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QUESTION: Can you throw more light on fasting?ANSWER: Understanding Fasting — Old Testament vs New TestamentFasting is a...
26/12/2025

QUESTION: Can you throw more light on fasting?

ANSWER: Understanding Fasting — Old Testament vs New Testament

Fasting is a practice that spans the entire Scripture. However, it is important to understand that fasting in the Old Testament is not the same as fasting in the New Testament. Let’s carefully make this distinction.
1. Fasting in the Old Testament

In the Old Testament, people fasted mainly for the following reasons:

a) To seek God’s face

They fasted because they believed God was distant and needed to be persuaded to act.
“I sought the Lord by prayer and supplications, with fasting…” — Daniel 9:3

b) To seek forgiveness of sins

This often involved outward signs of sorrow like sackcloth, ashes, and tearing of clothes.
“Yet even now, says the Lord, turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping…” — Joel 2:12
c) When they felt cursed or spiritually cut off

They believed fasting could reopen the heavens.
“If My people… shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face…” — 2 Chronicles 7:14
(This reflected the prophetic understanding under the Law, not New Testament reality.)

d) To seek intervention in war or national crises

“So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.” — Ezra 8:23

e) To obtain material needs or solutions

They fasted to move God to act on their behalf.

2. Moses, Elijah, and Jesus — The 40-Day Fast
Moses fasted while receiving the Law (Exodus 34:28).

Elijah fasted while fleeing and seeking direction (1 Kings 19:8).
However, Jesus’ 40-day fast was different.

“And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost… was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.” — Luke 4:1–2

Jesus did not fast:
To seek forgiveness
To remove curses
To beg God for power
Rather, He fasted as a time of consecration, prayer, and fellowship in preparation for His earthly assignment.

3. Fasting After Pentecost — New Testament Fasting

After Pentecost, the Church entered a new covenant reality.

What we no longer fast for:

To seek God’s face
“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” — Colossians 1:27

❌ For forgiveness of sins
“In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” — Ephesians 1:7

❌ To break curses
“Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.” — Galatians 3:13

❌ To get things from God
“He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.” —
Ephesians 1:3
“All things that pertain to life and godliness.” — 2 Peter 1:3

4. So Why Do We Fast in the New Testament?

a) For spiritual focus and discipline

“But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection…” — 1 Corinthians 9:27

b) To give attention to prayer and the Word

“As they ministered to the Lord and fasted…” — Acts 13:2

c) For clarity, direction, and sensitivity to the Spirit

“Then after fasting and praying, they laid hands on them and sent them off.” — Acts 13:3

d) As an act of devotion, not obligation

“When you fast…” — Matthew 6:16
(Jesus did not command fasting but acknowledged it as a voluntary spiritual exercise.)

Conclusion
New Testament fasting is not a tool to twist God’s arm or earn spiritual approval.
It is a voluntary act of devotion, helping the believer:
-Stay spiritually alert
-Give focused attention to prayer and the Word
-Align with God’s purpose and direction

We fast not to get God to come down, but because God already lives in us.

“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.” — Romans 14:17

© Dr. Abel Damina

MAKE JESUS THE CENTRE FOCUS OF ALL YOU DOLife is meaningless until Jesus becomes the centre focus of all you do.Everythi...
12/12/2025

MAKE JESUS THE CENTRE FOCUS OF ALL YOU DO

Life is meaningless until Jesus becomes the centre focus of all you do.
Everything else is noise. Everything else is motion without direction. You can accumulate achievements, gather applause, and chase after every good thing—but without Christ at the center, it all collapses into emptiness.

Solomon understood this deeply. After tasting wealth, wisdom, power, and pleasure, he summed up the entire experience in one haunting sentence:
“Vanity of vanities… all is vanity” (Ecclesiastes 1:2 KJV).
Why? Because life outside Christ lacks true substance. It has activity, but no anchor. Beauty, but no backbone. Motion, but no meaning.

But the moment Jesus becomes your focus, suddenly everything aligns.
He becomes your true North—the one who gives direction, clarity, and purpose.

Paul captured this beautifully when he said,
“For to me, to live is Christ” (Philippians 1:21).
Not career.
Not comfort.
Not applause.
Christ.

When Jesus becomes the center, your work stops being survival and becomes service.
Your struggles stop being random and become refining.
Your victories stop being ego-driven and become testimonies.

Jesus Himself said,
“I am the vine; you are the branches… apart from Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5)
This is why life feels heavy when Christ is distant.
This is why confusion grows when He is not the focus.
Branches without the Vine can look alive for a moment, but they eventually wither.
But connected to Him—rooted in Him—you bear fruit that lasts.

And when He becomes the centre, your entire life transforms into worship.
Your decisions, desires, relationships, ambitions—everything starts to reflect Him.

Scripture reminds us:
“In Him we live, and move, and have our being.” (Acts 17:28)
Meaning is not found outside Christ.
Purpose is not discovered apart from Him.
The true essence of life only emerges when He becomes the heartbeat of everything you do.

So let this be your prayer today:
“Lord Jesus, sit at the centre of my life.
Become my focus, my reason, my strength, and my meaning.”

Because the truth remains unshakable:
Life is meaningless until Jesus becomes the centre of all you do—
but when He does, life becomes beautiful, purposeful, and eternally significant.


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The holy spirit is
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JESUS IS ALIVE.

16/12/2023

AS HE IS, SO ARE WE (1)

The word of God is a reality. The word of God is not a set of facts that need to be proven.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Vs 2 The same was in the beginning with God.

That is instructive.

The use of the phrase, “In the beginning” already confers a personality to the Word. You use the pronoun 'Him' for a person.

John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Vs 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
Vs 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

His own in the above text refers to Israel.

John 1:14 ...The word became flesh and dwelt among us.

The word actually came to this world. He became a human being. The word of God is a reality. The word of God is not words. If I tell you that I will give you $1000, those are things that I said to you. The word of God is a person. He has a name, he is a living person. The word of God is not the bible. The bible reveals the word of God.

The word of God is a living being.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The Living Bible translates it as ‘The word of God is a living being.’

Quick means living being. it was translated from a word that means alive.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Vs 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Hence, the word is Jesus who is passed into the heavens. The word of God it’s Jesus, the son of God.

The word of God is a living reality. You must never consider the word of God like the words of men.

Hebrews 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Vs 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Vs 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

The word of God is a living person. Anytime you read this, you are having an encounter with a real person.

The written word reveals the living word to us.

'Spoken in His son'. The word of God is a living person. The written word reveals the living word to us. I am in contact with a person when I am in contact with my bible.

There are some things about me that are incontrovertible. I am a human being. I don’t have to believe that I am a human being. I am a man. Those are realities about me. I have one nose, two nostrils, two ears. Those are realities about me. For instance, when I am asked to fill a form with my name. I don’t pray about it. I just write it down.

When asked whether I am male or female, I simply fill it out. I don’t have to prove it to anybody because they are real to me.
In the same breath, In Christ Realities are things that ought to be real to us. If they are real to God, they ought to be real to the believer.

2nd Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Therefore means ‘because of this’. That means we need to read the previous verse.

2nd Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Vs 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The word, ‘behold’ is an instruction. It means to look at it and pay attention. That is these are things that you ought to see. That means that if you don't see it, you may not know you have it.

How can you see it?

We see it in the word. Why? Because it says if any man be in Christ. Christ is the living word. Christ Jesus.

CONFESSION: I acknowledge that the word of God is a person; the person of Jesus Christ and I heed the instructions to behold him in the scriptures.

AMEN.

16/12/2023

If you haven't met THE WORD OF GOD, you haven't met God.

Selah!

03/02/2023

You don't need religion that makes you think you are perfect,You need Jesus who knows your mistakes and yet still loves you.

JESUS IS ENOUGH!

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