Prayer With Fasting

- It should be that our emphasis is on prayer and drawing near to God and not on the fasting. Otherwise the LORD has not asked for us afflict ourselves on His behalf. - Isa 58:2-5 - Psalm 1 - The LORD delights in giving us predictable not as the wicked who have random results as the wind blows chaff. - 1 Cor 14:2 - Pray in the Spirit. It is a level of communication above human understanding. - Mark 12:28-31 - Loving God with all we got and then our neighbor are the two top commandments of the LORD. When we don't spend time in His presence as a practice of the first one, the other one also fails as we can see of the things the people did wrong in Isaiah 58. - Mark 7:6-8, 13 - Tradition are always waiting at ready to take over the true worship of the LORD.