#WordForTodayDevotional

Monday January 4, 2021

WHAT IS FASTING?

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Matthew 4:2 (KJV)

There is a misunderstanding among believers as to what a fast is and because of that lack of knowledge, Satan deceives a lot of believers. Webster’s, and also the Bible Dictionary, define fasting as, “abstinence from food. Especially as a religious observance.” (FAST: “To abstain from food.”). We may ask the question, “Is water food?“ First, we will consider Webster’s definition of food, and it reads as follows: “Food: nutriment; nourishment in solid form.” Food and water-drinking are two different things. To do without water results in thirsting, and thirsting means, “a great desire to drink.” Fasting will be understood better if we recognize these facts. One should not associate abstinence from water, with the subject of fasting; thus, we see the contradistinction between food and water. Fasting has nothing with drinking water. In fact, you should drink water while you are fasting for several reasons. When you are on a fast, your body goes into cleansing called detoxification. This process needs a lot of water to complete. When we are talking about a fast here, we are talking about a protracted fast or a complete fast. We are dealing with the type of fast taken by the Lord Yahushua HaMashiach. A fast like that of Paul, or Daniel: “Bible Fast.” A complete fast is a fast from the time hunger leaves, until the time hunger returns. Such a fast may continue from twenty-one to forty days, depending on the individual, and also on the amount of time it takes you to get your prayers through to Heaven.

A short fast is a fast of less than ten days. You should not fast for more than three days without drinking water. Any fast of more than three days should involve drinking plenty of water in order to help the body clean up. This cleansing of the body is one of the physical benefits of fasting. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and to attempt a major fast without water, would defile and pollute the body. Scripture states: “If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.” I Cor. 3:17. This accounts for why people have destroyed their body with ignorance while fasting and that ignorance has given wrong impression about fasting to others.

Water is not food and cannot break a fast. You are hurting your body when you take a major fast without drinking water and it is pure ignorance and not in line with scriptures. Paul knew the difference between ‘thirsting” and “fasting.” He distinguishes them in II Cor. 11:27, “in hunger and thirst, IN FASTINGS OFTEN.” If “hunger and thirst” were the same thing as “fasting,” he would not have repeated the same thing, any more than “cold” and “nakedness” are the same. Please note that a comma is inserted between each phrase.

REMEMBER: Fasting is abstinence from food.

PRAYER: Dear Father, I thank You for Your Word to me today. I ask for the zeal to fast from today the right way in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree a fresh hunger for a closer walk with Yahweh in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Isaiah 58

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Genesis 9:1-11:26; Matthew 4:1-17

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