Feb 2nd 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 19: Breaking Bondage (The Disciple’s Fast)

Are there secret sins from which you cannot get free, no matter how hard you try or how many times you confess? God desires to set you free. He has established a path to freedom for you — a path of fasting. “Is not this the fast I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness.” Isaiah 58:6 The Disciple’s Fast is a fast to break bondage and besetting sin. Many Christians fall prey to... read more

Feb 1st 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 18: Health and Healing, The Daniel Fast

Do you want to live healthier and make healthy choices in your eating? Do you need healing for a specific condition? “Is this not the fast that I have chosen…[that] your healing shall spring forth speedily” (Isa. 58:6,8). Many people who joined Pursuit 21 listed breaking unhealthy eating habits as one of their reasons for fasting. Do you want to take care of your body, the temple of the Holy Spirit,... read more

Jan 31st 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 17: Breaking Negative Emotional Habits

Do you have a habit of being negative – a habit of seeing the glass half empty? Are you plagued by frequent despair and despondency? Are you so focused on yourself and your problems that you can’t see what God is doing in and around you? Don’t feel condemned; you are joined by one of the greatest prophets in the old testament – Elijah. Just as God used fasting to break... read more

Jan 30th 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 16: Targeting Decisions (The Saint Paul Fast)

Are you facing decisions this month, this year – things for which you need wisdom and direction? Life presents major decisions that are crucial to our future. Decisions can impact our destinies. We mull over them for weeks, months even, without making a determination one way or the other, scared of the consequences in either direction. God promises that when we enter the chosen fast, He will cause... read more

Jan 29th 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 15: Lives of Influence

Do you want to be a faithful witness? Do you want the light of Christ within you to affect those around you? Do you want to be a greater influence for Christ on your job, in your family, your church, your community? Christians are commanded to be a witness and testimony to others: “You are the light of the world (Matt. 5:14).  Christians have two obligations: to live godly lives and to extend our... read more

Jan 28th 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 14: Fasting Affects a Nation

Fasting is a discipline that offers countless personal benefits.  For most of us, our motivations in fasting are personal.  But the promises of fasting can also impact your community and your nation.  In the Bible there are two cases where fasting literally changed a nation and changed history! Nineveh Finds Mercy According to the Bible, the city of Nineveh was in trouble. It was full of wickedness and... read more

Jan 27th 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 13: The Ezra Fast

Are you dealing with a money problem? Are you facing a financial dilemma? Are you going through a major change in life? Are you experiencing a problem you did nothing to initiate? Do you need room for expansion of your business or your church? As you are fasting and targeting this issue, look to Ezra and the fast he called when leading the Jewish exiles back to Jerusalem. Look to Ezra and His Fast When... read more

Jan 26th 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 12: The Reward of Waiting

Fasting is waiting upon God. God promises blessing to those who wait on Him. By waiting upon God through fasting and prayer, you will receive: 1. Renewed Strength. Are you tired and weary? Have you been exhausted of all endurance? “30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, 31But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with... read more

Jan 25th 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 11: The Missing Link

Do you feel like something is missing from your life? Do you have dreams and desires that aren’t coming to fruition, no matter how hard you try? Do you feel as though something is keeping you from deeper intimacy with Christ, even though you are serving Him faithfully? Perhaps a key element is missing from your life – an element Jesus mentioned in Matthew chapter six. In the Sermon on the... read more

Jan 23rd 10 Posted by Natalie Nichols

Fasting Day 10: Search My Heart

Did you know that it is possible to fast and God not hear your plea? God said of Israel, “You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high” (Isaiah 58:4). What was Israel doing wrong that God did not hear their voice? Cleansing is Crucial Israel was unrepentant and hypocritical, displaying an outer form of godliness through fasting, but their lives were void any true power and... read more