Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be

five minutes well spent.

Happy Friday, friends, happy February 1st, and yay for our Friday 5.

We love these Friday lists.

So Monday, back when it was still January, by the way, we talked about fasting.

Something some of us have done and others haven't, and January can be sort of a popular month

for fasting, so maybe you're thinking that I'm late to the game. But my hope is in talking about it,

some of us who were not quite

ready back in January or are intimidated by the thought, will decide to try this practice

at some point because fasting is not a New Year's thing. It's a Bible thing. And I want to give

five helps for fasting today, for whenever we dive in. So if you want to know more in general

about fasting, what it is,

why we do it, all of that, go back and listen to Monday's show. But today, let's get into

some nuts and bolts helps for fasting. You ready?

Number one, have a plan. Whether we're fasting from food or some other thing, we need a plan for how this fast is going

to be accomplished and carried out.

What are the parameters going to be?

What are the things that we'll need to be aware of to watch out for that might derail that

commitment?

A lot of us, I think, want to do things, start out doing them, but we don't finish them or thrive in them because we don't have a good plan.

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