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Humbling Yourself in Fear Before the Almighty God

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Sackcloth and Ashes What is this Sackcloth and Ashes what does it mean to us those that pray and fast with the hope of seeing a move of God in our lives? What can we learn from what the Bible has to say about these Sackcloth and Ashes? We have all heard the expression the clothes make a man. In ancient times and even today the clothes that a man wears says a lot  about him. In ancient times if a man wore purple or blue, scarlet or crimson, he was thought to be a man of high degree, royal or a governor or ruler of some type If he wore silk or any other fine material he was assumed to be even the  greater. The Humble Self However, when a man wore sackcloth, which was the lowest quality of clothes there was, he was saying to the world “ I humble myself before the Almighty G od” Being publicly naked was the most humiliating state a man could achieve and wearing sackcloth was the next level up from there. This is why the accusers of Jesus Christ took his cloth...