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What is Fasting?

Updated: Nov 22, 2023

Fasting is often associated with spiritual discipline, seeking God, and self-discipline. This blog will explore how a character in the bible fasted on behalf of a nation to seek God's forgiveness and restoration. Just like what our Christmas team is practising.

In Daniel 9, we see that Daniel was praying and seeking God's guidance and forgiveness on behalf of the people of Israel. It was in a period when the Israelites were taken captive to Babylon due to their disobedience to God -the Babylonian exile.


Daniel 9:3 (AMP)

“So I directed my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.”


Daniel was studying the prophecy of Jeremiah, specifically Jeremiah 25:11-12, which predicted that the Babylonian exile would last for seventy years. Recognizing the nearing end of the prophesied exile period, Daniel turns to God in prayer, confession, and fasting, acknowledging the sins of the people and seeking God's mercy and restoration.


Jeremiah 25:11-12 (AMP)

"11. This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

12. ‘Then when seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans (Babylonia), for their wickedness,’ says the Lord, ‘and make the land [of the Chaldeans] an everlasting waste.'"


In the verses that follow (Daniel 9:4-19), Daniel pours out his heart to God, confessing the sins of the people, acknowledging God's righteousness and mercy, and pleading for the fulfillment of God's promises and the restoration of Jerusalem. This chapter is a powerful example of repentance, humility, and seeking God through prayer and fasting.



What was YOUR takeaway?

  • 0%I felt like I became closer to God

  • 0%I see the beauty in trusting God

  • 0%I'm incorporating good spiritual habits to my lifestyle

  • 0%I'm re-aligning myself back to biblical values

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