Subject: November 23 - Self-Control: Choose to fast


2024 BIBLICAL CHARACTER CALENDAR
November 23, 2024
God enables me to:
Choose to fast
Ezra and the Jewish exiles fasted to seek God’s blessing and protection on their return to Jerusalem.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
Ezra 8:21-23