Our Guest Dr. Jennifer Miskov
JENNIFER: Yeah. Fire fast is a new revolutionary perspective on fasting. So many people have a negative connotation of fasting. They have these religious mindsets, it’s a religious box to check off or you’re punished if you don’t do it and there’s condemnation.
JENNIFER: But the fire fast is just a reintroduction to fasting, is an invitation to greater intimacy with Jesus. It’s focusing our attention and affection upon loving Jesus, encountering him, worshiping him. It’s not necessarily fasting to gain something or gain a breakthrough. It’s fasting to gain Jesus. And the three different types of fire fasts I go over in the book is the fire fast of intimacy. I think the most important one where we fast solely to feast upon the Lord and grow closer.
JENNIFER: The second one is the fire fast of consecration, which you really need to have a good relationship with God the Father to do because he might burn away things that are holding you back from all he has and sometimes that’s painful. And if you don’t understand the Father loves you that could be hard, but it’s for your good. He prunes us to make us more fruitful. And the third one is the fire fast of revival. Now we’re praying and fasting like William J. Seymour did to see a move of God in our day.
SID: Jennifer, you say, it’s not what we’re giving up, it’s what we’re getting. You say, fasting is feasting on God. Comment on that.
JENNIFER: Yeah. Fasting is one of the most powerful ways to see Jesus without all the clutter. Psalm 27, King David said, “Though an army besiege me, though war breakout against me, one thing I seek, one thing I ask, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.” And there’s something about fasting that helps us focus our affection and attention upon Jesus.
