Killing the Pride

You might say, “Well, what’s the purpose of fasting? Is it just to make life hard for me? To deny me pleasure?” My answer would be no. Doubtless, there are a number of purposes, but I’m going to deal with only one.

And that is, it is a God-appointed way to humble ourself. And I will show you this very, very clearly out of Scripture.

See, the greatest single specific barrier to getting an answer to our prayers is pride. And anything that will get that barrier out of the way will facilitate the answer to our prayers.