Good Morning!! Throughout Scripture God’s people have fasted as a means of intensifying their prayers, and reinforcing their sense of dependence upon God. Ezra did not take lightly the journey God’s people were facing, nor was his prayer for traveling mercies a mere exercise in repeating pious phrases.
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)
Today, you and I have an even greater encouragement to bring our requests to the Father. We have access through the person and work of Jesus!(Heb. 6:19-20) But Ezra’s example is still a good one: when the need is greatest, we should consider fasting, then asking.
As we learn to incorporate fasting into our worship,
...we'll find our faith taken to a whole new level.
Lord, it is with the utmost reverence and humility that we ask You to protect and keep us today. In Jesus' name, Amen.
"Our job is faith,...God's job is outcomes."
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