1998.03.22
Today , the church of the world has it written on it from the saints and from the parents the Sunday ’ s celebration of the holy cross , the half period of the time of the great feast for the welcome of My crucifixion ’ s celebration and of My resurrection for the man . Who shall I speak to about the fast ? What does the world know about this power ? For the fasting has power in man ; it is not weakening in man . This is My word written in the Scriptures : « Is this really a fast pleasing to Me , a day for a man to afflict his soul ; to bow down his head as a rush , and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ? Is this the day that you call a fast and acceptable day to Me ? They look for Me every day because they want to know My ways , as a people who works My righteousness , as a people who turn off from God ’ s law ». Oh , this is not fast , when the man does not eat good food or not to eat it at all ; it is not only this that means fast . Fast means the love for God and people . Fast means to have and give all that abounds you , for you have from God and not from you . There are people full of riches and keep fasting days . Oh , the rich who fast this way do not know ; no one is to tell them what the fast means . The rich man , who does not fast from the riches , does not reach with his mind the secret of the fast . The rich do not fast , and he does not know this truth . The rich man does not fast and does not know this truth . As the poor does not fast , the same way is with the rich man , but neither of them knows what the secret of the fast means . But who are they who fast ? ( See the selection topic : „ About fasting and almsgiving ”, r . n .)
The spirit of God ’ s wisdom is coming on the earth to teach the people the truth of the words . I am the Lord , and I dwell in the heavens , and the heavens speak about God ’ s glory ; they speak about God ’ s truth . What are the heavens ? The heavens are the saints who lived and live worshipping God . Who are those that fast ? They are those that dedicate their life to God , to the saints and to those like Him . They who dedicate their lives to God and to those that are pleased to God , are the people who fulfill God ’ s Scriptures and God ’ s wills , between the heaven and the earth , and they work the mystery of the work of the fasting .
Who has to fast ? The one who does not fast , that one needs to fast . What does it mean that the man should fast ? The man who does not fast is the man who violates God ’ s commandments , and not the man who eats . The one who violates God ’ s will in him , that one may not eat as long as he wants not to eat , but I tell to such a man that he does not know what fasting is .
What does it mean a man who fasts ? That one does God ’ s good in his body ; that one puts this good before the people to be seen for making wise many who want to learn the mystery of the church , the mystery of Jesus Christ , the bread of the godly man ; that one shares his bread with the one hungry of bread , for there is no greater compassion between heaven and earth as then when you teach and make a man to get used to eating bread from heaven , for this is what I said : « I am the bread which is coming down from heaven to the life of the people ». Amen .
Truly , truly I speak to you , Israel : the poor and the rich do not fast . The people do not know the truth of these words , poor and rich ; for according to the human mind , the poor is the one who does not have , and the rich is the one who has everything . But according to the godly mind , the poor is the one who does not want to have those that are useful to the soul , to have God as wealth , glory , joy and contentment , and the rich one is he who has from God to give to those without earthly worries and who cares for the heavenly ones for him and for the people that worship God . When you do not have and do not eat , this does not mean that you fast . When you do not want to have , this it means fasting from those that are and are not for the everlasting life . Behold what fasting is : when you have everything and you do not use them , but rather you manage them for those who serve God and the saints of God , that means worshipping
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