Fasting is Key

Then it goes on to say, in verse 25,

“But there was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do wickedness in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife stirred him up.”

So he was the most wicked king, and God had pronounced judgment on him through the prophet Elijah. But Ahab feared the Lord. In verse 27,

“heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.”

And the word of the Lord came to Elijah, saying,

“See how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity in his days but in the days of his son.”

Now, there is a man singled out as the most wicked king of Israel up to that time. God’s judgment was pronounced on him and his family, but when he humbled himself with fasting, God said, “I won’t bring the judgment in his day.” Now, if fasting could do that for Ahab, what could it do for you and me as children of God?