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Fasting in the Bible Day 13: Anna
When the eight days of purification were completed, Joseph and Mary brought the child Jesus up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord to be circumcised. Simeon, a righteous and devout man, waiting for the Messiah of Israel, was in Jerusalem. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 12: Jesus
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry. And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 11: Jonah
Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time, “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh and deliver the message I have given you.” This time Jonah obeyed the LORD’s command and went to Nineveh. It was a city so large that it took three days to walk it all. But when Jonah walked for only one…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 10: Joel
Dress yourselves with sackcloth and weep, you priests. Wail, you who serve at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for there is no grain or wine to offer at the temple. Announce a fast and call a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people of the land to the temple…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 9: Daniel
In the first year of the reign of Darius the Mede, son of Ahasuerus, king of the Babylonians, I, Daniel, understood from the words of Jeremiah the prophet that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. So I turned to the Lord God with prayer and petition, fasting, and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the LORD my God and…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 8: Isaiah Part 2
Choose God’s way of fasting and see what He will do: Then your light will break out like the dawn. Your recovery will happen quickly. Your right living will be known by others. The glory of the LORD will protect your back. You will call and the LORD will answer. You will cry for help…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 7: Isaiah Part 1
God says to Isaiah, “Announce this out loud and do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet, and declare to My people their wrongdoing. Uncover the sins of these people of Jacob. They pretend to seek Me every day and desire to know My ways. Just like a nation that is righteous and does not forsake the…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 6: Esther
The story of Esther being chosen as a queen in a beauty pageant reads like a novel, but as soon as danger was realized for herself and her Jewish kin, especially her Uncle Mordecai, she commanded fasting to begin: Haman plotted to kill all the Jews, because Mordecai refused to bow down to him, explaining…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 5: Nehemiah
The words of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah: In late autumn, in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year of the king’s reign, I was in the fortress of Susa. My brother Hanani came to visit me with some men recently arrived from Judah. I questioned them about how things were for the Jews who had survived the exile…
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Fasting in the Bible Day 4: Ezra
Ezra, the prophet : Then I proclaimed a fast at the Ahava Canal, where we camped for three days, a hundred miles from Babylon. We needed to humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey to Jerusalem for all of us, which included our little ones. We also carried all we possessed and the great…
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FASTING IN THE BIBLE, APRIL 8 – MAY 29
Posts every Wednesday and Friday to learn about fasting in the Bible. We will review the whole Bible, exploring what happened when fasting was a special focus for the people of Israel, in the Old Testament and the New Testament. Keeping in mind the way that Jesus taught us to fast, we will find new ways for us to enact a spiritual habit of fasting in our modern lives.
COMING NEXT: HUNGER FOR THE HARVEST, JUNE 2 – AUGUST 21
Posts every Wednesday and Friday to learn about the connection between fasting and His harvest. We will explore together how fasting increases your hunger for God, creating a position of humility that thirsts for holy intimacy and holy maturity. Helping others and planting seeds will become a natural and a supernatural response. Jesus is the Lord of the Harvest, He will use you in the lives of others to further His kingdom.
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