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Fasting: The Didache on Fasting - Illustration on fasting | IllustrateTheWord

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Fasting: The Didache on Fasting

By UnknownSource: Unknown - The Didache (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) (Public Domain)171 words

Teaching on Fasting from Unknown: The Didache on Fasting

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fasting early church weekly practice discipline

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Matthew 6:16-18 Acts 13:2-3 Isaiah 58:6

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God who is enough, I fast today not to earn Your favor, but to remember that I already have it. In this physical hunger, awaken spiritual hunger. In this empty stomach, reveal the places in my soul that need filling—...

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