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Numbers 29:7

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Hold a holy meeting on the tenth day of this seventh month, and practice self-denial. Don't do any of your normal work.

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At the Ahava Canal I called for a fast so we could confess our sins before God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, along with all our possessions.

But when they were sick, I put on clothes of sackcloth in sympathy. I denied myself through fasting. May my prayer for them return to bless me too.

At that time the Lord, the Lord Almighty, was calling you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.

I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look at me whom they pierced, and they will wail in grief over him, mourning as for an only child, weeping bitterly as for a firstborn.

They were to ask the priests of the Temple of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I go on mourning and fasting in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

“No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well.

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as well.”

We'd lost a lot of time, and the voyage was becoming dangerous because it was now after the Fast. Paul warned them,

We know that our old self was crucified with him to dispose of the dead body of sin so that we wouldn't be enslaved by sin any longer.

I also treat my body severely to bring it under my control, for I don't want somehow to be disqualified after sharing the good news with everybody else.




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