What does fasting do?

Restore your first Love

Rev.2: 1-5 You have forsaken your first love.

Joel 2:12 Now turn to Me with all your hear, with fasting, with weeping.

Reveals the hidden things of God

Duet 29:29 The secret things belong to the Lord our God.

Psalm 25:14 The Lord confides in those who fear him.

1 Cor. 2:9-10 No eye has seen, what no ear has heard, these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.

Daniel 2:22,27 He reveals deep and hidden things; but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. 

Heb 11:6 God Rewards those who diligently seek him

Salvation of loved ones

1 Cor 4:4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ.

Is 58:6, 9Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?  9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

Jer 36:6-7 go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD and will each turn from their wicked ways.

It breaks the powers of the enemy

Matt 17:21 this kind comes not out but by prayer and fasting.



Moves you from being filled with the H.S to being full of His power.

Luke 4:1-14 Jesus went into the desert filled with the spirit

For direction and protection

Esther 4:15-16 Fast for me. I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.

Ezra 8: 21 I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

For understanding and revelation

Daniel 10:2-3,12 I, Daniel, mourned for three weeks.. to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God.

Fasting is a secret source of power that is overlooked by many.