Prove It by Fasting

Now, there are many examples in the New Testament of fasting. I just want to take two kinds of examples. What is it I call, the individual fast and the corporate fast.

And out in the ministry of Paul, in Second Corinthians chapter 6, he gives a list of the ways in which he approved himself as a minister of Christ. In Second Corinthians 6, verses 4 and 5,

“But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God,”

and then he lists many different ways in which he commended himself as a minister of God. And he says this,

“in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings.”

So Paul says, one of the ways that I proved that I was a minister of Christ was by fasting.