Since becoming a believer, I have always been amazed by how different we think from God. We read the scriptures and ask for revelation. When we get it, we are caught in a world divided by two kingdoms, so we try to find a way to make the Kingdom of God fit into the kingdom of the world. We find it difficult to make them mix. Here lies the problem: they don’t mix. We seek His wisdom when we fast from the world, but the fast He has chosen is not the one we pursue. We seek God through the many fasts in the scriptures (I am for them all), but we miss the fast that He is on. Yes, God has a fast, and the purpose of His fast is to bring salvation and healing to the injured and fallen.

When we align with the Kingdom of God, conflict ensues, for the world despises God and us. Yet, without the advent of the Kingdom of God, this world spirals into its own destruction. We are not just the heroes, but also the disruptors of the status quo, as we are commissioned to introduce Jesus and His Kingdom into this world. But what about those who have already fallen, who stand on our side? Can we disregard them and forge ahead? That is not God’s fast or His way. If we want to win this war of the two kingdoms, we must turn our hearts to the lost and the poor. Instead of making the Kingdom of God fit into our world, we must learn to change the world by becoming Kingdom Citizens first and doing God’s fast as Kingdom Citizens.

You can find God’s fast in Isaiah 58.6-9. God declares to Israel that you fast for your own benefit so God will hear you and bless you.

“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? 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? 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. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I..."