Fasting & Food
Some church people talk lots about this "Daniel Fast". There are lots of folks making $$$ on selling us this fast or these foods or this "Daniel Fast". Daniel wasn't giving us a new diet or law, he was simply saying you can give me the least and GOD will make it the most.
I have food you know nothing about JESUS told his disciples. John 4:32
Just like Abraham asking Lot which part of the land does he want? Lot chooses the best of the land, giving the Patriarch Abraham the left overs. GOD does amazing things with left overs or what man has rejected. See Genesis 13. vs 10 "Lot looked and saw the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD..." we all know which part was destroyed by fire (Sodom/Gomorrah) and which was the land flowing with milk and honey.
GOD does MORE with the less man has/uses. The less we have the more of HIM we get. MY Grace is sufficient for you, MY Power is perfected (made complete) in your weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9
I think these two verse prove what I am saying.
JESUS feeds the 5,000 in Matthew 14:13-21 so we have 5000 men (women and children were there but not counted, head of households were counted -so 5000 see vs 21) and the disciples had 5 loaves and 2 fish. Result: every one ate and were full and the disciples picked up 12 baskets of left overs. that was in verse 20.
Next time, JESUS feeds 4000 see it in the next chapter in Matthew 15:29-39 there were 4000 men and they had 7 loaves and a few fish (so more food 5 loaves before but 7 loaves now and 2 fish before to a few now fish). More food and one thousand less people. So a bit more food and 20% less folks.
Result: everyone ate and were full (vs 37) and the disciples picked up 7 baskets of left overs. vs 37
Conclusion: more people LESS food used and more left overs. Less people MORE food used and less left overs.
HE (GOD) chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast in His presence.… 1 Corinthians 1:28
Isaiah 58:6-9
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
