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do you fast?
musicman:
--- Quote from: dch1 on January 02, 2008, 09:20:01 PM ---I'm new to the community. Hello everybody!!!!!!!!! I know we are not under law but Fasting is something the lord told us we would have to do if certain things were to come out or happen. He also said WHEN you fast....etc,etc,etc. I am being lead by the spirit to fast. I don't know why but i know i am being led. Are there any other believers that feel the same. ;D
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Yes, I fast.
At meal times I'm always the first in line to stuff my face. So I'm pretty fast.
dch1:
NOW THAT IS SO FUNNY!!!!!!!tHAT DESERVES 100 LOL'S
dch1:
THANKS SKYDREAMERS MAYBE YOU ARE RIGHT. I have got to really fall on my face and seek jesus.
rjsurfs:
To build upon what Kat stated:
--- Quote ---But as with anything that we do we have to make sure we do not think it is of ourself that any good thing is accomplished.
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Fasting (in regards to food) is a physical act... and I would caution anyone fasting in this way looking for physical results. There are no magic formulas, dances, or physical acts that will give us more of God's love, faith, prosperity, etc... to believe that a physical act can manipulate God to act or not act brings pride and vanity into our lives.
I was drawn to the conclusion of Ray's Tithing paper today while thinking of fasting... I see many similarities to the giving of power to tithing, baptism, communion, other religious ceremonies, etc...
Turn to Gal. 6:14-16:
"Now may it not be mine to be boasting, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but a NEW CREATION. And whoever shall observe the elements by this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, also on the Israel of God."
What is "...this rule...?" We are no longer doing things according to the flesh. Circumcision was the single most important ritual for a man in Israel to do. Yet circumcision is physical (of the letter and of the flesh), even water baptism is physical (of the letter and of the flesh), sacrificing animals is physical (of the letter and of the flesh), tithing is physical (of the letter and of the flesh), etc., etc., etc.
"...God, Who also makes us competent dispensers of a NEW covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter is killing, yet the spirit is vivifying [giving life]" (II Cor. 3:6).
The physical is but a tiny microcosm of the spiritual macrocosm. Cutting a few centimeters of skin from a boy’s penis does not make him a spiritual man! But all of these rituals and ceremonies of the Old Covenant pointed to a future SPIRITUAL reality. True circumcision is not of the flesh, but of the heart, mind, soul, and spirit—it virtually has nothing to do with a few centimeters of physical skin.
"For not that which is apparent is the Jew, nor yet that which is apparent in flesh is circumcision; but that which is hidden IS the Jew, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose applause is not of men, but of God" (Rom. 2:29).
Jesus Christ is not interested in the letter, in the physical, in the flesh.
"Now those who are in the flesh are not able to please God" (Rom. 8:8 ).
Even baptism is of the heart. The thief on the cross was not baptized in water, yet Jesus said he would be with Him when He comes in His kingdom. "...whoever are baptized into Christ Jesus, are baptized into His DEATH" "His death," not water.
"We, then, were entombed together with Him through baptism into death, that, even as Christ was roused from among the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we also should be walking in newness of life" (Rom. 6:3-4).
It’s all about the SPIRIT--not water, foreskins, and money!
God doesn’t need or want ten percent of anything we have. God wants one hundred percent. Christ died for ALL OF YOU, and He wants ALL OF YOU, not just a percentage! God doesn’t want your money; He wants YOU!
You are already bought and paid for in full by Christ Jesus -- don’t try to add your two cents. We are now to live on a standard far above what we ever knew before Christ called us to become new creatures in the spirit. This can only be done through the power of God’s spirit. Our flesh is profiting NOTHING.
"Yet you are not in flesh, but IN SPIRIT, if so be that God’s spirit is making its home in you" (Rom. 8:9).
One living in the spirit is not all concerned about physical things of the letter and of the flesh. The apostle Paul wasn’t called to "baptize," "circumcise," or "collect tithes." The kingdom of God is not food and drink. Paul’s whole ministry was proof of that--see my paper, "Paul’s Splinter in the Flesh."
If people feel they need to give something to God, something physical, something they can see and feel good about, then try this:
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove that is that good and acceptable and perfect, will of God" (Rom. 12:1-2).
Bobby
Grateful:
Dear Musicman,
You fast?? AH HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!! ;D ;D I FASTER!! Tee hee!
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