Isaiah 58: Fasting
What is a fast? Do you really think that a hunger strike will move the hand of God? What are you five? So many times people think that we have to fast and pray because they read that Esther and Daniel did that- even the disciples and Jesus did it. That notion couldn’t be further from the truth. Did all of those people fast? Yes they did. Did God move on their behalf after they fasted? Yes He did! The question then becomes does fasting move God? The answer is no. What moves God is our heart condition. Isaiah 58 is the clearest picture of what intention we should have when we fast. We should desire to control our own flesh so much that whatever we normally do, we would to the deep desires of God instead. This is a true fast. The issue is that this kind of a fast always opens the door to the blessings that God has already provided so that it appears, at least from the outside, that God is responding to the fast. I can assure you that He is not because if He were then God could, a. be able to be manipulated, and b. be a liar. He told us that there is nothing we can do to earn His blessing or favor so if we could fast in order to earn it then that would be something. That is just not true! God gave us fasting as a way for us to get a firm hold of our flesh that it may begin to obey what our spirit- that is joined with God’s spirit- wants to do.
Fasting doesn’t get God to do anything, it simply opens a spiritual door that already holds blessings.
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