Apr 13, 2005 22:02
Joel 1:14
sanctify ye a fast call a solemn assembly gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land in to the house of the lord your God, and cry unto the lord
Joel 2:12
therefore also now saith the lord turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning
Matt 6:16-18
Moreover when ye fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they appear unto men to fast Verily I say unto you, they have their reward
But thou when thou fastest anoint thy head and wash thy face
That thou appear not unto men to fast but unto thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly
matt 17:21
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting
Acts 13:2
As they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said Separate me barnabas and saul for the work whereunto I have called them
Acts 14:23
And when they had ordained them elders in every church and had prayed with fasting they commended them unto the Lord on whom they had believed