This is our second episode in the series on fasting for 2026.
John 3:30
30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
Psalm 35:13
13 …I humbled myself with fasting;…
Jonah 3:4-5
4 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 32:8
8 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 9:18
18 …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 6:16
16 “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 15:22
22…Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,…
Isaiah 58:6-7
6 “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 9:3
So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting.
Colossians 3:2
2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
