Ezra 8:21 (NIV)
I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him . . .
Why a humble fast?
“There is a treatise by an old Puritan, called, ‘The soul fattening institution of fasting,’ and he gives us his own experience that during a fast he has felt more intense eagerness of soul in prayer than he had ever done at any other time.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A Desperate Case–How to Meet It (sermon), 1864
A humble fast makes for powerful prayer.
