Fasting Essay

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Introduction
I have chosen to write this essay on the spiritual discipline of fasting. Fasting is an important discipline used by many Christians for many varying reasons. In the bible fasting was used for seeking a closer relationship with God, also for protection and for God to intervene in difficult situations, for breakthroughs, strength to help resist temptation and to seek direction from God. Through this essay we will discuss fasting in further details, sharing my own experiencing with this discipline, comparing how I practise fasting compared to those of a catholic denomination, and how fasting can be applied to group and corporate situations as well.

Summarise your original understanding of the discipline before the course started
I originally believed that fasting was to sacrifice something I enjoyed doing to become closer to God and by doing this I would be able to show God how serious the issue I was praying over was to me. Fasting is done for so many different reasons by people and there were many different motives by different people that it took a while for me to understand fasting fully. It required me to experience fasting personally to gain a better understanding.

A Significant Christian figure in history who has contributed to this discipline
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Catholics for example also fast but have a lot more rules involved in how they fast and when. While I am free to decide how long too fast for and what to fast from (food, types of food, social media, tv, games etc). Catholic denomination has set guidelines on when to fast and what they must abstain from. Catholic religion has more of a works attitude, where they must gain their salvation though different acts, fasting and abstaining being one of these works. I am free to use fasting purely to hear Gods voice clearer in my life rather than needing to fast in order to keep my

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