It’s silly when you put it in perspective. We think about missing a meal or two for the sake of becoming more like Jesus and we get anxious. And yet we willingly miss meals sometimes while shopping, working, recreating, or otherwise occupied. Whenever we believe another activity is at that moment more important, we will go without food fearlessly and without complaint. We need to learn that there are times when it can be not only more important, but much more rewarding to feast on God than food (Matthew 4:4). We should not fear the blessings of fasting.
Donald S. Whitney

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  1. Every herb, tree and grass yields its own # Ge 1:11,12,29
  2. Each kind of, has its own body # 1Co 15:38
  3. SOWING OF 3a) Time for, called seed time

    # Ge 8:22

3b) Necessary to its productiveness # Joh 12:24 1Co 15:36 3c) Required constant diligence # Ec 11:4,6 3d) Often attended with great waste # Mt 13:4,5,7 3e) Often attended with danger # Ps 126:5,6 4) Yearly return of time of sowing, secured by covenant # Ge 8:21,22 5) The ground carefully ploughed, and prepared for # Isa 28:24,25 6) Often sown beside rivers # Ec 11:1 Isa 32:20 7) Often trodden into the ground, by the feet of oxen # Isa 32:20 8) Required to be watered by the rain # Isa 55:10 9) In Egypt required to be artificially watered # De 11:10 10) Yielded an abundant increase in Canaan # Ge 26:12 Mt 13:23 11) MOSAIC LAWS RESPECTING 11a) Different kinds of, not to be sown in the same field # Le 19:19 De 22:9 11b) If dry, exempted from uncleanness though touched by an unclean thing # Le 11:37 11c) If wet, rendered unclean by contact with an unclean thing # Le 11:38 11d) The tithe of, to be given to God # Le 27:30 11e) Not to be sown during the sabbatical year # Le 25:4,20 11f) Not to be sown in year of jubilee # Le 25:11 12) Difference between, and the plant which grows from it, noticed # 1Co 15:37,38 13) THE JEWS PUNISHED BY 13a) Its rotting in the ground # Joe 1:17 Mal 2:3 13b) Its yielding but little increase # Isa 5:10 Hag 1:6 13c) Its increase being consumed by locusts # De 28:38 Joe 1:4 13d) Its increase being consume by enemies # Le 26:16 De 28:33,51 13e) Its being choked by thorns # Jer 12:13 Mt 13:7 14) ILLUSTRATIVE OF 14a) The word of God # Lu 8:11 1Pe 1:23 14b) Spiritual life # 1Jo 3:9 15) SOWING, ILLUSTRATIVE OF 15a) Preaching the gospel # Mt 13:3,32 1Co 9:11 15b) Scattering or dispersing a people # Zec 10:9 15c) Christian liberality # Ec 11:6 2Co 9:6 15d) Men’s works producing a corresponding recompence # Job 4:8 Ho 10:12 Ga 6:7,8 15e) The death of Christ and its effects # Joh 12:24 15f) The burial of the body # 1Co 15:36-38