Day 1
Welcome to Day 1 of 10 Days of Prayer and Fasting.
Check in each morning from 6am onwards to find daily Bible verses, encouragement and prayer focus for that day. Alongside these, I would encourage you to create your own prayer points, so that you can focus each day on praying for the breakthroughs that you personally need to see.
Thank you for being part of this special time together.
I know that you will be blessed!!
Pastor Mark.
Check in each morning from 6am onwards to find daily Bible verses, encouragement and prayer focus for that day. Alongside these, I would encourage you to create your own prayer points, so that you can focus each day on praying for the breakthroughs that you personally need to see.
Thank you for being part of this special time together.
I know that you will be blessed!!
Pastor Mark.
Firstly let’s tackle what Biblical fasting ISN’T!
Fasting is not merely going without food for a period of time; nor is it something to be done by only a bunch of spiritual fanatics.
Fasting is part of the lifestyle of normal believers and followers of Jesus.
Fasting should not only be limited to special times of the year but starting this fast today should set in motion a lifetime of fasting as part of your ongoing relationship with Jesus.
Simply stated, biblical fasting is refraining from food for a spiritual purpose. Fasting is not fanatical but normal — everyday we will be faced with challenges for which we need a time of fasting for a breakthrough.
When you eliminate food from your diet for a number of days, your spirit becomes uncluttered by the things of this world and you become amazingly sensitised to the things of God and His voice.
Fasting brings you into a deeper, more intimate, and powerful relationship with God because of the surrender of your appetite to Him. God knows that there is never a convenient time to fast. It is the very fact that it is inconvenient that brings about its reward. At some point today, you will experience hunger pangs. Your body has a clock and when your normal meal times come around, your body signals that it’s time to eat. Allow those pangs to be reminders that it’s time to pray. So settle in, allow the Lord to do a work like you have never known, and let’s get started together.
Fasting is not merely going without food for a period of time; nor is it something to be done by only a bunch of spiritual fanatics.
Fasting is part of the lifestyle of normal believers and followers of Jesus.
Fasting should not only be limited to special times of the year but starting this fast today should set in motion a lifetime of fasting as part of your ongoing relationship with Jesus.
Simply stated, biblical fasting is refraining from food for a spiritual purpose. Fasting is not fanatical but normal — everyday we will be faced with challenges for which we need a time of fasting for a breakthrough.
When you eliminate food from your diet for a number of days, your spirit becomes uncluttered by the things of this world and you become amazingly sensitised to the things of God and His voice.
Fasting brings you into a deeper, more intimate, and powerful relationship with God because of the surrender of your appetite to Him. God knows that there is never a convenient time to fast. It is the very fact that it is inconvenient that brings about its reward. At some point today, you will experience hunger pangs. Your body has a clock and when your normal meal times come around, your body signals that it’s time to eat. Allow those pangs to be reminders that it’s time to pray. So settle in, allow the Lord to do a work like you have never known, and let’s get started together.
Thought For The Day
Dieting changes the way that you look, but fasting changes the way that you see.
Verses For The Day
Matthew 6:16-18
“When you fast, do not look sombre as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
“When you fast, do not look sombre as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Daily Prayer Focus
Deal with anything that may be a blockage in your life that will hinder God answering your prayer.