40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 12 - Fulton Street Revival

Thoughts for Day 12.

Day 12: Fasting for Restoration

Joel 2:12,13

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD,

“return to me with all your heart,

with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;

and rend your hearts and not your garments.”

Return to the LORD your God,

for he is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;

and he relents over disaster.

It was the Lord who commanded the Fasting Prayer. Now it is the Lord showing mercy and grace. He is promising restoration of all the losses. Can you think of any loss you incurred?

Material, Relational, Health, Emotional……

It could be because of enemy or because of worldly people or even because of your own decisions.

When you fast and pray….Lord will restore everything….peace, time, material…..everything.

The initial locust infestation…..was it with anger or was it with love???

Wasn’t it with Love!!!!

Joel 2:25 - I will restore to you the years

that the swarming locust has eaten,

the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter,

my great army, which I sent among you.

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 11 - 2nd Great Awakening

Thought for Day 11

Day 11: Fast that was commanded by the Lord

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast;

call a solemn assembly.

Gather the elders

and all the inhabitants of the land

to the house of the LORD your God,

and cry out to the LORD.

Usually fasting is done as voluntary act by believers.

Have you seen a fast that was commanded by the Lord?

During the time of Joel the prophet, there was heavy damage done to the land of Israel. There was locust infestation that destroyed pretty much everything. Lord admonished them by saying….awake, lament, be ashamed……

He forewarned all those as initial signs….but greater trouble comes in the “Day of the Lord”

Then he commanded a fast to be done so that they can escape the wrath.

Did you notice the “grace” of the Lord?

How gracious is our Lord that he is asking us to fast so that he can save us!!!

Phil 2:13

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 10 - Leanness in the Soul.

Thought for Day 10.

Day 10: Second Most Beautiful Scene

Jonah 3:7,8

And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

Have you ever heard of animals fasting??

After Jonah proclaimed gospel in Nineveh, King of that country got convicted. He decreed a very severe fast.

Can you picture the scene in your mind?

All families including women, children, elders and even pets and animals were fasting.

In my opinion the best scene in the Bible is of the glory of God.

Second best scene is this one. Similar thing happened during Jehoshaphat’s time. What a scene to behold…..all families praying in the presence of God while fasting!!!

No wonder….what followed was greatest revival recorded in the Bible and history!!!

Nineveh was revived and saved by God!!!

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 9 - First Great Awakening

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 8 - Moravian Revival

Moravian RevivalThought for Day 8Day 8: Fasting when ashamed

Ezra 8:22,23

For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

We will look into one more aspect of Ezra’s fasting prayer.

He was ashamed!!!

Imagine a life threatening situation and you are very much afraid to take next step. What would you do? We will look around and ask if we can get any help.

But Ezra was ashamed to ask help from men.

He had so much confidence in the Lord!!!

Fasting prayer is to actually realizing (experiencing) that confidence into reality.

Ps 118:8 - It is better to take refuge in the LORD

than to trust in man.

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day7 - Hezekia’s Revival

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day7 - Hezekia’s Revival

Thoughts for Day 7

Day 7: Fasting for protection

Ezra 8:22,23

For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.

Ezra was leading a group of Lord’s children back to promised land. They were not trained warriors. No artillery was with them.

Most of them were old people, women and children. In addition to that they are carrying material for Lord’s temple. They had 7,500lbs of Gold and 25 tons of silver with them. You can imagine….the danger, their fear and King’s caution. But he told king that Lord can take care of them when he was offered security help.

By fasting they intreated the Lord and Lord helped them in all the way.

What a confidence and what a way to seek Lord’s help!!!

Do you think you need Lord’s protection for you and your family?

Start with Fasting Prayer.

Ezra 8:31,32

….. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way. We came to Jerusalem…….

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 6 - Protestant Reformation

Thought for the Day

Day 6: Fasting Prayer as right response

Acts 27:21 - But after long abstinence (no food) Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

Paul was being taken as prisoner to Rome. They were about to start on a voyage. Paul said that it would be safe for them to stay. But they wouldn’t listen and started voyage. They got struck in severe storm.

Sometimes, our opinions, no matter how sincere they were, will not be considered. People just ignore our ideas and opinions.

Have you come across such situations? If you are a parent, spouse or even a pastor, for sure, you will have this experience.

Right kind of response is FASTING PRAYER instead of getting discouraged or whining about it.

Paul fasted and prayed…..after few days…..even the captain of the ship listened what Paul said.

Acts 27:23-25

For there stood by me this night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve, saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar; and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ Therefore take heart, men, for I believe God that it will be just as it was told me.

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 5 : Lollards Reformation "Habakkuk 3:2"

Thought for Day 5

Day 5: Fasting as weapon

Ps 35:13 - …. I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

King David was better known as Warrior, Strategist, Hymn Writer…..all his life was spent around those. But in this Psalm, we see him as a humble believer who is fasting and praying against his powerful enemy. The enemy was using craftiness as his weapon.

David is using fasting prayer as his counter weapon.

If the weapons are physical….David would have faced them with valor. But these were deceits and schemes.

How many times we will face these kind of weapons. Many times people use deceit or traps for their gains at our expense.

Best way to counter them is with FASTING PRAYER

Ps 35:8 - Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 4

Day 4: New Testament Fasting

Matt 9:14,15 - Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

Is there a difference between fasting according to Old Testament to that of New Testament?

Absolutely. Old Testament fasting is works based, legalistic fasting. People used to fast for the Lord to come and do things for them.

But for us people living in New Testament…Lord has already come….he has already done great things…..he defeated satan already.

Now we have Holy Spirit God living in us continually.

We tasted his great and mighty works too (if we are born again).

New Testament fasting is to have MORE of what is in our lives already.

Lord spoke of new wine (Joy) and new clothes (works) in this context of fasting.

We can’t patch New with Old. New Testament fasting is from the position of victory to have more. 🙌🙏

Phil 2:13 - it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 3

Day 3: Practice of Fasting

Is 58:5 - Is such the fast that I choose,

a day for a person to humble himself?

Is it to bow down his head like a reed,

and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?

Will you call this a fast,

and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Israelites had one strange complaint against God. They fasted and prayed and nothing happened. Their prayers were not answered.

How many of us can identify with such scenario?

This leads to a question of what kind of fasting is acceptable to the Lord. In the following verses, Lord gave a guideline of what can be an acceptable fasting. For a fasting to be acceptable….there needs to be

1. Humbling of self

2. Penitence

3. Letting free

4. Almsgiving

How are we practicing our fasting?

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,
And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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