The Power of Fasting

THE POWER OF FASTING

The power of Fasting is not in not eating or not doing some lifestyle thing. God does not desire sacrifices but obedience..obedience is not doing this instead of that. Lets discover what Fasting really is.


Pastor June Yuen shared with our church recently what Fasting actually is. The more I meditated on it and studied the Word, God showed me much much more. Isaiah 58 teaches us on what ideal fasting and sabbath really means.


If you read Matthew 25, where Jesus compared sheeps and goats and in fact most of the Gospel, you will see one thing. 

 ⁶ “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: 

to loose the chains of injustice 

   and untie the cords of the yoke, 

to set the oppressed free 

   and break every yoke?  (is 58:6)

Sheep will always have a need to be part of a body and close to its Shepherd. In John 10:16-17

¹⁶ I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen.

 I must bring them also. 

They too will listen to my voice, 

and there shall be one flock 

and one shepherd.

 ¹⁷ The reason my Father loves me is

 that I lay down my life—only to take it up again.

A goat is like the prodigal son and like the one that received the 1 talent and very much like the people that fast by afflicting their hungry stomachs and forgotten about mercy. We do not serve God for the sake of profit or self-enrichment neither is it to be richer or smarter or stronger. He did not give His only begotten Son so that we can do whatever we want and go wherever we want. 

Adam and Eve took and ate a fruit from the tree that they were not suppose to do. They like lucifer, disobeyed because they wanted to be like God or even be God. Creation cannot control the Creator. Neither can creation be worshipped as the creator.

It is because we are mere human beings. When we die, we become dust. When we pass on from this world, whatever we had before cannot be brought to wherever we go. Whatever or whoever we are on earth, matters nought on earth. That's why Jesus said, without HIM, we are nothing.

Yet Christ showed us one thing (see John 10:15)..which is also said in Isaiah 58 and also in Matthew 25:45 

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and 

I know the Father—and I lay down 

my life for the sheep. (John 10:15)

⁴⁵ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, 

whatever you did not do for

 one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

The Gospel and who Jesus is and what Jesus does for mankind is God love in us and thru us to love people. You see Jesus goes to the lonely, the broken, the rejected, the one who sits alone,. He laid His life down in obedience to God because God thru His Son wants to tell the world, HE LOVES YOU.

So Fasting like everything else that God wants us to do..which is the message of the Cross - the Great Commandments of God (Mt 22:37-40). Love God and Love People. 

Fasting is not to just deny ourselves of food and to look so super religious. Fasting takes you out of yourself and into what God see. God see the end of this world and the return of His Son, the first fruit over all that love Him. Fasting is us telling God, I will not eat meaning God I am man. I must obey my master. I am not God. God you be God ! isn't that awesome truth.

Remember the Holy Spirit cannot take you into the Kingdom of heaven, if you are full of yourself. We die to self daily.

When you face problems you cannot overcome, don't go and try to solve it by getting another job..by borrowing money, by getting yourself deeper and deeper into messes. Pray ! pray that you cannot do anything about this, but you want God to intervene. Then rest don't try to help God. Then you will see God open doors and make the impossible possible for you !

Let Him be the Shepherd of your life today.

Be Blessed

Luv Edwin