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Fasting, Lent
When you read the word “fasting,” what do you think? Maybe you think, “I have never given fasting much thought.” Or maybe you say fearfully, “How can I go without food for a day or longer?” In our food-loving society, fasting may seem almost impossible. But it is not. Let us be encouraged from scrip
Rev. Kuiper is pastor of Southeast Protestant Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We read of fasts for the most part in the Old Testament. The Hebrew word means to cover the mouth, to keep the mouth shut, to fast. The Mosaic law prescribed only one fast, what Leviticus 16:29-31 calls "afflic
Though there is no express commandment in either the Law or the Gospel binding us thereto, yet it is plain both from precept and practice in the Old and New Testaments alike that there are occasions when fasting is both needful and helpful. Though there is nothing meritorious in it, fasting is both
Don't attempt to fast for a long time right off the bat. Try one or two meals and work up to a day-long fast. Perhaps a juice fast for a couple of days, abstaining from all food and beverage except for juice and water so that your body has the nutrients and sugar that it needs to keep going. St
And this does not fall just on this one passage that Jesus does it. If you go to Matthew six, verse 16, Jesus gives instruction concerning fasting and notice how he begins. He says, Moreover, when ye fast, Similar language to what we have here in the text. Then shall they fast. But we ought to
Fasting consists in the practice of abstaining from certain (partial fast) or from all (total fast) food, for a longer or shorter time (one day, seven days, forty days), with a view to mortify the appetites, to express grief or to deprecate an expected evil. In so far as it consisted of the abstin
When fasting becomes extremely burdensome or irksome people may be exempt, but only by permission of the priest, etc., as mentioned in the announcement. Therefore the sick, infirm, those who lose sleep through fasting, others who get severe headaches as a result of it, or wives whose fasting incurs
Fasting for the church today looks back at the finished work of Jesus Christ and rejoices in that finished work of Jesus Christ. So that even in fasting today, there is great joy in the knowledge of the finished work of Jesus Christ. So Jesus is saying here, fasting for the church today looks b
There are many instances of fasting recorded in Scripture. The Jews fasted often and usually it meant an expression of grief accompanied by the abstinence of food for a certain period. The hypocrites of Jesus’ day were condemned because they assumed expressions of unfelt sorrow and made their outwar