GLORIFIED FASTING
THE ABC OF FASTING
By FRANKLIN HALL
AuUior
of:
ATOMIC POWER WITH GOD
AND
THE FASTING PRAYER
ILLUSTRATIONS, TESTIMONIES
AND
THE BREAK-FAST
INTERDENOMINATIONAL
NON-SECTARIAN
GLORIFIED FASTING
rWARTS AND DIAGRAMS DESIGNED BY FRANKLIN HALL
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INTRODUCTION
“STAND FAST, AND hold the traditions which ye have been taught,
whether by word, or our epistle .... Comfort your hearts; and stablish you in
every good word and work .... Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word;
of the Lord may have free course, and be GLORIFIED, even as it is with you.”
II
Thess. 2:15, 17; 3:1.
To dispute this
is a part of the word of God.
denying water is wet. Shall we “STAND FA'ST’’ on this
IRREVOCABLE “TRADITION,” which we have been taught in the WORD,
since it is indisputably a part of the WORD of God? Let us pray that it will
“have free course, AND BE GLORIFIED,” in its proper place in order that
JESUS may receive more glory and honor from His children. The purpose of
this volume is to popularize, perhaps one of the most downtrodden of all Biblical
FASTING,
would be as
like
PRAYER,
foolish as
and assist in the author’s small way to reestablish this part of the
Gospel, bringing it out in all its glorious aspects. We are dealing with a tremendous portion of the Word— able to open up an avenue to tremendous power
and glory with JESUS for the mutual welfare of His body, and the bringing of
a mighty last day revival. By the proper utilization of fasting, praying, crying
and mourning for souls, and by going into the FASTING-PRAYER without a
selfish motive, many pillars of the FAITH can pull together in this travail to
such an extent that when tragedy, destruction, persecution, and the rest of the
last-day signs approach us more closely, we will have at our disposal a most
effective weapon to carry us through for the glory of Jesus.
It is NOT the purpose of this book, or any of the other articles on the subject of fasting, to leave an impression that this practice is the Scriptural cure-all
Emphasis is given the subject for
for spiritual, moral and bodily complaints.
the purpose of quickly enlightening God’s people who seem to be “falling
away” from the old-time faith, and to prevent the unhappy drift towards
modernism that is so sweeping the land.
We do not emphasize fasting for the purpose of bragging, or for such great
merit that it would be boasting before our God, but we are pressing it forward
with such tempo so that the children of the Bridegroom will become more
quickly and fully prepared for the closing of this Holy Spirit dispensation.
This work has grown to such an extent, we have had to give up the revival
The author is devoting his entire time to the work of fasting,
auditorium.
even discontinuing most of the traveling speaking engagements, in order
to assure it greater success and promotion over the world for the mutual welfare of Christendom and the Kingdom of God.
To make it even easier to grasp, the author has gone to additional expense
in constructing drawings, diagrams and charts for numerous cuts to bring forth
quickly through the eye-gate, this precious vital truth of orthodox Christianity.
May the reader be blessed by them. This was done solely for the purpose ol
Glorifying our most lovable Jesus. In the name of Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost, we, therefore, dedicate this work to Jesus. May it bring
praise and honor of Him. Revelation 22:17-21.
The child portrayed on front cover is, “Dennis Allen Hall” (one year old). He
was given to his parents after the mother completed a pre-natal, prophet’slength fast.
The testimonies are from a cross section of many different denominations.
They are not in any manner to be construed with the promulgating of any
doctrinaL issue, nor are they necessarily to represent the beliefs, of the author,
An unbiased non-sectarian view is taken
in this or any other of his works.
throughout. All religious groups should profit from these writings.
In the medical world, schools are still reluctant to come out with the teachings of the science of fasting. In religious education, the seminaries and Bible
Institutes, are either “AFRAID” of the prophet’s-Jesus’-Iength of fasting, or the
teachers, at present, are incapable of educating the ministers of tomorrow.
This being a foundation process, is it any wonder the body of Christ is so
Therefore, both the medical and religious bodies are perishing,
power-less.
PHYSICALLY and SPIRITUALLY, for this “lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6.
(This book was prepared during and after fasting twenty-one days).
subjects,
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Three Great Fundamentals of Christ
The A B C of Fasting
The Church Becomes Powerless
The Power That Food Plays Upon The Mind
Powerful Than
Illustrating Why Fasting is More
I.
7
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2\
3.
4.
5.
Door
10.
6.
7.
When
8.
The
Food Power Versus
13.
Journal-Gazette, Fort
14.
Revival
1 5.
Pleasure Emotions
13
14
16
Progress
19
21
Power
Spirit
23
Wayne
26
Power
28
20.
Some Interesting Fours
The Four Tastes
The Four Dimensions
The Four Parts of Fasting
The Four Divisions of Man
21.
Four Necessities
22.
Putting the Fast in a Test
23.
(A) Demons
19.
12
Apparatus
12.
18.
11
Carrier of
Intestinal Digestive
17.
9
10
Prayer.
-
Power and Carnality
Living by Bread Alone
II.
16.
8
to
The Life
These Tubes
Through
Life Runs
of Spiritual
Points
High
The Four
9.
at
29
30
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32
33
34
35
36
Tube
38
Work
38
(B) Demons Released
Demons in The Stomach
24.
25.
39
28.
The Skin When Not Fasting
The Christian Religion
of
Piers
The Four
Canal
The
of
Contamination
29.
Fasting
30.
The Four Zones
The Wall of The Stomach
Peering Into The Digestive Organ
The Awakening of The Intestinal Villi
26.
27.
31.
32.
33
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34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
39
Corruption Under
Produces
The
The Gastric Gland Highly Magnified
The Bonfire in Action
Where There Are Divisions
The Focusing of Attention on Jesus
Dennis Allen Hall
Spiritual and Physical Bonfire
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44
Oil—
Longest Living Part of a Person
41
46
48
51
at
Break-Fast—
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63
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PART
I
FASTING POWER
1 will
praise thee; for 1
the works;
am
fearfully
and thy soul knoweth
are
are
happy to receive teaching on the subject of the
More than
ninety-five percent of all questions asked con-
Most Christian people
consecration fast.
and wonderfully made: marvelous
right well. Psalm 139:14.
we
Before
cerning the subject pertain to the natural.
can properly enter a
prophet’s length fast, one should familiarize himself with the subject in order
to be free from the bugaboos that Satan may hold over one and also to be able
to obtain everything out of the fast that is for us.
we are therefore compelled to go into considerable
from the physiological standpoint. We do this only for
the purpose of enabling God’s people to serve, honor, and obey Him more completely in this very precious process that leads us to more power with Him.
Many of God's people are perishing both physically and spiritually for this lack
Let every Christian be open minded in learning these deeper
of knowledge.
In the face of criticism
detail of the subject
Him who bought us
GLORIFY JESUS IN OUR BODIES, IN OUR SOULS AND
truths so they can also prove to be a greater blessing to
with a price and
IN
OUR
SPIRIT.
Ignorance
is
not
The
bliss.
Bible
tells
us knowledge shall
This also indicates spiritual knowledge,
Let us hold fast to that
if we will be open minded enough to receive same.
which is good. If this is good for the temple of the Holy Spirit as well as to
the spiritual man, why not accept every bit of it and glorify Him more than
be increased in the last days of this age.
ever in our every department of
Fasting
woman
or used by a heathen, worshipping idols.
When
magic.
life.
a powerful force whether used by the Christ fearing
is
this
powerful process
of our being centered
on
Jesus, there
We are only
atomic power.
is
is
It
man and
has almost the power of
directed properly with every
students, anyway,
when
it
member
even greater than
comes to certain depths
spiritual force that
is
and fasting and prayer are two of these. May we be open minded
learn more, as we go through the pages of this volume.
in the Spirit,
to
"The
A
full soul loatheth
an honeycomb.” Prov. 27:7.
difficult time trying to find a common
denominator to link such seemingly different individuals as a fencing master,
Still, there is a link, and it is as strong as
a hunger-striker, and other people.
if it
and
casual observer
would have a
had been forged from the truest Damascus
mutual knowledge of its power.
steel.
That link
is
fasting
their
There was a fencing master who never lost a duel.
His movements were
aim so true, and his skill so astounding, that he was a source of
amazement to all who beheld him in action. However, his secret was simple.
Before any duel or engagement was entered into he, of course, would practice
faithfully for hours.
In addition, he would fast from seven to ten days.
so swift, his
The world
fasting
on the
hunger-strikers
die for.
No
has recently witnessed a graphic demonstration of the effect of
hunger-strikers.
who
If all others
survived would
still
cause will ever be deserted
their cause,
whose champions have
— —
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had deserted
the
cherish the ideals they were willing to
fasted for
it.
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THE A B C OF FASTING
This points to fasting as a panacea against all the evils of backsliding, and the
indifference and superficiality which, like a religious hook-worm, saps the
energies of the church.
Gandhi, along with his people, has known more than his share
When a crisis is at hand, he invariably
trials and tribulations.
goes on a fast, and, nearly always, something happens to ease the situation. He
His people revere him as
is no longer held in contempt for his many fastings.
a holy man, and even government circles pay him honor and respect. Gandhi
has trouble ^he fasts and has victory! It sounds like magic!
A business man has financial reverses and is on the verge of bankruptcy. In
Mahatma
of persecution,
—
his despair,
With many
he forgets everything, even food.
times he will find a
way
out.
No
doubt, the Lord
is
many
days fasting,
mercifully and tenderly
We are
this man, even though he may be unaware of the fact.
Lord allows it to rain on the just and the unjust alike.
football player leaves off a meal or two before a game and plays more
watching over
told the
A
efficiently.
Many
persons, including singers, actors, professional people
workers, have fasted, and have
known
and
factory
either a large or small degree of success
with the object they fasted for. No doubt, it developed faith
"There is no habit or weakness that can survive a
in what they were doing.
in connection
siege of prayer
—prayer alone
and fasting
is
not half the battle," states E. E.
However
Purinton, in his book, "Philosophy of Fasting."
fasting
not a
is
and religious problems. Jesus is the answer to this.
If fasting
It would seem like magic the way fasting works in the natural.
how
problems,
their
with
and
their
work
has power to help natural people in
much more effectively could this powerful force be utilized for the glory of Jesus.
Moses undertook two forty-day fasts, and there was revealed to him the
cure-all for moral, physical
application of the law to
all
phases of
life.
Ex. 24:18; 34:27,28.
The Psalms are largely the product of fasting and prayer.
The book of Daniel, the first book of the Revelation, is another fasting book,
given because Daniel sought the Lord in much fasting and prayer. After he
fasted twenty-one days, he received the revelation of
"what
shall befall thy
Daniel was no more entitled to this
revelation than any other Jew, but since he had sought it by fasting and prayer,
it was given him.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Rev. 1:1) was given to John on the bare
people in the
and rugged
Dan. 10:2.
latter days."
Isle
of Patmos, where he was placed to starve to death.
John, being
one
God's people will never know famines in
the real sense of the word if they would follow the examples of Elijah, John
and other Holy men who converted famines into fastings. Therefore, we have
the product of fasting and prayer. Revelation of this kind nearly always came
A product can be traced to its cause. We
to a prophet on an empty stomach.
find in Bible days, and in our own time, when a person goes into a prophet’sIf I have ice,
length fast, revelation is one of the most wonderful results.
the cause is water exposed to such a low temperature that it freezes. The result
a very spiritual person, immediately converted his intended starvation into
of the greatest consecration
is
fasts.
ice.
Elijah, after a fast of forty days, received the revelation of the nature
manifestation of God.
prophet, and
•
Gandhi, a^e
was
who were
78,
him who was
It
was
to
be the successors of the kings of
also revealed to
was assassinated January
in better health at this
30,
1948.
time than the average
to succeed
Israel
and
him
and of
as
Syria.
His physicians stated that he
man
of that age.
j
GLORIFIED FASTING
companions at the river of Ahava, when he
Ezra prodaimed
work they were about to underwas seeking God's help and giudance in the
Ezra 8:21-23.
take.
r ..
t
Ahasuems in behalf of the Jews, comEsther, when about to intercede with
this was for the purpose
manded the Jews of Shushan to fast for three days;
Esther 4.16.
favor.
of obtaining wisdom as well as divine
and prayer night
To Anna the prophetess, who "served God with fastings
the Messiah.
was
presented
being
infant
that the
a fast for his
.
,
,
and day," it was revealed
On the contrary, her great
Luke 2:36. Fasting did not impair her health.
age was given to prove fasting beneficial.
he would
On the fourth day of a fast, it was revealed to Cornelius where
Peter
10:30.
Acts
Gospel.
the
find Peter, through whom he would receive
hungry.
very
was
he
because
had evidently been fasting, too,
it was revealed to him that
After Saul fasted and prayed for three days,
reveal "what he must
Ananias would come and restore his sight, and likewise
do." Acts 9:7.
»
that
.
i
he would
revelation
After Paul fasted thirteen days, he received the
his prayers would be
that
and
Oesar,
before
not perish, but would be brought
27:21-33.
Acts
shipmates.
his
of
heard in behalf
caves or
Many founders of religious systems fasted for long periods in
contemporary
beyond
contain
wilderness, and whatever truth their systems
the product of their prayer and fasting.
Buddha Sakia fasted 47 days before the revelation came.
periods while continually calling on God for revelation.
knowledge,
is
_
Mahomet
fasted
long
different occasions, and had
Dr. Tanner, fasted over forty days on three
of the great Beyond. After
glories
spiritual revelation, seeing the unspeakable
the last fast, his gray hair began turning black.
fasted forty days,
Sadhu Sundar Singh, the St. Paul of India and Tibet,
nearness of God that it has
and
presence
the
of
revelation
a
such
and obtained
been a powerful factor in his success as an evangelist.
"... healing all manner of
Jesus Christ fasted forty days and nights
Matt. 4:23,24.
throughout.
went
fame
His
And
disease among the people.
started performing
and
Sonship,
of
manifestation
His
ministry.
He began His
miracles after His long FAST.
Schlatter, suddenly
In 1920, an ignorant Denver shoemaker named Francis
forty days, this
for
fasting
After
became transformed into a miracle-worker.
for people
praying
began
and
healing
gift
of
atholic shoemaker received the
Many very notable healings occurred.
healing about the
Brother William Branham had received the gift of divine
was during the
This
God.
same time the author wrote "Atomic Power With
the power to
for
days
forty
to
twenty-one
period men and women were fasting
me, "when
told
Branham
Brother
Christ.
of
Jesus
be restored in the church
angel appeared before
An
operation.
full
in
gift
is
the
life,
fasted
I live the
removed.’
me and said, ‘nothing will stand in my way, even cancers will be
on the
wait
when
I
me
to
respond
There has been nothing that has failed to
in a
Branham
Brother
with
was
author
The
life."
Lord and live the fasted
prayed for was
was
that
person
diseased
and
sick
every
and
recent meeting
whose death was expected
healed, including a man brought in on a stretcher
walked away. Several
and
healed,
at any’ moment, but who arose, instantly
cross-eyes, cancer cases,
were
as
healed,
immediately
deaf and dumb mutes were
everywhere.
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—
THE A B C OF FASTING
and folk in wheel chairs who
rose up and walked home.
Brother Branham informed
me he had
his greatest meet-
where the author has
gotten many folk to fast, and
THEABC 0FFA5TING
AVERAGE AMOUNT
THE
HUNGER
FAST IM
FOUR PARTS
POWER
OF
WEIGHT LOST
ings
BEFORE FASTING
much fasting literWhere fasting chains
has placed
ature.
were organized, the healing
power was manifested in an
This was
unusual manner.
in
true
Canada,
Louis,
St.
Portland and Salem, Oregon,
where the Governor and other
State
Brother
attended.
officials
Branham
has
in-
formed the author his gift is
in answer to the many fastings and prayers of the Lord’s
His work is interpeople.
denominational, but he holds
B.
Baptist credentials.
Brother
AFTER FASTING
William Hooley,
of Winnipeg,
Canada,
also
fasted, in travail, twenty-one
and forty days for Brother
Branham’s gift and success.
More and more people will
receive this spiritual power
as
soon as they follow
through the complete teachings of Jesus. Are you doing
your
APPROXIMATELY
25X
OF WEIGHT LOST
N04.
THE COMPLETE FAST
part.^
Evangelist Dale
Hanson goes
into food abstention ten days, seven days,
twenty-eight days and forty days within a period of nine months.
With
other
makes one hundred days of fasting in a nine month period.
Sister Barbara Hanson also joined her husband with many fasts, including a
twenty-one day fast. They report to me they have been in the most spiritual
meetings of their lives. More folk have been healed and converted.
shorter fasts, this
Evangelist
Hanson
gives these high points of his forty-day fast:
In a few days the weakleft my body.
seemed stronger physically most of the time
in the fast than when eating.
I lost seventy pounds, dropping from
two hundred forty pounds to one hundred seventy pounds of weight.
Jesus was very real to me. The tests and trials of fasting made my
"After three days, hunger
ness left
and
I actually
faith stronger.
"Most of the
was in revival meetings while fasting. After
came very strongly from my body. I had
and received rewards that I never would have received
time, I
three weeks, ether odor
revelation, faith
»
by prayer alone.
Jesus impressed
me
with the fact that
—7—
I
should fast
Church Jbecom.es
Powerless
iDiihouJ these
a
few weeks before, I fasted twenty-eight days and
forty
full
the
from fasting
certain trial came my way, discouraged me
My body was made over new
as I did this time (water only taken).
forty days.
A
and I feel better than
months afterward.
*'As an evangelist, I
on
fasting.
Our
at
any other time in
Many
life.
This
is
four
all I can to spread the light
times better when we teach and
more souls become converted and healed.
am
going to do
revivals are
get people to fast.
my
many
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THE A
"My
wife,
twenty-one day
Barbara,
fast.
"Thank you Dr.
B C OF FASTING
has four fold more
She was
anointing
since
her
also healed of curvature of the spine.
Hall, for bringing to us the light
on
fasting.
Evangelist Dale Hanson."
(Brother Hanson’s
VIOLENCE,”
book
(under preparation)
deals also with fasting
,
’’HEAVEN BY
and old time
faith.
Order
from author.)
THE POWER THAT FOOD PLAYS UPON THE MENTAL FACULTIES.
This diagram may help to enable one to understand why it is difficult to
get into the proper frame of mind, and become loosened from food bondage
for a season to begin a consecrated fast to the glory and edification of Jesus
Christ, and give the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit a good old-fashion cleaning.
(1) The food, or roast odor, ascends the nose and stimulates the olfactory
cells of the nasal mucosa (S) ; this stimulus is transmitted to the olfactory
center in the brain (3). The memory center (4) determines that the odor is
that of a roast foul, and orders the gland center (5) to switch on the salivary
gland. The order is transmitted to the switchboard (6), where one of the
salivary glands (7 and 8) is turned on. From here on we enjoy eating food.
ILLUSTRATING WHY FASTING IS
MORE POWERFULTHAN PRAYER ALONE
l.rARNAL.ZQNE
2.
PLEASURE ZONE
PLEASURE 5“TILL ENJOYED
WHILE PRAYING
FASTING
ZONE
fasting
1>*
DAY FASTING
2“DAY FASTING
3" DAY FASTING
is
an anti-pleasure
FASTING OMEHAS HO CAPACITY
FDR PLEASURE (ZONE 2) LET ALONE CARNAUTY
^ WHEN
FOUND. Isa.
'—10
—
58:3.
,
PART
II
HOW TO BEGIN A
FAST
yery easy to start a fast of any length. If the work is not too strenuous
and one cannot very well get off from one’s job, the candidate can begin fasting
and continue working. Since our main object is to seek Jesus in prayer and
It is
the humiliation of the flesh through fasting, one’s prayer life will not be so concentrated when working, however, Jesus promises us a reward when we fast
from prayer, mind you) in Matt. 6:18, for proper fasting. Rather than
all and work, one could begin a fast and see how long he could keep
both up. If it became too difficult to fast and work, one could of course, break
the fast properly, at any time. To obtain the best from the fast, we should do
much praying and praying will be work. It is also MUCH EASIER TO
FAST while active. Walking and praying is one of the best exercises for the
Hunger will also return more quickly when exercising. Prayer can be
faster.
made a fine spiritual and physical exercise.
(separate
not fast at
—
can begin fasting by abstaining from the next meal and continue his
long as it will glorify Jesus. The depression, remorse, anti-pleasure and
other strange and oppressed feelings from Satan, are no excuse to break a fast
One
fast as
THE6AME DOOR THAT CLOSES CARNALITY
OPENS UPTHE ^
—
“
'
SPIRITUAL
——
I
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t
LIVINGBYBREAD ALONE
WHEN
WITHOUT REGULAR FASTING ABSTEMI01J5 UVING
CARHAUjll
ACHRI5T1AN UNCONCIOU5LY VIBRATES TOWARDS
3. PRAYER
ZONE
4 MOURNING
FASTING
prematurely.
ground
ZONE
Most of
into faith that
these feelings are the fighting and gaining of virtorious
the
so greatly need. The victory usually comes after
we
fast.
in their
Some folk who have never fasted for longer than a meal or two
four or
take
they
once. It is suggested
lives, may not care to begin a fast all at
manner:
this
in
TO
fast
JESUS
more days in preparation for the consecration
12
—
The
artery
The
blood.
THE CARRIER OF THE LIFE OF THE FLESH
is the blood vessel that carries "THE LIFE OF THE
fate of a
human being depends upon
FLESH,” our
the solidity and strength of
more than on most other things in the human body. The majorof people die as a result of disease of the arterial wall, (a) The muscle fibres
(b and c) Elastic fibres
are reinforced with alternate layers of connective tissue,
this life carrier
ity
form layers which alternate with the muscle fibres. These are elastic
which pass between the muscle bundles. They pull the artery together
unite to
fibres
like
rubber bands, (d)
flat cells,
(e)
The
The
inside of the tube also
outer surface of the artery
is
is
covered with a layer of
covered by loose connective
which cushions the impact of the forward, projectile motion of the pulse,
(f) These are small accessory blood and lymph-vessels, which supply the cells
of the arterial wall with nutrient materials, which pass through this padding.
Each artery has its private arteries, and also its intricate system of nerves that
regulate the width of the vessel,
(g) The capillaries, network of minute vessels
The average diameter is 1/3000 of an inch.
fifty times thinner than our hair.
Blood corpuscles pass through it in single file. Fasting has much to do with
the cleansing of these vessels to prevent hardening of the arteries and disease.
tissue
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FOUR STEPS OF PREPARATION
FOURTH DAY BEFORE THE FAST:—
Leave
off all
meat and fried foods
in diet.
THIRD DAY BEFORE BEGINNING FAST:—
Eat mostly green vegetables, cooked or otherwise.
SECOND DAY BEFORE BEGINNING FAST:—
Eat choice of any live foods. Live food are any uncooked
food, such as vegetables, dried and fresh fruit, nuts, etc.
These foods contain the most life giving substances for
the body, and contain a plentiful amount of vitamins and
Milk products are also live foods.
minerals.
FINAL DAY BEFORE BEGINNING FAST:—
A
all
(Tomatoes may be included).
fresh fruit diet.
that
is
Eat
desired.
THEN BEGIN FAST THE NEXT DAY.
Approximately one pound of weight is lost daily. Physical work will cause
to be lost and, if one is not too weak, it is not detrimental.
more weight
AUTOMATIC BLOOD TRANSFUSION:
Out of
this
pound or so of weight
that
is lost,
the blood
is
retained within
This is a
the body along with most of the minerals and necessary vitamins.
even
find it
may
fasting,
one
few
days
After
a
process.
physiological
natural
The large amount of blood goes into the head, and sometimes
The brain being bathed with more blood than usual, finds a
of the fast difficult, insofar as sleeping is concerned. The organs
dijEcult to sleep.
fever
may
result.
certain part
This is one reason one can receive
no more natural blood transfusion but that
are consequently bathed in this “life” force.
healing through the
fast.
There
is
It requires a long fast for deep seated ailis obtained through fasting.
ments, glands and other vital organs, to become thoroughly cleansed and puriThis is also true in relation to the removal of the doubts and unbelief.
fied.
which
“LIFE” runs through these tubes. Fasting keeps tubes clean. The hardening
of these arteries slows down the life flow. When the arteries harden, other
organs are affected like the contracted kidney at the right
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— or
the heart.
‘Tor the LIFE
OF THE FLESH
human being were squeezed
If a
gallons of water
would
be obtained.
IS
IN THE BLOOD”:
out like a lemon, no less than eleven
The human body is seven-tenths fluid.
The moon, along with the
This is the same proportion of fluids as the earth.
other planets, influence and cause the tidal waves.
them
believe
that are
which are even more
and almost in the same proportion. They are: (1) 80% sodium,
calcium, (3) 4% potassium and 2 to 10% (4) magnesium.
identical,
4%
This
It is logical to also
vital, are influenced by
that our fluids,
(2)
Lev. 17:11.
—
no ordinary water, but ^sea water! It contains the same salts, etc.,
Both sea water and the fluid from our bodies contain
is
that sea water contains.
these
FOUR
elements.
end in
In diagram (a-d) are shown the changes in the vascular wall which
and
ulceration
the
in
steps
first
the
have
we
(d),
calcification: In (a) and
proliferation of connective tissue.
into, these conditions
cated in a fast
In (c)
from ten
regular systematic fastings are gone
When
cannot come about.
At
can become eradiproperly).
broken
be
to
this stage, they
to twenty-one days (fast
is
notice deposits of calcium; (d) calcification
we
and occlusion of the
Continued regular eating oftentimes consumates the condition in the
vessel.
This could result in scores of sicknesses, such as.
arteries as shown to right.
blood v^sel
cerebral hemorrage, paralysis, rupture of an artery, rupture of a
calcium
near the heart, heart failure, high blood pressure, etc. Even with the
calcium
these
eradicate
and
purify
can
deposits as shown in figure (d), fasting
again
will
individual
the
fast;
long
a
by
followed
fasts
deposits in several short
the arteries and blood pressure restored to normal. (See "The Fasting
have
Prayer”).
of course, presenting the secondary blessings of fasting which conmore
cern the tabernacle of the Holy Spirit. The primary blessings are far
natural
the
understanding
thoroughly
However,
by
essential and important.
We
are,
one will be more bold to go into these fastings
and glorify our Jesus. THIS IS OUR MAIN GOAL.
physical part that fasting plays,
more often
to please
GIVING THE STOMACH
wishes to hasten into the fast
more
A BATH
quickly, a bath can be given the
If one
stomach by preparing one quart of very warm water (not too hot) place two
Usually one has
level teaspoons full of salt in it and stir. This can be drunk.
his system flushed out entirely within two hours. This should be taken several
hours after the last meal when stomach is empty. One can take this for several
days but during the first part of the fast only. The quantity can be increased if
;
necessary.
It
can also be taken anytime (several hours after eating)
Some people use this bath daily.
when
not
fasting to keep stomach clean.
SOLEMN WARNING
we are not supposed to seek pleasure
or to even expect such, other than spiritual pleasure. Because fasting has
such a power in connection with the natural things being successfully accomplished when our attention is thus directed to them, we are even forbidden *to
That is, if one is fasting mainly for greater success
call this a consecration fast.
Fasting being an anti-pleasure measure,
in
it,
in business, or for selfish material welfare, or for healing only, or
personal object
—
^this is
an unacceptable
fast to
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God.
some other
“Behold, in the day of
GLORIFIED FASTING
FIND PLEASURE, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for
and debate, and to smite with the first of wickedness: ye shall not fast
as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.” Isa. 58:3,4.
A sanctified fast calls for a fast dedicated to Jesus and our whole aim
should be unselfish. If our fast has other main objectives aside from Jesus, we
We need not worry about our needs and problems.
are acting presumptous.
your fast ye
strife
about them and when the fast has been entered into properly,
Jesus will see that we have the desires of our heart.
Fasting is a symbol of mourning, going down into repentance and chasten-
Jesus
knows
all
Very
ing of the heart.
the
Kingdom
of
God
little
pleasure,
if
with this process.
any
FASTING WRONGLY. According to the
for one to “FIND PLEASURE” by seeking
can be found when seeking
one attempts it, he may be
at all,
When
above Scripture,
it
when
may be
it
This
fasting.
is
possible
very true
during the first part of a fast.
In seeking God, we also cry out, mourn, groan and travail in this type of
praying, and the fast will enable us to get away from all natural pleasure. One
of the very purposes of the fast is to forsake all pleasures, of which, the eating
all other pleasures, etc.
such a powerful spiritual factor in obtaining special favors from
our Lord, that we must above all things keep humble when we receive them.
Many times the blessings received will surprise our little faith and the devil
creeps in with pride, causing us to rise up as if to say, "look what I did,” etc.
pleasure
is
Fasting
the key stone to
is
We
do not and cannot claim merit from fasting. Brother Charles E. Robinson has written a tract on fasting. In it he makes this point clear of which
we
agree:
"This
article
would be incomplete without a solemn warning.
Satan will
not fail to tempt the faster to adopt the Pharisaic theory of salvation by merit.
Luke 18:11,12. But it was the publican who claimed no merit who was forgiven. Satan moved the Pharisee to think he could bring pressure to bear on
God which He, being just, could not resist. He will try to do the same with
God has promised to reward the faithful faster, but this reward
the faster.
THE FOUR HIGH POINTS
OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS
CAME THRU FASTING '^TRAYER
THE 40 YEAR.'\
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THE A B C OF FASTING
Ephesians 2.8,9.
not to be claimed as for merit lest any man should boast.
servants,
unprofitable
No matter how much Or how long we fast we are still
having merely done our duty. Luke 17:10.
of
“
that what I could not get done by praying, with a spell
is
I
do know
—
—
no food but drinking plenty of water brought
which Jesus came when He “afterward was an hungered.
Matt. 4:2. The 15th day I became hungry, ate, and was well.”
Many times Christian people receive some wonderful things from the Lord
through sanctified fasting, only to be shorn of all or part of these blessings by
One has also to refrain
permitting pride and boastfulness to creep in.
bilious fever, a 15-day fast
me
to the place to
in ourselves after fasting as well as this “appearance
during the fasting period. In everything it should be done for the Glory of
in
this is our entire motive, then our humbleness and victories
too
much “appearance”
When
God.
fasting can be testified to for the exaltation
us
and praise of Him, who redeemed
from the curse of the law.
THE ACTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT reveals that prayer, supplications and
FASTINGS were largely put into practice. The church was born in the midst
of the former rain of the Holy Spirit through men and women .who went ALL
OUT FOR GOD. This, of course, included the entire, full old time faith
which included the foundation teachings of Jesus Christ of which FASTING
WAS ONE of them.
The latter rain is under development at the present time,
and when enough of Christ's people go all out for Him in Fastings and prayers,
contending for ALL of the OLD TIME FAITH, then, surely a mighty revival
of power and the operations of the Spirit will become fully manifested.
ALMOST ALIVE
containing five million finger-like villi and three
thousand cells to each one of these villi, is one of the most wonderful and
glorious parts of man that our blessed Creator has created. Our nourishment
It is the fountainhead for the well-being of
or nutrition is developed there.
The
intestinal
canal,
This digestive tubing has its own nervous system and can continue
approximately four hours after a person passes out of this life and his
heart has stopped beating. With these vigorous cells and complicated structure,
a piece of the intestinal tract has been kept alive outside of the body, in a warm
nutritive solution, for days at a time, '^en round solid materials were placed
our body.
living,
into
one end of the tubing,
it
performed
its
movements
in the peristaltic
man-
does in the body, and completely pushed the objects through the
These tests were made several days after a person died. Why not
tubing.
show due respect for this wonderful mechanism of the temple of the Holy
ner, like
Spirit
it
by giving
it
a vacation
more often for the glory of
Jesus ?
The breaking of the fast is a very slow procedure, if one wishes to retain
every good thing that was accomplished by it. The prophets and men of old
were acquainted with the proper care in the breaking of fasts.
In the study of Elijah’s
different installments before
fasts,
we
Jiis
forty-day fast.
In the study of Elijah just before the forty-day fast,
him food
in two
Kings 19:5-8).
we see him performing
notice the angel giving
he went on
(I
on an empty stomach. Famine was in the land, but Brother Elijah
was a very wise prophet who gave “no thought for tomorrow.” He took
adversity and converted it into glory and honor for the Lord. This very famine
that loomed so menacingly to most was immediately changed by Elijah into a
miracles
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GLORIFIED FASTING
When
had run its course, the Lord sent ravens to
Another famine enveloped the stricken land, and we
believe he also sanctified this one into a prayerful fast, for it was soon afterward that he performed some notable miracles. At any rate, with the brook,
his only source of water dried up, he was led to a very poor widow to break
"And when
and, please notice, how careful he was in breaking it.
his fast
he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering
of sticks: and he called to her, and said. Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in
a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her,
consecration
him
feed
fast.
this fast
twice daily.
—
Bring me, I pray thee, A MORSEL OF BREAD IN THINE HAND.
Elijah’s instruction, "A MORSEL of bread.” (I Kings 17:10-13).
note
Please
Surely, he was endeavoring to break a fast that he had been on and realized
that water was the most important thing, and that a tiny piece of bread care-
and
said.
would then be the next procedure. Again, we are further shown
although Elijah had been on a fast in a famished country, he was familiar
fully eaten
—
that,
"And Elijah
with the breaking-in procedure because we are told in Verse 13,
said unto her. Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a
LITTLE cake first, and bring it to me, and after make for thee and for thy son.”
"The barrel of meal shall not waste,
Please notice the miracle after fasting.
neither shall the cruse of oil fail.”
feels that Elijah was one of the greatest advocates of fasting
ever lived and equalled only by John the Baptist, his proto type.
In the next chapter of I Kings, we find the God of Elijah answering by fire
The author
who
and the prophets of Baal embarrassingly exposed. Please note that Elijah,
evidently, was on a fast here, after this spectacular miracle, because I Kings
18:41,42: "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, EAT AND DRINK; for
there is a sound of abundance of rain. So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.
And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and HE CAST HIMSELF
UPON THE EARTH, and put his face between his knees.” then we find Elijah
out-running Ahab who had been on natural food, while the prophet of God
had been on a spiritual feast of faith and power. "And the hand of the Lord
was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.” I Kings 18:46.
DOWN
The food abstentionist, Elijah, had very severe trials along with all of his
Any person will also have severe trials in a consecration fast. This will
fasts.
be a real spiritual fight if you put everything you have into it. Please study the
next chapter carefully, and note some of the trying experiences that befell Elijah
PRAYER.
because he was being used mightily of God in FASTiNGS
prophets
great
other
and
Elijah’s
behind
secret
the
A lesson well learned is
prophet’s
have
a
can
too,
We,
fast.
prophet’s-length
the
is
This
successes.
AND
experience by following their example.
dally around about
it.
Let’s
go
Why
hesitate,
why
doubt,
why
dilly-
into these prophet’s-early<hurch-length of fast-
REMEMBER
PLEASE
ing and have their experiences of power and faith.
have
PERSONS.
OF
RESPECTER
NEVER
IS
CHRIST
THIS, JESUS
But we will have to
just as much right to the miracle working as Elijah had.
along
fulfill our part and, sometimes, suffer the miserable conditions that go
We
A
with
it.
times in a Bible Institute, or from among a large group of saints, a
start fasting for either long or short periods, then break the fast too
soon, too rapidly, or mistakenly in some manner, and cause a severe reproa^
Sometimes, the ill effects of their lack of wisagainst the power of fasting.
Many
person will
18
—
THE A B C OF FASTING
hospital
so serious that either they, themselves, will voluntarily go to a
attention
special
the
or medical man, or some friend will force them to seek
made mandatory by their folly and indiscretion. Because there is little informa-
dom,
is
from
tion concerning the subject, all protracted fasting is condemned and barred
This, of course, frightens people and hinders
the Bible seminary and church.
the progress and advancement of revival power and real Bible experiences.
When we go into a protracted fast without food (water only taken) for a
period of days or weeks, the importance of the proper break-fast, after such an
interval, is far more impoi^ant and serious than it would be from supper to the
morning meal. The longer the fast the more true this will be. The stomach
and intestinal tract go to sleep after a few days of fasting. The digestive and
To place any
intestinal secretions become retarded and almost at a standstill.
against it.
crime
actual
an
would
be
this
time
at
stomach
solid food into the
In order to be able to absorb the digested food as well as the large quantities
of secreted digestive fluids, the intestinal wall has enlarged its surface by developing not only larger folds, but also minute processes known as VILLI.
high powered lens reveals that the mucous membrane is covered with millions
A
The
Intestinal Digestive
19
—
Apparatus
—
GLORIFIED FASTING
Each villus is
villi.
become very much smaller
The longer the fast, the more asleep they
of tiny closely packed, tentacle hair-like structures, called
from 1/35
These
1/50 of an inch long.
to
villi
in fasting and dormant in action.
seem to become. When in the state of receiving food they appear as in the
above diagram. (A) is an empty villus in the act of receiving food, (B) after
having received food, and (C) is a villus that has evacuated its contents. (This
process is very slow after a long fast). At the upper left may be seen a food
particle that has passed into the small intestine in a half -digested condition.
the food comes in contact with the villi beneath it (upper left), the
When
digestive gland
knows
its
requirements and, at once, sends forth a tiny stream
(see fountain) of digestive juice over the food to enable it to digest.
also chemical stimulation to induce the flow of these digestive juices.
cells
its
lymph node (d)
As a result of the
creep out of the
insoluble parts.
tion,
meat
is
to
gnaw
at the
There
is
Wander
food and to carry away
digestive action of the glandular secre-
converted into meat water (amino acids), starch into sugar water
(grape sugar), and fat into glycerin and SOAP. When fasting a length of
When wrong food is
time, these glandular secretions rest and go to sleep.
placed into them suddenly, and in the wrong manner and quantity, they rebel.
They cannot awaken quicldy and take up this intricate, delicate task immediately,
and abruptly start performing their customary task. Consequently, only a very
slow and gradual, gentle stimulation by fruit juices, diluted if the fast is over
ten days, and only in small amounts of four to six ounces during the first few
meals,
called for.
is
This fruit
or clear vegetable water, or clear cereal
juice,
and assimilation.
do not dry up and become permanently
dormant, but only go to sleep, so to speak, only to be awakened by the very,
very light and gentle stimulation of water mingled with a few tiny particles of
water, will slowly but gradually reestablish proper digestion
These
villi
food, such as
and
digestive glands
would be found
in the diluted fruit juices, or clear vegetable
There would be so small an amount of
watery food, that they would arouse themselves
only very slowly and gradually from their slumber. It might actually take days
of this gradually increasing the quantity and strength of food before every one
waters,
food
on
a fast over fifteen days.
particles in this diluted
of the cells of the five million
become
fully
cells that
villi
that are in the intestinal canal (wall) has
Each villi, of the five million, has three thousand
become fully reawakened before the stomach can be considered
awakened.
have to
fully readjusted to complete normalcy.
required and
much
Consequently, a great deal of time
is
patience, before the fasting candidate can get his teeth into
the full-eating regime again.
It
usually requires as long to break in a fast as
only takes about six days of the fruit juices
a fast from twenty-one to forty days. The rest of the
days one should eat lightly of easily digested foods, fruits, vegetables or milk,
and rfo between meal eating.
in moderate quantities, properly spaced
Within the villus there are two sets of pipes, the blood and the lymph
the length that one fasted, but
and
it
when breaking
fruit
—
—
and absorb both amino acids
and sugar. These two classes of substances pass by way of the path 1, 2, 3
into the blood-stream. The lymph-vessels end as narrow bags (f). These bags
suck themselves full of glycerin and soap (H), from which they form human
vessels.
The
blood-vessels are located externally
When the
is transformed into a kind of milk.
with milk (I), it contracts and pushes the milk into the
lymph-vessels (J). Villi can be seen pumping milk down into lymph-vessels.
fat,
so that the nutritive fluid
villus has
become
filled
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—
WE DO NOT
Man
body
is
LIVE
ON WHAT WE EAT
does not live on what he eats, but rather on what he digests. The
not nourished by what is put into the food cavity, but by what passes
FIVE MILLION VILLI.
Everyone eats, and everyone thinks he knows why he eats. Medical science
does not know why, and does not yet know what a cell is, neither does it know
through and around the
motor transforms the food substance which it receives
also unable to say why man eats, and why the cell
requires just these and no other food substances in order to function properly
physically. The fact remains that no doctor or scientist has ever offered a satisfactory answer. Jesus Christ showed to us the most perfect way. He revealed
to us that not only must man give attention to his physical requirements, but he
also had a far more important part of himself that needed and also required
This was his spiritual nature. He gave us a lesson in this
special attention.
regard in Matthew 4:4: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” He was speaking of food abstention
in
what manner
He had
because
this cell
Therefore,
into energy.
just
it is
completed a prophet’s-length
fast.
(Compare Deut. 8:3).
Some religious groups are typical of a body of toilers who get
While
accomplished.
nothing
they are doing a lot of hard
work they labor
left
in vain.
of the illustration,
On
the
we have
represented our continued three
meal a day
right,
stuffing habit.
On the
luke
warm
depicted
is
Christians, attached, bound,
and
so occupied with these "weights”
as if their very lives
upon
close
their
is
observation
reveals
A
that
Food Power versus Spirit Power
Matthew 6:31
whole body, soul and mind
taken up
procedure.
The
depended
these instead of Christ.
entirely
with the
They would not have
strength, or time, for other spiritual things.
buying, preparation, cooking, serving and eating of food keeps
person from
HAVING TIME TO PRAY LET ALONE
FAST.
many
Should
a
I say,
have time to fast? Actually, this would be a laughable excuse because unless
one has a large family, to cook and care for, one would have a lot more time
to fast. If these laborers would only let loose of the strings and encumbrances
they are attached to, they would immediately and automatically be on a fast.
Why strain, work and pant about a lot of things that, after all, are not really
necessary all of the time? Please see Matthew 6:25; Luke 10:40-42; Psalm 78.
PASTOR ON TWENTIETH DAY OF FAST
Dear Brother Hall:
I
ing.
is
am
I
pleased that Jesus has enabled
know
it is
me
a deeper experience for
to be
all
on
of us
my
who
twentieth day of fastwill pay the price.
the real secret of revival success.
May
Jesus bless you. Pastor Harold O’Brien
Bowmanvill, Ontario, Canada.
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It
GLORIFIED FASTING
We
some testimonies from people who have become moderate
are giving
in their every
day living by going into consecrated fastings to please Jesus:
BARBER WORKS AND FASTS TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS
RECOUNTS HEALINGS
First Letter
October 12, 1947
Dear Brother Hall:
Thank
am
I
the Lord,
a barber,
saving power.
it
I
am on my
am
twelfth day of fasting and I
feeling fine.
every day, witness for Jesus, and tell people about His
do
already find there is power in fasting and prayer when we
work
I
unto Him.
Outside of getting tired in the evenings,
and
physically
I
am
doing very well
in the fast
spiritually.
Yours in Jesus name,
Brother Glen Espich.
Second Letter
October 31, 1947
Brother Hall:
Greetings in Jesus Name.
morning journal,
I am sending clipping from our daily
"THE JOURNAL
GAZETTE” (Fort Wayne, Indiana, Thursday Morning, Oct. 30, 1947).
water taken, worked
fasted twenty-eight days without any food, only
daily
I
The
and lost thirty-three pounds.
drank no water.
While on the
water was so putrid the last eight days
twenty-first day of the fast, I
was privileged
I
to see a paralyzed
An operaFour doctors said it
for life.
invdid
an
be
likely
would
child
the
then,
tion might help but, even
I just saw the
healed.
completely
was
child
the
fasting
After prayer and
using every limb.
child playing outside with the other children and
child
HEALED.
Some
of the preachers say
I told
fast.
a fast.
I
was almost a hopeless case.
am
them
One
that
I
have slipped
off
was how we got the word
has to fast before
feeling fine, but a
it
little
could be
weak.
my
beam, and
breakfast.
It
it is no use to
meant breaking
"BREAK-FAST.”
Brother Espich.
SEVENTEEN DAYS AFTER FASTING
November
14,
1947
Third Letter
Dear Brother
Thank
in Christ:
like everything unlike
to
Him
He is mine and I feel Him ever so near me.
Him is entirely conquered, and I have entirely
Jesus forever.
by giving away completely to His Holy
It.
seems
sold out'
Spirit.
is the best I have
Although I
three times
preached
chair,
barber
the
at
day
every
worked
ever had in Him. I
Then,
at night, I really
eating.
of
place
in
time
meal
at
prayed
and
a week,
prayed and also in the prayer meetings.
direcThis is seventeen days after the "break-fast” period and I followed
This
again.
food
in this matter of adjusting the stomach to
only fasted twenty-eight days, the experience
tions very carefully
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30, 1947
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Union Council. T1
between Broadway and
city to
crease’'
3 Street.
change im direction has
W
pproved by the Board
ty, Mr. White said, and
rcessary because of the
»nal flow of the one•eets north of the two
I
I
i
I
ng Rally
j
i
I
The CIO Coun>
Tonight
Branning,
it
living
Barber Without Food 28
Days In Religious Fast
County
RAY SCHERER
By
Gandhi-like stint which ended last
in our town night. "I went on working in the
gone all out on
shop every day though. Finally
Truman’s food saving
r, chairman of President
I got so weak I had to push mynocratic Cen- program. Two hundred per cent,
self to worki Last Sunday was the
will appear in fact.
will introGlenn T. Espich of 476 Elizabeth day I got the hungriest. I was
respective Street is the man. Last night he only three days away from my
gorged himself on three spoonsful goal so I didn’t weaken,” he conhis first food in fides.
of orange juice
Commit- who has
man
one
There’s
lairman of the
really
—
28 days.
Mr. Espich
Fast Disciple
an ordained clergyMr. Espich is a disciple of San
Fundamental Christian Diego’s Franklin Hall, the
Church. He preaches how and then country’s foremost fast advocate.
man
is
of the
but earns his daily bread running
a neighborhood barber shop at 510
East State Boulevard, just east of
Bueter’s Garage.
On the first of October, he scaled
Last night, while
208 pounds.
hitching up his pants. Mr. Espich
ndkr the
th^ line
itself
lanner.
\annen
”='.dge-
woman to go 62
got one
days,” the northside scissor wielder reports.
“He
“I'll
be on orange juice for
about five days, then some vegetables. Won’t be any meat for an-
weighed in at 175. That’s down other 28 days.”
The customers have told him
33 poundk in 28 days of occasional
that the new 175 pounds looks
sips of water.
The 55-year-old preacher-barber good on the 5 foot 7 Espich frame.
but
proclaimed it a religious fast. “1 Espich agrees he feels good
was moved to do it and 1 really weak. Clothes don't fit anymore,
trousers up
didn’t know how far I’d get,” he but he has hitched his
(sion
a $5
boat
cquip.
in the
says.
back with safety pins.
"new leaner look," one of
The
JDaniel in the Bible fasted 21
the regular shave customers has
days and Elijah went for 40:”
it.
tabbed
Mr. Espich says he was asking
the Almighty to “send us a
vival.”
He declares he wanted
"the young people to go to church
yirith
al
th'
working peo
r speakers, inigan, candidate
d R. C. (Pat)
Tactor
“is
excess of
•
»
to
will br
to the
it
Fort Wayne.”
‘Les
It Was obs
nd R. Schutt will
ceremonies and
Democratic can-
entral
opposed
ships
»e for mayor, will
e a series of major
ve mimicipal elecmight at a Demotbe entire south
Hill School. The
j the public, will
locratic
is
cause
Demo-
Jr.,
seeking stronger re
At the regular r
CIO Council, Frank
member on the Loc
sory
Board, reporl
board is contempla'
cent general Increa
Fort Wayne, The n
attended by Carl
chairman.
and stop this communism.”
,
He admits th^' several Fort
Wayne, doctors have been keeping
the
f'a
wary 'eve on him
Negotiations Rer
*
23
On Raer Field P'
—
,
GLORIFIED FASTING
evening there was a birthday dinner for me, but I ate sparingly and stopped
eating when I should. Fasitng will help us to put the proper value on food.
Here are the facts as I remember them: The first four days were diflicult,
then hunger
me.
left
Some people were praying
for
me who knew
I
was
fast-
immensely. On the tenth day I had lost fifteen
ing,
pounds. I was not worried any time during the fast. Some Christians encouraged me to go on. I was able to pray for a crippled child who lives near
me and Jesus touched her little body on the twenty-first day of the fast. The
child now walks every where. The father and mother are saying Jesus did it.
and
this
strengthened
me
was prayed for, and he immediately got up healed. Novemwas taken to a hospital to pray for a man who had typhoid fever
and the Lord came on the scene like a bolt of lightning and healed him.
My eyesight is fifty percent better, arthritis has left my body and there are
A
bed-fast brother
ber ninth,
I
no more aches
Some
in
my
arms
pie-chicken loving preachers here in
“Wayne”
said I
was
after
glamour
could not help it if folk knew I was fasting, besides, I was
only fasting to Jesus. Anyway, people made fun of David when he fasted and
he did not care— neither do I. (Psalm 109:24,25). I told them, people also
and
publicity.
I
knew
that Jesus and Johns’ disciples also fasted.
After Jesus fasted, Satan came on the scene and gave Him a battle. I also
had opposition and spiritual warfare but Jesus brought me through. Fasting
and it has enabled me to claim victory and believe through on what
is
VOWER
have been praying about.
I also found out that good drinking water has a lot to do with fasting and
it is better to drink it warm than too cold after we get on into the fast.
Chlorine water is obnoxious and very disagreeable to take.
Tepid enemas were taken every three days and this proved helpful in many
ways. To keep my breath pure and cleansed, while working with my barber
customers, I touched my tongue to some tiny menthol crystals. I did not use
I
gum
or sen sen.
My daughter gave birth to a beautiful baby girl (six
last is best.
I travailed for her in
pounds, twelve ounces) in three and one-half hours.
Lord
it was worth any
the
Praise
minutes.
thirty
for
prayer while fasting
The
sacrifice I tried to
wards are
full
make.
Jesus does reward us and oftentimes, the fasting re-
of pleasant surprises.
Yours in the Lord,
Fort
Wayne,
Brother Glenn Espich
Indiana.
REVIVALS THROUGH FASTING AND PRAYER
Dear Brother Hall:
Many
came
plished.
I
people started fasting for a city-wide revival and some great meetings
saw wonderful results that fasting and prayer accom-
into our city.
I
We
hundred people became converted. I am glad
wonderful Bible fasting truth. I went into more and
have seen God do some wonderful healings.
believe nearly three
received light
longer fasts and
on
we
this
“Atomic Power With God” to my son in Tulsa,
My sister who is also
Okla., who is in Bible college, and he fasted six days.
broken
out in that area.
has
revival
mighty
and
a
days,
nine
for
fasted
there,
Thank Jesus for revivals coming this way in answer to fasting and prayer.
Sister E. N. Hawk, Hamilton, Ohio.
I
sent the fasting book,
24
—
SISTER FASTS FORTY DAYS IN
NEW ZEALAND
Dear Brother Hall:
We
are so
happy over what fasting will do when combined with prayer.
of the saints in this country are finding special blessings in fastings and a
Some of our prayers we have been praying many years are
revival stir is on.
Some
being answered with the additional power of fasting.
Assembly here, has been in fastings night and day like
She has fasted for forty days without any food. She
testified to having a vision similar to the one Daniel had (ahead of time) of
the risen and GLORIFIED LORD. She had many precious and glorious ex-
One
sister in the
Anna, the Prophetess.
This fast has proven beneficial in every way
periences.
May
.
.
.
Jesus bless you.
Brother F. Bythelli
Lower Hutt,
New
Zealand.
FEELS YOUNG AGAIN AND HAS POWER WITH GOD
AFTER TWENTY-THREE DAY FAST
Dear Brother Hall:
little over twenty-three days, I feel much better
I feel young again and in shaving my
spirit.
and
in
body
both
in every way,
beard it cuts as easily as it did when I was twenty or thirty.
After fasting to Jesus a
Before fasting,
all
I
could hardly control
my
the fast was started
it
When
the time.
hunger appetite. I wanted to eat
was difficult, at first, to go without
Jesus gave me power, and now I have
food. I did not think I could do it.
complete control of the situation. When we mean business with Jesus, He
gives us spiritual rewards and fasting is for us today the same as the Holy
Ghost. I believe we are in the last days of this dispensation when we need to
watch, fast and pray.
Brother Albert Fredrick Rowe
Vancouver, B. C., Canada.
REVIVAL POWER AFTER FOURTEEN-DAY FAST IN
me
Thanks very much for sending
is
I
name
NEW ZEALAND
your book on fasting. ’’Atomic Power”
After fasting to Jesus fourteen days, (my first time)
can truly say one does have power, and revival power in the soul to live and
the right
serve Jesus Christ
now and
for
it.
more
excellently.
I
can follow His pattern more effectively
intend to further follow His footsteps and take a forty-day fast in the
We are a Holy Ghost people, but we lack
and prayer will bring.
near future.
fasting
Would
power
this great
that
be possible for you to send the other book, ’’The Fasting Prayer” 7
we still are unable to send money out of this country.
May God bless you in this great work and may this truth spread to this little
country where there have been plenty of churches but few revivals
it
Restrictions are such that
.
Yours
in the Master’s cause,
F.
Smith
Hastings,
— 25 —
New
Zealand.
.
.
ings into practice?
FASTING BRINGS REVIVAL WITHOUT AN EVANGELIST
Dear Doctor Hall:
I never before
prayer.
so very thankful for the light on fasting and
just ending
After
truth.
great
this
in
contained
possibilities
realized the great
I have been encouraging
accomplishments,
marvelous
seeing
and
fast
a ten-day
as the answer to some very
different ones in the church to try fasting and prayer
I
am
difficult
had
problems.
especially encouraged with the
am
I
in my personal life
Many of our people
through the
are
wonderful victory
I
have
FASTING PRAYER.
becoming
interested
and are now
fasting.
We had an EVANGELIST WITHOUT MUCH OF A REVIVAL BEFORE
OUR FASTING, BUT NOW WE ARE HAVING A REVIVAL WITHOUT
AN EVANGELIST Thank Jesus that ffisting will draw us close to His bosom.
.
.
Your
sister in Jesus,
Lucile Farmer, Superior,
Wyoming.
SUFFERED TEN MONTHS—^HEAliED AFTER SERIES OF SHORT FASTS
Dear Brother Hall:
Fasitng and prayer
God’s way for His people, and it is one hundred
for me but offered
percent Biblical. Two doctors told me they could do nothing
was
but little hope.
there
me
tell
specialists
heart
had
I
medicine.
pills and
comAfter fasting five to seven days, five times within seventy-five days, Jesus
and
door
death’s
to
down
I had gone
pletely delivered me of my affliction.
healed
was
not
I
Still,
Spirit.
Holy
prayed earnestly, and Jesus gave me the
is
until I took the series of fasts.
assure you there
I
old fashioned white
I
nothing to fear, and
is
HOT
I
believe
it
is
God’s way for an
Holy Ghost Revival.
regret to say I have seen too
many
preachers that
would
eat like hogs,
and
God
help such ignorant people
these gluttons would fight and oppose
are defeating their own
instead,
but,
others,
helping
who are supposed to be
fasting.
The world
purpose.
12
is
with these overstuffed backsliding folk.
Brother Jacobson
Burt, Iowa.
filled
DAYS ALONG ON FAST IN PALESTINE
over a year ago the Lord directed me to come to Jerusalem to discomtribute certain religious literature to the Jews, and to pray for the second
above
Lord,
the
blessed
by
been
has
ing of Jesus. My work among the Jews
A
my
little
expectations.
We
know
His Kingdom
there will never be any peace until our Lord returns to establish
of righteousness, and this is what I am fasting for at this time.
After reading your sermons on the subject, I decided to begin fasting twelve
days ago, and am still on one. Please ask others to join with me in fasting and
praying for our Lord’s return to establish His reign. I seem so burdened with
this that, as I
weep and
Signs are
sation.
all
pray, I feel that
around
it is
the very
las't
days of this dispen-
us.
walked through Jerusalem where Jesus had
been, and He was so real to me in my heaviness. I saw the burning buildings
and shops of the Jews the mobs had wrecked. The Arabs’ rage and protest
against the United Nations decisions in favor of the Jews was all but a
Surely, Jesus will come soon when more of His
pleasant sight to behold.
On
the sixth day of the
people seek
Him
in fastings
fast, I
and prayer to glorify and exalt Him.
Sister M. E. Robinson
Bethlehem Road,
Jerusalem, Palestine.
EIGHT DAYS ALONG ON FAST AND STILL ON JOB
Dear Doctor Hall:
... At this writing, I am in the eighth day of a consecration fast and am
holding on to make it many more. However, I am having it hard and if God
does not allow me a bit more strength, I am going to break it soon.
I
believe a cancer
sinus that
is
is
passing from
being cleansed.
A very
my
system and
foul odor
Your Brother
and
I
taste
have a bad case of
.
being eliminated
also
is
.
in Christ,
Wayne Moufrey,
— 27 —
Decatur,
111.
.
PLEASURE EMOTIONS
CAPACrTyfOfi THE
ENJOYMENT
Of
PLEASURE
CD
iS
lu
6
B
WHEN GOING ON A HUNGER STRIKE FOR THE GLORY OF JESUS,
WE ALSO STRIKE OUT SATANIC INFLUENCES AND WORLDLY
PLEASURE. OUR CAPACITY FOR THE SPIRITUAL, THEN, BECOMES
AS GREAT AS IT HAD BEEN FOR THE NATURAL. (A) SHOWS
PLEASURE AND THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH AT A STANDSTILL. (B)
DEPICTS THE FLESH ARRESTED. IT CANNOT GO ON A RAID WHILE
FASTING. AN INNER REVIVAL IS THE RESULT. THE FLESH AND
THE SPIRIT ARE AT ENMITY WITH EACH OTHER.
— 28 —
PLAYS AN EttPOBTANT PABI,
WOBID NU3IBEB 4
IN tutt. study of the FAST. FOUB IS THE NUMBEB OF
HUMANITY. IN THE PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF MAN, WE
FIND FOUB MANIFESTING ITSELF IN MANY WAYS. FOUB
IS VEBY MUCH BELATED TO THE SUBJECT OF FASTING AS
THF. RFADFR SHALL PRESENTLY SEE. WE ABE ALSO
INCLUDING OTHER INTERESTING FOURS FOB STUDY.
TUTC
THE4
THE4
es;ential5
appetites
IN
ORDER OF
EVER/
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THE
NORMAL
APPETITES
BEFORE
AFTER
FASTING
PER50N HA5-m£5E
FASTING
1.
1.
1.
2.
SLEEP
SEX
3
J.
.
WATER
HUNGER
HUNGER
2.
4
APPETITES
THEIR IMPORTANCE
AIR
THE
2..
SEX
3
.
GREED
GREED
COVETOU5NDj
4.
4.
4.
FOOD
SPIRITUAL
SPIRITUAL
MORB THAN NINETY-FIVE PERCENT OF OCR POPULATION
ABE AUTO-INTOXICATED WITH FOOD, HOW CAN WE OVER-STRESS
THE SUBJECT OF FASTING. ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION, JESUS
CONDEMNED OVER EATING AND SURFEITING, ALONG WITH DRINKING, EVEN PLACING IT AHEAD OF DRINKING. MOST DRUNKARDS
BECOME FOOD DRUNKARDS FIRST. ALCOHOLISM CAN NOT SURVIVE A SEIGE OF FASTING. FOOD DRUNKARDS BECOME DISEASED.
SINCE
— 29 —
THE FOUR TASTES
abstentionist denys the pleasures of taste
The food
tongue
is
the
the tongue.
first
when
fasting.
The
There are four taste zones or pits in
different points on the tongue as shown on
part of the stomach.
These are located
These taste zones
at
(1) sweet, (2) salt, (3) sour, (4) bitter.
In the center of the tongue
The
tastes nothing: this is
consequently
and
pit
bud,
taste
no
has
that
is a zone
the silent zone. Try tasting something sweet on the back of the tongue or salt
on the tip of the tongue and find how devoid of the real taste they are! Almost
the diagram.
are:
zones are not sharply separated, but overlap.
our foods are composed of various substances, and consequently, stimulate
not one but several, often even all four taste mechanisms, thus producing the
mixed sensations of taste. A lemon has a bitter as well as a sour taste; an
apple is sour and sweet at the same time. On the front part of the tongue alum
all
while on the back it creates a sweetish taste. There is
The tongue perceives not only a sweet or a saline
taste.
fluidity, roughness or smoothness, mildness or
weight,
the
also
sensation, but
sharpness, temperature, viscidity, and volatility of food.
produces a sour
no such thing
When
is
taste,
as a
pure
these taste buds are given a vacation, a
acquired for the deeper things of Jesus.
new
spiritual stronger taste,
This seems to be a resurrection of
the deliciousness of the Spirit.
Taste means enjoyment.
cess.
Likewise,
we
As we have
sacrifice the
would enjoy while eating
stated, fasting is an anti-pleasure proenjoyment of tasting the many dishes that we
naturally.
CANDY
the zone of
SWEET
SILENCE
— 30 —
“O
taste
and see that the Lord
Fasting gives us a better opportunity to
is
good.”
Psalm
"FEAST” on
34:8.
the goodness of the
Lord.
When we
once
good works and Words of God, we enjoy having
taste the
"If so be ye have tasted that
righteousness.
regular and frequent tastes of His
2:3.
Peter
I
gracious.”
the Lord is
are not so pleasant to taste.
Some kindi of food
unpleasant to taste by themselves.
Likewise,
The message of
disagreeable to taste.
fasting
some
is
Vinegar and
salt are
parts of the
one of the most
very
Gospel are
difficult to
forty long days. He w^t
Jesus partook of this process for
taste and receive.
encountered by all fasting people. He
into every kind of misery that can be
He not only entered into and tasted of fasting, but
tasted every phase of it.
He
also
2:3.
went further and
In
this,
He
"TASTED DEATH FOR EVERY MAN.” Hebrews
imaginable.
tasted every awful disagreeable thing
taste of the spiritual
Let us remiember that we can more effectively
go into food abstention for a time.
when we
DECEPTIVE TASTES
they imagine they are
timds children do not eat certain foods because
to find out after totonly
this way,
not good. Sometimes adults ate also misled
lived longer than
have
adults
Some
ing and eating a dish, they were mistaken.
it a thorough
giving
after
find
to
only
dish,
certain
fifty years without trying a
finding they
when
were
they
disappointed
How
delicious.
try that it was very
dish for so
lovely
enjoyment of a
had lost out, usually through delusion, the
Many
long a period!
This
i
with the word of God. There could be many
may
of God that we may not have tasted. Fasting
also Applies spiritually
the Word
only two or three days, but the
be one of them, not necessarily a fast of
also include the Jesus-length
may
This
prophet’s-early church-length fasts.
lengths of fasts.
various
these
into
go
Any average person can
fast.
vital subjects in
Why
not taste and see?
At one time the author handled many kinds of
will fool
one by
taste.
flavoring extracts.
Flavor
right
very strong vanilla flavoring, will taste nasty
it is weaker
because
better
taste
will
flavor
low priced
A
A
weak
out of the bottle.
upon more of the taste
and usually sweetened. The sweetened taste operates
a strong bitter taste.
only
has
vanilla
strongr
the
whereby
faculty on the tongue^
was
When the weaker and cheaper vanilla was used in cooking, the housewife
the
overcome
To
flavored.
The cake or pastry was not well
often fooled.
competitors, I would add
competition of the cheaper grades of flavoring sold by
slightly sweetened with
milk
of
glass
a
to
flavoring
four drops of my stronger
of both the quality
convinced
be
would
housewife
any
After tasting,
sugar.
it would taste if used
and strength of my product, because she would know how
in her
own cooking
If fasting
at
home.
not taste it and put it into ac^al
the Spirit.
lives and be convinced through experience and by
and prayer
practice in our
own
is
in the Bible,
why
— 31 —
THE
4
THE
DIMEM5I0N5
GOSPEL
OF THE
REaTI0M5HIP
ALIMENTAfiy
lommiMoms
THE4
THE4
DIVISIONS
THE5EMA/ HAVE
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TASTES
DIVISIONS
CANAL
1.
1.
1.
1.
WIDTH
MOUTH
SALVATION
SWEET
,
z.
2.
i.
2.
LENGTH
STOMACH
BAPTISM
SALT
3.
j.
3.
SMALL
DIVINE
INTESTINE
HEALING
3.
HEIGHT
4
THE 4TH
DIMENSION
SOUR
4.
4.
4.
LARGE
COMING
KING
BITTER
INTESTINE
THE SPIRITUAL BALANCE SHEET
famous "PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE”
Brillat-Savarin begins his
with the
a civilized person dines.” This sounds
like Luke 21:34 and Matt. 24:38, where the world will be "eating” and "drinking” [food, drinks and alcholic beverages] when the Son of Man comes. If the
statement:
"An
animal feeds;
above was reversed and
man
eats;
man would feed himself, instead of living to dine, he
God Almighty. There is no wrong when eating
could be more glorifying to
and without fasting, too, can be very grieving to God’s
animals feed and they live eight times their growth period because
they are fed that which is necessary. Man, on the other hand, is the shortest
lived of all creatures, we seldom live more than three times our growth period.
to live, but living to eat,
Spirit.
The
SISTER OF SIXTY-EIGHT FASTS FORTY DAYS
Dear
I
I
am
Him
Sir:
—
am
sixty-eight years of age
so happy
and have broken a forty-day consecration
that Jesus completely healed
I
of
many
things.
I
fast.
can praise
me of high blood pressure, cardiac asthma, and female trouble
could not have been relieved except through a surgical operation.
for healing
so serious
me
— 32
N
4
THE
THE4
PARTS
OF
FASTING
HUNGER5
(FASTING
MASTERS
THE4
4
THE
NATURAL
THINGS
1
TO 00
1
METHODS
OF
ELirUNATION
1.
1.
FIRST
TRUE
HUNGER
3
DAYS
HUNGER
NATURAL
KEEP CLEAN
WASH FACE
DRINK WATER
LUNGS
NOSTRILS
ENA MAS
z.
z.
HABIT
NEXT
KEEP IN THE
HUNGER
DAYS
WEAKNESS
RIGHT FRAME
10
UlSr HUNGER
WHICH
IS
OF
z.
SKIN
MIND
51
3
3.
3
ROUTINE
3.
.
.
HUNGER
OF THE
EXPERIENCE
OLD MAN
CARNALITV
GET
BOWELS
PLENTY
OF SLEEP
.
4.
4.
4.
HUNGER
HUNGER
FOR
RETURNS
THE FAST
PLEASURE
FAST ENDS
PROPERLY
Thank
KIDNEYS
masterthe Lord for giving you the revelation to put out such a
how
know
not
do
but
fast,
to
the subject. Many would be willing
on
do so intelligently.
piece”
to
4.
BREAK
All glory be to the Father, Son and
Holy Ghost.
Mrs. Minnie Graham
Box 72, Blackburn, Oklahoma.
CANADIAN HEADED OF LARGE GROWTH
AFTER FASTING TWENTY-THREE DAYS
have been greatly helped and blessed by your books on fasting and
quanprayer. We have given away many copies and are now ordering another
Many folk are waiting and hungry for this message up here in Canada.
tity.
We
Many have been
blessed through protracted Bible fasting.
We,
also,
have
I had a large tumor or
seen what the power of fasting will do in our lives.
hearts
to God in fastings.
our
set
family
our
in
Several
growth in my breast.
days and
twenty-six
for
fasted
husband
my
days,
twenty-one
for
fasted
son
My
— 33 —
THE
4
THE4
THE4
ELEMENTS
KINGDOMS
THE4
TRIPLET
PIVOTS
IN
DIVISIONS
THE
ZODIAC
OFMAN
1
HEAD
I
.
FIRE
ARIES
THROAT
LUNGS
T.
MINERAL
2
STOMACH
HEART
ABDOMEN
CANCER
WATER
VEGETABLE
3
3
AIR
ANIMAL
4
4
EARTH
SPIRITUAL
3
kidneVs
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LIBRA
GENERATIVE
.
I
LIVER
4
.
.
KNEE5
ANKLES
CAPRICORN
.
FEET
I was gloriously and
fasted for twenty-three days for the glory of Jesus.
spiritually, reblessed
were
so
we
ways
other
many
In
miraculously healed.
I
vived and
filled
anew
way with
in a greater
the Holy Spirit than ever before.
In His service,
Grace M. Pelfrey
Port Dover, Ontario, Canada.
HEALED OF GALL. BLADDER TROUBLE
AFTER SHORT FAST OF SEVEN DAYS
and praying seven days. I had been sufferand liver trouble. Jesus delivered me,
bladder
gall
with
ing for a long time
and I believe He will heal any sick person if he or she will give up everything,
Jesus healed
me
just for fasting
including food, and trust
Him.
Elder R. A. Bradshaw
Granite City,
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III.
THE
4
THE4
THE4
THE4
BI&RKUQS
IMPORTANT
GREAT
NECEJJiriETS
THINGS AFTER
cIB5TACLE5
PEOPLE MU5THAVE
TO
CONSECRATED
GET WELL
FASTING
FASTING
REMOVED
1.
1.
1.
1.
F
EAT ONLY WHAT
CONSERVE
ENERGY
15
CLEANSED
UNBCLIFF
NECE55ARV
AFTER THE FA5T
IS
2
2.
2.
PHYSICAL
KEEP
LUST
BELfVINGWIIH
UNCLEANNES5
2.
PURE
BLOOD
BROKEN RIGHT
REJUVENATION
PATIENCE
OF THE BODY
'
3.
3.
3.
3.
ONE NOW HAS A
perfect
BETTER
REVELATION
CIRCULATION
OF BLOOD
4.
4.
BE A MISSIONARY
SPIRITUAL
4.
4.
ANSWERED
HOPE -FAITH
FASTING
WILL BRING
AaTHESEABOIT
PRIDE
IN5IC-HT
TOWOROOF.GOD
READ IT MUCH
PRAVER
ENLIGHTEN.
DISTORTION
MORE POWER
OTHERS TO THIS
DIVISIONS INTHE
CHEAT TRUTH
BODY OF CHRIST
WITH
GOD
SHORT FAST OF SIX DAYS DOES WONDERS FOR BODY
Dear Brother Hall:
Not
much
.
I
so very long ago a tract fell into
.
.
am
my
hands on fasting that
I
liked very
!
in the evangelistic field constantly
and pray for the
have a great deal of success in praying for the sick,
At least, I find it so in my ministry.
lot.
Fasting
is
a
method
I
If
sick.
one
is
to
believe they must fast a
to insure revival success and, at present,
I
am
in
one
the
At first, the people did not want to accept fasting as it is taught in
here.
it now.
accepting
are
they
and
scene
the
on
came
Ghost
Bible, but the Holy
done wonders
After a recent six-day fast I entered into, I find it certainly has
for
my
body.
Remember,
Virgil Hall, a
I
am
the evangelist that conducted a revival for your brother,
Please give Brother and Sister Virgil Hall my
few years ago.
regards.
*
Your
sister in
the bonds of Calvary,
Evangelist
Thelma Nickel
Bixby, Oklahoma.
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OTHER THINGS LOST
PUTTING THE FAST
IN
A TEST TUBE
AFTER
A
PROPHETSl
LENGTH
FAST
U
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s
p
B
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L
I
I
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F
R
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A
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MATT. 17:21
THAT WHICH
LUKE 71:34
SPIRITUAL-
PHYSICAL
UNCLEANLINESS
UNCLEANLINESS
— 36 —
IS
LOST OR GAINED
POWERS MORE POWER
FOOUSB SCRFEITERS
Luke 21:34
t^*
SINS
intelligence *at will
People are eternally looking for some mystifying
care of their ailments
and
ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE THEIR
Take, for instance, cathartics, laxatives, and
power to move the bowels. The irritating dm^
have
They do not
physics
the source of
They contain force the bowels to eliminate
energy through PASTING
same time, the waste. How much better to conserve
its own powe^and
under
function
may
and proper eating so that your body
prodding. When
harmful
of
necessity
the
without
waste naturally
AND BAD
so-calleed
HABITS.
eliminate
twice instead of only once. It
drugs are taken, the body always has to recover
medicine was given, and, later on, it
has to overcome the trouble for which the
the drug taken. The drug do^ not
has to recover from the poisonous effects of
work on
the body; rather, the body
MUST TAKE CARE OF THE DRUG.
and prayer is willdivine healing that Jesus gives in answer to fasting
CAST OUT. If
IS
UNBELIEF
when
ingly bestowed upon all His children
and the glory
body,
the
of
welfare
the
to
contrary
there have been eating habits
person and undo the wrongs
of Jesus, the consecrated fast will also chasten the
to
enroute to building up the faith that is necessary
The
of intemperance while
ELIMINATE UNBELIEF. The
great
in a two-fold manner, physical and
it
WORK OF
spiritual.
There
FASTING
is
always operates
no use in trying to make
work any other way.
Instead of a
a period
through
going
is
body
a
When
happens:
cure here is what actually
is forced to take care
and
present,
is
cold
a
when
as
such
of ELIMINATION,
additional amounts of
of some other unnatural condition, such as drugs and
one side, so that the
to
put
food, the cold will, for the time, be suppressed, or
Some people
believe that certain drugs will cure their colds.
However,
it.
body can take care of the new condition that has been forced upon
latent, aff^ing
lying
stage,
chronic
in
a
now
It
is
cured.
the cold has not been
most chronic inthe weakest organs of the body. That is the procedure that
which was not cured,
valids have passed through. The suppression of the cold,
Again the attempt is
bronchitis.
later on develops into some condition such as
same erroneous way. The bronchitis is suppneumonia later. This, in
final effort of the body to
The
organs.
affected
the
weakens
further
time
through a condieliminate the poisons and FILTH FROM OVER EATING is
may have also
ailments
other
tion which may be called asthma, and by this time
made
to cure the ailment in the
pressed for a time, only to develop into hay fever or
MOST CHRONIC CONDITIONS ARE THE DEVELOPMENT
OF AILMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED IN THE PAST.
developed.
one enters a protracted season of FASTING, these suppressed ills
open again. The physical weaknesses felt in the fast are
expelled
usually nothing more than many hidden and suppressed afflictions being
into
carried
suppressions
the
are
weaknesses
The
in the form of eliminations.
the
the blood stream, and the blood is carrying these very poisons out into
into
OUT
come
must
proper channels of elimination. These hidden sicknesses
When they come to a head in fasting it is
the open to become eradicated.
When
come out
into the
similar to a boil
coming
to a
head and the subsequent removal of the
— 37
core.
GLORIFIED FASTING
It is
how wonderful
unpleasant, but
works along the same
line.
It is
the person feels after the ordeal!
Fasting
a miserable, painful, trying experience while
it is so wonderful, both spiritually and physically afterward.
that
is often felt during fasting is also an indication the fast
headache
The
Coffee drinkers suffer more severe
is needed from the physical standpoint.
headaches than those who do not have the habit. The caffeine from the coffee
comes OUT OF SUPPRESSION and into the blood stream. The blood circu-
in the process, but
In a few days,
lates the poisons within the head and pain is the natural result.
the fast will have removed the cause and the headache disappears. Later on as
the FAST PROCEEDS to clean up the temple of the Holy Spirit, even the
weaknesses, in
instances, disappear, and to one’s astonishrpent the person
and stronger than he did while indulging in the three or
many
usually feels better
four meal a day stuffing habit, believe
it
or not.
DEMONS CAN BE CAST OUT BY FASTING PRAYER
Matthew 17:21. “This kind goeth not out hut by prayer and fasting.” The
lesson in this chapter was mainly dealing with faith and “Because of your
unbelief.” The secondary part of the story had to do with demons. However,
Jesus teaches His followers that not only the casting out of demons but,
YOU.” This includes power
“NOTHING SHALi, BE IMPOSSIBLE
for all things if we follow His formula. The above illustration shows the
author’s conception of the average person who is afflicted these afflictions
being demon bondage. They are the works of Satan and Jesus came to undo
these works. Matt. 9:33, 1 Jno. 3:8, etc. The first figme represents the individual under affliction (it could be a hundred and one different ailments) ; the
demons are in operation. The right hand figure shows a person praying very
earnestly. Sometimes, these demons relax their hold while praying and are
eliminated entirely. Oftentimes, however, the demons relax their hold but are
not entirely cast out because of UNBELIEF, consequently they take up their
task again and continue in the person (unless a great degree of holding faith
is put into practice). Prayer, combined with fasting, sees the demons not only
release and relax their hold, but a greater amount of faith is developed so they
can be cast out entirely. Oftentimes, the FAST has such purifying power,
both physically and spiritually, that demons are often forced to withdraw.
UNTO
—
— 38 —
DEMONS AT WORK
IN THE STOMACH. Medical
science
cbims *at
Luke 21.3
auto-intoxicated (surfeited).
of the American people are
ou
failure to
the
and
eating
over
from
Most functional diseases come
tongue
the
first thing a doctor loote at is
stomach a vacation. When sick, the
weakened condition of the stomach
stomach.
the
which is a part of
one different things.
This could lead to a hundred and
attract demons.
rheumatism, asthma,
cancer,
tumor,
ulcer,
could be
believe they are demons. It
etc.
paralysis,
anemia, hardening of the arteries,
.
95%
A
fasting, the things we do
the best of fuel for
make
want
not
When
their
own
Body
destruction.
tox-
accumins, slowly and gradually,
almost
in
body
the
ulate all through
Sometimes,
time.
in
person
every
it
shows
itself in
a visible
manner
through muddy skin, blemishes,
complexion or lines and
pale
wrinkles. Sometimes, it is not very
hand,
visible. At the bottom of the
are depicting a condition where
waste matter can be visualized un-
we
magnification.
der
more
easily
conditions.
Demons
are
attracted through these
One
of the
first
things
that takes place in the consecration
fast is the removal and eradication
of
all
body.
foreign uncleanness of the
After only a ten day fast, in
most instances, the hand will appear as the fingers appear in the
A
spirtop part of the illustration.
itual cleansing of the doubts and
our main objective to please Jesus.
— 39 —
^
We
GLORIFIED FASTING
Demons
is its
The more vile it is the more potent
filth.
and from this source we have the root of all sickness,
Demons seldom enter clean healthy people.
and disease breed on
lure for all demons,
disease
and sorrow.
In spite of
There
is
all
the food that
eaten, there
is
is
truly a
because of an excess of food, and because of the failure to
a condition within that
put
famine in the world.
a famine within the stomach, not because of the absence of food, but
is
FAST
and starve out
incapable of handling and receiving more food.
new wine in old bottles 7 Why sew new cloth to old 7
The failure to eat plain simple food also causes the body
depleted from the lack of minerals and vitamins that, even
if
to
folk
Why
become so
would re-
from fasting, which are physical, they could not
new-found health very long if they did not adapt their menu to
Of course, one can take vegetable concentrates, fish oils
natural plain eating.
and food minerals as a supplement. These are not drugs, but are concentrated
food in tablet form. These may be helpful, but the better way is to follow Jesus
ceive the secondary blessings
retain their
in
proper abstemious living.
Why close our ears to it? The very reason that it is not more understood
simply that people are prejudiced and run from the truth, willingly becoming
just because they fail to earnesly and
the victims of their own foolishness
is
—
KNOWLEDGE and TRUTH ON THIS GREAT, BENEFUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
intelligently seek
FICIAL,
FASTING will give a PERFECT BLOOD STREAM, INSURE the PERFECT DISTRIBUTION OF THE BLOOD AND THE CONSERVATION OF
ENERGY. THESE THREE THINGS ARE THE THREE ESSENTIALS vital
any sick person and their desire to get well, and their chances for recover)\
Another ESSENTIAL that is a result of consecrated fasting is SPIRITUAL
to
HEALTH.
Many are seeking cures today. They are trying to find an easy way to overcome their ailments, when the easiest, surest, quickest and most economical
method ever known to man IS THE FAST ROUTE. There are hundreds of
millions of dollars spent annually on patent medicines alone.
Eighty percent
of every dollar spent
is
for advertising these cure-all
of onions has more food value than
A
all
pills.
Five cents worth
the drugs put together.
government document. No. 264, informs us
that ninety-nine percent of
the American people are deficient in minerals, and that a
marked
deficiency in
any one of the more important minerals actually results in disease.
Food
is
the major part of any right living program.
starving amidst an abundance of food.
The
sick
Sick people are actually
have stomachs filled with
foodless food.
WE ARE A PRODUCT OF WHAT WE EAT
Dr. Northen’s experiment with animals and
soil
chemistry has given the
world much information. He has discovered when rats are fed the same "refined to death food" found in an over-stuffed community filled with stomach
ulcers, the rats likewise have stomach ulcers.
Experiments on rats and mice in Chicago definitely prove that the irritating
matter contained in canned foods, preservatives, canned spices and drugs will
know, also, that rats fed the
produce cancer in animals eating such foods.
We
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PHIL 3!l4
nPET UO
—
61VIM6
CONCIOUSNESS
PRAYER
FASTING
COHCIOUSNESS
CONCIOUSNESS
MOHAMMED CALLS FASTING THE GATEWAY TO
RELIGION. A CLOSE STUDY OF THE WORD OF
GOD INDICATES IT TO BE ONE OF THE PIERS OF
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. THE PIER ON THE
RIGHT. ALSO INCLUDES BIBLE STUDY.
— 4l —
CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP
seekinothe
KINCDOMOF 600
WITHOUR
WHOLE HEART
GLORIFIED FASTING
on the temperament of the British people. When the
they become huge and have soulful eyes, the same as the
diet of the Britisher take
Sikh diet
is
fed
followers of that
rats,
Hindu
creed.
Human beings are also a product of what they eat. When we live by the
"words of God” instead of "bread alone,” the spiritual food that is received
through fasting makes us more spiritual for the glory of Jesus. The spiritual
gifts and fruit are developed in us plus other attributes.
«
Fasting will also prepare our stomachs for food, so that the digestive organs
will be capable of greater absorption of the mineral salts that our body is in
need
When
of.
there
is
over indulgence in food, without fasting, only a smaller
assimilated, because of the con-
amount of the vitamins and minerals can be
taminated condition of the stomach and villi.
The
chart
depicts
the
coating of food film which
painted
noth-
is
ing more than, weeks and some-
many months old, decayed
and rotten contaminated food on
times
the intestinal tract.
If this intest-
was placed in front of us
and was accessible, we would not
hesitate to give it a good cleaning.
inal tract
Cleanliness
mit.
precious:
tate to
give
is
Because
it
God
go
Godliness,
we
we
all
ad-
cannot see this
given organ,
we
hesi-
food abstention to
a vacation and cleaning.
into
Fasting will eradicate this uncleanness and removes
demon
only physical but spiritual strength
MONTHS-OLD CONTAMINATION
The
tract
is'
clean
on the thin narrow
many pounds of
attracting filth that saps not
from the temple of the Holy
line,
not wanted.
Spirit.
Fasting sonsumes the very things
%
FASTED FORTY DAYS
— DEMONS LEAVE BODY
Dear Brother Hall:
About the tenth day of October, 1947, I went into "The Book and Bible
House,” on Eighth Street, in Sacramento, California, to purchase a song book.
I wanted to practice singing so I could glorify Jesus by making a joyful noise
unto Him. An employee of the "Bible House” told me of having some very
unusual books they had never had on hand before in the history of the firm.
This was Sister Delmarie Bibb, and she got them out and showed them to me.
Miss Bibb informed me that the truth contained in them was unfolding unheard of precious experiences for people in the days that we live. I did not
know what they were all about, but I secured a set of these books on the
PROPHET’S-EARLY CHURCH-LENGTH FASTING.
At
this very time,
I
was so very hungry for more of God.
— 42
I
wanted
to
go
THE A B C OF FASTING
manner. I began reading and studying
deeper and seek Him in an unusual
on October 14, the day I started my fast.
these books on consecrated fasting
at times, but
the misery of fasting was painful
I cried and prayed, and
At times,
conquered.
to be
knew it would be a battle, and the old man had
as I
earnestly
as
praying
not
nowhere, and I felt I was
i
was getting
j«us m
best and
Although if was hard to pray, I just did my
Fourteenth
the
when
y
but
discouraging,
take me through. It was so
that I had had fo
asthma
The
encouragement.
new
fast came around I found
and demons left along with it. I actually
eight years left my body completely,
them come out
every corner of my room. I even saw
seemed
I
should.
sould see these demons in
my body. From then on I felt like a
even
in my life saw a demon and I never
of
very time.
When
these
demons
NEW MAN.
Before the
fast, I
never
they occupied my body until
be
came out, other parts of my afflicted body
knew
came well, healed and whole.
crooked bent-under toes. When the
For twenty years I had suffered with
and they pained me. They
demons left my body, the toes straightened upwards
severely, but I was sure
very
suffered
I
days.
went out and upwards for two
they were. The pains were from the
they were getting healed and sure enough
in order for them to become adstraightening out process that was necessary
Because I cried and prayed to Jkus about
justed to the right position, etc.
cried
pains of the healing procedure. I then
this. He relieved me from all the
casting out these
by
body
in
my
done
had
He
and wept for joy at the miracle
by nothing,
out, sometimes
demons He said in His word they would be cast
feet were
and
toes
fasting.” Matt. 17:21. My
but by prayer
that this
time
long
for
a
praying
made perfectly whole and sound. I had been
prayer.
the
with
fasting
might be done, but, praise Jesus, it took
own place to live. I needed a home but
—
and
my
I also had a great need for
somewhat discouraged. Considerable
could not find a place. Again I became
fast was started, I weighed two hunthe
When
weight was lost from my body.
and as I got on to weigh, a friend
nearby
scale
a
was
dred four pounds. There
This friend seeing my aggy
came up. I weighed one hundred sixty pounds.
look like you have been sick, or someclothes, asked me, 'What’s wrong, you
him 'I was not sick, but Saturthing has come over you all of a sudden.’ I told
was somewhat disappointed
I
and
fast
day would be the end of my forty-day
was fasting for! He asked
and
wanted
I
that
all
get
for it seemed I would not
house trailer for a
me 'what I wanted,’ and I told him "I would like to have a
was answered
prayer
my
He informed me 'that
in.’
place to call
home and
live
Ind he had just what I had been looking for.
was delighted to know it was the answer to my
When
I
went over to see it I
it was just what
prayer, because
I
get the house trailer at a fraction of the cost, but
stoves,
two
radio,
groceries, a
was given over one hundred dollars worth of
I wanted.
Not only
did
I
electric plate, clock, furnishings, etc.
I feel wonderful in my
January 26, 1948, I will be sixty-five years old.
of youth for my body.
years
twenty-five
body. It seems like I have gained about
Leroy RichardBrother
where
Church
Lighthouse
I attend The Full Gospel
On
son
is
pastor, in
North Sacramento,
Calif.
They
will verify these facts.
home and prayed all
This brought such great joy to my soul that I went
to others, and I prayed
night asking the Lord to unfold this fasting message
would see the answers
too,
they,
that others would know about this testimony so
— 43 —
GLORIFIED FASTING
to their hitherto
will,
this
unanswered prayers,
like I
had
received.
testimony would go into Brother Hall’s
FASTING,"
that will be full of testimonies
Your Brother
(Signed)
new
I
prayed,
book,
if it
be His
"GLORIFIED
about fastings of
all
lengths.
in Christ,
Thomas H. Lymons
Box 386 Yolo, Calif.
,
FASTING PRODUCES OIL OF THE SPIRIT
FASTING POWER: Fasting produces the greater oil that
gives us the
into the spiritual OIL WELL,
and there is plenty of fuel for revival power in us, to spread and spring forth
out of us, to ignite lost souls to Christ and help spread the revival fires to
others. Prayer is also an oil producer, but too many of us depend on prayer
altogether without fastings and, consequently, we get stuck at times. Fasting
is as necessary in the Christian’s life as oxygen is to keep the fire going.
fire will bum a long time in an air tight room, but, sooner or later, the oxygen
person may get along nicely for
will be used up and the flame will go out.
a very long time without fastings, but, sooner or later, carnality creeps in and,
unconsciously, the child of God thinks he is standing when he should take
spiritual fire of the
Holy
Spirit.
It digs
down
A
A
heed
lest
he has
fallen.
**Without faith it is impossible to please God.” We have seen, according
to the seventeenth chapter of Matthew, fasting and prayer is the great faith
producer. The left hand person has sufiicient oil and fire in his lamp. He is
laboring for Jesus in the harvest fields. We believe he is fasting and praying
a great deal. The middle person has both oil and some fire, but he is indifferent to fasting, therefore, there are very few signs following and very little
accomplished for Jesus. The right individual is typical of the five foolish
“Watching,” in these
virgins (Matt. 26:18) who were NOT WATCHING.
scriptures, include everything necessary for the Bride of Christ to be doing,
ready and filled with the spirit. This includes fasting and prayer. When this
lamp is suddenly moved or trimmed it may go out. May we have more oil.
— 44 —
PART
IV
THE BREAK FAST
used over and over by nearly every one, withlong time ago, people were not in the
out realizing exactly what it means.
not able to go to the corner drug store,
were
and
habit of eating between meals,
sandwich, cup of coffee and what not as ^sily
The word, BREAK-FAST,
is
A
or restaurant, and buy a soda,
as
one can do in our
own
time.
Our
great grandfathers
worked hard and had
meal was eaten, they usually ceased
healthy appetites. When a hearty evening
evening meal until the following
the
eating for a long interval, at least, from
It
between any two meals
period
longest
the
was
morning. This interval
6:18.
Daniel
"FAST.” Please see,
being so long that sometimes it was called a
If any food was eaten after the
fasting.”
night
the
passed
"The King
between the evening med and
evening meal, it proceeded to break the period
the morning, when food was
In
fast.
the
the morning meal and was breaking
because the fast period
break-fast,
a
called
well
be
eaten again, it could not very
already.
broken
been
had
meals
morning
and
between the evening
word that usage has welded into breakfast. At
.
.
Break-fast
breakfast,
.
is
a
compound
one usually
eats a
meal that
is
different
from the other two eaten
Many
breakfast.
during the day. (I am alluding to those who eat
eating breakwithout
power
spiritual
finding they have better health and greater
twenty-four
in
breakfast
eaten
not
has
This also includes the author who
fast.
that folk
enough
long
being
breakfast
and
dinner
The interval between
years.)
at the morning meal
food
of
partake
to
wise
and
desirable
have found it both
and digestive apparatus than that
that is far more acceptable to the stomach
this is quite evident; it is to prepare
eaten at any other meal. The reason for
break the fast, even though one has
the stomach and functions of the body to
Even
twelve to fourteen hours.
approximately
only done without food for
care, howwith
broken
usually
that,
is
it
call
still
may
if one
adults are
this short a fast,
The breakfast eater usually h^
fact.
ever unaware the average person is of the
eggs, bacon and toast or cereal, etc. This
a glass of fruit juice or similar juice,
far more easily digested
menu, compared with any other conventional meal, is
of his or her eating
other
any
than
period
to the break-fast
and more
periods.
fully
suitable
It
broken
may not have been thought
of in this light, but the fast was care-
for just that non-eating length of time.
not undernourished, and some undernourished folk
off any one of the three meals for a period
would also profit by
appetite would entirely disappear and new
habit
meal
third
the
days,
thirty
of
increased spiritual
energy and strength would be felt, in addition to greatly
does not in
person
average
the
Because
power and favor with God. Why?
be left
could
meal
one
any
While
meal.
third
any manner require this surplus
leaving
obtained
by
be
would
compensation
greater
that
feels
out, the author
or allowing the lunch period to be the breakfast. This longer
off the breakfast
the eating of dinner and breakfast (or lunch) would give the
If
any adult
who was
it,
would leave
—
between
rest up, and also the
organs of the body a greater period in which to relax and
schedule. As one
new
the
to
itself
adapt
easily
more
appetite would, generally,
eliminate the
could
one
Sometimes
required.
is
food
less
even
grows older,
appetite, after abstainhunger
habit
with
bothered
not
be
and
also
meal
second
interval
— 45 —
GLORIFIED FASTING
ing from two meals a day for at least thirty days. This is one secret to long
Why? For the simple reason, what one does not need becomes burdenlife.
some and a dead weight to us. Paul must have had this also in mind in
Hebrews 12:1: “Lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset
At least, the
us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”
weight (not
becomes
fasting,
without
continued eating and stuffing habit,
Paul
progress.
spiritual
our
hindrance
to
and
a
weight)
necessarily physical
brings this out to a fuller extent in Romans 16:17, 18: ’’Mark them which
cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and
AVOID THEM. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but
their own belly” Also, study Phil. 3:17-19. Please see charts on subject.
THE FOUR ZONES
LCARNALIT/ZONE
^PLEASURE ZONE
AVERAGE
„
NATURAL
[CHRISTIAN] LIVI NG
H
U
3.PRAYER
SPIRITUAL
ZONE
T
Y
4-.TRAVAIUNG
MOURNING
FASTING-PRAYER
ZONE
have a car that runs well, but many times I load it up with books and
even the rear cushions out to pile in some more until I have
nearly two thousand pounds of material to carry from one town to another to
be used in speaking engagements where hungry folk desire and need the literature and books. The car, being overloaded, does not run so freely; it is more
I
tracts
—taking
keep on the road, the tires become overheated to a point where I am
down to keep from having a blow-out. (By failing to drive
around forty miles an hour with these loads, the author has had three new six
ply heavy duty tires to blow-out in one year, due to this excess weight.) This
difficult to
forced to slow
— 46 —
THE A B C OF FASTING
m^y
eventually needed and can all be utilized, but
After learning some expensive
handicaps hindered me during my travels.
progressed very satisfactorily.
since
have
I
and
lessons, I corrected the weight
Any
versus needed power
power
food
to
applied
be
also
The same lesson can
as
act
and
prematurely,
out the body
excess of food not needed now, wUl burn
as
just
power
spiritual
kiU
will
Excess food
a weight and a hindrance to it.
temperFood
21:34.
Luke
(See
quickly.
alcohol wiU, if not as
burdensome weight
is
thoroughly as
ance
just as important as
is
knowingly,
we
any other kind of temperance.
ate killing our bodies
and
Many
times, unour neglect
souls, just because of
along these lines.
A lady sends in a testimony from Australia that
illustrates
our thought here:
LADY IN AUSTRALIA FASTS SIXTEEN DAYS
Ekar
Sir:
Greetings in the
name
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
A friend of mine sent your “FASTING” book
Immediately, I read it through and was convinced
fully asked the
Lord to make
after sixteen days of
now
ing, I write to praise
me
willing to
fast.
He
me from
the U.
S.
A.
I prayerit was of God.
My prayer was answered, and
complete abstinence from
the Lord for the way
to
is
all
food, just water drinkand con-
able to show, teach
I was
distressed.
did not find myself craving food or even being
my
of
care
take
and
I am a busy woman
just a little tired the first few days.
and
cooked
up,
work
house
I also kept my
invalid mother of ninety years.
husband*
took care of our family of four, besides my
I
trol us.
work and tracts. Some
have told a number of other Christians about your
stir is being felt in our
revival
a
and
fasts
longer
the
into
of them are entering
shall add food temperance
community. I am also a temperance worker. Now I
to my work.
In His service,
Mrs. W. M. Tack
11 Rothesay Avenue, E. Malvern S. E. 5.
I
Victoria. Australia.
MISSIONARY FINDS FASTINO TO JESUS SUCCESSFUL
IN SOUTH AFRICA
Dear
Sir
and Brother:
on a journey to an outpost of our congregation, I
Brother H. Hambrock, an evangelist, at Jeppestr. 96 Pretoria.
Last week,
friend,
visited
my
We spoke
much about it. He gave me
about the necessity of fasting. I did not know too
than ever convinced
two of your pamphlets. No. 16 and No. 2. I was more
to learn that
surprised
was
I
fast.
that fasting is necessary and I started out to
I
increasing.
than
rather
diminishing
was
on the third day of my fast, hunger
disappeared.
had headaches the first two days but they gradually
thing.
same
you said the
I
am
I
eager to learn more.
Karl Buhr,
Hermansburg Lutheran Mission,
Jericho, via Brit. South Africa
Transvaal.
_47_
find that
A tiny minute piece
stomach is interspersed
amounts of energy and
in order to readjust and
of the stomach wall greatly magnified.
with delicate blood vessels in this way.
The entire
Tremendous
blood is called upon right after the fast is broken,
reawaken the functions of digestion, assimilation and
elimination. Even when not fasting, one average meal calls approximately
half of the blood to the attention and services of digestion, etc. These illustrations are for the purpose of showing the people of God the great importance
of food and our being, in relation to spiritual power available when certain
processes are put into operation for Jesus* pleasure and master our desires.
THE TYPE OF FOOD
The best type of food is a thin watery food. Any kind of food could be
taken in a thin liquid form, in very small quantites, if necessary. Elijah had a
morsel of bread and water. One could also break the fast on a small piece of
dark bread chewed very finely into water and swallowed very, very slowly with
The same thing could apply to a tiny amount of
a large quantity of water.
boiled potato, a cracker, or almost any other food, providing that it is a very
small quantity, and it is swallowed after it is chewed into milk, and taken with
plenty of water.
The
reason
I
am mentioning
these different things
is
because
Fresh citrus fruit is, of course,
in some
the best and most satisfactory food to break-fast on. On a twenty-one to forty,
or more, day fast, one usually takes a half glass of fruit juice diluted with half
water ^Two ounces of orange, grapefruit, tomato, grape, or other fruit juices,
lands fresh fruit
is difficult
to obtain.
—
This can be taken three or four times the first day.
one should use a small teaspoon of mashed potato, a
teaspoonful of bread or other food in same quantity, mixed with about four
ounces of water and chewed well, mixing with saliva, in the mouth before slowly
swallowing. This could also be taken three or four times the first two days to
break a twenty-one day or longer fast. The quantity could be increased by oneplus
two ounces of water.
If these are unobtainable,
— 48 —
—
—
THE A B C OF FASTING
become sufficiently awakened
on the second day and so on until the "villi"
see charts on this elsewhere.
Please
food.
more
receive
the digestive tract to
weight, and since much nerve force
Since one will have lost considerable
third
in
for food reception, there wdl
be required in getting the stomach ready
of break-fasting, the ri^t foods
days
few
first
the
after
in great demand, soon
gam strength on. The most
rr.nta.ning vitamins and minerals for the body to
period. One may feel
weakening period of the fast is the initial breaking-m
^
will
fw
days,
first
the break-fast period begins. After the
greeri
the
especially
soup,
and
vegetables
only
or
meals consisting solely of milk,
vegetables are live vegetables and
raw or LIVE vegetables, can be eaten. Raw
vitamins are difficult to digest
give the most "life" to a person. Concentrated
on.
later
right after fasting, but could be received
vegetables, milk and food to build
satisfactory
obtain
to
difficult
When it is
the vegetable concentrates in
up on after the fast, one could, perhaps, secure
vegetable concentrates or
these
from
vitamins and minerals, and, thereby, obtain
for the body. Food
necessary
values
food
supplemental
fish oils, the amount of
we eat butter
Whether
drugs.
and
medicines
not
are
minerals
vitamins and
only one
food,
are both
on our bread or concentrated fish oil from a bottle, they
Christians
minded
narrow
from a fish. Only
is from a cow and the other
Holy Spirit requires
would aUow this to offend them. Our tabernacle of the
break down giving
may
it
otherwise,
it,
feed
certain elements to nourish and
weak and even
sick
when
demons an opportunity
to enter.
from strenuous work during the initial br^should be conserved more at this time
energy
and
Strength
ing-in period.
because great strain and labor is refast,
the
during
period
other
any
It is
a
good
poliqr to refrain
than at
Please be patient at this
quired to enable the stomach to receive food again.
is at a minimum.
strength
your
time and do not become over-anxious because
to assimilsufficiently
readjust
can
villi
and
It will pick up as soon as the stomach
received.
be
to
soon
food
heavier
the
from
ate the nutritive elements
Sometimes,
when
a fast
is
improperly broken,
many uncomfortable
days after the initial breaking-in period.
condi-
Bloating,
even many
longer intervals,
and other conditions, can be corrected by spacing your meals at
for a few days, then
water
without
fasting
or
by
again,
fast
partial
on
a
going
tions can arise,
proceeding to break the fast properly
all
over again.
The various illustrations, as contained within this volume, should be very
with the sciencarefully studied, and one will find that as he becomes familiar
care in feeding
and
pains
special
tific side of fasting, he will be more apt to take
himself.
'Teed
me
with food convenient for me: Lest
I
be
full,
and deny
thee.” Proverbs 30:8,9-
BREAKING FAST
DIET AFTER FASTING
After a rtiort fast from three to six days
First day:
THREE OR FOUR MEALS OF CHOICE FRESH CITRUS FRUIT.
Second day: Light soups or a milk diet in moderation.
Succeeding days: Gradually work on into the regular diet, so that in a number
of days equal to the length of your fast you will be ready for regular eating.
After a fast from six to ten days
First day: Three to four meals of choice
— 49 —
citrus
fruit or the
juice
of fruit,
—
— —
GLORIFIED FASTING
tomatoes, berries or easily digested melons in moderate quantity.
Second day: Same.
Succeeding days: For third day here, follow the second day schedule under the
breaking of a three to six day fast, and continue.
After a fast of ten to fourteen days
^irst
eat
two days: After the
break-fast
on any
CHOICE FRESH CITRUS FRUIT
FRESH
fruit juice, at the next
meal
For the balance of the
fruit only, each meal four
moderately.
two days, eat three or four meals of fresh citrus
and one-half hours or more apart and consisting of 6
to 8 ounces.
Third day: Light soups or skimmed, whole, or buttermilk
at
each meal time.
day: Green salads or cooked light vegetables chewed to milk. Or to
gain weight, one pint of milk every hour, or sweet fruit and citrus fruit, or
Vomtb
soup
at each
Fijth day
and
meal time.
after:
Three meals of fresh
fruit
and milk, or of sweet
fruit
and
Buttermilk is easier to digest than sweet milk. (The
milk (or buttermilk)
over use of milk or the taking of food too soon may cause the body to bloat
To remedy this cut down the quantity or wait a few days before
slightly.
going on the milk diet.) If one should bloat, fast and go without water.
Take enemas and hot baths.
.
After a fast of two weeks to twenty-one days
First day:
Three meals of
fruit juice in four to six
ounce serving, diluted one-
third to one-half with water.
Second day: Three or four meals of same, somewhat
less diluted, in servings
of from six to eight ounces.
Third day: Fruit for each meal.
Fourth day: Duplicate third day, or a half pint of milk or buttermilk every two
or three hours, or eat choice of one light soup, a small fruit or green vegetable
salad at meal times.
Fifth day: three light meals spaced properly apart, either fresh fruit or soup.
Always get plenty of
rest.
Succeeding days: Very gradually work up from fruit, milk, and soup to vegetable meals. Eat slowly and chew everything into milk.
—
Suggestions for sixth or seventh day. Noon ^Vegetables and whole wheat cereal
with one or two egg yolks if desired. Evening Similar meal without eggs.
After a
—
fast of twenty-one to forty days or longer
is followed as for a fourteen to twenty-one day fast, except
smaller amounts of food are eaten for the first two or three days. Add one or
two more days of fruit juices before beginning fourth day, described just
Orange juice, is the preferred juice, though any natural fresh fruit
above.
The same program
juice or fruit, tomato, gruel, barley rice water, ripe watermelon, or clear vege-
may be taken, in four to six ounce servings. The quantity may
be increased when prepared for heavier diet. Warm milk may be added to
the water-made cereal preparations later on after the fast is broken properly.
Fruit and milk are far preferable to other types of food, since they are
table broth
— 50 —
Peering Into the Wonderful Digestive Mechanism
The intestinal canal is crowded with five million finger-like
Each villus does its small part in the digestion process and wntains thrw
c^
each. This would make fifteen billion cells in the intestm^
thousand
wim
that are very much alive and ready to act when brought into contact
food nourishfood. After fasting they <»tn receive only minute particles of
ment at first. Among the ceUs, one finds single goblet ceUs that prince
traMmucus. Phagocytes wander out of the lymph nodes and participate
fast
porting food particles. (See bottom of diagram). When a protract^
reawakened from a
is broken, these cells gradually and very slowly become
are
deep sleep. The sleep is so sound that only a few thousand of these ceUs
m
A
first
first juice contacts the viUi after a major fast.
“.ot
hoTO
few
activity.
into
come
and
yawn
to
begin
cells
these
of
layer
the vim,
another “break-fast” menu is taken, a few more thousand, and even
food, convert it into
this time, come out of their dormant condition to receive
of
nourishment, and push it into the blood. Each time another iiwtallment
increase mto
the proper ‘*break-fast” menu is received, the vUli increase and
tlm entoe
activity and receptivity until eventually, after a number of days,
our Messing.
intestinal canal is fully activated and adjusted to food again for
awakened when the
,
— 51 —
A
ORADUALX.Y REAWAKENS THE FIFTEEN
BUXION CELLS IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT.
HOW THE BREAK-FAST
DAY FAST
21
DAY FAST
10
DAY FAST
1st.
DAY
3RD day
2ND.
7
DAY FAST
DAY
1st.
2ND DAY
4TH DAY
5TH.0AY
DAY
2 WO. DAY
3RD. DAY
3RD. DAY
4-TH.DAY
4th. day
6TH.DAY
Sthday
7 th- DAY
^thday
7th. day
(/)
Q
Z
Ui
Z
0
1
<
>
1
»
s
o
<
2
i
o
>
1;;
a
CHART SHOWING WHY THE DIGESTIVE APPARATUS CANNOT BE
HOSPITABLE TO FOOD ALL AT ONCE AFTER FASTING. FOOD RECEPTION IS AT AN ALMOST STANDSTILL IMMEDIATELY AFTER A
PROTRACTED FAST. THE FIVE MILLION VILLI ARE AWAKENED
VERY SLOWLY AT FIRST. THE DARK TRIANGULAR SHADED AREA
REPRESENT THE DORMANT INACTIVE VILLI AT THE BEGINNING
OF THE BREAK-FAST PERIOD. THE SHADED AREA SLOWLY AND
VERY GRADUALLY DISAPPEARS AS THEY ARE AGAIN ADJUSTED
TO FOOD. THE LIGHT AREA REPRESENT THE PERIOD OF TIME
NECESSARY FOR THIS ADJUSTMENT. (FIGURES are APPROXIMATE).
— 52 —
THE A B C OF FASTING
and to
be digested and assimilated j^rfertly
fast.
the
physical results secured by
perpetuate without interruption the
and more
natural foods
Remember,
if
days after the
any way, even though it should be m^y
the breaking in period. The
is because you ate rushing
Two meals may be more
to fruit juices, or fast again.
you should
fast, it
go back
remedy
likely to
suffer in
is to
preferable to three, for a while anyway.
apparatus, gradually
finger-like structure of the digestive
as it first
speak,
to
so
reawakens. It yawns and stretches,
The wonderful
and slowly
Impairment and shock, through the over-use of food,
that it w^
marvelous organ so that it cannot be the blessing
from t e
blessings
Fasting proves itself to be one of the best
reacquainted with food.
will abuse this
intended to be.
Lord for
this vital organ.
THE REVIVAI. OF THE INTESTINAL. APPARATUS
When we
we
ask Jesus to bless the food
eat,
for our bodies,
and give
indirectly, are asking Jesus to
thanks for these blessings, we also, though
comprise the
all of the millions of cells that
it
bl^
Unless they are blessed,
the nourishment
extricate
to
villi
finger-like
these
would be impossible for
stream, and
our
blood
into
on
elements
nutritative
carry
to
food and
villi.
from the
to all parts of the
temple of the Holy
Spirit.
million villi fingers (mediAll of these fifteen billion cells that comprise five
to be reawakened little
have
system,
digestive
complicated
the
in
cal statistics)
PERIOD
BREAK-FAST
by little after a protracted fast. Certain stages of the
oiit of a
coming
fingers
and
cells
may represent a certain proportion of these
slumber and waking up for breakfast.
to a person’s hand or foot going to
the foot or hand immediately. But,
awaken
for a long time. We cannot
of awakening until it gradually,
sensation
or
tingle
the
by little, one feels
These
sleep
little
villi-fingers
may be compared
but with increasing tempo, becomes restored to normal.
dissolve
tiny fingers of the digestive system secrets juices that help to
very
though
become,
likewise
fingers
hair-like
These
nutriment.
food into
reception again after the breakfirst, awakened and adjusted to food
The
slowly at
they very, very slowly become reaccustomed to food intake, but
canal is back into
the acceleration is more and more rapid, until the digestive
was in at the beit
that
condition
the
to
restored
again. Not only
fast.
At
first,
swing
complete
ginning of food abstention, but the entire intestinal tubing has had a
revival and is now like new.
full
reawakening in the
is, herewith, presenting an estimate of the
villi fingers that make up
million
five
the
of
period,
period
by
system,
digestive
are using a twenty-one day fast for a
the converter when breaking fast.
The author
We
yardstick; for a longer or shorter fast,
The approximate number
a twenty-one day
fast,
of
one can make estimates from
villi fingers that
are re-awakened after breaking
and that are slowly acclimated
— 53 —
this schedule.
to
food again are:
.
WHY THE FAST MUST BE BROKEN CAREFULLY
12,500
First twenty-four hours:
(Approximately one-fourth of one
villi.
percent)
Second day: 25,000 fingers (About one-half of one percent).
Third day: 50,000
Fourth day: 100,000
(About one percent).
fingers
villi
(Two
villi
percent).
Fifth day: 200,000
villi
(Four percent).
Sixth day: 400,000
villi
(Eight percent).
Seventh day: 800,000
(Sixteen percent).
villi
Eighth day: 1,600,000
villi
(Thirty-two percent).
Please note
2,400,000 villi (About forty-eight percent).
Ninth day:
from this time on, the percentage begins to drop. The breaking-in tothe eating process tapers back the other way from the eighth day onward.
A person usually begins to feel a newness of strength and well-being
from
this
time onward. (Providing the fast
Tenth day: 3,000,000
Eleventh day: 3,600,000
villi.
Twelfth day: 4,000,000
villi.
There
is
still
is
being broken properly.)
villi.
another
1,000,000 to yet be divided.
This may be
from one to two weeks (or even longer
before they become fully awakened.
distributed over a period of
some
cases)
in
our study is to reveal more vividly to the reader
more complicated than is generally thought,
and needs as much respect for its delicate and intricate nature as any other part
of the body for the Glory of Jesus. Let us give Jesus glory in our body, in
our soul, and in our spirit. If our stomach is part of us, why not let it also
The purpose of
this part of
that our digestive apparatus
glorify
eat the
is
far
Him who also redeemed it. In the last chapter of Revelation, when we
new food from the new tree of life, we will then have our new redeemed
stomach to enjoy to the utmost
this delicious food.
ENGLISH BROTHER TRIES FAST AND HAS BETTER OUTLOOK
Dear Brother
I
in Christ:
was glad
among my
and pamphlets, which
to receive the books
Christian friends, and
I
am
I
have distributed
especially delighted with the book,
“Atomic Power with God Thru Fasting and Prayer." This is just what we lack
England. As soon as I received the book I started on a fast. Although I
work long hours every day, I feel so much better and my asthma is almost gone.
I have suffered terribly and have been prayed for, many times I was at my wit’s
end. Now, praise the Lord, I have the solution and there is no fear of fasting
any more. Jesus has given me a brighter outlook. I am so happy and thrilled
over what Jesus is doing for me through fasting and prayer. Soon I expect to
in
send you a testimony of a
much
longer fast than this one.
Yours
in Christ,
John Martin
39 Leek Road, Weston Coyney
Stoke-on-Trent,
— 54 —
Staffs,
England.
NINE LAYERS OF THE INTESTINE
more appreciative and thankful to Jkus
In order that the reader may be
presenting
organs in his body, we are, herewith,
for one of the most magic-like
for your observaa section of the "INTESTINAL
than a page of paper in this
The intestinal waU is not much thicker
tion.
ingenious
volume, but yet possess a most
there are no less than nine
MUCOUS MEMBRANE
structure,
make up this life proThe uppermost, inner
of high columnar cells. The
layers (1-9) that
ducing
structure.
layer consists
a
exposed ends of these cells exhibit
probably
is
which
bright striated edge
of
of great significance in the absorption
the digested food.
Among
these cells are
shaped like goblets and filled with
called
a special protoplasmatic product
goblet
a
corner
left
mucin. In the upper
out
cell is shown in the act of pouring
an
corner
opposite
the
in
contents:
its
others,
empty goblet
stage.
seen in the resting
cell is
Goblet
cells
glands in the body.
are
When
the
smallest
fasting, these
and layers are also renovated, purithe key
fied and cleansed. This is one of
points to which demons can become atMany times
tracted to an individual.
they attack and leave. This may go on
for many months or even years. Then a
weakened condition results from millions
of cells and villi becoming contaminated
through our “surfeiting” habits (Luke
21:34, also see Psalm 78) and failure to
fast, and demons gain foothold and an
cells
ulcer, cancer,
tumor or some other
dis-
may not, bear a fancy
develop. Our digestive tract
ease that may, or
name, will
and mysis one of the most important
the Holy
of
temple
terious organs of the
give it
and
it
protect
us
Let
Ghost.
proper vacations for the Glory of Jesus.
JESUS HAS GIVEN US FASTING FOR CLEAN LIVING
AND FAITH LIVING
doctor and
for us to be healed today, then every
to the
counter
They would be
hospital is a reproach to the cause of Christ.
d^ors,
to
go
why
wiU of Jesus. If it isn’t the Lord’s will to heal us today—
When did the
why take medicine, why go to a hospital and try to get well?
method of
the
than
sick
the
heal
to
Lord provide a less successful method
persons.
in His day? Jesus is no respecter of
If
it is
not the will of
FAITH HEALING
than
God
He
used
— 55 —
.
GLORIFIED FASTING
If
He
healed people in His day in answer to
members of His body
The
FAITH, He
surely, does not
surely wants to heal
want a diseased body.
Literary Digest contained the statement that there were thirty thousand
many
doctors too
I
He,
today.
(The
in the United States.
undesirable doctors)
inefficient,
cannot believe that Jesus wants doctors, hospitals and drugs to take the
DIVINE HEALING TODAY.
place of
and hospitals have
Efficient doctors
who do
not have Jesus to lean upon.
It is a disgrace, however, to the medical profession that, with the number of
Surely, there must be somedoctors we have, there are so many sick people.
their place
and can be a blessing
to people
How many people are told what brought on their partciular ailHow many sick people are taught how to live clean lives, and how to
prevent disease.? How many diseased folk are told that FOOD ABSTENTION
is the GREATEST NATURAL CURATIVE AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN?
We might ask a question of these doctors. How much do you know about
thing wrong.
ment.^
Jesus Christ’s plain simple
method of clean
living through
FASTING?
Both cancer and diabetes are on the increase. “One out of eight persons
government report. Fasting and right
Christian living will ward off and prevent these two ailments alone. Jesus can
will die of cancer this year,” states a
and will heal them
if present,
WHEN UNBELIEF
is
not present.
METHODIST PASTOR FASTS FORTY DAYS—MIGHTY REVIVAL
Dear Brother Hall:
Praise the Lord, I
night
the beginning
dred
I
I
I
I
am
to carry through the forty-day
fifty-four
and
lost forty-five
weighed two hundred-ten pounds.
I
and
At
pounds.
came down
to
one hun-
bilious trouble along with an ether-like taste, otherwise, I got
had some
I
my whole
feel
would say
am
somehow
This
is
my
we
are
NOW
—with Mr.
am much
the
Lord
is
many
IN THE MIDST OF A MIGHTY
stronger, but, even at that,
in
my
I
always feel that
I
have regained about
I
need
life.
eighteenth day of the breaking-in period and
little bit
the answer to
Harper and Mr. Long, Christian business
'POWER OF CHRIST
soups and vegetables.
swollen a
great-
will also bring the glorious success to revival campaigns.
glad to say that
Spiritually, I
was a most glorious experience, perhaps, the
that fasting for the glory of our
it
CITY-WIDE REVIVAL
men of Iowa.
much more of
it
life.
of our problems;
I
.
sixty-five.
along nicely.
est in
was by His help able
(only water taken)
fast,
fifteen
I
have been eating
My
pounds.
ankles are
but not noticeably.
know
might be possible for your evangelistic party to
next summer for a Revival ?
time
come to Clinton, maybe some
I
would
like to
if it
.
Oh
yes, I
.
.
have both of your books, 'Atomic Power With God’ and 'The
Fasting Prayer.’
They
are very good.
Sincerely in the Master’s service,
Howard Machlan, pastor of “The Methodist Church”
J.
Qinton, Iowa.
56
—
YEABS
lADrS BBOXHEB DBCNKABD FOB THIBXy fasxing
days
twelve
deuvebed foe good afxeb
Dear Brother
in Christ:
EIGHT YEA^
PRAYED FOR MY "DRUNKARD BROTHER FOR
A
DESPERATE
GOT
I
THEN
WITH SEEMINGLY NO RESULTS.
day
secotid
the
for twelve days. On
HIS DELIVERANCE and fasted to Jesus
continued
I
It seemed to help me and
rice.
of the fast I got sick and ate some
J
watM
distdled
a total of twelve days. I drank
the fast ten days mote, making
tim«
at
weak
felt
I
water.
which tasted much better than the city
Greater
Oirist Jesus who strengtheneth me.
prayer: "I can do all things in
this
is
He
that
is
in
me
than he that
is
in the world.”
^
go on, as I
housework and was surprised that one could
six inches tall, weigh one
feet
five
am
I
underweight.
twenty-five pounds
feel like twenty-five young in the
hundred pounds, fifty-nine years old and
I
did
all
my
Spirit.
the fast
Just thirty days after I broke
my
sister-in-law
wrote a
letter to
completely delivered from drink with no
telling that my brother was
serving the Lord.
temptation to drink any more and is
me
desire or
—
It is
now
six
months
was a drunkard for
later
and he
is still
free
from the drinking demon.
He
thirty years.
that our prayers will
U answered.
There is pleasure in fasting, knowing
fast for, so I can see
that I intend going into another
I have other relatives
them also converted.
mouth became sore, Next time I
The fast was broken too rapidly and my
will eat
more
wisely.
In
Him whom we
love,
C. Wilkie
Mary
Pasadena
3, Calif.
HOSPITAL
FASTING TO JESUS TWELVE DAYS KEPT ME FROM
Dear Brother:
went on a consecration fast.
for nine months, and Jesm
I had been suffering and ill
just what I needed.
a twelve-day fast, on the
of
the end
healed me the first day of the fast. Near
over me. This s^en^
came
weakness
great
tenth day, my side grew sore and
for years. On the
from
suffering
been
have
I
was caused by a bad growth that
Them
right out.
tearing
was
soreness
the
seemed
it
twelfth day of the fast,
would
I
thought
I
healed my infirmity.
great relief came and Jesus completely
operation but Jesus completely delivered
an
have
to
hospital
the
to
go
Lve to
I am so
soul and Spirit.
me and now I am enjoying perfect health in body,
tract.
the
for
you
thankful to the Lord. I thank
Sister D. A. Campbell
One
of your tracts came
my way and
I
Hillier, Ontario,
— 57 —
Canada.
THE
1X)BD
REWARDED ME OPENLY AFTER FASTING ELEVEN DAYS
Dear Brother Hall:
I was so very sick when I went on my eleven-day fast for Jesus.
Poison
was all through my body and I needed the fast to clean up the lx)dy as well as
the soul. I vomited frequently, and took warm water.
Even with warm
water (which helped), I still had vomiting spells, but I was able to
obtain rewards from our loving Saviour. He gloriously gave me the gift of the
Holy Spirit and a spiritual gift of the Spirit. The wells of living water just
flow through me nearly all the time.
The Lord surely rewarded me openly.
I do wish you could come to Jacksonville, Florida, this winter.
People
I intend going on a longer fast soon.
really need this light.
In Jesus Christ,
Mrs. Olier Baumusta
Jacksnville, Florida.
One
of the five million Gastric Glands
contained in the mucous
membrane
of
the stomach, which secrete pepsin,
rennin,
and hydrochloric acid
juice.
The Gastric Glands are another reawhy a protracted fast must be
son
broken slowly and
five million
carefully.
These
glands in the wall of the
stomach are very industrious. When
eating, they produce three quarts of
secretion daily.
THE MEDICINE MAN
In South America, the wild savage
man or witch
has his tribal medicine
doctor. In order to become a medicine
man, he has to live for weeks without
food, and then chews bark, roots and
plants.
He also has to go through
a ritual of weird and wild maneuvers
before obtaining this high position in
the spirit realm. He is supposed to
control warfare, crop failures, floods
and nearly everything else, and is also
supposed to have great influence with
the spirit world. If through fasting,
is made almost a God in his
how much more ought Christians
a savage
tribe,
to fast to
have special favor and pow-
er with their
— 58 —
God?
CLOSING OF THE AGE SIGNS
flood they
"For as in the days that were before the
reference included FOOD and
this
in
"DRINKING”
i»o" Matt 24-39 The
There is not a bit of harm in ^ting
diinks as weU as alcoholic drinks.
.
borage
of harm to the Christian s spiriti^i^
and drinking good food, but there is plenty
without fasti^. In
continued
when the Itog and drinking habit is
TRe OVERlanguage.
stronger
in
thing
21-34 we are told the same
^e
condition that shall be prevalent in these
day language. Stop! look! listen! My
days might sound like this in every
and drink and other drur&enness. It
coming will be in the midst of both food
the cares of these pleasures that
with
so wrapped up
is possible for you to be
CHARGED WITH SURFEITING”
(one reason for the faster’ s foul breath), ano^«
other twenty-five percent is
twenty-five percent is lost through the skin, and the
poisons from the nostrils.
exudes
lost through the kidneys. The “BONFIRE”
an/out
*
into the
nostrils*
A tiny menthol crystal
is
a satisfactory deodorant for the breath
— 59 —
when
fasting.
WHY THERE ARE DIVI5I0N5
4. TRAVAIL FASTIW6
PRAVERZONE
WITHOUT OCCASIONAL FASTING
CARNALISH EXPLODES TH 15 IN TURN EVENTUAL^
DIVIDES
THE BODY OF CHRIST
— 60 —
FASTING TWELVE DAYS
— SINNERS CONVERTED TO JBStJS
Deax Brother Hall:
upon the subject of/“tYour tracts received proved to be most interesting
Satan usk, holddeception
a
What
days.
They helped me to fast twelve
ins
ing so
m^y of
harmed while
My
faith
us under.
I
can
testify that
fasting.
one
by giving me souls,
Please send some more literature that
fast.
helped physically, rather than
t
ji
and the deinl. The Lord
the
after
Him
and backsliders came back to
increased—I have victory over
me
rewarded
is
self, flesh
can give to
I
my
Christian friends
and use to help enlighten others to the bigger
May the Lord bless you in your work for Him.
Mary C. Wilkie
fasts.
Pasadena, Calif.
AN ADVERSE TESTIMONY
and
THE AUTHOR'S REPLY
Dear Brother Hall:
publish an adverse testimony on
I suppose you would not
fasting,
would
has not been as ^
Well, this may not be adverse after all, but it
and you may be able to
circumstances,
the
you
tell
to
I would like
•
you.?
may.
If I
advise me.
on with my ^ual
began Sept, 28 last—on water alone. I kept
(A group of the
usual.
than
work
activities—with even more STRENUOUS
for the underSchool
Sunday
and
church
small
people decided to build a
My
fast
Lord's
so we sisters
could not afford to hire the work done,
I
days.
twenty
fast lasted
worked along with the men on the building.) My
s«rce
could
I
that
weak
y
would not have stopped then, only I had become so
(carpentering with the men) after
walk. I finally stopped all the outside work
my housework for my husban
with
on
about the fourteenth day. I continued
privileged children.
We
and myself.
I
this
had expected
hump’ and be feeling stronger long before
and grew worse. Water became so loathsome
to get ‘over the
but the weakness persisted
to me, I could scarcely get
and nauseating
tried to drink the first
week was
it
down
chlorinated.
I
at all
The
changed to
city
water that I
water and
distilled
the twenty-first day, I took a teasj^n
and figured I had broken my fast.
water
of lemon
fruit juice very careYou would say so, wouldn’t you? I then began taking
on, baked or stewed
Later
all.
pulp and
fully, and after three days, oranges,
this
proved also
difficult to drink.
juice in each cup of
apples and clear soup.
I
On
warm
have been on
this diet
two weeks now and expect to
go on for another week before eating normally.
The
results:
gained seven of
am beginning to feel a
my seventeen pounds lost
I
had ulcers previously, but I
and ankles have swollen
swelling is now going down.
I
feet
real benefit physically.
I
have
re-
during the twenty days of fasting.
expect them to be gone. On the other hand, my
in a startling
manner the
past three days.
The
have developed a bad case of piles. Constipaand enemas .were of little help.
fast
the
during
all
tion was present
drawn very close to
But my real reason for undertaking the fast was to be
I believe they
Lord.
the
unto
closer
and have all my loved ones brought
I
Jesus,
— 61 —
GLORIFIED FASTING
are saved, but there
is
come
to
blessings have
soon be brought closer
a lot of worldliness in them.
them or me.
to Him.
I
am
still
As
yet,
trusting that
my
none of these
relatives will
Now, Brother Hall, I could go on, but I have already trespassed on too
much of your time. Did you ever hear of a case like mine? Can you advise me.
Or must
way.
continue to wait on the Lord? I will, of course, do this anynever give up until I receive the blessings I am so hungry for.
I just
I shall
Thanking you for your
Your
sister
interest,
and the hanky.
by His grace,
(Mrs.) Elizabeth Robertson
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
THE AUTHOR^S ANSWER TO THIS LETTER FROM CANADA
November
12,
1947
Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson
Edmonton, Alberta,
Dear
Sister Robertson:
Your
letter, under date of October 31, 1947, received.
I am happy to learn
of your efforts in serving the Lord Jesus through fasting and prayer.
I
intend using your letter and the answer to
it
in
my new
book, “Glorified
Fasting,” as you shall presently see.
I dislike “advising” folk what to do, so I will only present certain beneficial
suggestions for certain problems, and you either can take them or leave them.
Lighter work is recommended rather than the heavier work that you say you
marvel
at you keeping up work like a carpenter on the building while
would seem like a very difficult thing for a person not fasting to do,
especially a woman.
While it may not prove to be too detrimental, it would
necessarily leave you weakened, whether you were fasting or not.
We discourage it in our books. Ordinary average amount of work may be immaterial.
One should put most of their work in praying, and if the travailing prayer is
did.
I
fasting.
It
put forward as it should be for the best results in the fast, this will be as
heavy work as one will ever care to go into. It would be most likely that weak-
would grow worse under these conditions. I might also add that one does
under every circumstance, grow stronger day by day while fasting.
Distilled water is preferable to city water, you were right to change the
ness
not,
The poisonous condition in the system caused the water to taste as it
One does not break a fast to add only one teaspoonful of lemon juice or
waters.
did.
some
not
salt to
the water to
affect the fast
make
This small amount
Most hard water would contain
taste less obnoxious.
it
one way or other.
will
that
equivalent of other minerals within the water.
This will not break a fast.
You bloated because your system was not cleansed and you evidently ate
things in too large a quantity perhaps drank too much water. To remedy this
—
condition, take a large enema-bag full of water.
ward and take
this
once or twice
until the bloating goes
down).
daily,
If necessary, repeat
soon
and do not drink water (or very
Space the meals
much
afterlittle
farther apart; take very
little, if any, milk and eat lightly or go on another fast, without water, if the
bloating or piles become severe.
Taking hot baths is also a very valuable
remedy. If this information is considered and tried, there is no reason why the
average condition can not be eliminated.
— 62 —
THE A B C OF FASTING
far enough apart if agreeapples in limited quantities and spaced
seventh day (when the
or
taken before the sixth
able. are satisfactory-if not
period.
breaking-in
fifteen days along) of the
The baked
over
fast is
If you have
as to the spiritual results:
In regard to your disappointment
's
problems,
your
for
prayer
travail
earnestly prayed and went into the
life foi
your
thing
every
out
work
yet
will
every rison to believe the Lord
and keep believing. It has been less
His glory if you will have the patience
many times one is rushing God too imthan a month since you fasted, and
answer immediately at the conclusion of
patiently to always expect the Lord to
believing faith, and I feel certain you will
the fast Please hold on to Him with
patience.
is a trial of one’s faith and
fast
victories than ever.
m
A
see greater
THE FOCUSING OF ATTENTION ON JESUS
Fasting relaxes the five senses and the consciousThe new focus of
ness of the environment.
concentration blazes right through to Jesus.
"As
they ministered to the
the
fasted,
aitd
Lord,
HOLY GHOST
SAID,”
Acts 13:2
Historical developments
were in the making. The
church at Antioch in Syria
was waiting on God and
fasting when the Holy
This is
Ghost spoke.
called the
FIRST
journey
ary
church.
in
mission-
the
first
The Holy Ghost
always speak to us
wait on Him in
fastings. Many times our
will
when we
attentions are so taken
up
impossible
to
that
it
is
hear the Holy Ghost
He
wants to speak.
when
Fast-
ing enables us to set free
the natural, it prevents the
flesh
raid
from going into a
and puts the Holy
Spirit to
work.
One
can
have the Holy Spirit without having the full power
and operation of Him manifested in our
Please note:
"The Holy Ghost SAID.”
Holy Ghost, then there
spiritual
lives.
is
"FASTING”
If
we
are not close
enough
to the
the
to help us become adjusted to
environment.
had fasted and
Again there was more fasting and prayer: “And when they
preached.
prayed.” Acts 13:3. A revival began and Jesus was
— 63 —
LADY IN NEWFOUNDLAND FASTS TWENTY-THREE DAYS
Dear Brother Hall:
fasting, and after studying
wonderful hidden truth. In May of 1947, I
I had a desperate time and my eyes were just befasted for only six days.
ginning to open up to this wonderful truth. About two weeks later, I again
began to fast and reached twenty-three days. My bowels did not move during
Now, I have your books and its
that time, so you see how ignorant I was.
Last Spring
the Bible
I
to see this
me more
all
was reproached, laughed
at
teachings are helping
I
who
some of your writings on
received
began
I
the time.
and persecuted
some of those
they did
as
fasted in the Bible days. (Psalm 109).
For eight long years I was bleeding from the womb. At times, I was almost without blood. My heart, nerves and head were in a terrible condition.
My bones were soft, the nails and lips were pale. How I suffered in body and
mind. I was desperate in agony and fear. Despair and dreadful days and
nights of longing for the termination of this life were spent in hopelessness.
I used to think about the time when the birds would sing over my grave, and
But, Hallelujah, my ways are not God's
this gave me some relief of mind.
ways, praise Him forever. Jesus gave me such a wonderful and glorious victory
The
after the twenty-three days of fasting.
nails
a
and
new
lips.
person.
My
My
flesh
Since
I
is
color has returned to
taking on a natural rosy youthful color.
have been revived,
I
can
brother next door has also started a fast
now
.
.
my
finger
I feel like
fast for others.
.
Flossie Winsor, Triton,
Newfoundland.
A FAMINE WITH FOOD
With stomachs
Here
of plenty.
packed, people are
still
in famine.
Yes, a famine in days
the scripture:
is
BEHOLD THE DAYS COME
(Saith the
Lord God)
WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LAND
NOT A FAMINE OF BREAD NOR A THIRST FOR WATER
BUT OF HEARING THE WORDS OF THE LORD
I
Amos
This
8:11
scripture clearly indicates the trend of the very
prophecy, nearly three thousand years ago,
would be
prevailing
Amos
day
we
In
live in.
predicted a condition that
where the Lord’s people would have plenty of food, but
the lack of spiritual bread of the words of the Lord would result in famine.
The
condition, of course,
the spiritual
is
When
the failure of the Lord’s people to seek
an ever present habit,
and become unknowingly famished for same.
Fasting and Prayer.
”Of hearing
gluttony
is
the words of the Lord.”
Lord when we are
satiated
therefore, leads us into a
We can
not
HEAR
and gross ftom continually stuffing
most deplorable state of affairs.
In behalf of a world-wide revival, before
it
Please send in names and addresses of Christians and
on
subject.
— 64
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