Sermon Topic: Fasting

What God Says About Fasting

Date: March 8th, 1964  |  Scripture: Luke 5:33-35  |  Topics: Fasting, Humility, Purity, Ritual

And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink? And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.


What God Says About Fasting

Date: March 8th, 1964  |  Scripture: Matthew 6:16-18  |  Topics: Fasting, Humility, Purity, Ritual

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.


The Book, the Prayer, the Fast

Date: February 20th, 1972  |  Scripture: Daniel 9:1-19  |  Topics: America, Brokenness, Fasting, Prayer

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and maContinue Reading


The Book, The Prayer, The Fast

Date: February 20th, 1972  |  Scripture: Daniel 9:1-4  |  Topics: America, Brokenness, Fasting, Prayer

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and maContinue Reading


Prayer and Fasting

Date: November 4th, 1984  |  Scripture: Matthew 9:15  |  Topics: Fasting, Obedience, Prayer, Sacrifice

And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.


The Infallible Forty Days

Date: March 26th, 1989  |  Scripture: Acts 1:3  |  Topics: Fasting, Judgment, Moses, Noah, Resurrection

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:


The Infallible Forty Days

Date: March 26th, 1989  |  Scripture: Acts 1:3  |  Topics: Fasting, Judgment, Moses, Noah, Resurrection

To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: