2 Chronicles 20
Jehoshaphat:
Is facing an (vv.1-2)
My impossible situation:
Decides to the Lord and proclaims a
Prays the not the (vv.5-9)
Turns the problem (v.12)
Notice: In the time of fasting and seeking the Lord, God speaks and gives:
Words of (v.15)
A and (v.16)
Promise of and (v.17)
instead of (v.25)
Their response: “Let’s just ” (vv.18-19)
Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against… (the impossible situation)
– 2 Chronicles 20:22 (NKJV)
God gave the in their impossible situation
In the Bible people who fasted had
Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit (v.1) …forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing… (v.2) And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding region. (v.14) – Luke 4 (NASB)
(Paul) (in) …labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
– 2 Corinthians 11:27 (ASV)
God speaks and gives when we fast
While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, (nesteia) the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” Then, when they had fasted (nesteia) and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. – Acts 13:2-3 (NASB95)
We live at
We idle at
God speaks at
People fasted for , , and
the of their
Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions. – Ezra 8:21 (NKJV)
(Ezra) The hand of our God was on us, and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way. – Ezra 8:31 (NIV)
But mark this: There will be terrible (violent [GWT], perilous [KJV]) times in the last days. – 2 Timothy 3:1 (NIV)
Dieting is the of calories
Fasting is the of calories
Fasting is a key to building
…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word (rhema) of God. – Romans 10:17 (NKJV)
On a fast day…read the words of the LORD… – Jeremiah 36:6 (NAB)
Pray the not the
God uses fasting to change not
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, for His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, – 2 Peter 1:2-4 (NASB)
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
– Matthew 6:17-18 (NKJV)