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    The crucifixion of the flesh.

    Phil 3:7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
    12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

    It's related to the fellowship of His sufferings. He did fast from food for forty days before his ministry began but that hardly qualifies as the bulk of his sufferings. We are however called to take up and carry our cross and follow him, thereby parttaking in his shame and humiliation as he walked to Calvary. Our lives, when lived in Him before the world, qualify as crucifying the flesh and parttaking in his sufferings, and therefore as a form of fasting.

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    2 Cor 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
    7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you.

    This one is pretty deep and is related to Phil 3. It doesn't have to be taken in the most literal meaning where God's servants face and escape physical death all the time. It can mean forsaking the honor and glory and fellowship that this world welcomes one to for the sake of having the life of Christ live through one instead. Dead to the world, alive to God in Christ. The deepest possible form of fasting.

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    I do not do 'fasts' per se. However sort of like Kenneth Copeland said..I live a fasted life..I have days, like yesterday when I was so in the word from the moment I woke that it was 2PM before I even realized I had not eaten...I ate a mushroom while preparing dinner...

    But since retired I often find I just forget to eat...It's not that I decide not to eat, it is that I do something I prefer over eating....if I decide not to eat I feel like I am starving...

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    Living life as if one belongs to Christ by purchase is a continual fast.

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    Two days is the longest. Tried to go three, and almost made it, but by the end of the third day, I needed food.

    I find I'm more successful Fasting a couple of meals a day and other pleasures than going more than 3 days without food.

    Doing a mini Fast for Lent. No sugar whatsoever, no social media from 6am to 6pm, and a few other pleasures (things that save me money).
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    Of course there's always the Daniel fast, for those that like to eat when they fast.

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    Fasting is a good reminder to tell your body who's the boss.

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    I have gone many days doing a "one meal fast" on a number of occasions (can't remember exact numbers though). The most I ever did a total "no food" fast is three days.

    For the most part we as a church try to do a fast from morning to 4pm once a week.

    I may do complete fasts when I am seeking direction or if I am going to preach somewhere and I want God to move with signs and wonders. Fasting is definitely a catalyst for supernatural power in ministry.
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    2 Cor 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
    7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.

    The same scripture again. It reminds me of Paul and Barnabas' conduct here :

    Acts 14:8 And in Lystra a certain man without strength in his feet was sitting, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who had never walked. 9 This man heard Paul speaking. Paul, observing him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed, 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand up straight on your feet!” And he leaped and walked. 11 Now when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices, saying in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!” 12 And Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker. 13 Then the priest of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, intending to sacrifice with the multitudes.
    14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out 15 and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them

    One thing is for sure, that was real. They really believed in and worshipped Zeus and Hermes and really believed (for the moment at least) that the apostles were those gods. So how did they manage to convince them otherwise ? I think the answer is found in the depth of 2 Cor 4:6-7.

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    I do 'intermittent fasting' a time or two a week but that isn't a true no food fast because I can have up to 400 low carb calories. However I do do a true one day no food fast a few times a year...actually it would be a 36 hour fast since you stop eating at night, skip a whole day and then break the fast the next day.

    Much respect to those who have fasted for a few days and especially to those who did it for a few weeks...does it get easier the more you get into it, how do you feel physically during it?

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