Prayer & Fasting
Join us for a powerful time of prayer and fasting as we come together as the Legacy Church community to pray for ourselves, our church, and our nation!
Prayer & Fasting Begins
1.6.25 and ending on 1.17.25
Week 1
1.6 - 1.8 (Monday-Wednesday) Virtual Prayer Night @7pm www.LegacyChurchRI.com/live
1.8 - 1.9 (Thursday and Friday) Prayer & Worship Night @7Pm (Word Of Life Facility - 1308 Phenix Ave, Cranston Ave, RI)
Week 2
1.13 - 1.15 (Monday-Wednesday) Virtual Prayer Night @7pm www.LegacyChurchRI.com/live
1.16 - 1.17 (Thursday and Friday) Prayer & Worship Night @7Pm (Word Of Life Facility - 1308 Phenix Ave, Cranston Ave, RI)
What is fasting?
Fasting is a powerful spiritual discipline. Through fasting and prayer, the Holy Spirit can transform your life. Jesus himself spent time in fasting and prayer during his life on earth. Most commonly, fasting is when you abstain from food or a certain type of food for a period of time. However, there are multiple ways to fast, all with the potential to help you grow spiritually.
It’s important to ensure you’re listening to both the Holy Spirit and your own body in the way you fast. Instead of abstaining from food altogether, you may fast from a particular type of food or even something other than food, such as social media. You might decide to fast until a certain time in the day or skip a certain meal. There are many ways to ensure you’re getting the physical nourishment you need while still enjoying the spiritual nourishment fasting and prayer offer.
Fasting and prayer can also bring about more than just personal transformation. When God’s people practice fasting and prayer, God hears from heaven and can heal our lives, our churches, our communities, our nations, and our world. Fasting and prayer can even bring about revival.
Types of fasting
Regular fast: A regular fast is when you abstain from all food and drink except for water (Matthew 4:2).
Partial fast: This is a type of fasting that involves abstaining from a particular type of food. Daniel’s diet while he was in Babylon is an example (Daniel 10:3). One popular type of partial fast is a liquid fast, removing certain types of drinks from your diet. This might include alcohol, caffeine, or soda. Another form of partial fast is abstaining from one particular meal each day.
Absolute fast: An absolute fast is when you abstain from food and drink of any kind. You should only do this for a short period of time. Going longer than three days without eating or drinking can be dangerous.
Supernatural fast: There have been instances when God enabled someone to fast in ways that they could not do on their own. Moses abstaining from food and water for 40 days (Deuteronomy 9:9) is an example of this type of fasting in the Bible.