PRACTICE OF PRAYER AND FASTING. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1 TEXT: ISAIAH 58:1-8 Key verse: “And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day” Luke 2:37. The local church should teach and train her members on scriptural fasting. Believers need to know that the Lord expects His children to fast. Matthew 9:14-15,Then came to Him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but Thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. Fasting must be carried out according to biblical pattern. There are those who fast to let people know of their ability to fast. The Lord warns against this, becaus
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