fasting
 

Know that All that You Have Received from God, Was Given as a Loan

Buy yourself rest with struggle, the unseen face of God with watchfulness, the delight of eternal goods through fasting and thirst. Keep in your head your mind and knowledge; in your eyes the look of God; under your feet the ground where you shall return; in your ears the teachings of the Bible.

Fasting Means Abstinence from Wickedness

Fast needs to be accompanied by good deeds and abstinence from wickedness.

Why Can’t I Feel God’s Love?

Cheap love seeks profit and Christians in this situation enjoy the world to the limit of their damnation.

You Should Fast with Discernment

Fasting is an adjustment of our life, as the water boiling in a pot. If the pot is empty, you add more water so that it does not crack from the intensity of the fire, and if it is full, you take off the excess so that it does not drip into the fire and put it out.

The Easy and Righteous Fast

The first step of fasting is abstinence from expensive and hearty food. This will ease the belly and body from the burden coming from abundant food. Also, the imagination is clean, because the vapours of food are cast away by the light of fasting.

Are you or are you not a believer? A guideline to find out the answer!

Faith brings you closer to God and his ways and if you don’t believe in God nothing else can bring you closer to him.

God appreciates diligence more than the result

Everything is appreciated by God in his divine way, not in a humanly way, because God does not offer rewards for our acts but for the effort.

What’s the use of being pale and weakened from fasting if our heart is filled with hatred?

What’s the use for our body to be deprived of food if our soul is filled with sins? What’s the use of being pale and weakened from fasting if our heart is filled with hatred?