A: What fasting is NOT:

A: What fasting is NOT:

NOT Impressing God with your spirituality or holiness.

NOT A means of earning God's favour, admiration, or answers to prayer. Our need for God's grace tells us that earning/deserving ANYTHING from God is IMPOSSIBLE.

NOT Impressing or trying to impress each other with your spirituality or holiness.

NOT Twisting God's arm, persuading a reluctant God, cajoling, browbeating, bribing, pushing, cornering, coercing or forcing God.

and IN PARTICULAR, it's NOT A super prayer hyper power technique, guaranteed to generate improved results (or your money back) which can be dangerously close to the most common current idea of fasting. Increased faith, and a greater sense of God's power, can result from fasting, and we'll look at why this is the case in Section E.