Abuses of fasting: 1. Any attempt to earn God’s blessing through fasting is clearly in contradiction to the scriptural teaching that Jesus’ death and resurrection is the ground for every spiritual blessing. Fasting is the humble response that puts us in a place to receive the life and victory Jesus has won for us. 2. One should never view fasting as a substitute for repentance and obedience. To do so turns fasting into a form of penance (cf. Isaiah 59:1-22). 3. To use [fasting as a means] to impress others. This is clearly what Jesus forbids in Matthew 6:18. The question is not so much whether others know about our fast but rather why we want them to know about it. The Scriptures make reference to corporate fasts, and thus fasting is not always a private matter. 4. [When we use fasting] to belittle the kind gifts of God. While on the one hand we can fall in love with the gift of food and not the Giver, on the other hand we can fail to enjoy the food with the taste buds that He provided and glory in our will power.

Bill Thrasher

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Cajun	Poultry, Main dish, Cajun	2	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1/2		Small onion, sliced
2		Chicken breasts
1	tb	Oil
2	ts	Lemon juice
		Salt & pepper
1/2	ts	Cumin
1/2	c	Apple juice
1/2	c	Water
		Flour

INSTRUCTIONS

Saute onion in oil.  Salt, pepper and flour chicken, add to oonion and
brown quickly.  Add cumin and stir. Add water and juices. Cover, reduce
heat and simmer 30 minutes. Serve with some of the sauce and onion over
chicken.  Recipe may be doubled (4 breasts), but use only HALF again the
sauce ingredients. Courtesy Telephone Pioneers BillSpalding *P CRBR 38 A
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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