Fasting

I used to fast because I was told I would get things, sometimes spiritual, sometimes material. This led me to the field of thought for a long time that fasting was a religious and pretentious way for selfish people to try and receive things from Father. A genie in a bottle scenario.

As I come to know Father more however, and as I seek to know and follow Jesus not as a religion but a person, I realise that true fasting is not something we do for ourselves but something we do as a loving response to the love he is pouring out into us daily. It is an indication of our hearts inclination toward God.

What a beautiful thing I have been missing out on! I long to fast before a God that I cannot see but can overwhelmingly feel. As I do this before him and him alone it becomes such an intimate experience between us.

How Exciting!!

I would like to put one contrasting view of fasting forth. The Old Testament Jewish tradition of fasting, which revolves around certain days of tradition on which all the dedicated Jews would fast as an act of atonement or an act of humble devotion to God....

As they were under law and not grace I can understand this. I am just expressing the stark contrast to this way of fasting and the way of a love relationship fast. I find it strange that it took me 4 years of been a follower to realise ‘true fasting’ despite trying so hard to play by the ‘rules’.


To think, it was while letting myself go of religion and accepting Grace and Christ as my leader instead of the albeit well-meaning man at the ‘top’, that this thought of freedom and love came flowing from my heart, the place where Father abides.
(John 15:4)