Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

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All right, so I'm pretty excited to share with you today the idea of intermittent e-fasting.

And it is exactly what it sounds like. Period periodic, ever-increasing stretches of time

away from electronic devices. I've been working on this the last several days. It has had an

immediate and very beneficial impact on a lot of things, on my marriage, on my work ethic, on my prayer

life, on the time that I need to just think, and I hope that you'll find it beneficial as well.

There's a strategy involved in this, so I'm not just going to tell you to go out and figure out what intermittent is all about and plug it into your cell phone usage.

I really want you to see the strategy by which it all comes together.

So that's what we'll be talking about today.

This is, in some senses, a follow-up to an episode we did recently. Back on May the 27th, episode

37 was called the 30-day fast. So let me briefly reintroduce some ideas from that, and then

today's concept jumps off of it. We talked about how biblically speaking there is a lot of fasting in

scripture. But outside of one particular case, perhaps, under the law of Moses, it was not a

command for all of God's people. It was an optional pursuit that an individual could engage in

when they needed to focus on more important things.

They fasted in the sense that they gave up something normal.

It's not that they gave up something sinful.

You should have given up all of that already.

They took something normal, maybe even needful,

and for a period of time they set it aside.

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