Transformed by Fasting: One Pastor’s 40-Day Fasting Journey

“America has Stage 4 spiritual cancer. We are dying spiritually. It has metastasized into our schools, into our governments — pretty much every area of life is affected by this spiritual decline. And we see throughout Scripture that often the only remedy — the only cure for what is happening to our nation is to call a fast and to pray — to pray and fast and seek God.”

Stream contributor Shane Idleman sees a connection between America’s physical and spiritual decline. “America is dying spiritually, but ironically we’re also dying physically,” he points out, and “the top diseases are diet-related lifestyle choices. Could it be that prayer and fasting could begin to heal both those areas?” When we seek God in prayer and fasting,  it “can get us to a spot of brokenness spiritually and it can get us to a spot of physical health.”

Watch this short documentary, inspired by his own 40-day fasting journey, in which Idleman shares how he was “Transformed by Fasting.”