January 14, 2021
The Miracle Power of Fasting
Beloved one fasting has been around for thousands of years. In challenging situations such as the enemy coming against God’s people in Esther’s day, Jehoshaphat’s day, David, Moses, Daniel, Jesus, and so many others fasted and prayed and got their breakthrough. God heard and delivered them all. Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before He began His ministry on earth. Fasting is still for today. Let’s look at some benefits of fasting for your health’s sake. Your body enters fasting mode around eight hours after your last meal. For energy, your body will use up the glucose stored in your liver and muscles. When glucose runs out your body starts burning up fat for energy. The use of fat for energy aids weight loss and reduces your cholesterol levels in the long run. Weight loss results in better control of diabetes. After a few days of a fast, higher levels of hormones appear in the blood of alertness and an overall feeling of general mental wellbeing appears.
Interesting facts, the Greek physician, Hippocrates, wrote, “to eat when you are sick, is to feed your illness.” Dr. Arnold Ehret, a nineteenth-century German health educator, also believed in the miraculous powers of fasting. In his book, Rational Fasting, he called fasting “nature’s operating table”, and believed that when left alone, our body’s intelligence would heal itself. The problem is we don’t live a fasted life. Americans are addicted to food. The ancient Greeks believed that medical treatment could be observed from nature, and one of the greatest observations of nature is when animals become sick. They cease eating and retreat away from the world, giving their bodies vital rest and time to rejuvenate themselves.
Are you aware fasting will:
1. Balance insulin levels, lower blood sugar levels, and control glucose.
2. Increase human growth hormone levels
3. Resets Microbiome and resets your DNA
4. In fasting, there is a rise in stem cells – stem cell regeneration of new immune cells.
5. Heals old injuries, and has anti-aging effects
6. Causes the body to always eat bad cells first, and the body to naturally remove cellular debris
7. Influences positive changes in gene expression
8. Gives you more energy, a better attitude, and better resistance to dis-ease.
9. Give you the energy that is diverted from digesting and assimilating food
10. This down-regulates inflammation and oxidates stress.
11. Lowers your triglycerides and prevents Alzheimer’s
12. Reduces risk of chronic diseases and obesity,
13. Gives you better brain health
14. Reduces inflammation, reduces blood pressure, and heart rate
15. Controls diabetes, gives you better sleep
16. Fasting detoxes your body of toxins
17. There is a rise in Ketones and Ketones burn fat cells for energy
18. Ketones heal the brain, gut, and turn off bad genes, and power up good ones.
19. Clears your skin and improves sensitivity to your senses.
20. Fasting aides in drug/alcohol detoxification and changing habits
21. Inspires giving you greater clarity, increases your creativity, and helps you to relax, rejuvenate, and revitalize.
22. Fasting rests your digestive organs
23. Reduces allergies, purification throughout your body, and you will lose weight
24. Fasting will increase your spiritual awareness and deliver you from your present situation.
25.A 3-day fast resets your immune system
The above list is not conclusive of all the benefits of fasting.
Scientists have proven to fast, and pray benefits our bodies. Several years ago, prior to my dad’s passing, he had a lengthy stay in the hospital. Two months of not eating right and not getting enough good sleep got the best of me! When I returned home from the funeral I was in severe pain in my left side. The Holy Spirit spoke to me while driving back to Dallas and said, ‘go on a liquid fast for 6 weeks and I will heal you! He also said, ‘if you go to the hospital, they will put you on a liquid fast and do tests, so why can’t you put yourself on one!’ I said, ‘yes Sir!’ I can do that! I obeyed! In six weeks, I was completely healed and have not had a problem since. There is miracle power in fasting!
I know I am sharing this for someone. I got a recipe for old-fashioned bone broth, (my preference is chicken) and made it. It’s so easy! That’s how people were treated when they were ill a hundred years ago. I drink a ½ cup every morning and a ½ cup every night. I have done this now for seven years. I also mix a drink consisting of 1 fresh squeezed lemon juice, ¼ tsp Saigon cinnamon, (cinnamon is an anti-depressant) 1 ½ to 2 tsp of raw unfiltered honey, and 2-3 tbsp of Bragg’s apple cider vinegar, and fill the shaker with water, shake it up and drink it. The benefits of this drink are too numerous to mention. This was my regimen for six weeks. Not only did all the pain leave my body, I felt the best I had been in years. All the toxins and acids were cleansed from my body. To this day I have not had an issue. Why not take matters into your own hands and do what’s necessary for you to live a healthy life? Whatever you do get to fasting! It will change your life.
I challenge you to live a fasted life this year and watch what God will do for you. What does a Fasted Life mean? Fast from sundown to sundown as the Jewish people do. They eat just before sundown and do not eat until sundown the following day. There is miracle power in fasting!
