Peera:
Since we don't always give our skipped meal to beggars or the less privileged every time we fast, why then do we fast?

Zzor:
We fast because it purifies our soul,it helps us stay away from sins and to be spiritually very strong.No week passes me by without fasting at least once.Try it and you will see how much you love yourself.Righteousness89 am i right?

Righteousness89:


Absolutely Ma..
Fasting Powers the Spirit Man

Righteousness89:


Absolutely Ma..
Fasting Powers the Spirit Man
Fasting Makes the Spirit man alive..
It's the Spiritual that Controls the Physical..
Fasting subdues the Power of the flesh..

The Flesh is a Deceiver. It's not happy when u Fast! All it wants is to be Pampered, Gratified and all that..

For uptimum Results it should be Fasting and Praying...

Peera:

Since we don't always give our skipped meal to beggars or the less privileged every time we fast, why then do we fast?

MaxInDHouse:


Fasting began when Israelites go offtrack from God's requirements. They use that moment to show how sober they are towards their wrongdoing. This tradition continued through the ages until the people turned the custom into a perfunctory exercise.
It came to a time God got fed up with this hypocrisy that he sent his prophets to warn them about how needless their ritual fastings has become in his eyes. Isaiah 58:1-8
But the people did not get the message so they continue their fasting until the arrival of God's son (Jesus Christ). Jesus never taught his followers how to fast, he made them realized that the hunger strike they're calling fasting has nothing to do with his father.
So whenever they choose to go on hungers strike they shouldn't squeeze their faces since his father never imposed such act on them {Matthew 6:16-18} The questions each sincere Bible scholar needs to ask are

How did the scriptures stipulate fasting?
From what time to what time is fasting?
What are the things to use during fasting?
Did Jesus fasted at all?
Where did Jesus fasted?
What is the timeframe of Jesus' fasting?
Did any human knew when he fasted?
Did he repeat the exercise?
Did he ask his followers to do the same?
What exactly is the purpose of fasting?

Based on God's word it's only when his servants are sober or mourning that they don't feel like eating {Matthew 9:15} the true fasting that God requires from all humans is righteousness.
When we try to do what is right in the midst of a crooked minded people they tend to antagonize and even spite us, do we shrink back from doing what is right? If we do then there is no gain in going on hunger strike afterwards! Isaiah 58:6-7

God bless you!

MaxInDHouse:


Fasting began when Israelites go offtrack from God's requirements. They use that moment to show how sober they are towards their wrongdoing. This tradition continued through the ages until the people turned the custom into a perfunctory exercise.
It came to a time God got fed up with this hypocrisy that he sent his prophets to warn them about how needless their ritual fastings has become in his eyes. Isaiah 58:1-8
But the people did not get the message so they continue their fasting until the arrival of God's son (Jesus Christ). Jesus never taught his followers how to fast, he made them realized that the hunger strike they're calling fasting has nothing to do with his father.
So whenever they choose to go on hungers strike they shouldn't squeeze their faces since his father never imposed such act on them {Matthew 6:16-18} The questions each sincere Bible scholar needs to ask are

How did the scriptures stipulate fasting?
From what time to what time is fasting?
What are the things to use during fasting?
Did Jesus fasted at all?
Where did Jesus fasted?
What is the timeframe of Jesus' fasting?
Did any human knew when he fasted?
Did he repeat the exercise?
Did he ask his followers to do the same?
What exactly is the purpose of fasting?

Based on God's word it's only when his servants are sober or mourning that they don't feel like eating {Matthew 9:15} the true fasting that God requires from all humans is righteousness.
When we try to do what is right in the midst of a crooked minded people they tend to antagonize and even spite us, do we shrink back from doing what is right? If we do then there is no gain in going on hunger strike afterwards! Isaiah 58:6-7

God bless you!

Zzor:
The first mention of fasting in the new testament was Exd.13:2-15.Jesus practiced fasting when satan tempted him Matt. 4:1-11 Sir check also Mark. 1:12-13,Luke.4:1-4

MaxInDHouse:


I know you're intelligent so i'll try to make it simpler for you!

Please can you say a person who was taken to an isolated place for days fasted for those days simply because they never offered him food?

Zzor:
Then if he was there in isolation without food,what do we call that?i already gave you verses that affirmed Jesus fasted and it was also confirmed in the new testament,check those verses I referred you to earlier and what do you have to say?

MaxInDHouse:


Going straight to read a Bible quotation shows you're willing to know but diligently studying and prayerfully meditating on quoted scriptures will help you to become wise!

So now let's do some meditation!

Matthew, Mark and Luke were the three gospel writers who recorded the event.
According to Matthew when a person didn't eat for days the condition doesn't count it's fasting
But according to Mark and Luke they never call it fasting because Jesus did not reject food, he did not go into the wilderness all by himself it was God's holy spirit that led him there, and after the holy spirit has concluded with him something strange happened!
Jesus was hungry!
Now a person who deliberately chose to fast can't say i'm hungry when you're the one fasting, nobody was there with Jesus so he must have been the one who related the experience to his disciples so did Jesus told them i was fasting and i was hungry? NO!
So to conclude on what happened there are certain aspects to be considered, Jesus did not choose to fast, he never repeated the exercise and never asked his followers to emulate it, his followers never repeated it. If you read about his followers and fasting it simply means they were praying or doing something in sorrow not that they deliberately ignored food when they have it and nothing is worrying them!

Zzor:

hmmm OK ooo

Zzor:
hmmm OK ooo

Peera:
Since we don't always give our skipped meal to beggars or the less privileged every time we fast, why then do we fast?

Zzor:
exactly sir ,it has seriously kept me going and not astray despite my shortcomings.Fasting is the fastest secret to any form of spiritual nourishment

Zzor:
exactly sir ,it has seriously kept me going and not astray despite my shortcomings.Fasting is the fastest secret to any form of spiritual nourishment

Peera:
Since we don't always give our skipped meal to beggars or the less privileged every time we fast, why then do we fast?

HRHQueenPhil:

Speak for yourself. Many of us actually do..it doesn't have to be d one carrying plates..and it must not be money or food..d sacrifice of your time u use to pray for someone else can go a long way

Zzor:
We fast because it purifies our soul,it helps us stay away from sins and to be spiritually very strong.No week passes me by without fasting at least once.Try it and you will see how much you love yourself.Righteousness89 am i right?