The Fast God has Chosen

"Is this not this the kind of fasting I have chosen...to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter?" - Isaiah 58

Fasting is much more than just not eating food, it is a lifestyle of laying down our life, needs, wants, etc, of deliberately entering into weakness that the power of God may rest on us.

We are used to pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps and trying to never be broken again. However, the truth of the matter is that in our natural selves we are poor, empty, weak and wanting.

We forget that our natural brokenness is the place of the greatest power of God within us. Fasting reminds us we minster through our poverty, yet not stopping there but going all the way to His fullness. This is the resurrection power and life that raises the dead! Our own strength can't do that.

Through grace our hearts learn this as we walk among the poor, not over them, allowing their struggles to be a mirror of our own. That way we gain brothers and sisters rather than "projects." We go to the Father together, equally in need.

We fast with our lives, we intercede with our presence, and we cry the tears of the Father over the lost and broken souls in need of restoration, just like us.