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Fasting - How Hungry are You?

Fasting - How Hungry are You?. Fasting - How Hungry are You?. What is Fasting?. Fasting - How Hungry are You?. What is Fasting?. Chambers - to go without food, or restrict one's diet, especially as a religious discipline. Fasting - How Hungry are You?. What is Fasting?.

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Fasting - How Hungry are You?

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  1. Fasting - How Hungry are You?

  2. Fasting - How Hungry are You? What is Fasting?

  3. Fasting - How Hungry are You? What is Fasting? Chambers - to go without food, or restrict one's diet, especially as a religious discipline

  4. Fasting - How Hungry are You? What is Fasting? Chambers - to go without food, or restrict one's diet, especially as a religious discipline Demonstration of our desire for God over His gifts

  5. Fasting - How Hungry are You? Why Fast?

  6. Fasting - How Hungry are You? Why Fast? Not fasting suggests a contentment with the way things are, with the spiritual status quo, with the absence of Christ. Piper

  7. Fasting - How Hungry are You? Why Fast? Fasting puts an exclamation mark at the end of our prayers! Piper

  8. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast?

  9. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast? Jesus – 40-day fast at start of ministry (Matt 4:2)

  10. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast? Jesus – 40-day fast at start of ministry (Matt 4:2) Esther – called all Jews to join her & her maids for 3-day fast (Esther 4:16)

  11. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast? Jesus – 40-day fast at start of ministry (Matt 4:2) Esther – called all Jews to join her & her maids for 3-day fast (Esther 4:16) Paul – 3-day fast after meeting Christ (Acts 9:9)

  12. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast? Jesus – 40-day fast at start of ministry (Matt 4:2) Esther – called all Jews to join her & her maids for 3-day fast (Esther 4:16) Paul – 3-day fast after meeting Christ (Acts 9:9) King Jehoshaphat – called nation to fast after Judah was invaded (2 Chr 20)

  13. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast? Jesus – 40-day fast at start of ministry (Matt 4:2) Esther – called all Jews to join her & her maids for 3-day fast (Esther 4:16) Paul – 3-day fast after meeting Christ (Acts 9:9) King Jehoshaphat – called nation to fast after Judah was invaded (2 Chr 20) Nineveh fasted in response to Jonah's message (Jonah 3)

  14. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast? Jesus – 40-day fast at start of ministry (Matt 4:2) Esther – called all Jews to join her & her maids for 3-day fast (Esther 4:16) Paul – 3-day fast after meeting Christ (Acts 9:9) King Jehoshaphat – called nation to fast after Judah was invaded (2 Chr 20) Nineveh fasted in response to Jonah's message (Jonah 3) Ezra & exiles fasted before return to Jerusalem along bandit-infested road (Ezra 8:21-23)

  15. Fasting - How Hungry are You? When to Fast? When you give... (Matt 6:2) When you pray... (Matt 6:5) When you fast... (Matt 6:16)

  16. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How to Fast?

  17. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How to Fast? When you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen. (Matt 6:17-18)

  18. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How NOT to Fast?

  19. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How NOT to Fast? On the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Your fasting ends in quarrelling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for a man to humble himself? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying on sackloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? (Isaiah 58:3-5)

  20. Fasting - How Hungry are You? What to Expect when we Fast?

  21. Fasting - How Hungry are You? What to Expect when we Fast? Anger Jealousy Pride Bitterness Pain

  22. Fasting - How Hungry are You? What to Expect when we Fast? And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you (Matt 6:18)

  23. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How great is your desire for God?

  24. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How great is your desire for God? As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. (Psalm 42:1)

  25. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How great is your desire for God? As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. (Psalm 42:1) O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you (Psalm 63:1)

  26. Fasting - How Hungry are You? How great is your desire for God? As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. (Psalm 42:1) O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you (Psalm 63:1) I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ (Philippians 3:8)

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