Miracles That Happen Through Fasting and Prayer in the Bible

Miracles That Happen Through Fasting and Prayer in the Bible

This season has been filled with challenging things, one after the other, and I’m having a hard time. Well, I have been struggling. I’ve felt the Lord pick me up, put me back together, and fix some of the places where I was broken through this 40-day devotional series. Do you need that today? We started a simple spiritual fast about 30 days ago, and some of you asked me questions about it. One question was so detailed that I decided to answer it here. What do fasting and prayer do for you?

The Bible lists more than 100 powerful benefits of fasting and prayer. In God’s Word, we read about miracles that happened because people fasted and prayed.

Checkout Bible Verses on Miracles That Happen Through Fasting and Prayer in the Bible

James 5:16 

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Acts 14:23  

And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

2 Corinthians 11:27 

In toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

Luke 2:37 

And then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

1 John 1:9 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Matthew 6:16  

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 4:2 

And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

James 4:3 

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Acts 9:9 

And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Matthew 6:16-18 

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.