Don Colbert - The Daniel Detox: 21 Days to Revitalize Your Body and Spirit

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T H E D ANIEL D ETOX by Don Colbert, MD

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International Standard Book Number: 978-1-62998-647-0 E-book ISBN: 978-1-62998-714-9

This book was previously published by Siloam as Get Healthy Through Detox and Fasting , ISBN 978-1-59185-961-1, copyright 2006.

This publication is translated in Spanish under the title La desintoxicacin de Daniel , copyright 2016 by Don Colbert, MD, published by Casa Creacin, a Charisma Media company. All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS

I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

D ANIEL 10:23

F ASTING IS AN ancient biblical and spiritual tool for cleansing the soul and spirit. Fasting is a key to genuine and deep spirituality. Throughout the ages people have used fasting as a tool for entering into deeper spiritual realms and getting to know God better. In the Bible fasting was considered a key part of entering into and maintaining a powerful and spiritually dynamic walk with God.

To fast biblically, you must voluntarily abstain from foodpartially or completelyfor a period of time for a spiritual purpose. During a spiritual fast you deny yourself one of the most basic elements of survival, one that is loved and cherished by your bodyfood.

Just why would any one of us even want to consider denying our body the cookies, cakes, ice cream, hamburgers, and pizza it so much enjoys? The reason is that fasting, when accomplished through the direction and enabling of the Holy Spirit, has the power to break the gripping control of our lower nature.

U NDERSTANDING O UR T RUE N ATURE

Our fleshly appetite can be a ravenous animal, overpowering the spiritual man within us. When this happens, it seems impossible to say no to a craving for sweets, fast foodor even sex, gossip, or slander. These strong cravings and desires are a part of our lower, baser, or more animal-like nature. The Bible uses the term flesh when it speaks about these cravings and desires of our bodies, and it warns us that we must conquer these appetites. These desires include the following:

Many more things come under the category of flesh. It can involve our thoughts, our emotions, our desires for inappropriate sex, our compulsion to binge on sweets, our inability to stop ourselves from gossiping, and much more. Flesh is nothing more than our needs, wants, and cravings in their undisciplined state.

F ASTING C ONTROLS THE L OWER N ATURE

Since we are all born with these undisciplined needs, wants, and cravings, the key to our spirituality is yielding to the Spirit of God. The Bible encourages us to walk in the presence and power of the Spirit as an anecdote for living in the flesh. In Galatians 5:1617 Paul says:

The carnal, unrenewed mind of the flesh is controlled and dominated by the thinking and reasoning of our intellects. Emotions also control and dominate this lower nature, which means that your feelings and desires control you. In addition to that, the carnal nature is also controlled by the five senses of taste, smell, sight, feeling, and hearing.

But there is hope. The power of God is released through the Holy Spirit who works in us. Ephesians 3:20 tells us, Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us... Its only as we live our lives in vital connection with God that we become able to crucify the lusts of the flesh and live and walk in the higher nature of the Spirit of God within.

This process of crucifying the flesh must be accomplished daily through prayer, forgiving anyone who wrongs us (including ourselves), renewing the mind by regularly reading the Word of God, and by watching every word that comes out of our mouths. All of these things are like the hammers, pickaxes, drills, and machinery that operate at the rock quarry of our hardened flesh. In this effort, fasting is the dynamite that makes all of the other efforts easier and more effective.