Talking about Fasting for Spiritural Purposes

What are the kinds of fast?

1. Dry Fasting: Where you don’t eat anything or drink anything. This is usually for a short period of time like a day to 3 days max.
2. Water Fast: Where you drink only water and don’t eat anything. This can go for a day to 3 days max.
3. The Daniel’s Fast: This kind of Fast goes on for 10-21 days where you eat only fruits and vegetables. https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/10826-fast-like-daniel

Daniel 1:12-16 NLT

“Please test us for ten days on a diet of vegetables and water,” Daniel said. “At the end of the ten days, see how we look compared to the other young men who are eating the king’s food. Then make your decision in light of what you see.” The attendant agreed to Daniel’s suggestion and tested them for ten days. At the end of the ten days, Daniel and his three friends looked healthier and better nourished than the young men who had been eating the food assigned by the king. So after that, the attendant fed them only vegetables instead of the food and wine provided for the others.

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/DAN.1.12-16.NLT

Daniel 10:2-3 NLT

2. When this vision came to me, I, Daniel, had been in mourning for three whole weeks. 

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/DAN.10.2

3. All that time I had eaten no rich food. No meat or wine crossed my lips, and I used no fragrant lotions until those three weeks had passed.

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/DAN.10.3

Daniel 10:12 NLT

Then he said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. 

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/DAN.10.12

4. The Esther Fast:

Esther 4:16 (NLT)

“Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/est.4.16

Esther 5 tells us what happened after the 3-days fast.

Here are recommend books on fasting

God bless

Sarah Ize-Iyamu