HOW TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL AND POWERFUL FAST PART IV

Nutrition:

• Continue to take daily vitamins.


• If you are beginning a juice fast, avoid juices with high-acid content, (ex. orange or tomato juice).


• The best juices are fresh carrot, grape, celery, apple, cabbage, or beet. "green drinks" made from green leafy vegetables because they are excellent "de-toxifiers."


• Fruit juices are "cleansers" and are best taken in the morning.


• I suggest not taking products containing protein or fat, such as milk or soy-based drinks. These products will restart the digestion cycle and you will again feel hunger pangs.

How to make your experience the best it can be:

• Prayer and fasting must always go together.


• Arrange special time each day with God. Satan will do everything he can to pull you away from this time.


• Do not become so caught up in praying for yourself and others that you forget about simply reverencing and praising God. True spiritual fasting focuses on God.


• Do not be disappointed if you do not have a “mountaintop experience”. Many people who have successfully completed extended fasts tell of feeling a nearness to God that they have never felt before, but others have sought His face with no report of outward results. Be assured, God honors our commitment to pray and fast.


• Your motive in fasting must be to glorify God, not to have an emotional experience, and not to attain personal happiness. With that, He will bless your time in a very special way.