Fasting and Prayer

The Perfect 7-day Diet – Peter’s Picks

‘Fasting & Prayer’

Day 1: Joel 1:14 – “Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to him there.”

Day 2: Joel 2:12 – “That is why the Lord says, ‘Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.’”

Day 3: Isaiah 58:6 – “No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people.”

Day 4: Ezra 8:21 – “And there by the Ahava Canal, I gave orders for all of us to fast and humble ourselves before our God. We prayed that he would give us a safe journey and protect us, our children, and our goods as we traveled.”

Day 5: Matthew 4:4 – “But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Day 6: Matthew 5:6 – “God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.”

Day 7: 11 Chronicles 20:3 – “Jehoshaphat was terrified by this news and begged the Lord for guidance. He also ordered everyone in Judah to begin fasting.”

** Verses taken from the NLT.