FASTING

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-- [ From: Michael A. Endsley * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --


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> Subject: Re: FASTING

>         1.  The reason we are doing it
Right.  Above all else, to be closer to the Lord??  !!!!!!!!

>         2.  If you are doing it and the whole time you are
>                 wishing you could eat, you might as well
>                 give up.  
Thats not true, brother.  This flesh will fight you the whole time!  You
will suddenly "discover" how many commercials via the media (of any kind)
are related to food.  DON'T GIVE UP!!!  You will be able to overcome the
desires of the flesh.


>         3.  As the Bible says, dont look like you are fasting,
>                 it is suppose to be done quietly.  no sad look
>                 on the face no matter how good that pie smells!
>         4.  I personally think, and I think it goes with the 
>                 verse that talks about number 3, that we should
>                 not brag about our fasting accomplishements.
>                 Maybe it is just me.  I know though that when
>                 I heard a sister once talk about her 3 week
>                 fast, I felt as though she was trying to 
>                 impress people.  I think like I stated in 3,
>                 it should be done quietly.
>         5.  Pray while fasting.
>         6. Ditto number 5 :)
>         7. Thank the Lord for whatever you are fasting for.


We may fast for different reasons/things, but the main thing is to know
Jesus!  What good would miracles or anything else be if we really didn't
know Him?  I would rather know Him, and see very little in the miraculous,
than to see a lot of the "miraculous" and not really know Him!  "Oh, that I
might know him...."

Mike

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"The world will hunger for what we have, when we hunger
more for what we have." 
 Bro. Greg Godwin