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Isaiah 58-66: ”Beauty for Ashes”

Unshaken Saints

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Do We Fast to Show God How We Need the Blessing That We're Pleading For?

Don't we fast to show God how desperately we need the blessing that we're fasting for? Doesn't it intensify our sense of feeling and the depth of our desire? I care about the blessing that I'm seeking more than the food that I'm missing. And so doesn't it increase the volume of our prayers? I can put it that way, to make our voice to be heard on high. Now to a degree, I believe that does do that and that's one of the purposes behind fasting. But if that's, I guess it's all boils down to attitude, right? And not just outward action and the attitude of Israel, as Isaiah is describing it, it's negative

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