Wow! Congrats. Fasting combined with deep prayer is actually an Orthodox method to get closer to God and receive great gifts and forgiveness from Him.
Here's a collection of Bible verses on it:
## Old Testament Verses
**Ezra 8:21**
"There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions."
**Joel 2:12**
"Yet even now," declares the Lord, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning."
**Esther 4:16**
"Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!"
**Nehemiah 1:4**
"So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven."
**Daniel 10:3**
"I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled."
## New Testament Verses
**Matthew 6:16-18**
"Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly."
**Matthew 4:2**
"And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry."
**Acts 13:2**
"As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, 'Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.'"
**Luke 2:37**
"And this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day."
**Acts 14:23**
"So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed."