It's time to move on from making a case for fasting to other matters concerning this lost biblical discipline. But one more blog entry to make an appeal that I feel in my heart and spirit needs to be made to some of you out there reading this.
Reggie, you ask, "Why are you going to such lengths to try to make a case for fasting?" Because you need to be totally convinced in your spirit that what I am saying about fasting is true or it will avail you nothing. If you have not totally bought into the notion that it is a biblical discipline that absolutely needs to be just as much a part of your Christian experience as prayer and giving, you will not approach it in the right frame of mind and heart. If you approach it with the wrong frame of mind it will not work for you. You can not approach fasting with an "experimentation" attitude. "Let me try this to see if it works for me." You have already doomed it to fail. I want to get into reasons to fast on the next blog post or two.......but before I do......if you are not totally on board with this idea, please understand that you are rejecting something that has been portrayed in the bible as something Jesus assumed people would do. I must lovingly say to you that if you are not on board, it is because you are stiff necked and not responsive to the Lord, and are resistant to the Holy Spirit. You have defined what your Christian experience will consist of according to your own tastes and not according to biblical revelation....and the Holy Spirit is not involved in anything that does not line up with the Word of God. Folks this is serious stuff. Fasting is not some item on the Christian buffet that you choose if it suits your fancy. "Well, that fasting stuff just isn't for me." Then biblical Christianity isn't for you. You have created a Christian experience that you like instead of being instructed by the biblical revelation.
It is a very dangerous thing to be presented with truth and reject it. It is not even the fruit of a true child of God.
May the Lord soften every heart that has hardened itself against the truth of God.
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