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• Isaiah 58Bible

  Isaiah 58 rebukes merely outward fasting and declares that the fast God delights in is to set the oppressed free and to care for one's poor neighbors. The chapter closes with an exhortation to honor the Sabbath.

• Prayer Retreat Center (Kidowon)Christian Life

  A prayer retreat center, known in Korean as a kidowon, is a Protestant facility, usually built in the mountains or on the outskirts of a city, where people can devote themselves to prayer and fasting. Equipped with meeting halls and lodging, it is used for individual prayer and group retreats.

• DidacheHistory

  The Didache, meaning "the Teaching (of the Twelve Apostles)," is an early church document generally thought to have been written in the late first or early second century. It contains instructions on baptism, the Eucharist, fasting, prayer, and church offices.

• 2 Chronicles 20Bible

  2 Chronicles 20 recounts how Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, responds to an invading coalition of Moabites and Ammonites by fasting and praying, then goes out with singers leading the way and gains the victory. The chapter closes with a summary of Jehoshaphat's reign and the episode of the fleet at Ezion-geber.

• Spiritual DisciplinesDoctrine & Theology

  Spiritual disciplines are devotional habits, such as prayer, meditation on Scripture, and fasting, that Christians practice regularly in order to deepen their relationship with God and grow in Christian character.

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Verses in the King James Version 21, showing 6

• Nehemiah 9:1

  Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

• Esther 4:3

  And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

• Esther 9:31

  To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

• Psalms 35:13

  But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

• Psalms 69:10

  When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

• Psalms 109:24

  My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

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