You Won't Starve. Trust me. :)

Fasting:Verb; Abstaining from all or some kinds of food or drink, esp. as a religious observance.

A wise leader in my life challenged me and many others to fast until November 25th. When indulgin in this, it doesn't really need to be food you fast from. I'm fasting from Facebook actually (but NOT from Blogger! :D). Call it "modernized" fasting, but it is still giving up something you partake in regularly to spend more time with the Lord.

And that's what fasting is in a nutshell. When we think of fasting, we usually think of how in the bible people regularly gave up food to spend more time with the Lord. (Think about it: food is pretty regular activity in our days.) My mom actually fasted 40 days from ALL meals when she was in college (what a great way to lose weight! hah.)

But those things-- food, facebook, whatever you partake in regularly; are material. Would you believe that God wants us to fast from others things besides the physical? Fast from certain habits that cause you to fall short or to sin. Fast from bad influences. Fast from judgmental thoughts or negative thinking. Fast from closed-mindedness. Fast from thinking that you are always right and everyone else is always wrong.

But here's the catch: with this kind of fasting, our goals are to fast for the rest of our lives.

It won't be easy. It wasn't easy for my mom to fast for 40 whole days, imagine how it might be breaking away from certain habits, negative thinking, etc. But it can happen, and will happen, if you open your heart up to Christ and let Him come through for you. If you let love come in you and out of you, when it comes out of you it will take all of those habits with you.

You are loved, more than you will ever know. My date to end my fast is November 25th. But for alot of us, our fasting days are until the days we die. Until then, happy fasting.