Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

1 Peter 2:2

Fasting involves  lot of  patience as the flesh is subject to hunger when deprived of food The purpose of physical fasting is killing the desires of the flesh and bringing  it  in to subjection. To prepare for ministry, Jesus spent 40 days and nights in the wilderness fasting and praying before He began God’s work on this earth.  (Matthew 4:1-17). Many other Biblical characters fasted like Daniel,Moses,Esther,David ,Ezra etc..   

               There is  another type of fasting which is very harmful for a spiritual person. That can be termed as ‘spiritual fasting’. While teaching His disciples to pray, Lord Jesus said, in the Lord’s prayer.

He was referring to our spiritual food besides our physical  food. In the old testament, God fed the people with manna from heaven. Even today He is feeding us with manna in the form of Word of God

     our body comprises three things—body, soul and spirit. Just as our body needs food, our spirit also needs to be fed with the statutes and commandments from the Bible. A spiritual man delights in the Word of God just as a person of this world would relish a tasty delicacy.

        “O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man  that trusted in Him”.

Psalms 34:8

The true man of God hungers for his spirit to be fed by the Word of God by  reading the Bible, prayers, meditation and worship. He has to struggle to escape from the people of the world .That is why Lord Jesus also prayed for his true followers

John 17:9-11

“I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given me  ^……..

 Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You.”

        Psalms34:15 says,” The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous ……….Their cry”.

That is why in the Beatitudes  Lord Jesus clearly  said “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled”.

Testimony

I am a house wife and inspite of all my household works I always have the hunger and thirst to spent time with  God, reading the word, writing  revelations from God, praying and doing Lord’s ministry. Now I have a desire to be trained by holy Spirit to take me to a higher level of glory.

Prayer

         Heavenly Father, help us to focus on our eternal  life and be filled with  your presence while accomplishing our  earthly duties. Lord help us to obey your commandments. In Jesus name we pray.

Amen

Sol.  Neelam