Fasting Information isn't that difficult to come across. The issue is to find the correct type that doesn't affect your health. As it is not a game! If it's not done properly one can have a lot of problems.
You can find Fasting Information everywhere, but, as usual, the best place to look for Fasting Information is the Internet. You have to search the words "Fasting Information" and you'll be surprised to find things like a Fasting Forum. A Fasting Forum is a place where all kinds of discussions about fasting take place and where the most indicated Fasting Information can be found because you can read about what other people have done and what gave good results for them. Their experience can be a lesson for you in choosing the right fasting information for your own body.
A Fasting Forum is like a field full of flowers waiting to be picked. Information is available for everyone and its purpose is to help make proper decisions when it comes to health. The thing about forums is that they are interactive. A Fasting Forum offers the opportunity to find out opinions and not just read "recipes" for a better life. Avoiding "cold" advice over the Internet is quite difficult, but with a Fasting Forum it can be done. Having to talk about past experiences, about failed experiments and successful purifications is a step forward in your future. Everyone shares Fasting Information and everyone learns how to distinguish between good and bad "prescriptions". All you need to do to be a part of a Fasting Forum is register. Usually registration is free so you don't have anything to loose, but on the other hand you can win a lot of things by talking to various people. Usually forums have a group of moderators who are specialized and can offer you the newest Fasting Information too.
Going online on a Fasting Forum is a great idea because there's no other place where you can find so much Fasting Information. There are other sites or brochures from which you can learn new things: different fasting retreats or ways to approach detox fasting, but a Fasting Forum is the single thing that puts all of these suggestions together. A Fasting Forum can act as a fasting retreat: after you register you can follow a program created by the moderators of the Fasting Forum and make an everyday report on your state - if you feel bad or good or if you feel any changes. You can have the benefits of a fasting retreat in the comfort of your own home without having to pay any money.
There is however a problem with searching for Fasting Information online - accuracy. There are a lot of people who want to make fun of others by giving them wrong advice. If you want to be sure that your Fasting Forum is a good and reputable one you should check if there is a real company behind the forum. If the Fasting Forum you are using is not sustained by a company or a medical practitioner, it doesn't necessarily mean it is a fraud. It can be mediated by a free acting group. Another way to check if the Fasting Forum isn't a prank is to look at the number of users. If there are under a hundred users it might be just a joke or…it might be a new forum that hasn't had the time to expand. The best way to check if the Fasting Information on your favorite Fasting Forum is true is through comparison. Take the information from the forum and try to find that information (or similar to it) on another site. You don't have to do this every time you find something new on the Fasting Forum. You can do it the first time you enter on the forum and, if the info makes sense, you can trust further Fasting Information provided by that Fasting Forum without further suspicion.
If you need some Fasting Information or advice the best thing is to search for it, but with a "safety net". Don't try extreme fasting programs because in your attempt to do something good for your body you could end up harming yourself. You are the one that knows yourself best. If the Fasting Information you receive is used accordingly and if you are attentive to your body's signs, you will be able to do everything correctly. If you find a new fasting program or method, you should try adapting it to your own body to get the best results without damaging your health. You have all the right tools you need to get to a great state of mind and body, so why not use them?
If you have found a new Fasting Forum and you are very excited about the Fasting Information there, then you should share it with your friends. If the Fasting Information is found on a site promoting religion it would be best to filter all the information before applying it. Fasting may or may not bring you closer to god, but you also need to exercise your discrimination. However it can certainly perform healing miracles! Fasting is a natural way to cleanse your body of all the toxic elements you accumulate from an unhealthy life style and stressful living. With such an incredible solution for your health problems, there's really no reason not to try it yourself.
Body health is very important so decisions concerning it have to be carefully weighted. Fasting Information has to be compared and verified with other advice from the Fasting Forum before taking any action, but with care and optimism you too can cleanse your body properly.
Is Speaking in Tongues a gift from God?
Speaking in Tongues as we see it today in Christian churches is a relatively new phenomenon dating back to the early 1900's.
Why is this? And in fact is what we are seeing today the same gift that empowered Jesus' disciples at Pentecost?
The disciples were given the essential ability to speak in the languages of the surrounding nations, so that they could preach the gospel in the native tongue of all those they met. If what we see in churches today is the same gift, why was it absent from the church for over 1800 years?
Throughout the Bible it is seen that God gave His people gifts of the spirit to empower them to do what was required for a particular purpose at a particular time.
It is easy to see why God saw it necessary to give the gift of Speaking in Tongues to the early Church. How else could uneducated men have been able to spread the gospel? The question is then, for what reason would the gift of Speaking in Tongues have been reintroduced to the church after such a long absence. What possible purpose does it serve now that the church is established in almost every corner of the world?
We need to note also that when the genuine gift of tongues was given, for the purpose of evangelising, they understood what they were saying. 1 Corinthians 14:15-16 "What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what you sayest?"
Is what we are seeing in churches today the genuine gift, or has Satan somehow been able to infiltrate the Christian world and deceive them with a counterfeit of one of God's gifts for his own purposes?
The Bible warns us that in the end times there will be a huge outpouring of false miracles, signs and wonders that would deceive much of the Christian world. Mark 13:22 "For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect".
Most Christians are totally oblivious to the fact that speaking in tongues is also practiced in many non-christian religions. It is practiced in African rituals and in voo doo and occult religions. Independent studies have found that there is no distinction in tongues between Christians and the followers of non-Christian (pagan) religions.
One of the most important attributes of the Holy Spirit is that He will guide us into truth. John 16:13 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself;". Truth is the understanding of the true and complete gospel message that our sins can be forgiven through the blood of our saviour Jesus. The message that we are saved by grace and not works, and that those who are saved will be obedient to the will of the Father and follow His commandments, just as Jesus also instructed. John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments".
The fact that many churches who are practicing speaking in tongues are also teaching that we no longer have to obey the commandments, which directly contradicts what Jesus taught when He said Mathew 5:18 "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled" should make us step back and take a second look at whether this phenomenon being practiced in our churches is of God or from another source.
All Bible references are from the King James Version.
For more information on this topic, please visit http://www.speaking-in-tongues.org/
Debra Lohrere is the author of Peace, Prophecy and False Fire http://www.lulu.com/content/333221. Her homepage is http://debra.lohrere.com/home.shtml
Is Speaking in Tongues a Prayer Language?
Many pentecostal churches teach that speaking in tongues is a heavenly language, the "tongues of angels". Is this what the Bible shows? Where does this teaching originate from?
The Greek words used in the New Testament for tongues, when used in relation to speaking, simply meant "language". The Greek "glossa" means "tongue, language," and the verb "laleo" means "to speak", producing the word "glossolalia". This always refered to an earthly or known language.
There is only one verse in the Bible that mentions the tongues of angels. It is 1 Corinthians 13:1(KJV) "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal". Is Paul really saying that he speaks in the tongues of angels? This verse needs to be viewed in context and also in relation to the translation from the Greek. The word that has been translated to "though" when translated and used in over 95% of all other places in the New Testament, has been more correctly translated to "if". Other Versions of the Bible do translate this correctly to "if I spoke in the tongues men and angels".
Regardless of this mistranslation, merely reading the following verses clearly reveal that Paul is speaking rhetorically, as had he been speaking literally he would be boasting that he understood all mysteries and knew everything, which we know is not the case. These verses read 1 Corinthians 13:2-3 "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing". Paul is emphatically expressing his desire that the people should demonstrate love, generosity and charity, the important fruits of the spirit, because without these everything else becomes void. He is showing that love is the most important characteristic that God's people need to express in all aspects of their lives and their ministries. He is not saying that he really can speak in the tongues of angels and has all knowledge.
Isn't speaking in tongues used to edify ourselves?
It should be noted that all of the gifts of the spirit that God gave were related to building up the church. Evangelism, prophesying, teaching, preaching and speaking in tongues to reach the surrounding nations and rest of the world with the gospel message were all gifts to edify the church.
Paul writes 1 Corinthians 14:4 "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church". Many preachers use this verse to prove that we should speak in tongues to edify ourselves and build up our faith. Is this what Paul is really saying? If we again look at this verse in context it can be seen that Paul is in fact rebuking the church at Corinth for their misuse of the gift of speaking in tongues, and telling them that it is of no use whatsoever if they speak in tongues and no one around them understands them. He says that prophesying is far more important, as that will build up the church.
1 Corinthians 14:5-7 "I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?"
He continues on to say that they may as well be speaking into the air. 1 Corinthians 14:9 "So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air". These words are far removed from encouraging them to edify themselves? The whole purpose of his message was to encourage them to stop being self-centered and work on doing things that would build up the church.
The Bible makes it clear that speaking in tongues was for the purpose of witnessing to people in their own languages that they could understand and not speaking where noone knew the meaning of the words being spoken. 1 Corinthians 14:11-12 "Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church".
All Bible references are from the King James Version.
For more information on this topic, please visit http://www.speaking-in-tongues.net
Debra Lohrere is the author of Peace, Prophecy and False Fire http://www.lulu.com/content/333221. Her Homepage is http://debra.lohrere.com/home.shtml
