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Fasting and Fruit

Are you fasting from anything during Lent? Joel 2:12 (NIV) “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” “As our bodies grow weaker for lack of food during the season … Continue reading

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Lent: to Fast

  Fasting is associated with Lent. We usually think of fasting from food — but there’s more:   “Let the hands fast by being pure from plundering and avarice. Let the feet fast by ceasing from running to unlawful spectacles. … Continue reading

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Fasting Wrong

  This headline in my newsfeed caught my eye: “Fasting from meat for Lent? Check out these seafood restaurants.”   Jesus said, Matthew 6:17-18 (ESV)  But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not … Continue reading

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Fasting Right

Prayer reaches out. Fasting lets go. Prayer and fasting — together, just right.

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Fasting for . . .

  God calls us to fast for good.     Isaiah 58:6-7 (MEV) Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, … Continue reading

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Fasting during Lent

  Fasting (going without something, usually food) is often connected with the season of Lent. Why?   Lent looks forward to Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and his resurrection from the dead. It’s considered a season of preparation. Joel 2:15 … Continue reading

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Secret Fast

Matthew 6:16 (NTE) When you fast, don’t be gloomy like the play-actors. They make their faces quite unrecognizable, so that everyone can see they’re fasting. I’m telling you the truth: they have received their reward in full. Notice what Jesus … Continue reading

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Fast Right

Isaiah 58:6 (NIV) Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?   Fasting done right makes … Continue reading

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Simply Fast

Joel 2:12 (ERV) This is the Lord’s message: “Now come back to me with all your heart. Cry and mourn, and don’t eat anything! Show that you are sad for doing wrong.”   Don’t fast half-heartedly, by rote, out of duty … Continue reading

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How the Fast Works

  Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.   Fasting isn’t some magical method to get God to do what you want. It tunes your ears to hear His plan.

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