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Fasting sets aside food to feast on something greater — focused prayer, humility, and nearness to God. These Bible verses about fasting show why God's people have set aside meals to seek Him with their whole hearts.
“When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
““Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.””
“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?”
“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.”
“While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.”
“and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.”
“So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.”
“Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.”
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Fasting sets aside food to feast on something greater — focused prayer, humility, and nearness to God. These Bible verses about fasting show why God's people have set aside meals to seek Him with their whole hearts.
Matthew 6:16-18: “When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
Start with Joel 2:12, one of the 8 verses gathered here on this topic.
