From the Bethel Church and Christianity Facebook page:
Lisa Bevere, an itinerant speaker at Bethel Church, says you can โfastโ from whatever you want. i.e. โFast magazinesโฆAmazon Primeโฆโ and โwhat may be a fast for you may not be a fast for someone else.โ
What Lisa (and many others fail to understand) is the word for โfast,โ (Heb: Tsowm; Grk: Nesteuo) in the original languages, literally means โnot to eat.โ
Also, we never see an example in the Bible of anyone fasting from anything other than food and always as a corollary.
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Fasting is not about โindulging God,โ as Lisa says. Fasting is an involuntary response to an outward influence and the Bible says fasting is always tied to mourning or some extreme situation/decision. One does not wake up and simply decide to fast; we do not fast to โget closer to Godโ or to โhear God better.โ
Biblical Fasting: https://www.gty.org/โฆ/sermons-library/2231/fasting-without-โฆ
Lisaโs Original Post:
If you canโt fast FOOD then FAST WHAT HOLDS YOU BACK! For those of you looking to start your 2020 with a fast, keep this in mind: fasting isnโt so much about denying yourself as it is about INDULGING GOD.
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To dive deeper into the topic of fasting, grab my FREE mini e-book FAST FORWARD at the link in my bio!
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