Welcome to Vlad's Subject podcast.

Our mission at Vladimir Subject Ministries is to reach the world globally and disciple them digitally.

Let's dive into this episode. So I want to welcome you to this 21 day of prayer and

fasting. I do believe that a fasting is one of those habits that can radically transform your

spiritual life. Now let's define fasting just for those

maybe who are new to this or beginners or this is fasting is voluntarily abstaining from food

for spiritual reasons. That pretty much answers most of the common questions about fasting.

Can I drink juices? Well, technically, it's abstaining

from food, but it's highly recommended that if you go on a fast, that you take it very seriously.

And the best way to do that for best physical benefits and for the best spiritual benefits

is to keep your fasting just with water.

The moment you start adding coffee, tea, and the moment you start adding juices and smoothies and all of the other stuff,

while some people say, if it goes through the straw, it's, some people say, if it goes through the straw,

it's under the law, or if it goes through the straw, it's not under the law. And so I think that

we have to be serious in what we're doing with fasting. Our goal is not to minimize the self-discipline

or minimize the pain that's involved with it, but to focus more on the spiritual purposes.

Now, fasting, while it has amazing detoxing blessings to your body, its main purpose is not a detox.

Its main purpose is a spiritual reset. Let me say that again. Somebody

dropped this in the chat. It's while fasting has amazing health benefits, its main purpose,

biblical fasting is for a spiritual reset. Yes, it can have a detoxing benefit to your body, but its purpose is not to detox you. Its purpose is to reset you.

Now spiritually it can detox you from a lot of unhealthy things that maybe you've gotten custom to and used to. And so biblical fasting really emphasizes your connection to God.

It is a form of self-discipline.

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