With the start of a new year, life brings many new challenges and
opportunities. A renewal of spiritual health is needed. The popular
way to fast and pray, from several years ago, from the Old Testament
has run its course. Yes, the Daniel Fast. All the major churches are
doing it, and how yesterday is that.
Here is the basis for the Daniel Fast. You must merge parts of
chapter 1 with parts from chapter 10. Chapters and years apart.
Prove
thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse
(plus was the kosher Jewish diet) to eat, and water to drink. Then
let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance
of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as
thou seest, deal with thy servants. So he consented to them in this
matter, and proved them ten days. And at the end of ten days their
countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the
children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. Thus Melzar
took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should
drink; and gave them pulse.
(Daniel
1:12-16 KJV)
In
those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant
bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint
myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
(Daniel
10:2-3 KJV)
Now
let me introduce you to the New Testament Fast that will separate you
from the flock, may put you years ahead spiritually, but first a lead
in from our favorite Prophet from North Carolina:
“But Jesus wanted the crowd to know, look, ‘John’s (the
baptist) the one who got this whole thing started.’ In verse ten He
says, ‘This is the one about whom it is written, ‘I’ll send my
messenger ahead of you who will prepare Your way before You.’
Jesus says, ‘If it wasn’t for John, I wouldn’t even be
here performing these miracles.’”
-Steven Furtick- (source)
Yes,
John The Baptist Fast is a new just discovered New Testament
fast/diet that will put you closer to the answers you seek. A fast
of locusts and wild honey. Truly a fast/diet for the real servant.
And
the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle
about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
(Matthew
3:4 KJV)
This
plan is even backed up by an Old Testament scripture.
Yet
these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all
four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the
earth; Even
these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald
locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the
grasshopper after his kind. But all other
flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall
be
an abomination unto you.
(Leviticus
11:21-23 KJV)
A
merging of Old Testament and New Testament, how AWESOME is that.
Even
Jesus tells us how we should fast, as if knowing somehow this secret
would be unlocked in our time of signs and miracles and Sun Stand
Still moments.
Moreover
when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for
they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast.
Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
But
thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
That
thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in
secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee
openly.
(Matthew
6:16-18 KJV)
Only
Jesus could do a real fast of not eating for 40 days. Us mere mortals
would be putting our health in compromise, and with our busy lives
be run down.
Then
Jesus was led by the Spirit up into the wilderness, to be tempted by
the Devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was
afterwards hungry.
(Matthew
4:1-2 MKJV)
Be
the first to eat locust and wild honey. Just how dedicated are you to
God? Of course if you read your Bible then you would know that what
the False Prophets in our time are luring you into a trap you may
never climb out of. To please God is not to follow any pastor
blindly. Read your Bible, check out what the talking heads are
telling you.
Here
is the proper definition of a fast:
1. To abstain
from food.
2. To eat very
little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious
discipline.
n.
1. The act or
practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.
2. A period of
such abstention or self-denial.
There is nothing new under the sun, just a different way to twist the Truth.
There is nothing new under the sun, just a different way to twist the Truth.
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footnote: satirical look
