Sisters of Virtue

Fasting

When I think of fasting I think of letting go of food for a scheduled amount of hours. Christians do this mostly to get closer to God; it is a type of worship or prayer.I never thought that fasting could be more than just a food fast. In fact there are many types of different fasts. They can range from fasting from a cell phone to fasting from anything and everything that takes your focus off of the Lord. Fasting is made to take your attention away from yourself and the distracting things around you, as a result, full meditation with God.

Fasting is a form of prayer because when most people fast they fast because they are looking for an answer and a longing that God would answer prayer since they are offering something as a sacrifice to Him so that through Him we can be filled and nourished. When people fast they say that they feel a closeness to God,I believe that is because during this moment you are ignoring sin and surrendering yourself fully to Him all your attention that was once on yourself should now be on Him, as you trust Him to provide for you as you are in a moment of weakness. The bible tells us “For your trouble is that your sin has cut you off from God” but maybe through fasting we become full of Him and not necessarily cut off in a short moment?  

Many different things may lead a person to fast. And some might say that they got nothing out of it. That is because there heart is not right or maybe that there focus was not on God but instead on the thought that they are lacking the very thing they are fasting from. But If there happens to be an impact on someone, maybe an answered prayer;I believe there was an impact because that person had faith and focus.If you have an open mind and an opened heart to God, He will have all of Him open to you too.