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Prayer is the expression of entire dependence on God. Fasting indicates the absolute refusal of ourselves and all human gratifications. Practically the first man is completely set aside, and we walk in simple dependence on God alone. This will mean death to myself as a man here in every way. Faith connects our souls with another scene altogether, where the first man has no place. Faith closes its eyes to all that is visible; and then, like Moses, we shall endure "as seeing Him who is invisible." At the same time it will open out a scene invisible to the natural eye: "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."