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Transcript 013C — Fasting
CALLER: How does one fast?
HC: In the Bible there is no suggestion whatsoever as to how we fast. In the days of Nineveh, if you read Jonah 3, they fasted by not eating food or drinking water, and sitting in sackcloth and ashes, that is, to indicate total mourning for their sins. But nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to fast, and nowhere is there given any kind of description for fasting. If we want to fast, it's our personal privilege so to do, but it has to be something that's entirely between us and God.
And when I hear someone say, "Well, I fasted three days, or forty days," or whatever, I think, "Well, you've gotten whatever blessing there was in that the moment that you said that. Someone might have thought you were a pretty holy person, but that's about all it's worth."