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    Why Should I Fast?
    Why Should I Fast?
    Why Should I Fast?
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    Why Should I Fast?

    By Daniel R. Hyde

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    Today, the church seems to have forgotten about the spiritual discipline of fasting. Most of us have never heard a sermon about it, and few of us have ever practiced it. We think of fasting as an antiquated relic of the past. So why should we fast in an age of fast food? Pastor Daniel R. Hyde argues that “fasting is actually a basic biblical teaching and practice, one that is vital to cultivating godly living in an ungodly generation.”

    Fasting is a means to the end of abiding, deep, and personal communion with the triune God through prayer. The author explains what fasting is, provides biblical examples of it, reminds us of what Jesus taught regarding it, and tells us how to go about it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReformation Heritage Books
    Release dateMar 20, 2015
    ISBN9781601783950
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      Why Should I Fast? - Daniel R. Hyde

      WHY SHOULD I FAST?

      DANIEL R. HYDE

      REFORMATION HERITAGE BOOKS

      GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

      CULTIVATING BIBLICAL GODLINESS

      Series Editors

      Joel R. Beeke and Ryan M. McGraw

      Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones once said that what the church needs to do most of all is to begin herself to live the Christian life. If she did that, men and women would be crowding into our buildings. They would say, ‘What is the secret of this?’ As Christians, one of our greatest needs is for the Spirit of God to cultivate biblical godliness in us in order to put the beauty of Christ on display through us, all to the glory of the triune God. With this goal in mind, this series of booklets treats matters vital to Christian experience at a basic level. Each booklet addresses a specific question in order to inform the mind, warm the affections, and transform the whole person by the Spirit’s grace, so that the church may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

      Why Should I Fast?

      © 2015 by Daniel R. Hyde

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Direct your requests to the publisher at the following address:

      Reformation Heritage Books

      2965 Leonard St. NE

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      Printed in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-60178-395-0 (epub)

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      1. What Is Fasting?

      2. What Are the Biblical Examples of Fasting?

      3. Did Jesus Address Fasting?

      4. How Should I Fast?

      Conclusion

      Selected Bibliography

      Devote thyself to fasting

      and prayer.

      IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH (30–107)

      Epistle to Hero, a deacon of Antioch

      INTRODUCTION

      I engaged in Christian fasting for the first time when I was thirty-seven. After being a Christian for twenty years, I finally participated in something that the church has participated in for millennia. I write this short booklet out of the deep conviction that I missed out for two decades on something important for the cultivation of biblical godliness in my life. I do not want you also to miss out on cultivating godliness through fasting.

      In some respects, my lack of fasting experience was understandable. The Bible is a big book. In fact, it is a collection of sixty-six books, and it is easy to forget many of the things we read in such a large volume. Yet as a pastor, I should have known better. When was the last time you heard a sermon on fasting? Think about that question, and then you’ll understand what I am talking about.

      But this problem is nothing new. It’s easy to engage in self-pity and lament the good old days when people fasted and were more pious than we are. Those days weren’t so different from ours, though. In a lecture on Joel 2, John

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