Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing

to each other and the role God has called us to as women.

I'm so thankful you stopped by, so grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit

as we talk about how God's Word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.

Hello friend, I'm Marcy Farrell from thankfulhomemaker.com, and I'm so glad to be with you today.

We are continuing to work through our series on the Sermon on the Mount, and today we

find ourselves where Jesus is teaching His disciples what looks like to fast and away that

honors the Lord.

So we're working today through Matthew chapter 6, verses 16 to 18, we're on episode 129,

and it's titled Fasting for the Glory of God.

So fasting, it's just one of those spiritual disciplines that seems to be overlooked the

most, or at least maybe not talked about as much.

I did a series on the podcast a couple years ago on the spiritual disciplines, and fasting

was one that I personally was weakened, so I was so thankful to spend sometimes studying

through this important and often forgotten spiritual discipline.

I was just going to pull a few thoughts from the episode I did on fasting, and I'll

link to it in the show notes if you want to listen into the whole episode.

My hope is to have these two episodes on fasting work well together and not overlap.

So fasting basically is when we voluntarily abstain from food for a spiritual purpose.

It can be denying ourselves the enjoyment of other things too, and that really can be

a help if you have a medical condition and you can't abstain from food.

But primarily fasting is focused on food, and fasting is just a way to remind us that

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