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We are again discussing why we should fast, only this time we are considering the subject from the scientific physical standpoint instead of the spiritual. Bear in mind that any person, saved or unsaved, can receive the secondary physical blessings of fasting, but only the consecrated child of God can receive the full spiritual blessings.

When we go into food abstention, we give the stomach a vacation and vacate into the Spirit. The tabernacle of the Holy Spirit then goes into house cleaning. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Nothing can clean up the house of the Holy Spirit more effectively and quickly than giving the stomach a holiday.If the physical benefits were all that were received, they would be worth fasting for, and people would live 25 to 35 years longer (according to some authorities). Many of God’s people are committing "Slow Suicide" by being continually on a three meal a day stuffing habit, not satisfied with stuffing God and faith out of their lives, but stuffing out their own life years ahead of time as well. They stuff health out and invite diseases and demons in. After wearing out one set of teeth digging themselves to the grave, many secure another set to finish digging with.

Food addiction or food drunkenness is as harmful to the temple of the Holy Ghost as other types of addiction. Please see Psalm 76 for proof of this.

We shall consider some of the physical reasons "Why to Fast"-believe it or not:

41. Fasting is the greatest curative agency known.

42. Fasting is the quickest curative agency known.

43. When you feed a diseased body you feed the disease; fasting starves the disease.

44. Fasting rids the body of practically all the unwanted poisonous filth of autointoxication.

45. Fasting purifies the blood stream.

46. Fasting improves the circulation. It even cleanses the blood vessels so that the blood circulates all through vessels that may have heretofore been clogged up. A blood transfusion comes automatically about.

47. Fasting rests the heart, improves health, and helps the body overcome heart troubles.

48. Fasting conserves energy. Sick people cannot got well unless there is a conservation of energy. Many times food will destroy or waste what little energy a sick individual has.

49. Fasting gives the overworked stomach a vacation as well as nearly all other parts of the body.

50. Fasting rapidly removes the cause of many diseases. Oftentimes the very disease itself is turned into food fuel for its own destruction, any value in it being utilized for nourishment.

51. Fasting will cure 99% of functional ailments.

52. Fasting quickly heals simple diseases such as boils, skin blemishes, indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation (although at first the fast seems to aggravate the condition), rheumatism, fever, anemia, asthma, change of life and irregular periodical functions in females, restoring to normal and healing other diseases. Major fasting will also cure most other major diseases caused by impurities in the system.

53. Fasting improves the mental faculties, making it easier to think, study, remember, and concentrate. (During some parts of the fast, this may not always be true).

54. Fasting eradicates mucous, stringy, ropy fecal material and floating food particles within the body.

55. After ten or fifteen days of fasting the individual usually becomes stronger, physically, day by day, after the initial cleansing of the body takes place.

56. The headache generally felt while fasting is a sure indication that you should fast.

57. Fasting will remove ordinary headaches and the coffee or caffeine headache, along with the overuse of coffee or any other abnormal habits.

58. Fasting will also eradicate tobacco, drug and drinking habits in as little time as three days, water only taken during the fast, with temperate eating habits after the fast. The roots of these habits are imbedded within the stomach. Fasting consumes these very roots, banishing addiction.

59. A person cannot starve while fasting. Only the things that are not needed within the body are used. Some of these are poisonous, contaminated, rotten food particles that have been on the walls of the stomach for months. Some doctors have said that dehydrated food and even worms were found impacted an the walls of the intestinal tract for more than 15 years. This very condition invites disease and demons, and with fasting they are starved out.

60. Fasting is the greatest natural youth restorer known. It also beautifies the complexion.

61. Regular fasting prolongs life from twenty to forty years, depending on how much and how properly the fasts are entered into.

62. Fasting will remove tumors as large as watermelons, also ulcers, cancer and goiters, and will revitalize the glands.

63. The weakness felt while fasting generally disappears after the worst poisons and pollutions are removed by the house cleaning process. (This weakness is caused by rubbish and poisons being stirred within the body).

64. Fasting, after two weeks, more or less, causes the breath that was so foul during the first of the fast to become clean and pure like that of a child.

65. Fasting removes bad tastes from the mouth.

66. Fasting will so purify the skin that often the complexion becomes rosy and like a young person’s.

67. The older a person becomes the more often he should fast, though shorter fasts should be taken. No one is too old to fast. In fact, the older one is, the less food is required. History and the Bible show us that the men and women who fasted the most lived the longest. Study the lives of Moses, Elijah, and Anna the prophetess. These individuals were likewise the most spiritual.

68. Fasting helps us to overcome many bad habits.

69. Fasting develops patience, aids temperance, and enables one to have proper spiritual growth as well as physical prosperity.

70. Fasting overcomes and aids in the prevention of disease.

71. Fasting draws the intestinal tract up and into its normal size and overcomes and prevents colitis and piles.

72. Fasting restores a natural, normal appetite (after the fast is broken properly).

73. Thin persons might not realize that they need to fast, in some cases even more than a heavy person. The reason is very simple. The thin individual has so many times overworked his organs by overeating, that he is incapable of putting on weight. I have seen many an underweight person fast from two to three weeks and weigh more after breaking the fast properly than he weighed before fasting. A heavy person usually is in good enough health so that his organs put on weight. However, one should not in any case be a glutton.

74. Fasting is a normalizing agent: It will help to restore weight to underweight folk and aid in preventing excessive weight on overweight folk.

75. Fasting will aid in cases of insomnia. At first an automatic blood transfusion is set up within the body by the blood remaining from the weight that is lost. This excess blood goes through the body to bathe the organs and it enters into the head causing sleeplessness for a time. Later on, and after the fast, one finds rest and sleep easier and more refreshing.

76. Excess starches and sweets cause the body to be converted into an alcohol factory. This, in turn, causes habit hunger (lust hunger) which is entirely different from true hunger. There are perhaps more people bound to this habit than there are to the drinking habit. The former is about as difficult to break. Jesus classifies it as just as much of a sin as the drink habit (Luke 21:34).

77. Fasting will undo the hunger habit of lust and will prevent folk from being drunk on food. Actually, when folk have great difficulty in fasting, they are under bondage to the food addiction habit in the same manner as those who are under alcohol, drug, tobacco, or other types of bondages. Fasting only a few days can break the bondage of food addiction.

78. Fasting aids and improves our sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. All sense faculties are benefited.

79. Fasting should be frequent, to clean and keep clean the temple and home of the Holy Spirit and to keep from food addiction habits.

80. Fasting seems to take one into a different world. It is wonderful to taste and experience. It makes for better harmony for the person, his family, friends, and community. Couples having family difficulties and discord oftentimes come together in a new understanding with new love and success after a major fast (see I Cor. 7).

WARNING: Please do not attempt a long fast without first having complete information as to the proper procedure of breaking into eating again. Consecrated Bible fasting is not harmful, but the way and manner of starting in to eat again can prove detrimental and the physical benefits received may be undone if too much is eaten, too soon. Satan tempted the Lord to eat after His fast. We also may be tempted to overeat right after a major fast.

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In summing up the facts of fasting in this enlightening bulletin, the author calls attention to two major desires of Jesus Christ, our Forgiver of sins and our Baptizer of divine healing. His full aim is to keep us from sin forever, and likewise from sickness forever. He liberated us from both the Adamic sin and the Adamic sickness. When we (really and truly) possess the experiences of both bodyfelt and heartfelt salvation, we have no more sickness, tiredness, or sin, ever, just as long as we continue serving Jesus, the giver of these blessings.

It was never intended for man to always be on a two, three, or more meal a day stuffing program. By obtaining the above double blessing experience of getting our body saved as well as our soul, we, then, by fasting become loosened from the food-addiction-bondage. We become acclimated to a new, supernatural, tangible, tree of life menu. After we become weaned away from the food bondage and food slavery addiction appetite, our attentions are focused to the new menu of eating from the life giving menu of the Lord’s everlasting body. Feeding from His remarkable body nourishes us back into everlasting life. We, then, lose our natural appetite for things that are corruptible, carnal, temporal and earthly. On Jesus’ (John 6:27) enduring, eternal life menu, we will not get hungry again. We can be nourished away entirely from sickness, disease, and harmful, accidental things. (See all of John 6; Rom. 16:17-18; Phil. 3:17, 19; etc.).

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