Spiritual Renewal.

Spiritual Renewal. Unit 7.

Fasting and praying are the keys for habing  spiritual success. 

             "Fast and pray to avoid the tentation" Jesus said. How often  should people fast and pray?  The wisest people in the history of the humankind around the world have fasted and have prayed for long time, for instance, Jesus Christ who fasted for fourty days in the desert, and Mohamet who is the most important prophet figure in moslism and others. Those very important people claimed that everybody should fast and pray so often.  So that means that fasting and praying are very in important in the life of the human being, according to their point of view.

            It is true.  Fasting is good for us in many aspects. Because fasting is like  a training or an exercise by which we can practice refrain from something that we are needing or desiring. As soon as we do this frequently, we begin to take the control of ourselves. So we start talking the control of our emotions which are the pricipal causes of doing evil thing.  To control emotions and disires are our challenges in this world. And praying is the best friend of fasting.

           Praying is to talk to God. Whenever we pray, we are talking to God, and in the same way God is talking to us. Praying we could receive helps and  spiritual gifts from God. And onece Jesus said, "without praying is impossible to behave well in this world full of tentations." So praying and fasting are the keys to win the war against the evils or sins in our daily life.

             So fasting and praying have been the keys to those greatest men in the past and nowadays. In my case whenever I feel sad, weak or depressed, I go up to the top of a high mountain in Yamasa, and there I fast and pray for three days and when I come back, I have a spiritual renewal, and so I can continue the war against to the evil  and his delicious tentations.

By Simon.