Fasting from living just like an animal (i.e. being run by our desires & our pleasures; & instead learning to be fully human as God made us to be i.e. living by the Will of God ...Looks like fasting as God envisions it, does even more than "amplify your prayers"; God says he'll be saying "Here I am"... "Anything else?" And giving us amazing names & reputations...
‘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? 7 Is it not
to share your food with the hungry and
to provide the poor wanderer with shelter –
when you see the naked, to clothe them, and
not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? ,....
‘If you do away with
the yoke of oppression, with
the pointing finger and
malicious talk,
10 and if you
spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and
satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
....
‘If you keep your feet from
breaking the Sabbath and
from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you
call the Sabbath a delight and
the Lord’s holy day honourable, and if you
honour it by not going your own way and
not doing as you please or
speaking idle words, [14] ...
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
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