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Precept on Scriptural Fasting

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Precept on Scriptural Fasting  

Sunday 24th August

Text: Ezra 8:21-23 
Key verse: Luke 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 
Fasting is a scriptural observance. It was observed by worshippers of God in the Old Testament and in the days of Jesus as a spiritual discipline required in relationship with God. At some instance when people wanted some blessing from God, they fasted. At times they fasted to express their sorrow over sin and evil and to show their repentance. Jesus fasted and taught the necessity of fasting. 
Believers of the early church practiced fasting as a Christian discipline. Fasting is often accompanied by prayer. Bible practice shows that it is a spiritual discipline of its own as the payment of tithes. Fasting is a spiritual discipline that involves abstinence from food, solid and liquid, or from food and water, for one day or more. This abstinence afflicts the physical body. 
The reasons for fasting include the following: 
I. To present heartfelt petition to God when one feels persuaded to add fasting to his prayer. Ezra 8: 21, 23: 21Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of Him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. 23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and He was intreated of us. 
II. To strengthen faith and prayer in order to move a mountain or cast out strong demons. Fasting keeps the heart and mind concentrated on God for the petition desired and causes silent prayers to ascend to God during the period, hence develops spiritual energy in the name of the Lord. Matthew 17: 21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. 
III. To maintain spiritual fitness and ability in godly living. Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fasting and prayers night and day.

Thought for the day: Fasting must be carried out according to biblical pattern 

Song for the day: Call upon Me, in the day of trouble

Bible reading for the day: Ezekiel 1-4 
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