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Adventistische Schriften über: "How do fasting and prayer affect the human will and heart?"
Ответ
Fasting and prayer serve as divine means to cleanse the heart and create a receptive mind, allowing individuals to better understand the truth and receive wisdom. These practices involve a deliberate act of self-denial where the lower physical nature is subordinated to the higher spiritual nature, fostering humility and penitence. Ultimately, sincere prayer engages the soul's energies, purifies the heart from worldly desires, and transforms the character into the likeness of Christ.
Means of Cleansing the Heart
»For certain things, fasting and prayer are recommended and appropriate. In the hand of God they are a means of cleansing the heart and promoting a receptive frame of mind. We obtain answers to our prayers because we humble our souls before God.«
Subordinating the Lower Nature
»This physical suffering, this refusal to gratify the demands of appetite, is not to be regarded as a penance, but as an act of self-denial subordinating the lower nature to the higher, the physical to the spiritual part of man. Generally speaking, fasting viewed as a religious mortification or humiliation, was intended: (1) As an expression of penitence and humility before God, in view of one’s sins.«
Transformation through Communion
»True prayer engages the energies of the soul and affects the life. He who thus pours out his wants before God feels the emptiness of everything else under heaven. ... Religion must begin with emptying and purifying the heart, and must be nurtured by daily prayer.«
Aspirations of the Praying Soul
»The soul that turns to God for its strength, its support, its power, by daily, earnest prayer, will have noble aspirations, clear perceptions of truth and duty, lofty purposes of action, and a continual hungering and thirsting after righteousness. By maintaining a connection with God we shall be enabled to diffuse to others ... the light, the peace, the serenity, that rules in our hearts.«
The Necessity of Heartwork
»Fasting and prayer will accomplish nothing while the heart is estranged from God by a wrong course of action. ... It is heartwork that the Lord requires, good works springing from a heart filled with love. All should carefully and prayerfully consider the above scriptures, and investigate their motives and actions.«
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Stephan Krol
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