Having proved over many years the great value and blessing of fasting, the author has written this book to share with others what the Bible has to say about this important and neglected subject. His aim has been to furnish a handbook which deals not only with all the main passages in Scripture that touch on the matter, but also with the practical issues involved.

This is a balanced study which seeks to give to the subject the weight that Scripture gives it and avoids exaggeration and over emphasis. The book includes a biblical index, and an appendix dealing with the textual problems surrounding four references to fasting in the New Testament.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Why Fast?

Chapter 2: The Normal Fast

Chapter 3: The Absolute Fast

Chapter 4: The Partial Fast

Chapter 5: When Not If

Chapter 6: The Time is Now

Chapter 7: The Regular and Public Fasts

Chapter 8: Fasting Unto God

Chapter 9: For Personal Sanctity

Chapter 10: To Be Heard on High

Chapter 11: To Change Gods Mind

Chapter 12: To Free the Captives

Chapter 13: They Fasted to Deliver

Chapter 14: For Revelation

Chapter 15: Fleshpots of Egypt

Chapter 16: To Buffet the Body

Chapter 17: What About Asceticism?

Chapter 18: Fasting and the Body

Chapter 19: For Health and Healing

Chapter 20: How to Begin

Chapter 21: How to Break the Fast

Chapter 22: Diary of a Fast

Chapter 23: In the Last Days

Appendix 1: Doubtful References to Fasting

Appendix 2: Answers to Practical Questions

Appendix 3: Healthy Eating

Biblical Index