We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
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Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people's throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.