Fasting and Prayer

Question 1

Blessed are those who hunger/thirst after righteousness

Answer 1

Matthew 5:6

[6]Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Question 2

Do not have a sad countenance when fasting

Answer 2

Matthew 6:16-18
[16] 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.
[17] But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
[18] 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.

Question 3

Do not fast for men but for TMH

Answer 3

Matthew 6:18
[18]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.

Question 4

Turn to TMH with fasting

Answer 4

Joel 2:12 - Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

Question 5

Spread hands and pray towards Jerusalem

Answer 5

1 Kings 8:22 & 35
[22]And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:”

[35]When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

Question 6

Prepare your prayer/no babbling

Answer 6

Sirach 18:23
[23]Before thou prayest, prepare thyself; and be not as one that tempteth the Lord.
SIrach 7:14
[14]Use not many words in a multitude of elders, and make not much babbling when thou prayest.

Question 7

Atonement for sins

Answer 7

Sirach 3:3

[3]Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins:

Question 8

No food/water

Answer 8

Jonah 3:5-7
[5] So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
[6] For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
[7] And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

Question 9

Esdras fasted

Answer 9

1 Esdras 9:1-2
[1] Then Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib,
[2] And remained there, and did eat no meat nor drink water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude.

Question 10

A day to afflict our soul

Answer 10

Isaiah 58:5
[5] Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Question 11

Pray 3 times a day

Answer 11

Psalms 55:16-17
[16] As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
[17] Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

Question 12

Pray towards Jerusalem

Answer 12

Daniel 6:10
[10] Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Question 13

Christ fasted 40 days

Moses fasted 40 days

Answer 13

Matthew 4:1
[1] Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
[2] And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Moses Exodus 34:28
[28] And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Question 14

Judith fasted

Answer 14

Judith 8:6
[6] And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of the sabbaths, and the sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the new moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.

Question 15

Do not repeat yourself

Answer 15

Matthew 6
[7] But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
[8] Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Question 16

Be careful for nothing

Answer 16

Philippians 4:6
[6] Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

Question 17

He hears us if we ask according to his will

Answer 17

1 John 5:14-15
[14] And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
[15] And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Question 18

What we should pray for

Answer 18

Sirach 36
1Have mercy upon us, O Lord God of all, and behold us:
2And send thy fear upon all the nations that seek not after thee.
3Lift up thy hand against the strange nations, and let them see thy power.
4As thou wast sanctified in us before them: so be thou magnified among them before us.
5And let them know thee, as we have known thee, that there is no God but only thou, O God
6Shew new signs, and make other strange wonders: glorify thy hand and thy right arm, that they may set forth thy wondrous works.
7Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath: take away the adversary, and destroy the enemy.
8Sake the time short, remember the covenant, and let them declare thy wonderful works.
9Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire; and let them perish that oppress the people.
10Smite in sunder the heads of the rulers of the heathen, that say, There is none other but we.
11Gather all the tribes of Jacob together, and inherit thou them, as from the beginning.
12O Lord, have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name, and upon Israel, whom thou hast named thy firstborn.
13O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy rest.
14Fill Sion with thine unspeakable oracles, and thy people with thy glory:
15Give testimony unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning, and raise up prophets that have been in thy name.
16Reward them that wait for thee, and let thy prophets be found faithful.
17O Lord, hear the prayer of thy servants, according to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, that all they which dwell upon the earth may know that thou art the Lord, the eternal God.
18The belly devoureth all meats, yet is one meat better than another.
19As the palate tasteth divers kinds of venison: so doth an heart of understanding false speeches.
20A froward heart causeth heaviness: but a man of experience will recompense him.
21A woman will receive every man, yet is one daughter better than another.
22The beauty of a woman cheereth the countenance, and a man loveth nothing better.
23If there be kindness, meekness, and comfort, in her tongue, then is not her husband like other men.
24He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.
25Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled: and he that hath no wife will wander up and down mourning.
26Who will trust a thief well appointed, that skippeth from city to city? so who will believe a man that hath no house, and lodgeth wheresoever the night taketh him?

Question 19

Pray for the sick/confess your faults

Answer 19

James 5:13-16
[13] Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
[14] Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
[15] And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
[16] Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Question 20

Pray for knowledge

Answer 20

Colossians 1:9
[9] For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Question 21

Pray that God will count us worthy

Answer 21

2 Thessalonians 1:11
[11] Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

Question 22

Pray always

Answer 22

Luke 21:36
[36] Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Question 23

God does not hear sinners

Answer 23

John 9:31
[31] Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

Question 24

Do not ask amiss

Answer 24

James 4:3

[3] Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Question 25

Prayer is good with fasting

Answer 25

Tobit 12:8
[8] Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold

Question 26

Prayer will reach the clouds

Answer 26

Sirach 35:16
[16] He that serveth the Lord shall be accepted with favour, and his prayer shall reach unto the clouds.
[17] The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds: and till it come nigh, he will not be comforted; and will not depart, till the most High shall behold to judge righteously, and execute judgment.

Question 27

Above all things pray TMH

Answer 27

Sirach 37:15

[15] And above all this pray to the most High, that he will direct thy way in truth.