Jejum e oração
Jejum e oração são disciplinas espirituais que andam juntas. Jesus jejuou, os apóstolos jejuaram, e a Bíblia ensina que o jejum fortalece a oração e nos aproxima do coração de Deus.
O exemplo de Jesus
Jesus jejuou quarenta dias no deserto antes de iniciar seu ministério. Ele ensinou que certas coisas só acontecem com oração e jejum.
Then Jesus was led of a spirit into desert, to be tempted of the fiend [or the devil].
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward he hungered.
Jesus saith to them, For your unbelief. Truly I say to you, if ye have faith, as a corn of sinapi, ye shall say to this hill, Pass thou [from] hence, and it shall pass; and nothing shall be impossible to you;
but this kind is not cast out, but by prayer and fasting.
But when ye fast, do not ye be made as hypocrites sorrowful, for they deface themselves, [or they put their faces out of kindly terms], to seem fasting to men; truly I say to you, they have received their meed.
But when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face,
that thou be not seen fasting to men, but to thy Father that is in huddles, and thy Father that seeth in privy [or in huddles], shall yield to thee.
But when ye fast, do not ye be made as hypocrites sorrowful, for they deface themselves, [or they put their faces out of kindly terms], to seem fasting to men; truly I say to you, they have received their meed.
But when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face,
that thou be not seen fasting to men, but to thy Father that is in huddles, and thy Father that seeth in privy [or in huddles], shall yield to thee.
forty days, and was tempted of the devil, and [he] ate nothing in those days; and when those days were ended, he hungered.
O jejum nas Escrituras
Ao longo da Bíblia, grandes homens e mulheres de fé jejuaram em momentos decisivos — buscando a Deus com urgência e devoção.
Therefore Moses was there with the Lord by forty days and forty nights, and he ate not bread, and drank not water; and he wrote in [the] tables the ten words of the bond of peace.
And I setted my face to my Lord God, to pray and beseech in fastings, in sackcloth, and ashes.
I ate not desirable bread, and flesh, and wine entered not into my mouth, but neither I was anointed with ointment, till the days of three weeks were [ful] filled.
I ate not desirable bread, and flesh, and wine entered not into my mouth, but neither I was anointed with ointment, till the days of three weeks were [ful] filled.
Go thou, and gather together all the Jews, which thou findest in Susa, and pray ye for me; eat ye not, that is, fast ye, neither drink ye, in three days and three nights, and I with mine handmaidens shall fast in like manner; and then I not called, shall enter in to the king, and I shall do against the law, and I shall betake me to death and to peril.
And when I had heard such words, I sat and wept, and mourned many days, and I fasted, and prayed before the face of God of heaven;
And I preached there fasting beside the flood of Ahava, that we should be tormented before the Lord our God, and that we should ask of him the right way to us, and to our sons, and to all our substance.
And we fasted, and prayed our God for this thing, and it befelled to us wellsomely.
And we fasted, and prayed our God for this thing, and it befelled to us wellsomely.
And David prayed to the Lord for the little child; and David fasted by fasting, and entered asides half, and lay on the earth.
And men of Nineveh believed to the Lord, and preached fasting, and were clothed with sackcloths, from the more till to the less.
And the word came to the king of Nineveh; and he rose off his seat, and casted away his clothing from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
And he cried, and said in Nineveh of the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying, Men, and work beasts, and oxen, and sheep, taste not anything, neither be fed, neither drink water.
And men be covered with sack-cloths, and work beasts, all cry to the Lord in strength; and be a man converted, or all-turned, from his evil way, and from wickedness that is in the hands of them.
Who knoweth, if God be converted, and forgive, and be turned away from strong vengeance of his wrath, and we shall not perish?
And God saw the works of them, that they were converted from their evil way; and God had mercy on the malice which he spake, that he would do to them, and did not.
O jejum que Deus escolheu
Isaías revela o jejum que agrada a Deus: soltar as cadeias da injustiça, libertar os oprimidos e repartir o pão com o faminto.
Why fasted we, and thou beheldest not; we meeked our souls, and thou knewest not? Lo! your will is found in the day of your fasting, and ye ask all your debtors.
Lo! ye fast to chidings and strivings, and smite with the fist wickedly. Do not ye fast, as ye have unto this day, that your cry be heard on high.
Whether such is the fasting which I choose, a man to torment his soul by day? whether to bind his head as a circle, and to make ready a sackcloth and ashes? Whether thou shalt call this a fasting, and a day acceptable to the Lord?
Whether not this is more the fasting, which I choose? Unbind thou the bindings together of unpity, either of cruelty, release thou [the] burdens pressing down; deliver thou them free, that be broken, and break thou each burden.
Whether not this is more the fasting, which I choose? Unbind thou the bindings together of unpity, either of cruelty, release thou [the] burdens pressing down; deliver thou them free, that be broken, and break thou each burden.
Now therefore saith the Lord, Be ye turned again to me in all your heart, in fasting, and weeping, and wailing;
Now therefore saith the Lord, Be ye turned again to me in all your heart, in fasting, and weeping, and wailing;
Hallow ye fasting, call ye the company, gather ye together eld [or old] men, and all dwellers of the earth, into the house of your God; and cry ye to the Lord,
A igreja primitiva
Os apóstolos jejuavam antes de decisões importantes. O jejum acompanhava a consagração de líderes e o envio de missionários.
And when they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said to them, Set apart ye to me Saul and Barnabas, into the work to which I have taken them.
And when they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said to them, Set apart ye to me Saul and Barnabas, into the work to which I have taken them.
And when they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said to them, Set apart ye to me Saul and Barnabas, into the work to which I have taken them.
Then they fasted, and prayed, and laid hands on them, and let them go.
Then they fasted, and prayed, and laid hands on them, and let them go.
Then they fasted, and prayed, and laid hands on them, and let them go.
And when they had ordained priests to them by all cities, and had prayed with fastings, they betook them to the Lord, in whom they believed.
Praticando o jejum
Quando jejuares, unge a cabeça e lava o rosto. O jejum é entre você e Deus — não para impressionar os homens, mas para buscar ao Senhor.
And this was a widow to fourscore years and four; and she departed not from the temple, but served God night and day in fastings and prayers.
And they said to him, Why the disciples of John fast oft, and make prayers, also and of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink?
To whom he said, Whether ye may make the sons of the spouse to fast, while the spouse is with them?
But days shall come, when the spouse shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days.
And when he had entered into an house, his disciples asked him privily, Why might not we cast him out?
And he said to them, This kind in nothing may go out [or This kind may not go out in anything], but in prayer and fasting.
And he said to them, This kind in nothing may go out [or This kind may not go out in anything], but in prayer and fasting.
in travail and neediness, in many wakings, in hunger, in thirst, in many fastings, in cold and nakedness.
But when they were dis-easeful to me; I was clothed in an hair-shirt. I meeked my soul in fasting; and my prayer shall be turned into my bosom.