Ezra 8:23

Ezra Proclaims A Fast

²² I would not make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might attack us on the way. We said to the king: The hand (power) (protection) of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who have turned away from him. ²³ So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to our entreaty. ²⁴ I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,

Fasted and Prayed

For Us

Ezra

Jeremiah 29:12-13

Then you will call to me. You will come and pray to me and I will hear you.

1 Chronicles 5:20

They were helped in fighting them, and God handed the Hagrites and all their allies over to them, because they cried out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him.

Deuteronomy 4:29

From there you will seek Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being. And you will find him!

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

When he experienced distress, he begged Jehovah his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.

Ezra 8:31

Then we went away from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us. He gave us salvation from our enemies and those who were waiting to attack us on the way.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.

Esther 4:16

Go assemble all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me. Take no food or drink night or day for three days. My women and I will do the same. Then I will go in to the king even though it is against the law. If death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Psalm 66:18-20

If I had thought about doing anything sinful, Jehovah would not have listened to me.

Isaiah 19:22

Jehovah will strike Egypt, striking but healing; so they will turn to Jehovah, and he will respond to them and will heal them.

Jeremiah 33:3

Call to me and I will answer you. I will tell you grand and impressive things, things you do not know.'

Jeremiah 50:4-5

In those days and at that time, declares Jehovah, the sons of Israel will come. Both they and the sons of Judah will go along weeping as they go. They will seek Jehovah their God.

Daniel 9:3

I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 7:7-8

Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened for you.

Luke 2:37

She had been a widow eighty-four years. She never left the temple. She worshipped and fasted with supplications day and night.

Acts 10:30

Cornelius replied, Four days ago I was praying at this hour. It was the ninth hour and I prayed in my house. A man dressed in bright clothing stood before me.