The Only How-to Fasting Guide for Women
When women think of fasting, many of us think of grumbling stomachs, low energy, and high-stress days. Add to that our full, fast-paced lives, and the act of fasting can quickly become a major inconvenience. But this is not what it should be!
With warmth and experience, Lisa Nelson provides everything you need to know to make fasting a natural, powerful part of your life--even if you have a family to feed, have a work schedule to keep, or have tried unsuccessfully before.
Offering insights and realistic advice specifically for women, she answers vital questions such as:
- How do I fit fasting into a busy schedule?
- How should I prepare physically? Spiritually?
- What should I do--and expect--before, during, and after a fast?
- What cautions should I be aware of?
- What are the best ways to end a fast?
- How can I make the most out of a non-food fast?
When you learn how to fast successfully, you can--and will--experience God in a whole new way.
Complete with tips for all types of fasts--including the Daniel fast!
A fantastic guide to meditation and detoxification, whether for spiritual or physical purposes, A Woman's Guide to Fasting provides a resource abundant with biblical foundations, influences and benefits to this age-old technique. Lisa E. Nelson writes of her own Christian journey discovering along the way wide misconceptions as well as proper methods to handle and employ fasting safely into any individual's lifestyle.
The author covers many issues of Christian based fasting including prayer, responding to a particular calling or issue and spiritual warfare. She also delves into precautions surrounding the physical aspects of fasting in regards to pregnancy and other medical circumstances. Nelson carefully supplies the reader for the fast by outlining it chronologically. Informing you beforehand on how to begin and what to expect, she lists different plan types to choose from (e.g., liquids, partial, The Daniel Plan) as well as physical and spiritual preparation. She follows by inspiring the reader while enduring the fast, such as defeating temptations and digging deeper into the Word of God. Conclusively, the reader is gently eased out of the process while avoiding shock to the system and yet maintaining and perpetuating the well-earned benefits.
A Woman's Guide to Fasting is a lovely source to possess for your private communion with the Lord. Of course there are many benefits mentally, physically and emotionally, but the primary reason above all, as accentuated by Nelson, is aligning your soul closer to God.
Be sure to check out the author via her involvement through
Protestant Women of the Chapel
and as a recommended speaker for "Faith Deployed fans"
Preview & purchase the book at Bethany House, Christianbook.com & Amazon
My deep appreciation to Bethany House for providing this book free for review.
