THE TEN COMMANDMENTS COMPARED

MODERN HEBREW TORAH:
1) I am the L-rd your G-d Who has taken you out of the land of Egypt:
2) You shall have no other gods but Me
3) You shall not take the Name of the L-rd your G-d in vain
4) You shall remember the Shabbat and keep it holy
5) Honour your father and your mother
6) You shall not murder
7) You shall not commit adultery
8) You shall not steal
9) You shall not bear false witness
10) You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbour

CATHOLIC:
1) I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have other gods besides Me
2) You shall not take the Name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
3) Remember to keep holy the Lord’s day.
4) Honour your father and your mother
5) You shall not kill
6) You shall not commit adultery
7) You shall not steal
8) You shall not bear false witness
9) You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife
10) You shall not covet your neighbours goods

PROTESTANT:
1) You shall have no other gods but Me
2) You shall not make unto you any graven images
3) You shall not take the Name of the Lord your God in vain
4) You shall remember the Shabbat and keep it holy
5) Honour your father and your mother
6) You shall not murder
7) You shall not commit adultery
8) You shall not steal
9) You shall not bear false witness
10) You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbour

MESSIANIC SCRIPTURE BIBLE:
1) I am YHVH your Elohim, Who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery
2) You have no other mighty ones against My Face. You do not make for yourself a carved image. You do not bow down to them or serve them
3) You do not bring the Name of YHVH your Elohim to naught
4) Remember the Shabbat day to set it apart
5) Respect your father and your mother
6) You do not murder
7) You do not commit adultery
8) You do not steal
9) You do not bear false witness
10) You do not covet your neighbours house, his wife, his servants or his belongings

How to Fast and Pray In A Way that Pleases YHVH:

What comes to mind when you think of Fasting and Prayer?

Really, let’s do a self check here… My first thoughts are ‘No Way, I can’t go all day without eating’. Can I be more honest? When I felt YHVH prompting me to study into How to Fast, I worried. Anytime YHVH walks me through something – I end up living it out in a hard way and I did not want to! So imagine my shock when I began to search scripture for all the rules about How to Fast - and found none. The Bible does not give us rules for how to fast. What I expected was a list of acceptable fasting practices – maybe in Leviticus – to study and try out. In fact, most of the internet is obsessed with the logistics of Fasting… while Elohim is more concerned with our heart during a fast. A Fast is about humbling our heart before Elohim. Fasting is about giving up the thing I seek for satisfaction in order to draw near to YHVH… allowing Him to satisfy us.

Biblical Fasting does refer to food.

When you think about it, food gives us nourishment, energy to get through the day and can reach a place of satisfaction for most of us. In the Biblical time, they would have spent a great deal of time preparing food. We don’t so much with our modern lifestyles. We can microwave a meal in 5 minutes that would have taken hours for them to make. Anyway, their focus was giving that time back to YHVH – IN PRAYER AND WORSHIP. That would have been a lot of time for all of their meal prep and eating. They also would have allowed the hunger pangs to remind us of our dependency on YHVH and drive them deeper in prayer. There are many types of fasting demonstrated in the Bible. Where the Bible does not give us rules per say, it does give us examples. And please notice that YHVH honoured every type of fast (where the heart was in the right place) so I see Grace in Elohim’s plan for a fast. Also, when people were just following the “rules” they had set about a time of fasting (and their heart was out of line) YHVH did not honour it. I love that about Elohim’s desire – Heart before Rules.

A 40 day complete fast (NO food or water):
Examples are Yeshua and Moshe who took things to the extreme. (Exodus 34:28; Matthew 4:2) The complete fast which could last from part of a day to an entire day to several days or weeks. This was the most common in the scripture so I’ll just list a few. (Esther 4:16; Joel 2:12; Ezra 8:21-23; Jonah 3:5-9)

A Partial Fast:
In 1 example we see they ate fruit, veggies and drank water for 10 days. Daniel and the 3 used this fast to honour Elohim while in captivity. (Daniel 1:12)

The Daniel Fast:
No meat, no tasty bread, no wine, no oils for his skin (For 21 days) (Daniel 10:3; Daniel 9:3) These would have been things that satisfied Daniel, good food and relief from dried skin (Daniel was older by then and living in a hot dry land).

A Fast from Sex:
We are told husband and wife can decide together to give up sex for a time and reason (1 Corinthians 7:5) Not all examples of a Biblical fast are about food.

The last 2 examples give me an understanding that this is really about replacing things that satisfy us physically with Elohim for a time and specific purpose. In the past I have fasted from food and found that to draw me nearer to YHVH in deep ways. The physical reminder of hunger are a prompt to pray, worship and draw nearer to YHVH. The emotional connection to food (believe me there is an emotional connection) can actually drive me to my knees more intensely! There have also been times I chose a social media fast – that is eyes opening! Another time I set aside my mobile phone for an entire day – wow was that humbling and revealing!

A Fast is about a heart posture – not a diet: The reason I chose to give up my phone the last time – instead of a meal – is my habit of turning a fast into a diet… that is not a right heart posture. If your heart is in the right place – and you truly are drawing near to YHVH with a purpose, Fasting in any form will quicken your soul for Him. Fasting is about giving up satisfying myself to let Elohim fill me… Allowing Him to feed my soul the way Yeshua explains it. John 4:32: “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

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