Isaiah 58 teaches, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high” (vv 1­4, KJV). What we consume in God’s Word we are accountable for. Press in to God’s Spirit by crucifying your flesh in fasting, a wonderful path forward to breakthrough and change. Invest a few of your minutes with your Charisma Podcast Network hosts Andrea and Ann Marie and the Fruit of the Vine podcast as they continue their discussion on fasting.

 We must speak life—turn from negative thoughts and dead-end words about yourself. Rest in the finished work of Christ believing in the hope and confident assurance purchased for us through the blood of Jesus on the cross. Fasting is our God-given way of peeling away the world’s distractions and leaving the battle to our Lord. That is because that battle already belongs to Him. The glory is the Lord’s. His victory is our victory when we seek His plan in the form of fasting.