The football season is getting close to starting. We have been fasting from football. When we think of fasting we normally think of not eating or drinking and we also associate fasting with lent in the spring time of the year. But I am telling you we have been fasting from football for months now and I am ready to start enjoying the savor of eating, drinking and focusing on football again.

I have thought for years we love the game of football so much because we don’t get to play football or watch football year round. Other sports you can play all year long. But football we can only get ready for the game of football year round by lifting weights, playing 7 on 7, football camps etc. We also only have a certain season of life you get to play the game of football. It is here and then it is gone. Enjoy it while you can because soon you don’t get to play it anymore.

Fasting is something we should do in our spiritual lives. Actually, in the world today many have chosen to fast from anything religious and have been gone from church services and Bible reading for years. Covid-19 just emptied out churches and many have struggled to get people back involved.

What we need to fast from is our phones, television, internet, media, radio and other devices that take up our time. I am not saying stay away forever just have a certain day or time of day you choose not to do those things.

John Wesley the founder of the Methodist Church fasted every week from sundown Thursday to sundown Friday. You don’t have to fast from food you could give up a latte once a week and focus on prayer instead. Anything you find comfort in you could fast from such as the phone in the morning. Pick up the Bible first thing on Mondays and not your phone for five minutes.

Mathew 6:16-18 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen and your Father who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”