Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Fasting

Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord - Joel 1:14.

             Fasting is the time to return to the Lord. Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm - Joel 2:12,13.

         Fasting is worshiping and praying to God. 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”. Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away - Acts 13:2,3.

            Fasting is having fellowship with God to seek God’s guidance. Moses fasted and received the Ten commandments from God. Moses fasted for forty days and forty nights. So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments - Exodus 34:28.

                                          


PRAYER: Dear Lord, Let us return to You in fasting and seek Your guidance in our lives. In Jesus, name we pray. Amen.

 

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