Stormie Omartian tells us a way to change our thinking about sickness and disease. She says, "To take the mystery out of being sick, think of disease as another way of saying 'out of balance.' Whenever you feel yourself getting sick, try to figure out where you got out of balance."* When you are out of balance there is a crisis going on in your body somewhere.
When we fast we fast for physical and/or spiritual reasons and the effects of fasting are life-giving in both areas of our lives. There is another change to make in our thinking and that is about fasting. We should not think of fasting as a torture. Why? Because when we think that we we won't see fasting as bringing a better quality to our lives both physically and spiritually.
Fasting first began in observance of a holy day; however, it is now used by doctors and in hospitals and others because of the physical change people saw/found in the discipline of fasting. Biblically Jesus said "when" you fast not "if" you fast when He talked about fasting in the Bible. He taught fasting as a discipline. Fasting is God-designed to bring us into a greater knowledge and awareness of Him. Fasting is spiritually right and something we need both spiritually and physically for our bodies to have greater life and health.
It's time to stop letting our flesh rule over us and let God lead us into a better plan - the plan He has for us. It begins with a spiritually and physically fit body and physically fit self! So, what are you waiting for? Why do you and I hesitate to fast? Mostly out of ignorance along with great fear. Fear of what? Fear of the torture, right? But we are not going to think that way any more. We are going to look at the crisis our physical body is in (and for some of us our spiritual body is in) and learn to put fasting into our lives. We are going to learn to be disciplined in this area so that we live a lifestyle of complete health! No more sickness. No more disease. No more out of balance!
Here's to your health!
*Greater Health God's Way, Stormie Omartian, pg. 72
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