Tag: Why Fast?

Joel 2:12 “Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” The neurosurgeon Dr. J Rahul Jandial, the American dual-trained brain surgeon and neuroscientist says, smart pills do not optimize brain performance but skipping breakfast twice a week or periodic fasting helps to boost the functioning of...

2 Kings 7:3-5 3 Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go...

1 Kings 17: The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. “The best of all medicines is fasting and resting.”— Benjamin Franklin. Dietitians recommend eating three meals a day. The average adult requires about 2,000 calories a day and spreading...

Matthew 6:16-17 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.  But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face. “By fasting, the body learns to obey...

Matthew 17:20-21 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by...

Psalm 35:13a Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. “The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world’s routine.” — Jentezen Franklin Fasting is an expression of humility before God. Fasting disciplines us by disrupting our routine and recreation in order to reunite us with the Lord. ...

Mark 2:19-20 Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them. But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast. “Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.”...