Fasting Guide: 30 Days of Fasting and Prayers
Glory
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2025
Glory • 2025
6 JANUARY TO 7 FEBRUARY 2025
To fast means foregoing food or water voluntarily for a certain period in order to concentrate on spiritual activities.
Although fasting doesn't build your spirit, it breaks the flesh for the spirit to takeover.
It has been medically proven that on long fasts, hunger usually subsides by the end of the third day and does not return until the stored food reserves in the tissues of the body are used up. Matt 4:2, RSV
There are three basic kinds of fast according to scripture;
a. Partial fast- this is the restriction of diet rather than complete abstinence. Daniel 10:3
b. Absolute fast: this refers to complete abstinence from food and water. Acts 9:9.
c. Normal or Regular fast: this is total abstinence from food. Acts 27:33 KJV
Fasting can be done;
a. Individually: Spending time on your own to fast. Matthew 6:16-18,
b. Corporately: When a group of people particularly the church spend time to fast and seek God. Acts 13:1-3
Why Fasting?
i. It intensifies prayers.Matt 17:21
ii. It is a period when we go to God concerning our faults and weaknesses. 1 Kings 21:27.
iii. To seek for God's intervention. 2 Chronicles 20
iv. To seek God's will. Ezra 8:21-23
v. A sign of total consecration to God.
General Guidelines for fasting
a. Have a clear motive for fasting. James 1:6-8
b. Enter with a positive faith. Hebrews 11:6
c. Give plenty of time to prayer and bible study. Matthew 18:19.
Physical Guidelines
a. Maintain a clean body and environment. Isaiah 58:8
b. seek medical advice when on regular medication.
c. Preserve during early days (Ezekiel 4:3 RSV) and go through the planned fast.
d. Break your fast gradually with light meals.
Blessing in Fasting
a. Fasting provokes answers to prayers. Isaiah 58:9;
b. Releases continual guidance and satisfaction. Isaiah 58:11
c. Deliverance and victory without fighting. 2 Chronicles 20:1-30
d. Releases the latter and former rain. Joel 2:23.
e. Outpouring of the Spirit. Joel 2:28.
f. You become Humble to receive from God. Psalm 35:13b
Glory
Through the Bible there are a number of ways to define glory but the chief of them are;
a) hod, 'renown, glory,' anything for which a being is admired. Ps. 148:13;
b) tipharah, tiphereth, 'splendour, beauty, glory!' Isa. 60:19-20
c) kabod, 'weight, honour, glory' (the word commonly used). a secular sense, the Hebrew word for “glory” (כָּבוֹד, kavod) primarily means “weight,” referring to something substantial.
In this sense, the term connotes honor and fame as coming from a social status that includes greatness, wealth, or power, and the acknowledgement of others.
It suggests that God’s Glory means the weight He has which comprises the greatness of His nature, greatness of responsibility as Possessor of the Universe and as He is acknowledged by others.
d) In the New Testament, the word is doxa, which means esteem, honour, fame, reputation, excellency of mind, body,' etc.
In the next 30 days, we are going to spend time with God just like Moses fasted for 40 days and his face shone with the glory when He came down from the mountain top.
The following scriptures will guide you daily for the next 30 days.