The Five Spiritual Attacks to Expect While Fasting... with Denise Jelinek

About this episode

Denise Jelinek discusses the five spiritual attacks one may encounter while fasting and the importance of restoring order in life.

When we fast, we can expect a pattern of five spiritual attacks--whether the fast is from food, behaviors like scrolling, people-pleasing, or other comforts. The enemy works in our false attachments: to things, to false gods, and to false comforts. He likes to get us to put something above God in our life, and that creates disorder. Fasting restores order. It puts God back as the center of our life. Of course the enemy will pursue our soul when we do this. Learn his tactics, learn that ...

People in this episode

Host: Sarah Bartel

Guest: Denise Jelinek

Topics covered

• spiritual attacks
• fasting
• false attachments
• God
• order restoration

Keywords

• fasting
• spiritual attacks
• false gods
• comforts
• order restoration

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