Prayer with fasting

[chris414]

Hi all

Why do some people fast if they are praying for something big? Is it to make you listen to God better or to show God you are serious about it?? or what?

Has anyone found from personal experience that fasting makes a difference?

(Im not entirely sure this is in the right section so feel free to move me)

Thanks,
-Chris

 

[Dragons87]

I think fasting is about sacrificing one's physical needs for one's spiritual needs. It takes people's minds off physical pleasures, or is a symbolism or an expression of massive sorrow.

Will God listen to a faster's prayer more than He listens to a non-faster's prayer? My gut feeling is the answer is yes...but not sure if I'm correct or not.

 

[Ethan_Fetch]

I have fasted periodically...

I find that fasting is very effective in releasing me from enslavement to things.

We should take our joy and delight in God, that we so often prefer to delight ourselves in things like food, sex, ambition, baubles is pathetic.

Fasting really drills this home.

But I do not think fasting should be a lever to move God, rather, as you say, it can be an expression of repentance, a sign that we are serious...so the degree to which we fast and pray for a purpose should be an expression of the degree to which we earnestly desire the thing...

 

[chris414]

thanks alot guys