Fasting For Your Marriage - The How To and Benefits

Fasting For Your Marriage -"The How To and Benefits"

How can fasting benefit your marriage?

The dictionary defines fasting as "abstaining from all or part of the food or drink, especially as religious observance".

I get a lot of heavy questions and a few times talking to women, I proposed fasting as a way to solve the dilemmas of a difficult marriage.

*oday I want to dive into the details of fasting for your marriage, so I have a spot on the blog to send wives to.

Also, you may be unfamiliar with fasting, and I hope to encourage you to incorporate it into your marriage. And of course, we can all use fresh encouragement in this area.

Biblical Fasting

The fasting we are going to talk about today is Biblical fasting. Not fasting for medical or health purposes.

In Biblical fasting, you do not need your body So prayer is vital. (My pastor used to say fasting with prayer is simply going on a hunger walk!)

I believe that there is depth in our relationship with God, and this is our relationship with our husbands.

I know that's a huge statement. But prayer and fasting do connect to a jurisdiction and power beyond the natural.

I also believe anyone who is willing can fast. If you can not go fast food, you can fast things else, like entertainment or social media. There's always a way when you put your heart to it.

I believe couples would have more to over, addiction, and hounding clothes if they took time to quieten their flesh through fasting and prayer.

Those pesky things that we would have defeated if we made the practice of depriving our body more of a constant.

Indeed, God wants us to enjoy His freedom and blessing.

But that depth is not a part of the depths of the past, but it is still a vibrant, rest-filled, sweet, glorious-bursted-through-the-seams bond with God .

That's why we want our earthly its appetites, why we need our spiritual person to be empowered. It's so God can become more and less.

Examples of Fasting in the Bible

Jesus

"Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. "Matthew 4: 1-2

Jesus fasted from food before he began his public ministry on earth.

Daniel

When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three whole weeks. All that time I had eaten no rich food. No meat or wine crossed my lips, and I used no fragrant lotions Daniel 10: 1-3

Daniel fasted for a few weeks after receiving a disturbing vision of the future. Verse 12 gives us specifics as to why Daniel fasted; "To pray for understanding and to humble himself before your God."

New Testament instruction

"And when you fast, do not make it obvious, do the hypocrites do, for they try to look miserable and disheveled so people will admire them for their fasting. I tell you the truth, that is the only reward they will ever get