Practice #3: Fasting

When you fast, do not look somber as the
hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces
to show men they are fasting. I tell you the
truth, they have received their reward in full.
- Matthew 6:16

Honor & Worship God: Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God ? this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is ? his good, pleasing and perfect will.

- Romans 12:1-2

Advance God's Kingdom: Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

- Isaiah 58:6

Our Benefit & Reward: But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

- Matthew 6:17-18