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Fasting by Anthony Mangun

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Channel: The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Jesus tells us to fast in secret and not for show. Matthew 6:16-18 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.”

I know this may not be what you think of fasting as being for but  Isaiah writes that it can be used “to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the pressed go free, and to break every yoke?”  Clearly an addiction to pornography, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, the Internet or just fill in blank are strongholds that are not easily broken.  The fast can be to undo the straps of a yoke and certainly an addiction is a yoke that binds a heavy burden on a person.  Fasts can loose these bonds of wickedness (sins) and break every yoke (addictions).
Isaiah 58:3-7 “Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?”

Verses on fasting. “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. For forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.And He said unto them, “This kind can come forth by nothing but by prayer and fasting. “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.” “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God....

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