A time ago God told me to live a fasted life. He was talking about my eating at the time. Daniel ate only healthy foods, nothing rich —and it kept Him strong and healthy. He did this fast for three weeks, but God asked me to do it all the time. He asked me to live a fasted life. That kind of lifestyle solved all my bad eating habits and more. Plus eating healthy —and of course, that took care of my health! This year I turn sixty-one and I have no health problems —or do I take any medications. God is truly good!
Now God has shown me that the walk on the narrow path is likened to that fasted life. It is a fasted life as in coming out from the world's way. Just like eating their way is not good, neither is living their way good.
On the narrow path is blessings and not cursing —health and not sickness. Provision and not poverty—wisdom and not ignorance—the list is unending.
The narrow path is God leading us to live here and now in the Kingdom of God —and preparing us to live with Him when we leave here.
On the narrow path is blessings beyond, a more than you can ask or think life. At first it may seem far from blessing, but that is only a season you will walk through as you refuse to quit and give up. A time where you tell the enemy no!
Jesus told us the enemy has come to kill, steal and destroy and he does that as he harasses. He works in our thinking (Corinthians 10:3-5) trying to get us to think the worst so the worst will happen.
When we walk that fasted life on that path, we fast his thinking by taking captive our thoughts. We toss his thoughts, refuse them and —the bad food he is trying to force on us.
He is the pressure—he comes on hard and tries to force his junk on us, so we will live the less than —lifestyle God has planned for us. He is a force and he is trying to get you and I to get on the wide path — but don't let him take that fasted life from you.
Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force [as a precious prize—a share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion]. AMPC