Episode 12: Spiritual Disciplines - Fasting

Spiritual disciplines - when directed by God’s word - help us to form our body, mind, and heart to be more like Jesus. The disciplines aren’t our salvation, but a demonstration of our pursuit of placing God and our relationship with him as our priority. Spiritual discipline signals a willingness to bend our desires toward God’s desires and a trust that his ways are better than our own. Today we are talking about the spiritual discipline of fasting - one of the least valued and most misunderstood practices here in western Christian culture. So let’s address those misconceptions using scripture to shape our thoughts and applications of fasting - from what examples we see in the Bible, when fasting is employed, and what it does to form us as spiritual bodies.