Tag: Why what and How to Fast?

Isaiah 58:8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Fasting fast-tracks physical and emotional healing. Dr. Albert Schweitzer says “Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. Fasting is the...

2 Chronicle 20:3 Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah. When you are alarmed, intimidated or overwhelmed, fast. Jehoshaphat was attacked by a collation of three nations – the Moabites, Ammonites and the Meunites. The King of Judah did not call his army commander to prepare...

Exodus 34:29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD. Moses was on a supernatural fast for 40 days and 40 nights. He was on Mount Sinai communing with...

Daniel 1:20 In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom. Fasting with the humble attitude, right motive and meekness will change our attitude, increase our aptitude and elevate our altitude both in the natural...

Act 9:9 For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything. Saul was like a fire-breathing dragon to the early church, plundering people and property. Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison (Acts 8:3). On the...

Nehemiah 1:4 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven. Nehemiah was in Persia when he heard about the destruction of his homeland and the disgrace of his people. He did not run to the phone or friends to...

Matthew 4:2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. Fasting is a dedication to a period of time to devote oneself to spiritual priorities of prayer without food. Spiritual fasting requires complete or partial abstinence from food for a fixed time period. It is not skipping meals when we don’t feel like...