Christian mysticism
Prayer and Fasting
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Prayer and Fasting is the paired Christian discipline of seeking God through spoken or silent prayer and voluntary abstinence for humility, focus, repentance, or intercession.
Prayer and Fasting combines dependence on God with embodied restraint.
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- Esoteric Christianity
- Related
- Christian Mysticism, Holy Spirit, Logos, Theosis
Prayer and Fasting combines dependence on God with embodied restraint.
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The story behind Prayer and Fasting
Fasting has been practiced across Jewish and Christian traditions through communal fasts, Lent, monastic rules, and personal devotion.
The spiritual meaning of Prayer and Fasting
Spiritually, Prayer and Fasting asks what appetite, urgency, and dependence reveal before God.
Prayer and Fasting in the Bible
Scripture presents fasting with prayer, repentance, justice, and humility, while warning against performative religion.
Why Prayer and Fasting matters
Prayer and Fasting matters because it joins desire, body, and attention in a concrete act of surrender.
Where readings of Prayer and Fasting go wrong
It is a mistake to prescribe fasting for people whose health, pregnancy, eating history, or circumstances make it unsafe.
Sources and editorial method
This entry summarizes the tradition in the Almanac's own words; where no source is listed, it is an editorial summary rather than a primary text, and symbolic readings are named as the tradition's, not as fact.
- Source
- The Great Almanac Dictionary
- Category
- Esoteric Christianity
- Last updated
- 2026-09-26
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What is Prayer and Fasting?
Prayer and Fasting is the paired Christian discipline of seeking God through spoken or silent prayer and voluntary abstinence for humility, focus, repentance, or intercession.
Where does Prayer and Fasting come from?
Fasting has been practiced across Jewish and Christian traditions through communal fasts, Lent, monastic rules, and personal devotion.
What does Prayer and Fasting mean spiritually?
Spiritually, Prayer and Fasting asks what appetite, urgency, and dependence reveal before God.
What do people get wrong about Prayer and Fasting?
It is a mistake to prescribe fasting for people whose health, pregnancy, eating history, or circumstances make it unsafe.
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