Fasting and Prayer Flashcards
Blessed are those who hunger/thirst after righteousness
Matthew 5:6
[6]Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Do not have a sad countenance when fasting
Matthew 6:16-18
[16] Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
[17] But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
[18] 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.
Do not fast for men but for TMH
Matthew 6:18
[18]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.
Turn to TMH with fasting
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:
Spread hands and pray towards Jerusalem
1 Kings 8:22 & 35
[22]And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:”
[35]When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
Prepare your prayer/no babbling
Sirach 18:23
[23]Before thou prayest, prepare thyself; and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.
SIrach 7:14
[14]Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.
Atonement for sins
Sirach 3:3
[3]Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:
No food/water
Jonah 3:5-7
[5] So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
[6] For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
[7] And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
Esdras fasted
1 Esdras 9:1-2
[1] Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib,
[2] And remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.
A day to afflict our soul
Isaiah 58:5
[5] Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Pray 3 times a day
Psalms 55:16-17
[16] As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
[17] Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Pray towards Jerusalem
Daniel 6:10
[10] Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Christ fasted 40 days
Moses fasted 40 days
Matthew 4:1
[1] Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
[2] And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Moses Exodus 34:28
[28] And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
Judith fasted
Judith 8:6
[6] And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of the sabbaths, and the sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the new moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.
Do not repeat yourself
Matthew 6
[7] But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
[8] Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.