Christian Prayer and Fasting

O most gracious God, and merciful Father! I thine unworthy servant do here acknowledge that as I have been born in sin, so I have lived in iniquity, and broken every one of thy commandments, in thought, word, and deed; following the desires of mine own will, and lusts of my flesh, not caring to […]

#6 - Lastly, when such thoughts come into thy head, either to keep thee from prayer, or to distract thee in praying, remember that those are the fowls which the evil one sends to devour the good seed, and the carcases of thy spiritual sacrifices; but endeavour with Abraham, to drive them away (Genesis 15:11). Yet […]

#5 - Consider, that if the papists, in their blind superstition, do in an unknown, and therefore unedifying tongue, fit only for the children of mystical Babylon (1 Corinthians 14:14; Genesis 11:9; Revelation 17:5), mutter over upon their beads every morning and evening so many scores of ave-maries, paternosters, and idolatrous prayers, how shall they, in […]

#4 - Call to mind the zealous devotions of the Christians in the primitive church, who spent many whole nights and vigils in watching and praying for the forgiveness of their sins, and that they might be found ready at the coming of Christ; and that David was not content to pray at morning, at evening, […]

B. OTHER FASTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT…
      — People often fasted without specific commandment in time of distress; some were communal affairs while others were acts of the private individual
      1. THEY FASTED IN WAR, OR AT THE THREAT OF IT
         a. Israel fasted at Bethel in the war against the Benjamites - Judges 20:26
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