This improves weight loss, brain function, blood pressure, AND spiritual health…
Intermittent Fasting – Fast…or not so fast?
Are you familiar with intermittent fasting for health reasons? While not necessarily recommended for everyone, it is said to help regulate hormones and help with weight loss, as well as improving brain health and blood pressure, protecting against diabetes, and much more.
Interesting, right? Check out this article on MyFitnessPal for more informationĀ and this article from Time Magazine.
To go a step further, we can look beyond any potential health benefits, which seem pretty convincing in the argument to fast regularly, and on to spiritual benefits when fasting and praying.
We all know Scripture talks about the practice of fasting and praying. This disciplined denial of self can help us have a closer experience with our Heavenly Father when we use it to turn our focus and sustenance to Him rather than food.
When you take the time you would be eating and use it in dedication to consuming God’s Word and praying it back to Him, good things are going to happen! Check out this article for the benefits and details of fasting for spiritual growth.Ā
Isn’t that just like our Creator to build such incredible health benefits into a practice that is used to grow closer to Him??