{"id":17152,"date":"2017-03-07T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=17152"},"modified":"2017-03-04T20:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T01:10:43","slug":"fasting-and-prayer-disciplines-our-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2017\/03\/07\/fasting-and-prayer-disciplines-our-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasting and Prayer Disciplines Our Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fasting and prayer educates us to an experience with God, because they help us to master our impulses<\/h2>\n<p lang=\"en\">M\u00e1rcio Mendes invites us to look at our practices of fasting and prayer, because they help us to master our impulses and vanquish evil.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The meditated Word today is in <strong>Tobit 12.7 -15<\/strong><\/span>:<br \/>\n<em><span lang=\"en\">&#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"en\">For it is good to hide the secret of a king: but honorable to reveal and confess the works of God. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold: For alms delivers from death, and the same is that which purges away sins, and makes to find mercy and life everlasting. But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own soul.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you. When you did pray with tears, and did bury the dead, and did leave your dinner, and hide the dead by day in\u00a0your house, and bury them by night, I offered your prayer to the Lord. And because you was acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove you.\u00a0 And now the Lord has sent me to heal you, and to deliver Sara\u00a0your son&#8217; s wife from the devil. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.<span lang=\"en\">&#8220;.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37393\" src=\"http:\/\/img.cancaonova.com\/cnimages\/canais\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/10122015.jpg\" alt=\"O jejum e a ora\u00e7\u00e3o disciplinam nosso cora\u00e7\u00e3o\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">To get rid of evil, we have to have goodness in our heart. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">The Christian should not seek the occult to get rid of evil things. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Whoever has Jesus in\u00a0his life doesn&#8217;t have to resort to nefarious practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The only effective path that protects us from evil is good. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Doing evil is always a temptation. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Sin separates us from God. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">We are from God and evil must not be allowed to dominate us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">When we choose evil, our life is in ruins. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Let us educate our body so that it do no harm. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">But how\u00a0do we\u00a0discipline the body? <\/span><span lang=\"en\">By fasting and prayer. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Who is able to say &#8216; no &#8216; to their will, will be able to say &#8216; no &#8216; to sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Learn to give up things that are not important in our life. It is better to have little<\/span><span lang=\"en\"> with justice than\u00a0lots with sin andf<\/span><span lang=\"en\">ast empty wishes. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Who has the domain of his body has\u00a0joy, because\u00a0he can dominate himself. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">God uses various means to take us on His paths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">When we are united to the Lord, the suffering is converted into joy. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">He always changes the nature of our sufferings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Have the courage to stop everything that&#8217;s wrong in your life and learn to say &#8216; yes &#8216; to God. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">Almsgiving frees us from death and purifies us of all sins. <\/span><span lang=\"en\">With courage, we strive to overcome the evil in us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en\">M\u00e1rcio Mendes<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Community mission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/clube.cancaonova.com\/sorrindo-para-a-vida\/o-jejum-e-a-oracao-disciplinam-nosso-coracao\/\">Portuguese Version<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fasting and prayer educates us to an experience with God, because they help us to master our impulses M\u00e1rcio Mendes invites us to look at our practices of fasting and prayer, because they help us to master our impulses and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3511,141863],"tags":[178908,17445,178862,18230,178901],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17153,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17152\/revisions\/17153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}