About fasting and almsgiving
steps of life , and I am speaking to those from My Supper and especially to those who walk on the side , and I am telling them that the time of the fast requires much so that the fasting may have power and holy support for the life of those who fast , seeking after the Lord by their abstaining from food and by their faith for this . The time of the fast needs to have all the fasting in man , all of it , sons , for he has to fast more because of the attacks of his flesh and its habits and his mind has to fast from the things which are foreign to God , and his heart also has to do the same , and the eyes too , which lead to the heart everything that separates it from the Lord . Oh , and the Christian also has to fast from wickedness , from impatience , from disappointment , from carelessness of the soul , and from disobedience , sons , and then from scattering , anger , lie , hidings , pride , and from many other devilish works , such as envy , evil and empty talk , lack of love , and God ’ s sons have to fast from the world , oh , from the world , sons .
… Oh , do not leave in the time of fasting , do not go , Christian , to other houses to walk and to stay . Stay at your house and persevere in repentance and keep your mouth from sins , and your heart from the spirit of judgment , from the spirit of woman , and refrain your desire from justice on your side , for all these are sins , while you say that you abstain from food during fasting . Oh , I look at those that come and do according to the work of My word in feasts , and I look and see that they do not know what the time of fasting is , when one is not supposed to eat much and any kind of food , but rather , one fasts from the sins of his mind and heart , from the sins of lust , and one also fasts from wickedness , from anger , pride , slandering , shameful and indecent complaints , from indecent boldness , from all the sins that lead to death , and for which the church has no patience to pray for those under these burdens . Oh , and people must fast from the world too , from the walking through the world , sons , from staying with the world , from speaking with it and with its spirit , in order words people fast from the devil , that is the master of the world and the ugly face of the world , divested and voided of the beauty from above , and behold , man cannot fast from the devil and from the face of his works , if he does not know that all these are sins , and fasting for these is needed , fasting like the fasting from food , and even more than the fasting from food .
Oh , you those who know what fasting is with all its wholeness , oh , sons , do not stop from praising the Lord incessantly and singing to Him , for all the angels , and all heavenly hosts and powers , all the saints sing to the Lord , and all the nature sings to him in mysterious tongues and songs , and you do not be lazy and stop giving glory to God , for I , the Lord , want you all to be where I am , if you do not distinguish from one another on earth with those that you have to live and to bring them worked in a brotherly way before Me .
Oh , you have to give forth fruit , you have to bring fruit before Me , sons , for here you have holy advice from the saints , that the laziness , the care for many things , the lust for authority and the empty talks are the things that you have to fast from for a longer time and all the time , you , those who know what the true Christian fasting is , and to this you have to add the work of the cleanness of the spirit , the humility of the thought , the spirit of patience and love , the repentance for the wrong doings , and the lack of the judging of your brother , everything brought to the Lord with times of praise and prayers , as the saints did , for you cannot say , “ I believe in this work because this is what I want ,” and still be good what you say . Oh , this is what do many of those who try to go with the work of My word without knowing what it means and what the Lord expects from those who believe in My coming now as word on earth . First you have to learn and know what to do , and only after that you can do , and if you try otherwise , then you do it somehow , you do it as you want , and those who do not walk beautifully on the way
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