The Urgency For Corporate Fasting:A Deeper Look

Disciples For Life, Chapter 5: FASTING:WHEN HUNGER=POWER

For Further Study:

As you have time, look at some of the occasions where Israel responded to a national crisis by fasting (Jdg 20:26; 1Sa 7:5-13; 1Sa 31:11-13; 2Ch 20:1-30).

A PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION

“We have been recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”

—From the text of a proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln on March 30, 1863 calling for a national day of humiliation, calling for a national day of humiliation,