Fasting Part 2 - That He May Increase

Send us Fan MailThis is our second episode in the series on fasting for 2026. John 3:3030 He must increase, but I must decrease.Psalm 35:1313 …I humbled myself with fasting;…Jonah 3:4-54 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.Exodus 32:88 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”Deuteronomy 9:1818 …I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.Matthew 6:1616 “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.1 Samuel 15:2222…Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,…Isaiah 58:6-76 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the heavy burdens, To let the oppressed go free, And that you break every yoke?7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, And that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, And not hide yourself from your own flesh?Daniel 9:3So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting.Colossians 3:22 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.