(Amy;14711)
Dear All,I need your help to find out biblical references on how to fast i.e. any specific time of the day that one can start the fast / how long and when to open, is it allowed to drink during fast etc.? All in all how do we fast?Much appreciated and bless you all !-amy
(This is a copy of a response that was given previously to a question about fasting(with some editing)...hope this helps!)There is ONLY ONE way to fast is by not Eating Nor Drinking whatsoever.The length of time can vary, however. Jesus fasted 40 days and nights. Moses did not Eat Nor Drink when he was up in/on the Mount getting the "commandments:" from God. To win battles in the OT, some people fasted for half-a-day ant etc.Remember the Queen Esther???She said this:Esther 4:16 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. *****SO, The truth is that there are many different kinds of "inventions" that mankind (flesh) have "come up with", with respect to fasting, that ARE NOT "biblically-based!" All that this is doing is "giving occasion" to the flesh (letting the Flesh RULE/take control), which is the exact "opposite" of one of the most important "principles" of Living for God....which is the principle of "crucifying the flesh!!!!" And BOY, that flesh just loooooovvvvvvees to EAT/DRINK (BE FED):naughty: !Example: What people commonly refer to as the "DANIEL fast" is NOT REALLY a fast at all! It was a sort of "challenge", if you will, as well as DANIEL and The HEBREW boys "standing up for Holiness" (because they DID NOT want the KING's Meat/food (food which most likely was forbidden under Jewish customs):naughty: !So, in others Words....ALL these other "fasts" that people have invented are just "prime examples" of Satan's attempts at using mankind to manipulate/change the the "INCORRUPTIBLE" Word of God! ******There's ONLY One Kind, and that's the RIGHT KIND (No Food or DRink)!:bible: Instructions on How to Fast.Matthew 6:16-18 (KJV) says this:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. :bible: Jonah 3:5-17 says:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: With Love Arena