thews wrote:Nightlion wrote:Peace my son. I once spent three days with one foot in the afterlife from day 23 -25 of epic Biblical, miraculous fasting.
This is BS... a failed attempt at religious suicide is a manufactured ruse.
To the OP... no... fear is an exercise in futility.
Thought you believed the Bible. Elijah went in the strength of his last meal forty days and nights on Mount Horeb written in 1 Kings chapter 19.
Moses was on the mount forty days and nights presumably fasting all the while. Recorded in Exodus 24.
And of course Jesus fasted for forty days in the wilderness being tempted of the devil.
It was nothing to do with suicide. I needed power to overcome the oppression that was all around me. It succeeded well in that regard plus I got a manifestation of the reality of the after life that continued uninterrupted for three days.
I have related the story before more than once. After three days time working full time each day at a job that required I walk a warehouse picking orders that amounted to about 5-8 miles per day, I sat in my Chevy Astro Van in my own driveway about to leave when suddenly all my strength drained from me. I was given great strength of God for 25 days of hard labor and fasting then the afterlife beckoned and so the Lord noticed my awareness of the afterlife and then demonstrated how much power he had put upon me to keep me alive by allowing it all to withdraw, leaving me at deaths door. I was asked if I wanted to die or to continue to live. I chose to live. Immediately all power was restored as if I lit up and awakened to full life and vigor. The awareness of the afterlife was gone, never to return to me. I kept that fast until I completed 43 days.
I had power and strength to return to a job that was taken from me and win back a career that greatly blessed my wife and my children who were beginning to enter their teenage years. I had just before lost a meager job and was only working as a temp or skilled laborer. This was only 12 years ago. And I am 60 years old. I got a certain knowledge that God is able to do all things and the reality of the afterlife in the bargain.
You can ask my wife and children if you want their witness. Or the co-workers who saw the power upon me daily and dared not speak a word to me. But I have no idea who they were. I was in the strength of the Lord, fasting to overcome the world.
I suspect that I do know what the Lord did but it was miraculous all the same.
Why did I not stop at forty days? Three days for good measure, perhaps to take up the three days when I was out of this world, so to speak.