm.
“Often, pressure has to be maintained before there is a breakthrough in heavenly warfare.” – Arthur Wallis
IF YOU’RE DESIRING A BREAKTHROUGH, YOU MUST APPLY PRESSURE. CONFESS IT AS SIN AND HIT IT HEAD-ON . . . IRON MIKE TYSON.
James 4:5 reminds us that our spirit has “envious yearnings.” Do we yield to these yearnings, or do we give in to the pull of the flesh?
Some may argue, “Fasting is too extreme!” Are we not living in extremely difficult times?
Desperate times call for desperate measures – opioid abuse, alcoholism, pain meds, broken families, shattered lives . . . .
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2. PHYSICAL BENEFITS: Much of the healing that I have witnessed over the years was the result of renewed stewardship of the body. WHY?
We pray for God to heal rather than ask for His help with the self-discipline to change harmful habits.
Disease often begins in fullness, and is starved when fasting.
We need Wisdom from the “right” source: The Gatorade image.
It’s been estimated that nearly 75 percent of US clinical trials in medicine are paid for by private companies who benefit.
Fasting only profits the faster
Nesquik said it’s the official post game drink of the AYSO.
Ensure is the drink doctors recommend: Corn Maltodextrin, Sugar, Blend of Vegetable Oils, Artificial Flavor
Kids cereals market the fun, but not the results. Kids on Caffeine leads to chaos.
K E Y: Fasting does not heal the body; it gives the body the optimal environment for healing.
Take cancer for example and the role of chemotherapy and radiation. Chemo doesn’t always get the “stem cell” when it goes dormant. Balloon Example
In 55 years the death rate for 100,000 people has only improved by 5%.
Begin with poor food and lifestyle choices. Then add RNA and DNA mutation occur from radiation from CAT scans. Then add a hindered immune system, followed by Chemo [Mustard gas derivatives]. This leads to a depleted immune system – so low that one has to stay in the hospital. Then add more treatments, followed by dead food choices, and mental anguish.
Shrinkage doesn’t always mean cured – the stem cell is often still there.
We need a strong immune system built with phytochemicals and antioxidants via plants, and FASTING brings in Seal Team 6.
“Spot radiation” and Chemo are sometimes necessary –
Dr. J. H. Tilden, “After fifty-five years of sojourning in the wilderness of medical therapeutics, I am forced to declare . . . that fasting is the only reliable, specific, therapeutic eliminant known to man.”
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, “The body’s wondrous ability to [self-digest] and destroy needless tissue such as fat, tumors, blood vessel plaque, and other nonessential and diseased tissues, while conserving essential tissues, gives the fast the ability to restore . . . youth to the system.”
Dr. Yuri Nikolayev, a psychiatrist at the University of Moscow, treated schizophrenics with water fasts for twenty-five to thirty days. This was followed by eating healthy foods for thirty days. About 70 percent of his patients remained free from symptoms for the duration of the six-year study. The health benefits of fasting are incredible.
Dr. Jason Fung, “Type 2 diabetes is nearly eliminated with proper diet when you stop fueling the disease and fast?” It doesn’t have to be a progressive disease.
HOW TO GET STARTED
Change is expensive – stop purchasing junk.
Win the mental battle – it’s a lifestyle, not a quick fix.
Knock out the heavyweights early in the fight. One change at a time for some.
Less is more. The less we eat, the better. Aim for 6 teaspoons, or 24 grams.
Move more—a lot more. When possible, center activities around activity rather than food.
Green feeds the machine, and colorful is powerful; meat and dairy are secondary. – Pic of refrigerator –
Consider intermittent fasting to begin.
KEY: Is your spiritual health going in the right direction? Just look at how the body was created.
