these is to allow ourselves to experience those feelings and thoughts we mask with food intake, e.g. angers, resentments, jealousies, etc.
A second subsidiary reason to fast is that it reminds us in a direct way that it is God and not food that sustains us. Further, fasting is said to help Christians keep a perspective in terms of their spiritual and body desires. Without it, there can be a tendency to feel captive to our bodily cravings and desires.
Finally, Foster states that there are definite steps that can and should be taken in learning to fast. These are excellent suggestions allowing a person to start slow and, over time, slowly build up to the capacity of fasting for a period of three to seven days.
One of the primary pathways to the renewal of the mind talked about by Paul is, according to Foster, the discipline of study. Foster states that what the mind focuses on, in repeated fashion, it conforms to; therefore, one of main
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