Bible Dictionary: Fasting: Promises Connected With

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Isaiah 58:8-12
Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
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Matthew 6:18
That you appear not to men to fast, but to your Father which is in secret: and your Father, which sees in secret, shall reward you openly.
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Thirteenth Lesson. Prayer and Fasting;'
... In nothing is man more closely connected with the world ... terrible incapacity of trusting
our Father and His promises. ... even in the prayer and fasting that brings ...
/.../with christ in the school of prayer/thirteenth lesson prayer and fasting.htm

Letter v. Prayer and Fasting.
... to spend his gained time in fasting and prayer. ... assure us, by so many precious promises,
that he ... Intimately connected with this is the practice of ejaculatory ...
/.../letter v prayer and fasting.htm

On the Fast of the Tenth Month, vi.
... and New Testaments, and is closely connected with the ... not only the self-restraint
of fasting, but also ... unrighteous and shameless avarice, which promises to do ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xvii on the fast.htm

Malachi.
... (3) The discussion of fasting, should they ... (4) The promises of these ... He was connected
with the reform movement of Nehemiah and Ezra and condemned the same sins ...
/.../the way of salvation in the lutheran church/chapter xxiii malachi.htm

Sixth Lesson. How Much More?'
... accepts too all that the Lord has connected with it ... shall receive,' He says: I give
these promises to those ... perfect' (v.45): to those whose fasting and praying ...
/.../murray/with christ in the school of prayer/sixth lesson how much more.htm

Book 4
... With fasting and prayer.3. By whom ... mysteries, with which they are in some measure
connected; and lest ... the meaning is beheld, consists in the promises; the matter ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/book 4.htm

The Purification of the virgin and the Presentation in the Temple
... by the side of every humiliation connected with the ... the near fulfilment of the great
promises, and that ... the Sanctuary, [1010] and spent in fasting and prayer ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter vii the purification of.htm

Concerning the Sacrament of Penance
... to do so from the promise connected with penitence ... which thou hast believed His
threatenings and promises, and which ... his body with vigils and fasting; while all ...
/.../first principles of the reformation/concerning the sacrament of penance.htm

The Writings of Clement.
... on the Passover; [1847] discussions on Fasting and on ... possible that Clement regarded
his promises as fulfilled ... 6), and the Stromata, form a connected series of ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter xiii the writings of clement.htm

Letter clxvii . To Rusticus, Bishop of Gallia Narbonensis, with ...
... since His assistance is powerful as His promises are true. ... it must be held void,
not being connected with any ... food, they can be purged by fasting and laying on ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/letter clxvii to rusticus.htm