SIMPLE THINGS TO FOLLOW WHEN FASTING
Jesus teaches us how to keep fasting.
REMEMBER THESE..
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1. DO NOT LOOK GLOOMY LIKE THE HYPOCRITES
For they put on a sad and dismal face like actors, discoloring their faces with ashes or dirt so that their fasting may be seen by men. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, they already have their reward in full. - Matthew 6:16
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2. DO IT IN SECRET AND BE NORMAL
Put oil on your head as you normally would to groom your hair and wash your face so that your fasting will not be noticed by people, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. - Matthew 6:17-18
A DISCIPLE ASKED JESUS
Why do we and the Pharisees often fast as a religious exercise, but Your disciples do not fast?
Jesus replied,
Can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while the bridegroom is with them?
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
But no one puts a piece of unshrunk new cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and a worse tear results.
Nor is new wine put into old wineskins that have lost their elasticity; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the fermenting wine spills and the wineskins are ruined.
But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, so both are preserved.” - Matthew 9:14-17
