Capture„...I need humble apostles who, with an open heart, will accept the Word of God and help others to comprehend the meaning of their life along side God’s word. To be able to do this, my children, through prayer and fasting you must learn to listen with the heart...“ (September 02. 2013)

4.15. Fasting and Preparation for Listening to the Word of God

“In the ninth month, in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, a fast to placate the Lord was proclaimed for all the people of Jerusalem and all who came from Judah’s cities to Jerusalem. Then Jeremiah charged Baruch: I cannot go to the house of the Lord; I am prevented from doing so. Do you go on the fast day and read publicly in the Lord’s house the Lord’s words from the scroll you wrote at my dictation; read them also to all the men of Judah who come up from their cities. Perhaps they will lay their supplication before the Lord and will all turn back from their evil way; for great is the fury of anger with which the Lord has threatened this people.” (Jer 36, 9; 5-7)

„return to me with your whole heart...“  (Joel 2,12)

4.16. Responding to the Word of God with Prayer and Fasting

“And Baruch read the words of this scroll for Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, to hear it, as all the people who came to the readings; the nobles, the king’s sons, the elders, and the whole people, small and great alike – all who lived in Babylon by the river Sud. They wept and fasted and prayed before the Lord and collected such funds as each could furnish.” (Bar 1, 3-6)

4.17. Fasting and Prayer as a Way out of a Common Sinful State

“Gird yourselves and weep, O priests! Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! The house of your God is deprived of offering and libation. Proclaim a fast, call an assembly; Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, Into the house of the Lord, your God, and cry to the Lord.” (Jl 1, 13-14)

“Yet, even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment. Perhaps he will again relent and leave behind him a blessing, Offering and libations for the Lord your God. Blow the trumpet in Zion! Proclaim a fast, call an assembly…” (Jl 2, 12-15)

 

Рубрика: Slavko Barbarić, OFM