21 Days Prayer and Fasting | Port City Church

WHY FAST?

Fasting is a spiritual discipline that is taught in the Bible. Fasting, according to the Bible, means to voluntarily reduce or eliminate your intake of food for a specific time and purpose.

1. Fasting gives you more time for prayer. You can use the time you'd normally spend eating as time in prayer for what God wants to do among us during this Campaign. In the Bible, fasting is always connected with prayer.

"While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,

'Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.'

So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off." - Acts 13:2-3 (NIV)

2. Fasting demonstrates the depth of your desire when praying for something. It shows you that you are serious enough about your prayer request to pay a personal price. God honors deep desire and praying in faith.

"Declare a holy fast; call a sacred assembly. Summon the elders and all who live in

the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.” Joel 1:14 (NIV)

"Even now," declares the Lord, "return to Me with all your heart,

with fasting and weeping and mourning." Joel 2:12 (NASB)

3. Fasting releases God's supernatural power. It is a tool we can use when there is opposition to God's will. Satan would like nothing better than to cause division, discouragement, defeat, depression, and doubt among us. United prayer and fasting has always been used by God to deal a decisive blow to the enemy!

"So we fasted and prayed about these concerns. And he listened." Ezra 8:23 (Msg)

"God says, "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to lose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke,

to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?" Isaiah 58:6 (NIV)

TWO CAUTIONS

Remember that fasting is not "earning" an answer to prayer. God cannot be blackmailed by human effort. God wants to answer our prayers and He answers out of grace. Fasting simply prepares us for God's answer.
Fast only if your health allows it at this time. If you are able to do only a partial fast - do it in faith and God will honor your intentions.