What Happens if You Sin While Fasting? Will God Forgive Me?
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Is there a day in your life when you haven't sinned?
Of course you will sin while fasting. There are things you do that are sinful that you probably aren't even aware of at the time. Don't fret it. Your sins were nailed to the cross. You cannot be perfect but instead rely on Jesus the Christ who was perfect in your place and died so that you may be forgiven and have eternal life.
Of course you will sin while fasting. There are things you do that are sinful that you probably aren't even aware of at the time. Don't fret it. Your sins were nailed to the cross. You cannot be perfect but instead rely on Jesus the Christ who was perfect in your place and died so that you may be forgiven and have eternal life.
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Fasting isn't some witch's spell where you treat the gods like a vending machine and start negotiating with them through your actions. Many religious people have this mentality. Our God is so much bigger than the witch's cauldron of the "I do something for you, you do something for me" mentality. God doesn't want us to sin but He cares more about where your allegiance is.
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Keep going.
Run to God and tell Him you need His help.
Fasting is not for God but for man.
Fasting helps us to bring our appetites under control and bring
us in tune with God and His will for our lives.
We fast unto the Lord with the desire that we need to change
and grow with His help.
We would never need to fast if we were perfect and walked perfectly
in all of God's ways.
So fasting is for man's benefit, not God's.
So if you sin while fasting it only shows you that you need to submit
yourself all the more to God and rely on Him to help you overcome.
There is always a danger when we try to do anything "for the Lord"
Our efforts can become a religious trap that ensnare us into believing that
we are in ourselves somehow more pleasing to God because we are fasting
or exerting our own efforts to be better and more pleasing to God or conversely,
when we fail we think we are displeasing to God and now unacceptable to Him and rejected.
WRONG!!!
We can never please God in ourselves.
Only in Christ are we accepted by God.
When we fast or do anything to the Lord we need to know that those things
we do, do not make God more pleased with us but rather they
should help us to see more clearly our desperate need for God's help to
change and be transformed into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.
Like I said, fasting is not for God but to help us focus our attention
on God and to seek Him and surrender to His will as we dull down the
appetites of the flesh and seek God's hand in our life through prayer
and submission to God's will and not to try and please God by any other
way than through Christ's righteousness.
I hope this makes sense to you.
We seek to be more like Christ not to be accepted in a greater way by God but to
make ourselves fit for service and to be a ready and willing tool in God's hand to
build His kingdom and to help others.
Fasting is great when you see that you are the primary beneficiary of
the fasting because you are seeking to deny yourself and find God's
will and purpose for your life and asking Him to change you to become
more like Christ.
None of us will ever please God apart from Christ so don't fall into
that trap of thinking your fasting is making you more acceptable to God.
Your fasting should be looked at as a tool to shape you to be of
greater use to God to bring about His will and purpose in your life
as you become a cleansed and willing vessel that God can use.
Run to God and tell Him you need His help.
Fasting is not for God but for man.
Fasting helps us to bring our appetites under control and bring
us in tune with God and His will for our lives.
We fast unto the Lord with the desire that we need to change
and grow with His help.
We would never need to fast if we were perfect and walked perfectly
in all of God's ways.
So fasting is for man's benefit, not God's.
So if you sin while fasting it only shows you that you need to submit
yourself all the more to God and rely on Him to help you overcome.
There is always a danger when we try to do anything "for the Lord"
Our efforts can become a religious trap that ensnare us into believing that
we are in ourselves somehow more pleasing to God because we are fasting
or exerting our own efforts to be better and more pleasing to God or conversely,
when we fail we think we are displeasing to God and now unacceptable to Him and rejected.
WRONG!!!
We can never please God in ourselves.
Only in Christ are we accepted by God.
When we fast or do anything to the Lord we need to know that those things
we do, do not make God more pleased with us but rather they
should help us to see more clearly our desperate need for God's help to
change and be transformed into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.
Like I said, fasting is not for God but to help us focus our attention
on God and to seek Him and surrender to His will as we dull down the
appetites of the flesh and seek God's hand in our life through prayer
and submission to God's will and not to try and please God by any other
way than through Christ's righteousness.
I hope this makes sense to you.
We seek to be more like Christ not to be accepted in a greater way by God but to
make ourselves fit for service and to be a ready and willing tool in God's hand to
build His kingdom and to help others.
Fasting is great when you see that you are the primary beneficiary of
the fasting because you are seeking to deny yourself and find God's
will and purpose for your life and asking Him to change you to become
more like Christ.
None of us will ever please God apart from Christ so don't fall into
that trap of thinking your fasting is making you more acceptable to God.
Your fasting should be looked at as a tool to shape you to be of
greater use to God to bring about His will and purpose in your life
as you become a cleansed and willing vessel that God can use.
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People fast for different reasons. Are you fasting as an act of repentance? It is a great idea to resist sin, but also to recognize how often we sin -- no matter how hard we try to control it. This experience seems to have put a magnifying glass on how easily we all slip up.
God wants us to ask for His help. We will always sin when leaning on our own merit. Pride repels God's help. Fear separates us from God. Arrogance or resentment can be as much a sin as shoplifting or pushing someone off a cliff. We all sin, every day.
While you are fasting, you might want to read through the gospels and find the times Jesus fasted and didn't fast, and what He implied it would accomplish.
If you believe that Jesus was sinless with no need for repentance, empowered by the Father, self-disciplined, eating wisely, had no toxins to expel, then ponder why He fasted.
God wants us to ask for His help. We will always sin when leaning on our own merit. Pride repels God's help. Fear separates us from God. Arrogance or resentment can be as much a sin as shoplifting or pushing someone off a cliff. We all sin, every day.
While you are fasting, you might want to read through the gospels and find the times Jesus fasted and didn't fast, and what He implied it would accomplish.
If you believe that Jesus was sinless with no need for repentance, empowered by the Father, self-disciplined, eating wisely, had no toxins to expel, then ponder why He fasted.
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