Thank you so much for fasting with us, brother! I'll be praying for you as well during my fast. Thanks also for posting your schedule. I may use it for reference in the future and may contact you on your experiences with extended fasts as the most I've ever done is 4-5 days, I think. Not too sure as it was quite a long time ago. God bless you as well and may He also strengthen you spiritually and physically during your fast.
Peace be with you.
You're Welcome. Thank you. No problems. I'll provide information for you below. Thank you.
God bless you.
Peace be with you.
These were my thoughts for another thread which I did not post. I will post it here for you.
How do you overcome temptations / desires etc
I've been thinking whether to pass you this information or to withhold it. My thoughts are that this knowledge I possess maybe confined for myself for the specific purpose which God has ordained for me to accomplish. But then again, this information may be useful for a desperate person in need of God's attention.
How do you overcome temptations / desires etc
To do this kind of thing is a matter of will, grace and enlightenment through the Power of Light.
The most important bit is your will to do so, meaning what are you willing to do and sacrifice to accomplish that. Referred to as faith or morale.
The methodology which I am setting forth here I know from experience through application works against the power of darkness. The only question is whether you are willing to apply it to your life, that's all.
Example of how fasting is used for spiritual warfare against the power of darkness based on my experience:
Objective: To fight and battle and war and contend against sin, the devil and power of darkness using the rigours of daily spiritual devotion to the Power of Light.
A Very Important Note here:
Remember, you're going to War against the power of darkness. War is not a thing to be trifled with. Demons are full of pride and don't like to lose. You zap one out of you, he will go and call for reinforcements and they will wait for you to make an error of judgment due to weakness and take that opportunity to come back into your life again. Demons don't like to lose. It is the nature of pride.
My Methodology: By use of Fasting, the Word of God (The Holy Scriptures), Messages of the Lady of the Rosary, Prayers using the Holy Rosary.
Messages of the Lady of the Rosary can be found here:
http://www.oocities.org/ritapaz/firstmessages.html
https://www.scribd.com/Gabriel388
(Same with Bible passages incorporated inside.)
(Methodology is contingent upon a person's spiritual background.)
Now you go into battle against the power of darkness. The most important element in the outcome of spiritual war is your will, faith, morale. You must not let your will, faith, morale be broken by the power of darkness. You must keep fighting until the power of darkness is destroyed by the Power of Light in you. This can take a while especially if you fall down a lot and get whipped by the power of darkness initially all the time. You have to get up, keep fighting and never give up.
1st Campaign against the power of darkness:
10 days of fasting from solid food. Drink sweet drink for energy for spiritual work.
Start fasting on Monday.
Everyday, 2 x 1 hour spiritual devotion. The spiritual devotion is spread equally throughout the hours when you are awake.
1 hour of spiritual devotion comprising of 15 minutes of the Word of God and 25 minutes of the Messages of the Lady of the Rosary and praying 2 Rosaries. 1 Rosary comprises of 50 Hail Mary's and 5 x Glory be's, O my Jesus' and Our Father's, 65 prayers.
Upon completion of 1st Campaign, rest for 4 days. Feel the Peace you receive. Analyse results. If results are unsatisfactory, prepare for 2nd Campaign.
The devil and the power of darkness will tend to get you back when you are resting. This is called taking advantage of your enemy while they are resting for your own survival.
2nd Campaign against the power of darkness:
15 days of fasting from solid food. Drink sweet drink for energy for spiritual work.
Everyday, 3 x 1 hour spiritual devotion.
After 10 days of fasting, you gain spiritual momentum. The last 2 to 3 days of the fast can be difficult so you will have to concentrate harder especially if someone is cooking delicious food.
Upon completion of 2nd Campaign, rest for 6 days. Feel the Peace you receive. Analyse results. If results are unsatisfactory, prepare for 3rd Campaign.
3rd Campaign against the power of darkness:
20 days of fasting from solid food. Drink sweet drink for energy for spiritual work.
Everyday, 4 x 1 hour spiritual devotion.
Upon completion of 3rd Campaign, rest for 8 days. Feel the Peace you receive. Analyse results. If results are unsatisfactory, prepare for 4th Campaign.
4th Campaign against the power of darkness:
26 days of fasting from solid food. Drink sweet drink for energy for spiritual work.
Everyday, 5 x 1 hour spiritual devotion.
Upon completion of 4th Campaign, rest for 9 days. Feel the Peace you receive. Analyse results. If results are unsatisfactory, prepare for 5th Campaign.
5th Campaign against the power of darkness:
32 days of fasting from solid food. Drink sweet drink for energy for spiritual work.
Everyday, 6 x 1 hour spiritual devotion.
Upon completion of 5th Campaign, rest for 10 days. Feel the Peace you receive. Analyse results. If results are unsatisfactory, prepare for 6th Campaign.
6th Campaign against the power of darkness:
38 days of fasting from solid food. Drink sweet drink for energy for spiritual work.
Everyday, 7 x 1 hour spiritual devotion.
Upon completion of 6th Campaign, rest for 11 days. Feel the Peace you receive. Analyse results. If results are unsatisfactory, prepare for 7th Campaign.
7th Campaign against the power of darkness:
44 days of fasting from solid food. Drink sweet drink for energy for spiritual work.
Everyday, 8 x 1 hour spiritual devotion.
Upon completion of 7th Campaign, rest for 12 days. Feel the Peace you receive. Analyse results. If results are unsatisfactory, prepare for 8th Campaign.
You basically keep going until you attain your aim or goal. If you run out of energy stores on your body, rest longer.
Some knowledge about Long Fast while drinking sweet drinks from my experience.
1st week of fast, weight loss about 3-4 kilograms, depending on body size.
2nd week of fast, weight loss reduces to about 1-2 kgs.
3rd week of fast, weight loss reduces to 0.5-1.5 kg.
Weight loss reduces the longer the fast.
When your tongue is coated with a white paste while you are fasting means you can still fast. When your tongue is totally clear of the white paste means you have to stop fasting because you have run out of bodily stores for energy. You will look like a skeleton before that happens though, with little fat stores.
Fasting is not the best way to lose weight. Eating temperately is the best way to lose weight. Fasting is for purification and spiritual warfare.
After a long fast, it takes about 2-3 days to get digestion process going efficiently. So first 2 days after long fast, eat slowly and carefully as you don't have much saliva. If you eat too much after long fast, your body takes a lot longer to digest the food.
It takes a while to master this ability to control your appetite especially when breaking a long fast. Just eat bit by bit at a time and don't stuff everything into your mouth all at once in one meal.
For breaking fast, best foods are watery foods like fruits (watch the amount if sweet fruit), soups and vegetables.
You'll be surprised how quickly you gain weight with the same amount of food you used to eat after the fast.
You'll find when in the fast and doing your daily spiritual devotion, the power of darkness is reduced to a point where it really struggles to get you to sin or affect you due to a Lack of power. You'll be amazed at the Power of Light. You get lots of Peace while fasting long.
After and during the fast, you will feel peace.
Praying the Holy Rosary and reading the Word of God (The Holy Scriptures) and Messages of the Lady of the Rosary without fasting lacks Spiritual Power to contend with the power of darkness.
The Power of Light from my experience Loves Sacrifice of self especially Fasting. Fasting enhances the Power of Light to contend with the power of darkness. The power of darkness abhors sacrifice of self.
My daily spiritual devotion was between 10-14 hours a day for 3 months without fasting and the result was totally unsatisfactory when it came to contending with the power of darkness. This was done to find out how important fasting is in spiritual warfare.
Fasting is Absolutely Vital for the Power of Light to contend with the power of darkness in you.
God bless you.