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Esther 4:16 (NIV)
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
Psalms 51:10 (NIV)
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Psalms 27:14 (NIV)
Wait for the Lord ; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord .
1 Kings 21:9 (NIV)
In those letters she wrote: “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people.
Daniel 9:3 (NIV)
So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
Nehemiah 9:1 (NIV)
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.
Luke 2:37 (NIV)
and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
John 4:31 (NIV)
Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
John 4:32 (NIV)
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
John 4:33 (NIV)
Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
John 4:34 (NIV)
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
John 6:35 (NIV)
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
Mark 2:19 (NIV)
Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? They cannot, so long as they have him with them.
Mark 2:20 (NIV)
But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.
Mark 9:25 (NIV)
When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
Mark 9:26 (NIV)
The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He’s dead.”
Mark 9:27 (NIV)
But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.
Mark 9:28 (NIV)
After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
2 Corinthians 6:5 (NIV)
in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger;
2 Corinthians 11:27 (NIV)
I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
Galatians 5:17 (NIV)
For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Ephesians 3:20 (NIV)
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
Matthew 9:14 (NIV)
Then John’s disciples came and asked him, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”
Matthew 9:15 (NIV)
Jesus answered, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while he is with them? The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.