38 Bible Verses about Fasting And Prayer

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He replied: Only prayer will make this sort come out.

When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.

Anoint your head and wash your face.

After they fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them away.

Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

They said: The disciples of John fast often and make supplications. So do the disciples of the Pharisees. But yours eat and drink.

As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.

That way, men may not see that you are fasting. Your Father knows in secret and will reward you.

You fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast today to make your voice heard on high.

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

In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.

Even now, said Jehovah, turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning!

He fasted forty days and nights, and was very hungry.

The disciples of John asked: Why do your disciples not fast? They frequently fasted, and so did the Pharisees.

Jehoshaphat was frightened and decided to ask for Jehovah's help. He announced a fast throughout Judah.

David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and lay on the ground all night.

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.

Sanctify a fast! Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the House of Jehovah your God. Call out to Jehovah.

After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven.

So we went without food, requesting our God for this: and his ear was open to our prayer.

My knees give way because I have been fasting. My body has become lean, without any fat.

Then he said: Do not fear Daniel! From the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your prayer.

I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get.

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.

Why have we fasted and you do not see? Why have we humbled ourselves and you do not notice? Behold, on the day of your fast you find desire, and mistreat all your workers.'

Samuel called all the Israelites to meet at Mizpah. He told them: I will pray to Jehovah for you there.

But when they were sick, I wore sackcloth. I humbled myself with fasting. My prayer returned unanswered.

The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying: 'For the past seventy years did you fast for me when you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months?

The letter she wrote is as follows: Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people.

When they had ordained elders in every congregation they prayed with fasting. They commended them to God, on whom they believed.

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the Ahava River, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a safe journey for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?

Jehovah of Hosts said: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth month, the fast of the seventh month, and the fast of the tenth month, will be to the house of Judah joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

We will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word.

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.