What Is Prayer & Fasting?

Prayer is simply a conversation with God. Fasting is simply giving something up to create space for God in our life. Fasting is when we choose to give up food in our lives to create a hunger and a desperation for God. When we pray and fast, we break that dependence that we have upon our flesh and the things of this world to create a hunger and a sensitivity towards God.

Take time to ask God how He's inviting you to pray and fast.

Scriptures about prayer:​

• ​Matthew 6:9-13​
  
• ​Hebrews 4:16​
  
• ​Psalms 37:4​
  
• ​James 1:17​
  
• ​Matthew 6:33​
  
• ​John 15:7​
  

Scriptures about fasting:

• ​Isaiah 58:3-7​
  
• ​Acts 13:2​
• ​Daniel 10:3​
• ​Esther 4:16​
• ​Exodus 34:28​
• ​Matthew 6:16-18​
  

Examples of what you can fast from:​

• A meal: Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner
• Water & juice only
• No food during the day (7am-7pm)
• No food for one or multiple days

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7:7-8​

Take the time you would spend eating and spend that time seeking God through prayer and fasting.