A Lifestyle of Fasting and Praying

A lifestyle of Fasting & Praying

Matthew 4:1-2

 Fasting is deliberately sacrificing something, for a period of time, so my flesh can be subject to my spirit. 

 Matthew 4:1-2  Page #959

 Matthew 6:16-18

 Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation.                             Joel 2:15–16

Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.                                           2 Chronicles 20:3

 Luke 5:33-35

 Luke 18:9-14

 Acts 14:19-23

 Fasting/Prayer is not…

 Getting God to do what we want

 To make us more acceptable

Fasting/Prayer is for…

Cleansing

Revival

Preparation

Direction

Intercession

"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice    and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?        Isaiah 58:6