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by prayer and fasting

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Announcements › Forums › Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? – April 14th, 2019 › by prayer and fasting

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  • April 9, 2019 at 2:32 pm #8457
    spencel
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    “And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” Mark 9 : 28-29

    Reading from March 31st Roundtable:
    “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting,’ but he did not appoint a fast. … The animus of his saying was: Silence appetites, passion, and all that wars against Spirit and spiritual power.” From Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 339

    Definitions from Websters 1828:

    Silence: stillness, or entire absence of sound or noise; calmness; quiet; cessation of agitation or tumult; to quiet; stop; silence complaints or clamor.

    Appetite: passions directed to general objects; strong desire; eagerness or longing

    Passion: effect of and susceptibility of impressions from external agents; excitement, perturbation or agitation of mind; zeal.

    April 9, 2019 at 2:41 pm #8458
    spencel
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    Today I came across the following:
    “13 Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. 15 But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, 16 for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’“! Peter 1: 13-16 Berean Bible Translation

    Sober: habitually temperate. (Live a sober righteous and godly life.) Not intoxicated or overpowered; not drunken; not wild, heated with passion; calm; not under the influence of passion.

    We were instructed at the last Roundtable April 7th, Study To Be Quiet, to “be still” and “listen to God.” To “incorporate this discipline and important exercise of being quiet into our lives.”

    All this speaks to me of the importance of sober thinking so that I am not carried away with passions which are full of self and reaction which is focused on the outward. It is no wonder the devil would have us busy, noisy, racing in mind and body, and distracted to keep us from hearing God’s messages.

    “There is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction.” Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 427

    April 11, 2019 at 8:35 pm #8468
    chardelle
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    Thank you! Sober is one of the five qualities for warding off animal magnetism. the others are: diligence, patient , loving, and meek. I love how we are taught here at Plainfield and how many ideas are interwoven and take us to new levels of understanding.It all makes sense.

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