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12 Powerful Prayers To Say While Fasting & for Breaking Fast

It’s one thing to know about God— it’s a different thing to be known by God. Prayer and fasting are powerful ways to prepare to receive His presence, and all that He has planned for your life, as well as grow deeper in your walk with Him as you proclaim, more of you and less of me.

Ask yourself, what am I allowing to come between me and God’s presence? Imagine the blessings He has for you when you prepare your heart and surrender it all to Him.

Find below beautiful and powerful prayers to say while fasting and prayers for breaking fast:

1.- I’m Here With My Heart Open Wide

(A prayer to say while fasting)

I enter this sanctuary of fasting. I fall at the foot of the cross. I lean on the truths of the bible. I burrow in deep to your love. I wait in the stillness for vision. I feel the love of your heart beat. I rest here and lay out my life Lord. I give you this moment to speak. I listen intently to sounds all around me. I breathe and give thanks for my life. I hear in the distance the sounds of the birds.

I choose to let their song seep deep down inside. I see the great beauty of sunlight. I watch as it dances and fades. I trust in the light that you bring to my soul. I bask in your goodness, I soak in your ways. I remember the journey we’ve travelled. I feel Jesus close at my side. I hold out my hand, and just let you lead. I’m so blessed to be here, with you as my guide. I’m waiting, I’m hoping, I’m watching. I’m listening, for your gentle hand on my life. I’m here with my heart open wide.

2.- Prayer for Breaking Fast

(A prayer to say before eating after a period of fasting)

Thank you for pouring new refreshment, peace and passion into my heart as I have fasted. Please help me to keep hold of this new treasure in my heart, as I return to my normal patterns of eating and drinking.

Please remind me each day to take real breaks from the normality of life and the comfort of food, so that I might feast on your love and truth again. Thank you for the food and drink that I will enjoy now. This day I celebrate your eternal goodness to me. Amen.

3.- A fasting prayer for seeking God’s understanding and wisdom:

Dear Father,

All praise, honor, and glory belong to You, our immortal, invisible, only true and living God.

You are the revealer of all mysteries and the source of all wisdom and knowledge. In You are all the secrets of the universe, yet You grant us to know the mysteries of Your kingdom. You reveal the deep things of the darkness and bring utter darkness into light.

Thank You for hearing us when we pray and for giving us understanding when we ask You. For sending Your word to us and entrusting us with Your truth.

We praise you for revealing the true knowledge of God’s mystery, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Like You responded to Daniel, Lord, send Your word to give us understanding.

In Jesus name,

Amen

4.- A fasting prayer for resisting temptation:

5.- A fasting prayer for resisting temptation:

Dear Father,

You are a righteous, holy, and just God, awesome and blameless in all your ways. Lead us in the way of Your righteousness. Help us, Lord, to walk in Your obedience so that we may live and flourish and extend our days.

Father, strengthen us to fix our eyes on Jesus. Let Your word equip us to follow His example in resisting temptation. Deliver us, Father, from the schemes of the evil one, for You know how to rescue Your godly ones. Help us to take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. We praise You that with every temptation, You are faithful to give us a way to escape it.

In Jesus name,

Amen

A fasting prayer for mercy:

Scripture describes times where God was moved by fasting. So much so, instead of sending judgment, He granted mercy. One such account involved King Ahab. “(There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife. He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols, like the Amorites the Lord drove out before Israel.)” (1 Kings 21:25-26)

Yet, when the Prophet Elijah delivered a message from God to Ahab, of His anger and the calamity to come, Ahab tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted (1 Kings 21:27).

When he did, God noticed how he had humbled himself before Him, and because Ahab humbled himself, God did not send the disaster upon him (1 Kings 21:28).

Even the most wretched of sinners can move the heart of God to receive mercy, by humbling themselves through fasting.

Another remarkable story is found in Jonah 1:1-2, where God asked Jonah to go to Nineveh and preach against it because of its wickedness before God. Unlike his previous experience where he ran away and ended up inside a whale, this time he obeyed. Jonah preached of the coming judgment to the city of Nineveh (Jonah 3:4), to which they responded from the greatest to the least, by believing God, fasting, and putting on sackcloth (Jonah 3:5).

As the story goes, “When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, He relented and did not bring on them the destruction He had threatened” (Jonah 3:10).

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“Mountain moving” prayers

Our prayers should not be limited to miniscule, unimportant matters. It’s like it’s been said: If God answered all your prayers this week, would it just change you, or would it change the world around you?

Because our God is a big God, we should concern ourselves with the bigger picture. We serve a God who has said, “Listen! The LORD’s arm is not too short to save, nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.” (Isaiah 59:1)

Jesus taught saying, “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” (Matthew 17:20)

We serve a mountain moving God! A God who does impossible things on a regular basis. When is the last time you prayed for something as impossible as moving a mountain?

“AS LONG AS IT TAKES” PRAYERS

Mark Batterson wrote in one of his books how we need to stop praying ASAP (as soon as possible) prayers, and instead start praying ALAIT (as long as it takes) prayers. This is biblical.

There’s nothing wrong with asking God to move quickly (David prayed this all the time in the Psalms), there is a clear precedent from Scripture that God not only works through our prayers, but He is also works on us as we pray – and this often means it takes time, patience and persistence to see the answer come through.

The book of Daniel contains a powerful illustration of Daniel praying and fasting for 3 weeks, until an answer is given. The angel of the Lord tells him that as soon as Daniel started to pray, the answer had been given from heaven, but there was a war in the heavenlies that caused it to take longer to arrive. We often have no clue how much God is at work through our prayers!

Jesus actually taught us to pray like this. In Luke 18, Jesus tells his disciples a story “To show them that they should always pray and not give up.” He goes on to explain the power of persistent prayer. God want us to always pray, and not give up! Is there a prayer you’ve been praying, that you’ve recently given up hope on? Keep on praying! Jesus wants you to. He wouldn’t have given us this story if he didn’t.

We often want instant results from God, but God wants patience and endurance from us. It is difficult to overestimate the biblical importance of patience and endurance in maturing our faith. The Bible has a lot to say about this. (see 2 Peter 1:4-8; Romans 5:3-5; James 1:2-4)

“MY GOD CAN, BUT EVEN IF HE DOESN’T” PRAYERS

One of the powerful stories from the Bible is Shadrach, Meshac and Abendego in the fiery furnace for not bowing down to King Nebuchadnezzar’s idol. They miraculously survived, but nearly as surprising is what these men of faith taught us before they were thrown in, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.

 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” (Daniel 3:16-18)

This can super-charge your prayer life! I know my God is able to do the impossible, but even if he doesn’t, I will serve him and follow Him only! This kind of praying offers supreme submission and faith in God, and he is greatly honored by this kind of praying.

A similar way to pray this is like my older brother Jon prayed as he dealt with a serious sickness in his twenties – “either way I win.” He was praying for God to heal him, but he knew that eventually he would be fully restored and given a glorified body in heaven someday, so truly all of us who trust in Christ can say as we pray, “either way I win.”

“BLESSING, NOT CURSING” PRAYERS

The Apostle Paul was badly persecuted throughout his gospel ministry. He had people who would follow him around to try to stir up dissension, harm him, and try to shut him down from preaching about Jesus.

So it might shock you that it was Paul who told us, “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.” (Romans 12:14)

This can super-charge your prayer life: forgive those who’ve sinned against you, and pray God’s blessings and mercy on those who’ve persecuted you! Not only will God’s presence cover you as you do this, but these kinds of prayers honor God greatly.

Even your greatest enemy, or someone who has hurt you deeply – forgive as often as needed, and pray God’s blessing and mercy. I’m sure Paul didn’t try to spend time with those who wanted to harm him, but he still, with God’s strength, forgave and prayed blessings on them. Do this, and God will move on your behalf.  (Read more about this in Romans 12:17-21)

Our ability to let things go, and bless others will keep unforgiveness from hindering our prayer life. Even how we treat our spouse and family affects our prayers. (see 1 Peter 3:7)

“ACCORDING TO GOD’S WILL” PRAYERS

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us–whatever we ask–we know that we have what we asked of him.” (1 John 5:14-15)

We can pray according to God’s will, by praying God’s Word. If we want our prayers to be powerful, we need to learn to pray the promises in God’s word back to Him. There are more than 3,000 promises from God in the Bible. How many do you know?

DL Moody said, “When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me; and it is really more important that God should speak to me than that I should speak to Him I believe we should know better how to pray if we knew our Bibles better.“

Interestingly, when you read the Biblical prayers that the first followers of Jesus wrote out in Scripture, they are so much different than what many believers pray today. They are from such a different perspective, they are concerned with very different things than what we so often worry about.

Listen to one of Paul’s prayers for the Church in Colossea,

“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.”

(Colossians 1:9-12)

In Conclusion: Prayers To Say While Fasting & Breaking Fast

We should regularly pray prayers that are so audacious that only God could accomplish them

What happens when we only pray small prayers? Does that require faith? Does that really require God to intervene?

On the other hand, audacious prayers could never be accomplished unless God did something only He could do. The Christian’s prayer life should rest far more on the mountain moving side of the spectrum.

But here’s the thing about audacious prayers:

Audacious prayers are rarely answered instantaneously – they require wrestling and doing business with God over a long period of time.

Audacious prayers retain the possibility of greater disappointment if God answers differently than you are asking. But they honor God nonetheless.

Doesn’t this seem different than the type of prayers you pray? I wonder that we should start to pray more of the Scripture, and by doing so, our prayers would be far more powerful.

We hope you find these prayers useful and they can help you get closer to your GOD. Blessings!

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