Get Ready to Fast!

1. Know why you are fasting. See my January 3 post, What Am I Fasting For?
2. Know what spiritual fasting looks like. See my January 4 post, What Could My Fast Look Like?
3. Know why fasting is a spiritual discipline for all Christians. See my January 5 post, How Does Fasting Work?
4. Know specifically why God is leading you to fast. See my January 6 post, Reasons to Fast.
5. Confirm your fasting plan. See my January 7 post, A Simple Fasting Plan.
6. Know what to avoid while fasting. See my January 8 post, How Not to Fast.

Tomorrow will be your first day to fast. Successfully entering into your time of fasting will come from paying attention to the details mentioned above, so make sure you are prepared. This preparation time is also an opportunity for you to seek God and make sure He is on board.

Your time of fasting, as I am leading this 30 Day Fast, is not a diet plan, but a way to increase spiritual hunger and experience Happy Hunger! Of course, any time you are more disciplined about what you are putting in your mouth (if your fast has to do with food), you may see some changes in your body. That’s not a bad thing! But, not the main thing! So please don’t confuse them.

Fasting can also become an ongoing part of your whole spiritual journey. I have found that adding this discipline to my daily life, in different ways, is beginning to have profound effects on my spiritual walk. This is not a new discipline. Many, many spiritual men and women over the ages have developed this as a habit in their lives. And many of those men and women have walked more firmly into the good works and gifts that God has planned for them.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works or a reward, so that no one may boast and take credit for it. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared long ago so that we could do them. Ephesians 2: 8-10

Get ready to meet God in a new way!