Fasting

14 DAYS OF FASTING AND PRAYING FOR REPENTANCE AND REVIVAL

January 10 - 24, 2022

2 Chronicles 7:14

"... If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

Day 1 - January 10

Matthew 6:16-18

"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

Isaiah 58:3-7

"Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' "Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high. Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? Is 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?" Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter -when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?..."

Pray for: Homeless, at-risk kids and youth

Day 2 - January 11

Joel 2:12

"Even now," declares the LORD, "return to Me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning."

Daniel 10:3

"I ate no choice food; no meat or wine touched my lips; and I used no lotions at all until the three weeks were over."

Pray for: Single mothers and fathers, foster care families

Day 3 - January 12

Acts 14:23

"Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust."

Luke 4:2

"...where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them He was hungry."

Pray for: Those involved in human trafficking and gangs

Day 4 - January 13

1 Corinthians 7:5

"Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

Nehemiah 1:4

"When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven."

Pray for: Educators, students, college and university heads

Day 5 - January 14

Ezra 8:23

"So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He answered our prayer."

Psalm 35:13

"Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting."

Pray for: Senior citizens and grandparents

Day 6 - January 15

Acts 13:2

"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.'"

Luke 2:37

"...and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying."

Pray for: Children and teenagers

Day 7 - January 16

Esther 4:16

"Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish."

Daniel 9:3

"So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with Him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes."

Pray for: Missionaries and nations around the world

Day 8 - January 17

1 Corinthians 9:27

"No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize."

Judges 20:26

"Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went up to Bethel, and there they sat weeping before the LORD. They fasted that day until evening and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the LORD."

Pray for: Law-enforcement community and firefighters

Day 9 - January 18

Mark 9:29

"He replied, "This kind can come out only by prayer."

Joel 1: 14

"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."

Pray for: Health care workers and first responders

Day 10 - January 19

Jonah 3:5-10

"The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth. When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh: 'By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink. But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.' When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He relented and did not bring on them the destruction He had threatened."

I Samuel 7:6

"When they had assembled at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted and there they confessed, 'We have sinned against the LORD.'"

Pray for: Our neighbors and those with special needs

Day 11 - January 20

1 Samuel 31:13

"Then they took their bones and buried them under a tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days."

Joel 2:15

"Blow the trumpet in Zion, declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly."

Pray for: Athletes and celebrities

Day 12 - January 21

2 Chronicles 20:3

"Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the LORD, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah."

Matthew 4:1-4

"Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. The tempter came to Him and said, 'If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.' Jesus answered, 'It is written: "Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God."'"

Pray for: Postal workers and those in communication jobs

Day 13 - January 22

2 Chronicles 7:14

"If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

Jeremiah 36:9

"In the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a time of fasting before the LORD was proclaimed for all the people in Jerusalem and those who had come from the towns of Judah."

Pray for: Those who are grieving and an end to this pandemic

Day 14 - January 23

Luke 5:33

"They said to Him, 'John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but Yours go on eating and drinking.'"

Isaiah 58:5-8

"Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? Is 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? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter -when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard."