Meaningful Quotes from Ezra 8 showing us - The Power of Fasting and Prayer

“There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.” ‭‭Ezra‬ ‭8:21‬ ‭NIV‬‬ 

“I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.”  Ezra‬ ‭8:22‬ ‭NIV‬‬

31 We set out from the river Ahava on the twelfth [day] of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was upon us, and He rescued us from the hand of the enemy and those who lay in ambushes along the way.  ‭‭Ezra‬ ‭8:31 ‭NIV‬‬