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Let's dive into this episode. So what to do if you quit your fast instead of finishing it?

Or when is it okay to quit fasting? Help me, I stop my fast too short. So it's very common where people start the fast

with a determined mind to go for three days, five days, whatever the amount, 21 days, for example.

And then a lot of times, sometime in the middle, they stop.

Some people, they quit. Other people, they stop and they restart it later. So today I'm

going to be dealing with this. When is it okay to stop fasting? Situations where it would be

probably encouraged to stop fasting.

When is it just the flesh speaking, it's actually not legitimate excuse to stop fasting?

And then I'm going to share with you some practical things on what to do if you have fallen short or fallen off the fast that you intended to do and some practical things to do.

Now first of all let's define fasting again. Fasting is a spiritual practice of abstaining

from food to focus on God. So the purpose of fasting of course is to seek God. It is to

humble yourself. It is align yourself with God's will, it is not about rigid

rules. The heart and intention behind fasting matters more than the length and the method.

When Jesus rebuked Pharisees for fasting, or you see the rebuke of Prophet Isaiah to people that fasted in Isaiah.

You don't see a focus on people finishing the fast early or maybe eating something that they should have not ate.

The focus of God wasn't about that.

It was about the posture of the heart. So we need to kind of come back to the biblical

perspective of the fast because we can take the fast out of context and make a big deal, making a bigger deal than the Bible makes it.

The same thing as the Pharisees did with tithing, and Jesus kind of said,

hey, there are way more important things. Tithing is important, but there are way more important things.

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