My 40 Day Fast

"There is never a good time to fast. In the winter, it is too cold. In the summer, it is too hot. There is always a special dinner or birthday to keep us from fasting. I suggest that you just fast and everything will work out.

A great time to start a 21 day fast is at the beginning of the year. First of all, you set the course of the year. When I pray in the morning, I set the course of my day. Nothing is going to happen to me outside of God’s will when I pray at the beginning of the day.

Secondly, blessings will happen for you and your family throughout the year because you fasted in January. God will bless you in May, August, or in October. You will still receive blessings because you fasted at the beginning of the year.

Thirdly, you release the Matthew 6:33 principle, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you.” You are seeking God at the first of your year. Now get ready for “things” to “be added unto you.”

When you participate in a 21-day fast, there are thousands and thousands of believers all over the world who are fasting at the same time. When you begin to fast and “link” with them spiritually, the same blessings that are upon them and the same answers to prayer and spiritual breakthroughs that they receive, you receive also.

If one fasting person has a breakthrough, in their finances for instance, you will receive a financial breakthrough, too. When there is a breakthrough in the direction of their life, you will get a breakthrough in your life.

Your prayers are multiplied. Your prayer fasting is multiplied ... “One can chase a thousand, two can put ten thousand to flight.”

One man’s fast is very powerful. But two men’s fast means multiplied strength and releases multiplied angels of God." Pastor Bob Rodgers

Bob Rodgers Ministries

2011 21 Day Fast

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Ready to begin the new year with a fast?

"[A] great promise, from the book of Isaiah, proclaims that the chosen fast will "undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free." We are living in tough economic times and I know that so many people are under a financial burden. As we come together to fast and pray, I am believing that your burdens will be lifted and that financial blessings will be released into your life!" Pastor Jentezen Franklin
Fasting 2011

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I feel WONDERFUL!! I can feel God working behind the scenes and I see little miracles everywhere!

I am being tested as well but, I feel the presence of God stronger than I have in a long time!

That is the best part about fasting, feeling the presence of God so powerfully and sensing him and even seeing him moving on your behalf.

No wonder, people who actually fast, want to fast again someday (if only it wasn't so hard.)

Fasting is hard and challenging but it has it's funny moments!

Here are some funny fasting stories?!---

This announcement was really found in a Church bulletin for a National Prayer & Fasting Conference:

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Day 10 is somehow very hard for me. In fasting, like in many other things in life, there are hurdles you need to get over to reach a breakthrough.

I know there is a breakthrough waiting for me at the other side of day 10, I can sense it. Somehow I can more smoothly go through days 4-9 and then things change at day 10. The temptation to eat and break the fast overwhelms me. I even feel sick.

When you fast and pray you may notice the following:

If you are doing a three-day fast, the temptation to quit will be strongest on day three right before the finish line. There is a blessing awaiting you as you complete the three day fast and the enemy knows that and will stop at nothing to see you fail before you reach your breakthrough.

As you read the Bible you learn there are biblical numbers of days for fasting, such as, 3 days (Esther), 21 days (Daniel) , 40 days (Jesus, Moses), etc.

There are blessings and breakthroughs you will receive at 3 days that you will not at 2 days.

There are also blessings and breakthroughs at 21 days that you will not experience at 20 days.

Just like there are also blessings and breakthroughs you will receive at 40 days that you will not receive at 39 days.

I know I have to see day 10 through, come what may. Days like this it is important to remind ourselves of why we are fasting, pray more, and be encouraged that it is very hard because the breakthrough is just that much more powerful!

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Yes, I am still trudgin' along!

I was wondering how many people realize that they fast every single night. When you go to bed and fall asleep, your body will eventually be in fasting mode.

That is why the first meal of the day is called
"breakfast" -- break fast

With breakfast you are breaking the fast.

In fact, during the night, when your body is fasting, your body begins to cleanse and release toxins, as it always does in a fast. That is why you may wake up with:

-bad breath, AKA, "morning breath"

-phlegm

-mucus / crust in eyes

All are signs of toxins being released from body.

So, in reality everyone has actually fasted and does so every night!

Now, if it was only that easy when we are awake!

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Everyone knows that fasting can be challenging, but there are little perks that sure brighten my day. For example, my skin and hair is so much softer and I love the glow I have on my face. I feel so "clean" inside.

Yesterday, I wrote about the powerful anti-aging qualities of fasting, well, fasting is also an amazing beauty enhancer!

So it has been a little over a week I have been on the fast and I am prepared and focused for the weeks to come by always having water with me, keeping myself prayed up, learning more to depend more on God to guide me and less on myself, avoiding situations and possible pitfalls, spending time each day (even if only a little) doing something for myself (gardening, reading a good book, sitting in a sauna, etc.).

As much as I am actually, at some points, really enjoying this journey now, I do look forward to seeing it to its completion. I also have to plan ahead to how best to end it.

After you do a fast for an extended period of time you don't go and break the fast by eating a bacon cheeseburger. Your insides are now very clean (like a baby), you wouldn't feed a baby fried foods would ya? You slowly have to re-introduce foods.

You break the fast with raw foods, such as veggies and fruits. (plus, this way jump-starts your metabolism.)

I will be prepared by having a yummy variety of my favorite fruits and veggies stocked up in my kitchen!

Plus, fruits and veggies, have endless benefits, one of the most notable being they are very high in antioxidants!

So how about veggie salad with cherry tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, green, red, and orange bell peppers, cucumbers and other veggies you like. Yummy!

A good rule of thumb is to eat nothing but raw food for half the number of days you fasted. For example, I am fasting for 40 days, so I will eat nothing but raw food for at least 20 days.

Now, many people assume that a raw food diet means chomping on carrot sticks all day. Thankfully, that is far from the truth.

As part of my planning ahead to break the fast properly in a way that will not sabotage all the good health benefits I gained, I am gathering some yummy raw food recipes:

Here is a great one I found on a Raw carrot cake. Mmm. I love carrot cake so I will enjoy learning to make this raw version of it!

A wonderful blog I will be looking to for guidance on my raw food diet is Natural Raw Living

Evelyn created the blog to document her raw food journey and to share what she learns along the way.

Many people cannot handle an absolute Fast of nothing but water, so a great place to start can be a juice fast, or a raw food diet fast.

Yesterday, Evelyn wrote about a few other great blogs that may interest you, including, yours truly!

You can read what she wrote about me and my blog here: Natural Raw Living: Thursday Link Love

I encourage you to stop by and check it out!

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