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Fasting?
Mike Gagne:
Largelli,
Your quote
--- Quote ---But you can't experience 'good' (patience, self control, etc.) without the experience of 'evil' (hungry, impatient, grumpy). All I was saying is that fasting, that is depriving your carnal body of the nourishment it needs to not die, will make your carnal body weak (grumpy, irritated, impatient). Your carnal body will lash out and throw a fit.
His strength is perfected in our weakness.
--- End quote ---
I don't see how starving your self makes you weak, more like it makes you hungry. So you know what its like to be full aposed to being hungry.
I know His Strength is made perfect when I know that I can do nothing of my own SELF, thats my weakness, my carnal heart, Self....
lareli:
Michael it sounds like fasting is not something that God has called you to do. I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. Just trying to not dismiss that God can use fasting as a means to bear fruit in some people if He wanted to.
Sometimes I think out loud and make a simple thought that I had, harder to understand than I intended.
Mike Gagne:
--- Quote from: largeli on February 07, 2016, 03:27:34 AM ---Michael it sounds like fasting is not something that God has called you to do. I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. Just trying to not dismiss that God can use fasting as a means to bear fruit in some people if He wanted to.
Sometimes I think out loud and make a simple thought that I had, harder to understand than I intended.
--- End quote ---
Hi Largeli, yes i understand that as I said to Stello
My quote
--- Quote ---It all comes back to who is sovereign? Stello after receiving counsel and you decide to try a fast that's ok because Jesus rules in the kingdom men and none can stay his hand. But no sense going hungry for something that isn't necessary.
--- End quote ---
I see that being wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove takes some working of God in my life, was only trying to help Stello avoid condemnation on what ever choice made. For it is all of God. Maybe I was adding to that, hmmm?
R.P and J to all...
stello:
Thanks again everyone for your helpful responses. Bottom line is God is Sovereign and i want to learn to love him sincerely. So i will trust his guidance in this matter.
rick:
All this talk of fasting, Im getting hungry. :)
Jesus did say but when you fast don't put on long faces like the Pharisees and scribs. :-[
God bless all.
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