Fasting

What is fasting?

In Christianity, giving up eating for a period of time while praying and asking for forgiveness during that period.

What happens when we fast and put our faith in the Lord?

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Dictionary

Fasting is the willing abstinence or reduction from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast or dry fasting is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period. Water fasting refers to abstinence from all food and drink except water, but black coffee and tea may be consumed.

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Nehemiah 1;4

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept and mourned for days; and I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Esther 9;31

to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions for their times of fasting and their lamentations.

Psalm 35;13

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

Psalm 69;10

When I wept in my soul with fasting, It became my reproach.

Psalm 109;24

My knees are weak from fasting, And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

Daniel 6;18

Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

Daniel 9;3

So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

Joel 2;12

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning.

Matthew 6;16

[ Fasting; The True Treasure; Wealth (Mammon) ] “Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do, for they neglect their appearance so that they will be noticed by men when they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “Return to Me with all your heart, And with fasting, weeping and mourning.

Matthew 9;14

[ The Question about Fasting ] Then the disciples of John came to Him, asking, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”

Luke 2;37

and then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, serving night and day with fasting and prayers.

Acts 13;2

While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”

1/23/19