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14 Vacation from Swimsuits

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Special Thanks for This Episode:

Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, 1998

Elizabeth O’Conner, Search for Silence, 1971

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

Music used under Creative Commons. Something Elated by Broke For Free. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Something_EP/Broke_For_Free_-_Something_EP_-_05_Something_Elated

This Episode Show Notes

Episode 14 (22 in 2018)

Mentioned last week we were going to be continuing on with more potential benefits of fasting. Today we are going to cover five in an overview:

  1. Group fasts. Bond and empower. Way to show extra concern when there is nothing you can do to help the situation directly.
  2. Guidance
    1. Acts 13:2-3 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” 3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
    2. Acts 14:23 Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.
    3. Power
      1. Ester 4:16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
      2. Vacation from certain temptation
        1. Marina
        2. Insight
          1. Quote below

            2. Once a week for two years…

            “1. I felt it a great accomplishment to go a whole day without food. Congratulated myself on the fact that I found it so easy….

            1. Began to see that the above was hardly the goal of fasting. Was helped in this by beginning to feel hunger….
            2. Began to relate the food fast to other areas of my life where I was more compulsive…. I did not have to have a seat on the bus to be contented, or to be cool in the summer and warm when it was cold.

              3. 4.… Reflected more on Christ’s suffering and the suffering of those who are hungry and have hungry babies….  

              1. Six months after beginning the fast discipline, I began to see why a two-year period has been suggested. The experience changes along the way. Hunger on fast days became acute, and the temptation to eat stronger. For the first time I was using the day to find God’s will for my life. Began to think about what it meant to surrender one’s life.
              2. I now know that prayer and fasting must be intricately bound together. There is no other way, and yet that way is not yet combined in me.”

                3. (Quoted in Foster p. 58; from O’Conner, p. 103-104)

                All five of these things, group bonding, guidance, power, vacation from certain temptations, and insight are great. But don’t get so focused on them we forget to keep God as the center of our fast.

                This week’s challenge:

                Same duration (skip a dinner and lunch), but this time only water (no juice).

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