Main Point: Fasting helps us to seek God and desire Him above all things.

Questions: 1. What impacted you from the message this weekend? What did you learn about fasting? 2. What is fasting? Name a few reasons Christians fast? 3. Read Matthew 6:16-18. In Matthew 6:1-18, Jesus is talking about the three main forms of Jewish piety: giving to the needy, prayer, and fasting. 4. What principle extends to all three activities? Why is this principle significant? 5. Why would people who are fasting want other people to know they are fasting? What reward do they receive when they let people know they are fasting? 6. What is the reward of fasting when only God knows a person is fasting? 7. Read Acts 13:1-3. At a pivotal point, the church gathered together to worship and fast. What happened while to church was worshipping and fasting? 8. What does this tell us about one of the possible goals of fasting? 9. What did you learn about God this week? What did you learn about yourself? What is God asking you to understand or to do as a result of what you have learned? 10. By God’s grace what is one thing you can do to apply what you have learned this week?