30 DAY FAST, SEPTEMBER 1 – SEPTEMBER 30 (Join any time, see how to prepare below.)

Early morning posts every day: 30 days of fasting does not mean you do not eat for 30 days! A fast can be many things. Normally it is a plan to deny yourself some kind of food or something that is habitual. You want the lack of it to be noticed regularly by your body and your mind. And you want to experience a sort of hunger for it. It can be a good thing or a bad thing. A fast, by design, will turn your thoughts toward God when the moment comes that you say No. These posts will help you prepare and focus on how He will spiritually provide what you need, in the moment and beyond.

Evening posts every day: Personal posts from me that share my own daily experience of fasting, encourage tasting the sweetness of our Lord before sleep, and prepare us for an ever deeper renewal in the morning.

INFORMATION ABOUT PREPARING FOR YOUR FAST

Check out this preparation post to help you identify which meals or what things God may be asking you to abstain from for your fast: Fast Prep Day 2: What Could My Fast Look Like?

by Amanda Bew

Category: Fasting in the Bible

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 8: Isaiah Part 2

    Fasting in the Bible Day 8: Isaiah Part 2

    Choose God’s way of fasting and see what He will do: Then your light will break out like the dawn. Your recovery will happen quickly. Your right living will be known by others. The glory of the LORD will protect your back. You will call and the LORD will answer. You will cry for help…

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 7: Isaiah Part 1

    Fasting in the Bible Day 7: Isaiah Part 1

    God says to Isaiah: Announce this out loud and do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet, and declare to My people their wrongdoing. Uncover the sins of these people of Jacob. They pretend to seek Me every day and desire to know My ways. Just like a nation that is righteous and does not forsake the…

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 6: Esther

    Fasting in the Bible Day 6: Esther

    The story of Esther reads like a novel, but as soon as danger was realized, fasting began: Haman plotted to kill all the Jews, because Mordecai refused to bow down to him, explaining that he could only bow to God. So Haman persuaded King Ahasuerus, a Persian monarch, that the Jews did not follow the…

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 5: Nehemiah

    Fasting in the Bible Day 5: Nehemiah

    The words of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah: In late autumn, in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year of the king’s reign, I was in the fortress of Susa. My brother Hanani came to visit me with some men recently arrived from Judah. I questioned them about how things were for the Jews who had survived the exile…

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 4: Ezra

    Fasting in the Bible Day 4: Ezra

    Ezra, the prophet: Then I proclaimed a fast at the Ahava Canal, where we camped for three days, a hundred miles from Babylon. We needed to humble ourselves before our God to seek from Him a safe journey to Jerusalem for all of us, which included our little ones. We also carried all we possessed and the great temple…

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 3: Jehoshaphat

    Fasting in the Bible Day 3: Jehoshaphat

    After this, the people of Moab, Ammon and the Meunites came to make war against Jehoshaphat. Some people reported to Jehoshaphat, “A vast army from Edom, beyond the Dead Sea, is marching against you. And they are already in En Gedi.“ Jehoshaphat was afraid and turned his attention to seek the LORD. He proclaimed a fast and the people…

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 2: Samuel

    Fasting in the Bible Day 2: Samuel

    Samuel spoke to all the people of Israel, “If you want to return to the LORD with all your heart, remove your idols of foreign gods and images of Ashtoreth from among you. Direct your hearts to the LORD and serve Him alone, then He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” So the people of Israel removed their…

  • Fasting in the Bible Day 1: Moses

    Fasting in the Bible Day 1: Moses

    When I went up on the mountain to receive the stone tablets of the covenant, which the LORD had made for you, I remained on the mountain forty days and nights. I ate no bread and drank no water. At the end of the forty days and nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets of the covenant written by His…