"... when you fast..."
Fasting is the intentional forsaking of fleshly passion - food, sleep, attitudes, and behavior - given as an offering, and laid out upon the altar of our hearts.
As with all Biblical disciplines, it is temporal - with the caveat that the whole of of the Christian Pilgrimage is to be considered "fasting" on some level. (For, there are elements of our world and culture from which we must continually fast, for the sake being in the Kingdom of God.)
When a person fasts his or her spirit, body, mind and soul all become victim to the discipline of the fast. As the Son can do nothing without direct interaction with the Father through the Holy Spirit, so our discipline of fasting affects our entire Being. Far more, this intentional "circumcision of the flesh" provides a spiritual clarity that could not be revealed otherwise.
Normal Christian life can be compared to a light bulb - bright, filling the room with a soft gentle, soothing glow. When a person fasts, the fuzzy non-desrcript outlines take focus and provide sharp distinctions in the shadows of turning, providing fast-bearer with laser-keen revelation, which seems to grease the Will of the Father. Hindered prayers become unhindered. Spiritual confusion is turned to clarity. And vocational lukewarmness becomes revitalized with the empowered Vision of the Call.
... when you fast.
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