Can you give me a book in the Bible to read while fasting?

Answer 1

Check out Ruth. Yes there is food in the narrative but it is a story about waiting and the ultimate in rewards for a thirsty soul. She partners with her estranged Mother-in-Law who leads her on a journey that rewards her with more than sustenance but a husband and partner. Let me know.

-RJ

Answer 2

Proverbs is an excellent book in the Bible to read. I can't think of anything particularly related to fasting in it, but it has 31 chapters, so it works really well to read one chapter a day and it will last you a month for a daily Bible reading. It's nothing but a book full of great advice!

Answer 3

It depends on your purpose for fasting. Also,
G-d may direct you to one or an other book, for His own reasons.
I'd recommend something like Deuteronomy, Habbakkuk, Mathew, 1st John, or Phillippians. Try re-reading the same passage or paragraph in various versions of the Bible, or many times -- like, morning mid-day & bedtime for a week. You'd be surprised, perhaps, at the things that "jump off the page " at you on the 6th or 11th reading, that you hadn't seen until then.
G-d bless you.

Answer 4

read the book of Daniel and how the angel came to Daniel after so many days of fasting.

Answer 5

do you mean a book about fasting... I think there is a good book called "Hunger for God" by John Piper at www.desiringGod.org on fasting

Isaiah has a interesting chapter on fasting...
"is this not the fast which i choose"
Isaiah 58
True Fasting
1 "Shout it aloud, do not hold back.
Raise your voice like a trumpet.
Declare to my people their rebellion
and to the house of Jacob their sins.

2 For day after day they seek me out;
they seem eager to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that does what is right
and has not forsaken the commands of its God.
They ask me for just decisions
and seem eager for God to come near them.

3 'Why have we fasted,' they say,
'and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?'
"Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please
and exploit all your workers.

4 Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,
and in striking each other with wicked fists.
You cannot fast as you do today
and expect your voice to be heard on high.

5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?

6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness [a] will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.

11 The LORD will guide you always;
he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land
and will strengthen your frame.
You will be like a well-watered garden,
like a spring whose waters never fail.

12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

13 "If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
and from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight
and the LORD's holy day honorable,
and if you honor it by not going your own way
and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

14 then you will find your joy in the LORD,
and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land
and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob."
The mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Daniel has an interesting chapter on fasting..
where Daniel faster a couple weeks and the angel came to him...

Answer 6

Isaiah 58

it covers the improper and proper motivation for fasting.

Answer 7

Why not read the book of Romans?

Romans 8:6 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Answer 8

How about ST LUKE. 1 PETER if you read slow.

Answer 9

Job might be appropriate.
What did Job get out of his trials?

Answer 10

If you wish to be bored ....read Leviticus.
If you wish something thoughtful ....Malachi