Fasting is an act of discipline and self-control. Fasting is bringing your flesh under subjection. When you are fasting you are not focusing on feeding your body, but feeding your spirit. Your energy is now geared to focusing on prayer and meditating on the word of God.
What is a Daniel Fast
Daniel Fast is an eating plan inspired by a biblical figure named Daniel from the Old Testament. In the story, Daniel forgoes rich foods (“I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth”) and has “nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.” *Daniel 10:3
“The Daniel Fast is easy to follow . “It’s also loaded with healthy substances found in fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds (such as dietary fiber, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and essential fatty acids).
The Spiritual Benefits of Fasting
What you put into your spiritual fast is what you will get out of it. Your faith and your goals direct your practice. As a result, the spiritual benefits of fasting are also personal. In general, spiritual fasting can offer you the following:
- Spiritual clarity
- Cleansing of your soul
- Renewed faith
- Humbles your flesh
- Makes you more sensitive to the voice of God
- Loose the bounds of wickedness
- Undo(untie) the heavy burden
- Let the Oppressed go free
Isaiah 58:6-11
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Physical Benefits of a Daniel Fast
- Reduces inflammation
- Boosts energy levels
- Takes stress of the digestive system
- Improves insulin sensitivity
- Enhances mental health
- Weight loss
- Produces Beautiful Skin
- Stimulates the development of stem cells
- Improves genetic repair mechanisms
- Reduces the risk of chronic disease
- Stimulates cellular autophagy
- Stimulates fat burning
STAY HYDRATED *DRINK LOTS OF WATER
Use this time to:
- Spend time in the word/Listen to the word
- Pray more
- Spend time praising and worshiping God
- Write your vision and goals for 2021, pray over them daily.
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