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Fasting

March 31st, 2013

Reasons to:

  1. Humble ourselves
  2. Devote more time to focus on our spiritual lives
  3. To ask for God’s guidance
  4. To ask for God’s help
  5. To overcome spiritual lukewarmness
  6. To pray for particular needs
  7. To express gratitude and thanksgiving
  8. Always be ready to fight
  9. Make sure are standing on the right side
  10. Breakthrough a spiritual platea

Examples:

  1. Moses [40 days] – (Exodus 34:38)
  2. David [for the life of his newborn child] (2 Samuel 12:15-22)
  3. King Jehoshphat [military emergency] (2 Chronicles 20)
  4. Queen Esther [God’s people threatened] (Esther 4)
  5. Daniel [Confess sin and sin of God’s people] (Daniel 9)
  6. Nehemiah [Condition of Jerusalem] (Nehemiah 1)
  7. Jesus [40 days] (Matthew 4:2)
  8. Antioch church leaders [God to help them in there efforts] (Acts 13:1-3)
  9. Paul and Barnabas [Dedicated elders] (Acts 14:23-24)