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    Tony Evans Speaks Out on Fasting
    Tony Evans Speaks Out on Fasting
    Tony Evans Speaks Out on Fasting
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    Tony Evans Speaks Out on Fasting

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    The Christian life isn't very complicated; but we've made it so through our ignorance of principles central to the Christian walk. There are some basics with which people need to be equipped to live a more victorious Christian life. Tony Evans has heard the people's cry for these sometimes difficult principles to be made simple and explained clearly and succinctly. In his new Tony Evans Speaks Out . . . booklet series, Evans tackles four basic elements of Christianity with a clarity and simplicity characteristic of his popular style.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateOct 1, 2000
    ISBN9781575677217
    Tony Evans Speaks Out on Fasting
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    Tony Evans

    Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, founder and president of the Urban Alternative, former chaplain of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and present chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on nearly 1,000 US radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit TonyEvans.org.

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      THE IMPORTANCE OF FASTING

      The story is told of a young lumberjack who had become quite proud of his speed at cutting down trees. He got to the point that he felt he was ready to challenge an older lumberjack, who was also known for his ability, to a tree-cutting contest.

      So they began chopping. The younger man went at it with all his vigor. He chopped down one tree after another without stopping the whole day. He thought things looked pretty good for him because he noticed that the older lumberjack took about a fifteen-minute break every hour.

      But at the end of the day, the older lumberjack had chopped down one-third more trees than the younger man. Somewhat miffed and puzzled, the younger man went to the old master of forestry and asked, How in the world could you cut down more trees than me taking fifteen-minute breaks every hour?

      The wise older lumberjack looked at him and said, Because when I stopped cutting, I took time to sharpen my ax.

      That’s a good parable of many Christians’ spiritual lives. A lot of us chop away all the time, and then wonder why the trees aren’t falling. We look at other people who don’t seem to be working half as hard as we are, yet they seem to be making a lot more progress spiritually. Just maybe the difference is they have taken the time out to sharpen their axes.

      That’s what the spiritual discipline of fasting is all about—sharpening the ax of our inner person so we can achieve spiritual victory.

      Most of us have heard a lot about prayer, but I wonder how much we have been taught about the importance and the purpose of fasting. Follow the subject through the Bible and you’ll discover that it’s everywhere. Fasting is not just an aside to the Christian life, but essential to the life that pleases God.

      In fact, Jesus said that in His absence, fasting was to be a priority for His people. The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast (Matthew 9:15).

      Since you can’t have a face-to-face conversation with Jesus today, fasting is a way you can make a special link with Him when you need a spiritual break-through in your life. I want to make four important points about fasting, and then look at fasting in three key areas: healing, protection, and ministry.

      THE PRINCIPLE OF FASTING

      Let’s start with a definition. Fasting is the deliberate abstinence from some form of physical gratification, for a period of time, in order to achieve a greater spiritual goal.

      Fasting usually involves setting aside food, although we can fast from any physical appetite, including sex within marriage (1 Corinthians 7:5). A lot of Christians need to fast from the hours they spend watching television or surfing the Internet. The idea is to devote the time we would ordinarily spend on these activities to prayer and waiting before the Lord. Fasting calls us to renounce the natural in order to invoke the supernatural. When you fast, you say no to yourself so you can hear yes from God in a time of need or crisis.

      As I said earlier, fasting is a major principle throughout the Bible. People in Scripture often fasted in situations that demanded a spiritual breakthrough. Fasting is an appropriate response to physical or emotional needs, difficult circumstances or relationships, challenges in ministry (as we will see later), or times we need specific direction.

      In Zechariah 7:5–6, the Lord said, "When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for Me that you fasted? When

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