Podcast
What Is Biblical Fasting?
The Bryce Crawford Podcast
Speaker: Bryce Crawford
November 11, 2024 · 17 min
Summary
Fasting is biblical discipline of abstaining from food to seek God intimately through prayer for specific needs, decisions, and spiritual breakthroughs. Jesus modeled fasting, and it sharpens spiritual focus while humbling the heart before God. Approached rightly—from love rather than legalism—fasting transforms the Christian's relationship with God and effectiveness in spiritual warfare.
Highlights
A biblical fast is strictly saying no to food for the purpose of seeking God in intimacy and through prayer.
When we starve ourselves physically of food it actually sharpens our mental focus into what we're fasting for, and we begin to hyper fixate on Jesus, who he is in his character.
Fasting is a form of worship because we're saying God I'm doing this for you—no one genuinely wants to starve themselves, so it's an act of surrender and devotion to God.