Having no other engagements to occupy her attention, she spent her whole time in the service of God, and joined frequent fastings with her constant prayers for herself and her people.
And she was a widow of about four-score and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Then appointing them presbyters in every city, by prayer with fastings they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
She departed not from the temple, but served God, with fastingsand prayers night and day.
I and my happiness had to be forgotten in prayers, penances, fastings and foolishness.
That alone would have goaded me to madness—to see thefastings and prayings duplicated.
Fastings in his youth and neglect at all times told early upon his constitution.
Protracted fastings without consequent exhaustion have been common with the mediumistic in all ages.
Similar preservation of flesh and strength, amid fastings and most excessive activity, are frequent experiences to-day with the highly mediumistic, especially in the earlier stages of their dominations by invisibles.
Their rules are strict, enjoining many fastings and prayers.
He indicated to her all the purifications and fastings that she was to observe, and how she was to reach Matho.
She had grown up with abstinences, fastings and purifications, always surrounded by grave and exquisite things, her body saturated with perfumes, and her soul filled with prayers.
The sins of Protestantism are sufficient cause to wring tears and prayers and fastings from every Christian heart.
On occasions where great faith was required, fastings were recommended by the Savior.
If we want to walk with God and have a deep concern for his cause and love for lost mankind we must be self-denying and “in fastings often.
It is said of a certain prophetess that dwelt in Jerusalem in the days of our Savior’s nativity, that she departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
In speaking of himself, he says he was “in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often.
He hoped that by invoking three saints daily, and by letting his body waste away with fastings and watchings, he should satisfy the law, and shield his conscience against the goad of the driver.
It might have been the resort of that Hannah who departed not from the Temple but served the Lord with fastings and with prayers day and night.
Morning and evening she kneels in church, and, like Anna, serves the Lord with fastings and with prayers.
Like the ancient monks, Jesus practised long fastings and abstained from flesh meats, though he ate fish and vegetables.
Then Eliachim, the priest, went about all Israel and said to them: Know ye that God hath heard your prayers, if ye abide and continue in your prayers and fastings in the sight of God.
And when they saw this, they had much sorrow, and because they were the first in the palace that despised the sacrifices, they hid them in their houses, and were in fastings and in prayers.
Forms and ceremonies, kneelings and fastings are born of selfish fear.
And how he was dispossessed by God's blessing on the Fastings and Prayers of divers Ministers and People.
Learning and devout meditation were encouraged, holy ascetic lives were led, the body was kept under withfastings and stripes.
Fastings are nowhere more strictly enjoined than here, where Lent represents the Ramadan of the Moslem.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fastings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
