Feb 17
- BACKSLIDERS! the longer your away the further you stray! #fb #
- If we are doing things that will help us grow in grace then there will be grace to keep us from being proud about growing in grace. #fb #
- does not the triumph of fasting over the body’s appetites lead to pride and self-reliance, which is even worse than gluttony? JP #fb #
- But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. Mat 19:15 #fb #
- The strongest, most mature Christians I have ever met are the hungriest for God. JP #fb #
- One might think that those who feast most often on communion with God are least hungry. JP — not so. #fb #
- Fasting proves the presence, and fans the flame, of our hunger for God. JPm #fb #
- “I will not be mastered by anything” (1Cor 6:12). — not blogging,? not Internet,? not chess? not news? not _____ ? — can you say this? #fb #
- Anger, bitterness, jealousy, strife, fear — if they are within us, they will surface during fasting. RF – I have never experienced that #fb #
- “I humbled my soul with fasting” Ps 35:13 — do you think you can receive humility through fasting??? #fb #
- Is food your drug? Do you medicate with food? Wow what a question eh? #fb #
- I must resist but so often I don't. Ok no more cookies today! #fb #
- It would be easier to have none than to stop at 4. I have not eaten much today, one meal and one small snack. #fb #
- For example I just found a tin of Susan's home made cookies in the freezer. I just had 4 of them. #fb #
- Personally I don't find fasting to hard. What is harder is temperance! #fb #
- More than any other discipline, fasting reveals the things that control us. RF #fb #
- Christian fasting is a test to see what desires control us. What are our bottom-line passions? JP #fb #
- We must show our preferences not merely with words but with sacrifice. JP #fb #
- We easily deceive ourselves that we love God unless our love is frequently put to the test. JP #fb #
- To say that God “need not have tried the experiment” is to say that because God knows, the thing known by God need not exist. LCS #fb #
- Do you delight in food more that you delight in the Lord? Do you sacrifice food for time with the Lord or time with the Lord for food? #fb #
- I find it strange that the greatest competitors for our devotion and affection for God would be some of his gifts. #fb #
- Anything can stand in the way of true discipleship — not just evil, and not just food, but anything. JP #fb #
- Oxen and fields and marriage can keep you out of the kingdom of heaven. JP #fb #
- Internet suffering and chess playing came become a deadly substitute for God. #fb #
- “The desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful” (Mark 4:19). — are your other things food? #fb #
- Has the Word been choked out of your experience by the "pleasures of this life" (Lk 8:14). #fb #
- For when these replace an appetite for God himself, the idolatry is scarcely recognizable, and almost incurable. JP #fb #
- The other half is that our homesickness for God is threatened because our physical appetites are so intense. JP #fb #
- Half of Christian fasting is that our physical appetite is lost because our homesickness for God is so intense. JP #fb #
- When the sense of God diminishes, fasting disappears. JP #fb #
- Bethlehem Baptist Church statement — "We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples." #fb #
- It is my desire on the More Christ Like blog to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in the live of the Christian! #fb #
- We must avoid both the ditch of self-indulgences and self-denial. One is as bad as the other. #fb #
- As with most truths there is a ditch on either side. With fasting their is the ditch of self-indulgences and self-denial. #fb #
- Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence there is the path Christ wants us to walk. #fb #
- The fight of faith is a fight to feast on all that God is for us in Christ. JP — wrap your head around that one eh! #fb #
- What we hunger for most, we worship. JP — now that was simple but profound! #fb #
- God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. JP #fb #
- Perhaps, then, the denial of our stomach’s appetite for food might express,
or even increase, our soul’s appetite for God. JP #fb # - “Desires for other things" — there’s the enemy. And the only weapon that will triumph is a deeper hunger for God. JP #fb #
- Appetite dictates the direction of their lives. JP #fb #
- Don't yield to “the desires for other things [that] enter in and choke the word” (Mark 4:19). #fb #
- What masters us has become our god; and Paul warns us about those “whose god is their appetite” (Philp 3:19). JP #fb #
- “All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything” (1Cor 6:12). — have you been mastered by food? #fb #
- “Food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat” (1Cor 8:8). #fb #
- “Why… do you submit yourself to decrees, such as ‘Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch’?” (Col 2:20-21). #fb #
- Beware of books on fasting. The Bible is very careful to warn us about people who “advocate abstaining from foods". JP #fb #
- The discipline of self-denial is fraught with dangers — perhaps only surpassed by the dangers of indulgence. JP #fb #
- feasting why fasting! hunger for the fullness of God through fasting and at the same time feast with him at his table of grace. #fb #
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