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Back to EpisodesThe Five Spiritual Attacks to Expect While Fasting... with Denise Jelinek
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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 this is normal (you are not failing), and then learn how to gently and lovingly restore proper order after an attack.
Denise Jelinek joins Sarah to break down the play book for each of these five attacks... and shares what to do about them.
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