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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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FIVE MARKS OF A DISCIPLE: OCTOBER 5 – NOVEMBER 2
Posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: Fasting builds intimacy with God, and encourages you to grow inwardly, upwardly, and outwardly. Explore five marks of a transformed disciple of Jesus and determine five actions that will allow God to change you. An action that applies to each mark is focus. Fasting and prayer is God’s way for us to find the kind of focus that builds intimacy within and actions without. Be with Him. Be like Him. Do what He wants.
COMING NEXT! MAKING SPACE: NOVEMBER 4 – NOVEMBER 27
Reflect on how to use fasting to make more space for God in your life. Make space in the moment and better reflect God to others. Make space in the morning and enjoy intimacy with Him. Make space in your conversations with others and learn how to listen like He does. Make space in your schedule to breathe and be refreshed by Him. Make space in your commitments so that you can say Yes! to the things He wants you to do. God made a space in this world for us. Let’s return the favor!
