About fasting and almsgiving
... Fasting and praying are the weapons , which you put aside satan with from before you . You overcome them all . When you grow weak with your praying and do not want to receive the fasting as the Lord asks it from you , you cannot prevail over satan , but rather he prevails over you . Do no longer run with those from the earth . Let the earthly ones be easier for you if your body brings you down . If you run again and again after money and wealth , then satan brings you down . If you came worn out by work and you were no longer able to fast as you should and neither to pray as you should , then you strengthened the belt of satan and weakened yours .
… You win with fasting and pray and split the stone in two . He , who fulfills with love , he is able to do everything . If the world did not lose the love for fasting , it would have not lost its power .
… When is fasting , you should fast without fault . Do not eat the food that defiles you ; that is food from the hand of the world . If the communism of today broke down all the little houses , it moved the man into the block , so that he may no longer have garden and courtyard . They are welcome to live on the market and take whatever they find . If someone ’ s pig dies , he takes it into the market and you do not know that it is dead . It would be good for the man to fix periods of fasting to take his deceased into happiness , as today no one finds any clean food . But you , sons , eat blessed and clean food .
… I prepare what is Mine and keep it under My wing . If you saw with your own eyes how satan goes together with every man ; on one side the little angel and on the other side satan ! Well , fathers and forefathers lived to please God , they kept the fasting days ; they did not use even the spoons for sweet food while fasting , for they said that the grease from the sweet food entered them ; this is how much they hold to fasting , and that is why their barns were full . Now the man has nothing . He gets up and takes the bag into his hand and goes after food .
… If My people knew what I prepared for it , he would no longer need anything ; it would stay watching until it would see Me coming . I am He , Who spread out My hands on the cross . I am in the Spirit . The fasting was My food most of the time . Who knew when I went hungry ? I had crowds of people that followed Me even on the highest mountain . If I did not eat for a week , they did not eat either . How much I would like to have such a people now !
… Do not give for mercy to the drunkards , fornicators , smokers , and to those who blaspheme God by iniquities . Give mercy also to those from the world , but only to those who also listen and receive the Word of God now and again .
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