Fasting and God’s Victory
Fasting is a weapon used to respond to the present and future attacks of the evil one.
Isaiah 58: 6, 8 – “is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen…then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be rear guard.”
Esther 4:15 – “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish. “
“When the devil, the foe and the tyrant, sees a man bearing this weapon (fasting), he is straightway frightened and he recollects and considers that defeat which he suffered in the wilderness at the hands of the Savior; at once his strength is shattered and the very sight of this weapon, given us by our Commander-in-Chief, burns him.”-Isaac of Syria