At the commencement of Bible College I understood fasting to be a practice that people in the church did in order to get God to hear their prayers and move on their behalf and answer the prayers that they had placed before Him during the time of fasting. It was like a way to get your prayers answered in an accelerated way.
Mother Teresa would be a person in history who I class as someone who significantly contributed to the discipline of fasting. If fasting is something that we do to “remember the poor …show more content…
Fasting in the Catholic Faith doesn’t appear to be one of choice but one of obeying the rules or Law. “The rules for fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church are set forth in the Code of Canon Law (for the Roman Catholic Church) and in the Code of Oriental Churches (for the Eastern Catholic Church). The Canon Law that the followers of the Catholic Faith are to follow in relation to fasting are Canons 1250-1252. There are several laws that the Catholic need to adhere to in regards to fasting, such as specific days to fast and the age you become when you are to start and finish participating in fasting. While the followers of this faith are bound by law to participate in the discipline, I have the freedom to decide if I want to fast and the duration. There are no rules or laws that I am to follow or participate in to fulfil the discipline of …show more content…
Fasting is a time where we say to God, ‘I will go without so I can spend it with You’. During a fast we can become more spiritually sensitive to the Lord. To combine prayer and fasting we not only get a clarity of mind and spirit and a releasing of the voice of the Holy Spirit but is also a way that we can gain spiritual and material victories. We are to be encouraged in participating in the discipline of fasting, Jesus fasted and assumed that His disciples would fast. He also instructed us on how to fast and when we were fasting how to display ourselves. Matthew