40 Reasons to Fast and Pray

Join us in Fasting and Praying during the Lenten Season. (Click here if you don’t need convincing. If you do need convincing, keep reading…)

IF YOU NEED A REASON, HERE ARE 40 (or so, facebook people are long-winded)! Facebook and Twitter friends collaborated to author this post. Please add more reasons to Fast and Pray in the comments section below.

  1. If you’re starting any new projects in your life… @simplyshi2
  2. If you’re tired all the time @robinsescott
  3. If the Spirit keeps nudging you to! @annymac1
  4. If you are alive and breathing! @bugsact
  5. If life’s too tough. @Mrz_Cookie
  6. If you think you’re in the world all alone. @tlenayebi
  7. If the doctor told you ‘there is nothing more we can do.’ @106Harlem
  8. If you are in need of healing and deliverance. @FHLAbide
  9. If you’re depressed. @hallenbiii
  10. If you cannot think clearly. @hallenbiii
  11. If the only word you can get from God comes from a highway billboard. @FHLAbide
  12. If you go to bed unhappy and wake up cranky. @kdrussaw
  13. If you believe there is still hate and strife in the world @LaFemmeLaVie
  14. If you are feeling out of touch and unfocused. @bugsact
  15. If you’re in a rut. @hallenbiii
  16. If you haven’t done so in a while. @annymac1
  17. If there is something on your heart that you desperately need to hear from God about. Lynnette D. B.
  18. If u don’t see movement. Phontonia B. W.
  19. If you need to hear from God. Mona-Lisa C.
  20. If you need clear concise instructions from the Lord. Apostle LaShawna H. S.
  21. If you are looking for a blessing from the Lord. Kathy R.-B.
  22. If you long to pursue Him, desire intimacy with Him – everything else follows. It’s in seeking Him first, and praising Him, that His glory comes down. True worship even in fasting and prayer! Gillian A.
  23. If you desire discipline in your life, if you desire a closer relationship with God, if you want a clearer mind, if you want your body and mind in unison, if you want a blessing, if you want to adhere to scripture. Gloria L.
  24. If you want to have an intimate connection with God – Felecia T.
  25. If you feel lost, disconnected, unfocused, and nervous about your future. – Bernice D.
  26. If you are seeking God’s will over a particular area in your life. – Thomas K.
  27. If you haven’t experienced change or growth in awhile. – Nichele W.
  28. If You got exactly what you prayed for and it’s ALL wrong! – Bridgette D. Y.
  29. If You are struggling with determining God’s will for your life and then having to courage to submit to God’s will. Edwinna W. D.
  30. If you are seeking a spiritual cleansing. – Felecia T.
  31. If he Spirit leads you in–Math 4:1 and/or you are awaiting the arrival of the bridegroom. – Sharon D. H.
  32. If you want to live in his MERCY! – Letreanna L.
  33. If you need to let go of those who refuse to forgive. -LaVonne T. V. H.
  34. If people do not feel the need to love, understand, support, and pray for one another. DrJanet Mc.
  35. If you need to get back on track spiritually, and don’t know how or where to start. You’ve strayed and are scared you can’t find your way back. –Michelle R.
  36. If its time to truly let God be head of your life. We can be in church and do all those “churchy” things but never truly develop an intimate relationship with God. Sometimes its good to fast and pray when we want God to come in an grow us up in Him. Whether that’s our marriages, relationships, our children, our finances, our jobs, our whatevers!!!! Fast and Pray and God will direct but we first have to “LISTEN.” -P. Michelle G-W
  37. If you find yourself able to pray without crying –Safiyah F
  38. If you want to just give thanks for what he’s done. –Eric W.
  39. If you want to get into the presence of God and seek His face!!! –Tracy S.
  40. If you want to let divine guidance to flow and give thanks. – Brenda E.

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Posted on: February 8th, 2010 in: fasting, prayer

2 Responses to “40 Reasons to Fast and Pray”

  1. LaVonne says:

    Ready, set…..PRAY!

  2. Brenda J. says:

    If H, E, double hockey sticks (LL) is breaking out all around you; at the job, at home, in the neighborhood, in all public areas you frequent…a fast is in order! (Just being real).

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