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Clearview Today with Dr. Abidan Shah

What the Bible Actually Says About Fasting

29 min · 18 de may de 2026
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Most Christians have made their peace with prayer. Fasting is a different story. It feels extreme, it feels optional, and honestly — does skipping lunch really change anything? In this episode, Dr. Abidan Shah answers that question directly, and the answer is more grounded and more challenging than most people expect. Dr. Shah walks through what fasting actually means in the Bible — not social media detoxes, not giving up chocolate for Lent — and why the Old Testament is full of people who fasted at the most critical moments of their lives. Moses, Joshua, Hannah, Samuel. These weren't extreme ascetics. They were people who understood that some situations require a different level of seriousness before God. But the sharpest part of this episode is the question underneath the question: why have we lost the fire? Dr. Shah makes the case that one reason Christians in the West have lost their urgency is that life is too easy — food is available, comfort is assumed, and we've quietly accepted that the hard things around us are just the way things are. Fasting, he argues, is one of the most practical ways to break out of that complacency and get serious again. And then at the end, he connects it all back to Nehemiah — and reveals that Nehemiah's burden wasn't just for his people. It was for the plan of salvation itself. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2070310/support] PRE-ORDER BYZANTINE TEXTFORM: https://subsplash.com/u/-MPJ586/forms/d/1090d08a-49c0-498a-ad97-5c0fd575fa9e SIGN UP FOR WATCHSAFE: CLICK HERE [https://watchsafe.app/signup?ref=today] --- >> DR SHAH'S BOOKS [https://abidanshah.com/books/] >> SUBSCRIBE ON YOUTUBE [https://www.youtube.com/@abidanshahphd] >> CHECK OUT ALL OUR SHOWS [https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/channel/dr-abidan-shah/id6748757966]

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