40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025 - Day 2

⁠Days to receive vision (Moses’)

Day 2: Motive behind fasting

Zech 7:5 - Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests: ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months during those seventy years, did you really fast for Me—for Me?

When people of Judah were as slaves in Babylon for seventy years they fasted two months in every year. Now they came back to their land and started about their own work. They had this doubt as whether to fast or not. For that question Lord replied with this question.

When they lived in Judah before they didn’t fast because life was good. When as slaves they fasted because they were in troubles.

Don’t we all do the same…..we need God more when things are not going our way.

People fast for many reasons. If we ponder on this for a bit…we can easily know that some fast for health reasons, some for beauty reasons, some just to be seen by others and then some as just a ritual.

Real fasting is actually a ministry that we do for Lord.

What or who are you fasting for?

“….nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” - Matt 26:39

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40 Days Fasting Prayers 2025

Days of Cleansing (Noah’s flood)

Purpose of Fasting

Ps 69:10 - When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

The context of Psalm 69 is prophecy regarding sufferings of Christ.

But if we just look at the phrase “chastened my soul with fasting”….we understand that one of the main goals of fasting is chastening (purifying our soul).

Soul has the faculty of thoughts, desires, inclinations, decision making, etc…

How are our thoughts and desires?

If they are inclined more towards worldly things and fleshly things…..we need the chastening.

Let’s just check our thoughts and desires we had in the last few days….we will know our inclinations.

Also note from the verse that it’s voluntary (“I chastened…”).

May the Lord give us the heart that seek the things above 🙌🙏

Col 3:1

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

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