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Fasting to Find – 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting
January 5, 2025Fasting to Find – 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting
Pastor Blake Hanson | January 5, 2025
Matthew 7:7a (NIV)
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find…
A movement of God begins with obedient people who Him.
WHAT IS FASTING?
- Fasting is abstaining from food for .
Matthew 6:16 (NIV)
16 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
2. Types of fasts practiced: Fast , Fast, Fast , Fast
WHY WE FAST…
Hunger in fasting us of our need for a deeper hunger for God.
Matthew 4:1–4 (NIV)
1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV)
105 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
Fasting feeds the while starving distractions.
Genesis 2:8–9 (NIV)
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:16–17 (NIV)
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Genesis 3:6 (NIV)
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it..
God what is done in secret with open blessings.
Matthew 6:17–18 (NIV)
17 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,
18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
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