21 Days of Fasting & Prayer: Day 6

^{Right Fasting: Getting Right!}

^{Isaiah 58:3-5}

³Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and You don’t pay attention? Why have we afflicted our soul, and You take no knowledge?

  Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors. ⁴Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high

             Is this such the fast that I choose,

              a day for a person to humble himself?

            Is it to bow down his head like a reed,

             and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?

              Will you call this a fast,

              and a day acceptable to the Lord?

             

God did not accept their fast because they were fasting not to discover God’s will but to get God to do what they wanted!  They were using fasting as a weapon against others, and were mad at God because He was not responding as they wanted. 

Right fasting is about change-not change in God, but change in us!  During your fast the Holy Spirit will point out areas that hinder our walk, and impede our right future! 

We do not fast to get our will-we fast to get His will!

              What is the Holy Spirit pointing out-speaking to you about?  The Holy Spirit does not use condemnation-deep sense of dread or guilt.  He convicts-points out specifically the area He wants to help you overcome.

              Write down what the Holy Spirit is dealing with you.  Talk to the Holy Spirit and describe the issue and acknowledge you are ready to face and deal with it. Tell Him you cannot overcome it on your own, you must have His strength!  Commit your way to Him, accepting He has heard and answered!