last daniel-fast day!

hey guys- we have been hearing testimonies every sunday at church about what the Lord is doing through this  21 day fast, but I know there’s alot more of you out there with stories to tell. so if that’s you, comment on this post and share so we can all be encouraged and rejoice with you!

Day 21 Devotional “Gospel Light”

On your twenty-first day of fasting, remember:

1. Find someone and share your experience with them
2. Continue to drink a lot of water and prepare wisely to ease back into regular foods.
3. Be thankful and rejoice

Physical Effects:

1. You continue to lose weight.
2. You become exhilarated as you cross the finish line.
3. Bad breath will begin to dissipate upon completion of the fast.
4. Cravings will be strong the first few days after the fast…be careful to ease back into hard foods over the next few days to a week.

Today’s Passage: Matthew 5

Today’s Reading:

Holiness is required, that we may not be a disgrace to God and a dishonour to him. The sin of God’s people stains his honour and profanes his name. When men profess to be a people near God, and live carnally and loosely, they dishonour God exceedingly by their
conversation. Men judge by what is visible, and so they think of God by his servants. Since Christ was holy, certainly Christians should live more temperately, justly, and soberly. Men are apt to think of God by his worshippers, and by the people that profess themselves near and dear to him; therefore it concerns us to walk so, that our lives may honour him. There is no way to honour God entirely and sincerely until we have learned both to know and to do his will. Otherwise we do but serve Christ as the devil served him, who would carry him upon the top of the mountain, but with the intent to bid him to throw himself down again. So we seem to exalt God much in our talk and profession; yea, but we throw him down, when we pollute him and deny him in our conversation. Our lives are the scandal of religion, and a pollution and blot to the name of God. So with respect to ourselves, you see what need we have to go to God, that he will give us grace that we may please him and glorify his name. Also a Christian should desire all others around him to also glorify God. A fire turns all things near it into fire, and leaven spreads until it has subdued the whole lump. So is the nature of grace, it loves to spread itself. We love to reach and diffuse our influence on others. False professors are not interested in those about them, but a true Christian will be earnest, and much in this matter. Therefore we need to be much in prayer that God’s name will be hallowed!

Thomas Manton, Works, i:78-79

Today’s Questions:

1. What does the passage and reading reveal about who Jesus is, and what he came into the world to do?
2. How could you sum up the meaning of this passage and reading in your own words?
3. How does this passage challenge (or confirm) your understanding of Christ and His kingdom?
4. Is there some attitude you need to change?
5. What does this passage teach you about being a disciple of Jesus?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for not actively pursuing holiness.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ and the Gospel to focus your heart what needs to be done practically to pursue holiness.
3. Pray that God would make everything else pale in comparison to knowing and glorying Him.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

Day 20 Devotional “Gospel Obsession”

On your TWENTIETH day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.
4. Work hard to remain focused on the reason you are doing the fast.

PHYSICAL EFFECTS:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: Matthew 6

Today’s Reading:

There is in each of us an envy; O how hard a matter it is to re- joice in the gifts, graces, and labours of others, and be content in circumstances, when God casts us by as unworthy, and uses others to glorify his name! We are troubled if others glorify God, and not us, or more than us, or if they are more holy, more useful, or more serious; self will not yield to this. Now by putting up this prayer to God, we leave it to him to choose the instrument that he will employ. We should be content to be abased and obscure provided Christ is honoured and exalted. Many times we must be content, not only to be active instruments but passive objects of his glory. If God will glorify him- self by our poverty, or our disgrace, our pain and sickness, we must be content. We need to deal with God seriously about this matter that we may submit to the Lord’s will as Jesus: ‘Save me from this hour;

but for this cause came I unto this hour: Father, glorify thy name’ (John 12:27-28). This was the humble submission of Christ Jesus, and it should be in us! The martyrs were contented to be bound to the stake, if that way God might use them for his glory. ‘My earnest expectation and hope . . . Christ . . . exalted in my body, whether by life or by death’ (Phil. 1:20). We need to deal with God that we may have the end, and leave the means to his own choosing; that God may be glorified in our condition, whatever it is. If he wills for us to be rich and full, that he might be glorified in our bounty; if he wills for us to be poor and low, that he may be glorified in our patience; if he will have us healthy, that he may be glorified in our labour; if he will have us sick, that he may be glorified in our pain; if he will have us live, that he may be glorified in our lives; if he will have us die, that he may be glorified in our deaths (Rom. 14:8).

Thomas Manton,Works, i:77

Today’s Questions:

1. Do you rejoice when God moves or only when God moves by using you as the vessel?
2. What causes you to only rejoice and be happy when God is using you and not others?
3. Did Christ die so that only you could be used as a vessel?
4. What practical ways can you focus on celebrating God moving in the world?
5. Who did Christ give all the glory to in John 12:27-28?
6. Who was Paul concerend with getting glory in Philemon 1:20?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for wanting to see yourself glorified over Christ.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ and the Gospel to focus your heart on seeing Him glorified above all else.
3. Pray that God would make everything else pale in comparison to knowing and glorying Him.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

Day 19 Devotional “Gospel Boldness”

On your nineteenth day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.
4. Work hard to remain focused on the reason you are doing the fast. Only 3 days are left!

Physical Effects:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: Romans 8

Today’s Reading:

The believer is to persevere in his Christian course to the end of his life. We have known many who have gone into the field, and liked the work of a soldier for a battle or two, but soon has had enough, and comes running home. There are so many professors and so few Christians indeed; so many that run and so few obtain; many go into the field against Satan, and so few come out conquerors. Few have the courage and resolution to grapple with the difficulties that meet them in the way. Israel came joyfully out of Egypt, but when their bellies were a little pinched with hunger, they were ready to fly from their colours, and make a dishonourable retreat into Egypt. Many who profess the gospel fail to endure when trouble comes, and Alas! Their hearts fail them. O how many depart from Christ at this cross- road! Do not say you have royal blood running in your veins, and you are born of God, except you can prove your pedigree by this heroic spirit; to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils. How uncomely a sight it is to see a bold sinner and a fearful saint; one resolved to be wicked, and a Christian wavering in his holy course; to see hell keep the field while the saints hide their colours for shame. Take heart O ye saints, and be strong; your cause is good. God himself adopts your quarrel. He shall lead you on with courage, and bring you off with honour. He lived and died for you. For mercy and tenderness to his soldiers, there is none like him. Christ poured out his blood as balm to heal our wounds. He never turned his head from danger: no, not even when hell’s malice and heaven’s justice appeared in the field against him! A few days’ conflict will be crowned with heaven’s glory. In a word, Christians, every exploit of faith causes a shout in heaven while you slip out of your enemies’ hands!

- William Gurnall,The Christian in Complete Armour, i:15-17

Today’s Questions:

1. Do you tend to be a “bold sinner and a fearful saint”?
2. What makes us at times, a “bold sinner and a fearful saint”?
3. How can we avoid this?
4. Can we persevere through the battle on our own strength or on God’s?
5. What are some practical ways that you can lean more fully on Christ and the power of the Gospel to help you persevere in this battle?
6. What are some of your additional thoughts/observations from today’s reading?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for being a “bold sinner and a fearful saint”.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ and the Gospel to cast down any idols which draw your focus and rest away from Him. Ask Him to bring your heart and mind into focus on the power of the Gospel.
3. Pray that God help bring your soul into focus on Christ and the Gospel above all other needs, desires or cravings.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

Day 18 Devotional “Resting in Christ”

For the second half of the fast we are going to move from just Bible passages to an additional reading that goes along with that passage. This is geared toward helping you move deeper with the Lord during your time of fasting. Keep up with your prayer journal and your devotional journal as it will be a blessing to look back on what God has done in your heart during your season of fasting.

On your eighteenth day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.
4. Work hard to remain focused on the reason you are doing the fast. Only 4 days are left!

Physical Effects:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: Genesis 8

Today’s Reading:

Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe unto you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of his preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it forever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God—your God—is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God. With all thy sins and imperfections, take this to thy comfort: if thy soul has no rest in sin, thou are not as the sinner is! If thou art still crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten thee, for thou hast not quite forgotten him. The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of him. We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness, we want the manna which drops from on high; our skin bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ. When you feed on him your soul can sing, “He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle’s,” but if you have him not, your bursting wine vat and well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them in the words of wisdom, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!”

-C.H. Spurgeon

Today’s Questions:

1. Can you find rest apart from the “ark”, Christ Jesus?
2. Is there anything else that can truly bring you the satisfaction which can only be found in Christ? Why or why not?
3. Do you find yourself resting more in Christ or more in other things?
4. What practical steps can you be taking to thirst after Christ?
5. What are some of your additional thoughts/observations from today’s reading?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for seeking rest and satisfaction in anything else but Christ.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ and the Gospel to cast down any idols which draw your focus and rest away from Him.
3. Pray that God help bring your soul into focus on Christ and the Gospel above all other needs, desires or cravings.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

Day 17 Devotional “A Gospel Prayer”

For the second half of the fast we are going to move from just Bible passages to an additional reading that goes along with that passage. This is geared toward helping you move deeper with the Lord during your time of fasting. Keep up with your prayer journal and your devotional journal as it will be a blessing to look back on what God has done in your heart during your season of fasting.

On your seventeenth day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.
4. Work hard to remain focused on the reason you are doing the fast. Only 5 days are left!

Physical Effects:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: Ephesians 1 

Today’s Reading:

Today’s reading is a prayer taken from The Valley of Vision:A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotionals.  Take some time to read through the prayer both meditating on what it has to say but also using it as a prayer for day 17. 

No human mind could conceive or invent the gospel.

Acting in eternal grace, thou art both its messenger and its message, lived out on earth through infinite compassion, applying thy life to insult, injury, death, that I might be redeemed, ransomed, freed.

Blessed be thou, O Father, for contriving this way, Eternal thanks to thee, O Lamb of God, for opening this way, Praise everlasting to thee, O Holy Spirit, for applying this way to my heart.

Glorious Trinity, impress the gospel on my soul, until its virtue diffuses every faculty; Let it be heard, acknowledged, professed, felt.

Teach me to secure this mighty blessing; Help me to give up every darling lust, to submit heart and life to its command, to have it in my will, controlling my affections, moulding my understanding; to adhere strictly to the rules of true religion, not departing from them in any instance, nor for any advantage in order to escape evil, inconvenience or danger.

Take me to the cross to seek glory from its infamy; Strip me of every pleasing pretence of righteousness by my own doings.

O gracious Redeemer, I have neglected thee too long, often crucified thee, crucified thee afresh by my impenitence, put thee to open shame.

I thank thee for the patience that has borne with me so long, and for the grace that now makes me willing to be thine.

O unite me to thyself with inseparable bonds, that nothing may ever draw me back from thee, my Lord, my Saviour.

Today’s Questions:

1. Spend some time in Ephesians 1 today. Write down everything that Paul says we are if we are in Christ (i.e. blessed, chosen, etc.).
2. Read through today’s prayer several times.
3. What does it say about God?
4. What does it say about you?
5. What practical things does it call us to?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for taking for granted or forgetting who you are in Christ.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ to walk in humble confidence, embracing your identity in Him.
3. Pray that God help bring your soul into focus on Christ and the Gospel above all other needs, desires or cravings.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

Day 16 Devotional “The Presence of God”

For the second half of the fast we are going to move from just Bible passages to an additional reading that goes along with that passage. This is geared toward helping you move deeper with the Lord during your time of fasting. Keep up with your prayer journal and your devotional journal as it will be a blessing to look back on what God has done in your heart during your season of fasting.

On your sixteenth day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.
4. Work hard to remain focused on the reason you are doing the fast. Only 5 days are left!

Physical Effects:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: Hebrews 10

Today’s Quote:

“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.”      … Brother Lawrence

 

Today’s Reading:

Therefore, brothers . . . we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus. Hebrews 10:19

Jesus appears before God for us; representing us continually before his Father, and mark; not only has Jesus this liberty to enter into heaven, but all the saints, and that, not only at death but in their life time! All of us, not only when we die, but now we have boldness to enter! The veil is rent, and now we have the privilege to come freely to converse with God. O, what a great privilege is this, that we have a Father in heaven! Though we do not have personal access till death, yet by the blood of Jesus we may come with boldness, presenting ourselves before the Lord with all our needs and desires. The great distance between heaven and earth shall not hinder our com- munion with God, since we have a friend above. Therefore it is very comfortable now to say: ‘Our Father in heaven’, that is, our gracious and reconciled Father, in and by Christ. Since we have a Father in heaven, let us look up to heaven often. Let me especially press you to this with an eye of faith; look within the veil, and when you come to pray, see God in heaven, and Christ at his right hand. The great work of faith is to see him that is invisible, and the great duty of prayer is to get a sight of God in heaven, and Christ at his right hand. A child is never so well but when he is in his mother’s lap or under his father’s wing. So with us in the presence of God, and getting into the bosom of our heavenly Father! Love it for his sake. O, let us not forget our heavenly Father’s house. As we draw home quickly, let us grow more heavenly-minded every day; and seek the things above. The reason man is so haunted with the world, and the things of a worldly inter- est and concern when he comes to prayer, is because his heart is taken up too much with these things.

Thomas Manton, Works, i:63-65

Today’s Questions:

1. What does it mean that  we have the privilege of personal access toGod not only when we die, but right now?
2. How should this type of access to the Father change the way we view reading the Word and spending time in prayer?
3. In what ways should this mindset of unlimited access to God move us toward a “heavenly mindset”?
4. What are some practical ways in which you can meditate on this truth daily?
5. What were some of your additional observations from today’s reading?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for taking Christ’s death fro granted by not drawing close to the presence of God which His blood provided the way for.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ walk in this presence daily.
3. Pray that God help bring your soul into focus on Christ and the Gospel above all other needs, desires or cravings.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

 

Day 15 Devotional: “Pray Without Ceasing”

For the second half of the fast we are going to move from just Bible passages to an additional reading that goes along with that passage. This is geared toward helping you move deeper with the Lord during your time of fasting. Keep up with your prayer journal and your devotional journal as it will be a blessing to look back on what God has done in your heart during your season of fasting.

On your fifthteenth day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.
4. Work hard to remain focused on the reason you are doing the fast. Only 6 days are left!

Physical Effects:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: 1 Thessalonians 5

Today’s Reading:

The closet and solitary prayer is a necessary duty, and a profitable one. It does much for the enlargement of the heart. When a man seeks to deal most earnestly with God, he should seek retire- ment, and be alone. Christ in his agonies went apart from his dis- ciples. It is notable that when Jacob sought to wrestle with God, it is said, ‘And Jacob was left alone’ (Gen. 32:24). When he had a mind to deal with God in great earnestness, he sent away all his company. A hypocrite finds a greater flash of gifts in his public duties; but he is slight and superficial when he is alone with God. Usually God’s chil- dren are able to most affectionately pour out their hearts before him in private. Here, they find their affections free to wrestle with God. Here, one finds most communion with God, and enlargement of heart. In private we are wholly at leisure to deal with God in a child-like liberty. Now, will you omit this duty where you may be most free, without distraction, to let out your heart to God? The sweetest experiences of God’s saints are when they are alone with him. Without seeking God often, the vitality of the soul is lost. We may as well expect a crop and harvest without sowing, as living grace without seeking of God. God is first cast out of the closet, and then out of the family, and within a little while, out of the congregation. Omit secret prayer, and some great sin will follow. A man who is often with God, does not dare to offend him so freely as others do. Religion, as it were, dies by degrees. Whatever else is forgotten, God must not be forgotten. Make God a good allowance. Make a prudent choice yourselves, and consecrate such a part of time as will suit with your occasions, your course of life, and according to your abilities and opportunities.

Thomas Manton, Works, i:13-20

Today’s Questions:

1. How does prayer “enlarge your heart”?
2. What is meant when Thomas says, “A hypocrite finds a greater flash of gifts in his public duties;”?
3. When is the last time that you had a sweet time with the Lord while being alone?
4. Is there anything that you need to wrestle with God about?
5. What were some of your additional observations from today’s reading?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for not spending time with the Lord in prayer like you should have. Repent for making prayer more about what others will think than what your heart needs.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ to ask God to bear the fruit of a genuine prayer life with Him.
3. Pray that God help bring your soul into focus on Christ and the Gospel above all else.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

Day 14 Devotional “We Glory in Christ”

For the second half of the fast we are going to move from just Bible passages to an additional reading that goes along with that passage. This is geared toward helping you move deeper with the Lord during your time of fasting. Keep up with your prayer journal and your devotional journal as it will be a blessing to look back on what God has done in your heart during your season of fasting. 

On your fourteenth day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.
4. Work hard to remain focused on the reason you are doing the fast. This is about the time when most people fizzle out on their commitment.

Physical Effects:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: Philippians 3:3

Today’s Reading:

Consider the excellencies of the knowledge of Christ. The comfort of believers are streams from this fountain. Jesus Christ is the object of a believer’s joy. Take away the knowledge of Christ, and Christians would be the most sad and melancholy beings in the world. Let Christ but manifest himself, and dart the beams of his light into their souls, and it will make them kiss the stake, sing in the flames, and shout in the pangs of death, as men that divide the spoil. We can perform no duty, enjoy no comfort, nor can we be saved without it (John 17:3). If it is life eternal to know Christ, then it is eternal damnation to be ignorant of Christ. Christ is the door that opens
heaven, and knowledge is the key that opens Christ. It is profound; all other sciences are but shadows; this is a boundless, bottomless ocean; no creature has a line long enough to fathom its depths, there is height, length, depth, and breadth ascribed to it (Eph. 3:18), yea, it passes knowledge. Eternity itself cannot fully unfold him. It is like exploring a newly discovered land; by degrees you search further and further into the heart of the country. Ah, the best of us are yet on the borders of this vast continent! The study of Jesus Christ is the noblest subject that ever a soul spent itself upon. The angels stoop to look into this deep abyss. The truths discovered in Christ are the secrets that from eternity lay hid in the bosom of God. Studying Christ stamps a heavenly glory upon the contemplating soul. How little do we know of Christ, in comparison with what we might have known? O, how much time is spent in other studies and worldly employments; but how little in the search and study of Jesus Christ? O then, separate, devote, and wholly give yourself, your time, and your strength to this most sweet, transcendent study.

John Flavel, The Fountain of Life, pp. 13-19

Today’s Questions:

1. What is meant by this statement: “We can perform no duty, enjoy no comfort, nor can we be saved without it (John 17:3)”?
2. What are your thoughts on this statement: “Christ is the door that opens heaven, and knowledge is the key that opens Christ”?
3. What ways practically make everything, including this fast about nothing but Jesus and the Gospel?
4. What were some of your additional observations from today’s reading?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for making life about anything but Christ and the Gospel.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ to ask God to turn your affections toward Christ and the Gospel.
3. Pray that God help bring your soul into focus on Christ and the Gospel above all else.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.

Day 13 Devotional “Seeking First the Kingdom”

For the second half of the fast we are going to move from just Bible passages to an additional reading that goes along with that passage. This is geared toward helping you move deeper with the Lord during your time of fasting. Keep up with your prayer journal and your devotional journal as it will be a blessing to look back on what God has done in your heart during your season of fasting. 

On your twelfth day of fasting, remember:

1. Water needs to be with you at all times
2. Rest and relax as much as possible
3. Remember your prayer time.

Physical Effects:

1. Continued weight loss.
2. Bad breath.
3. Your senses become heightened.
4. Cravings can continue

Today’s Passage: Matthew 6:16-34

Today’s Reading:

Until we get our hearts out of the world, how easily our hearts are carried away with the thoughts of earthly concerns! Until we can separate and purge our spirits, how we mingle our prayers with many ridiculous thoughts! It is too usual for us to deal with God as an unskilled person that will gather a posy for his friend, and put in as many or more stinking weeds than he does choice flowers. The flesh introduces, and our carnal hearts insert and interlace our prayers with vain thoughts and earthly distractions. Then, when we come to offer incense to God with our censer, we mingle sulphur with our incense. Therefore, we should always labour to get our hearts above the world into the presence of God, as if we were by him in heaven, and wholly swallowed up with his glory. Though our bodies are on earth, our spirits should be in heaven. Until we get above the mists of the world, we can see nothing of clearness and comfort; but when we can get God and our hearts together, then we can see there is much in the fountain, though nothing in the stream; and though little on earth, yet we have a God in heaven! This is our great aim, to be with God in heaven. His residence is there, and we seek that our hearts might be there. We have liberty to ask supplies for the outward life, but chiefly we should ask spiritual and heavenly things: ‘First, seek the kingdom of God’ etc.. If God is our heavenly Father, our first and main care should be to ask things suitable to his being, and his excellencies. When we ask supplies of the outward life, food and raiment, God may give it to us, but it is far more pleasing to him when we ask for grace. In every prayer we should seek to be made more heavenly minded by convers- ing with our heavenly Father.

Thomas Manton, Works, i:60-62

Today’s Questions:

1.  How do we exist in this world but have our hearts set on heaven?
2. How does fasting assist in focusing our sights on the things of God?
3. What ways practically can you have your heart set on heaven?
4. What were some of your additional observations from today’s reading?

Today’s Prayer Emphasis:.

1. If needed, take some time to repent for spending more allowing your heart to dwell more here in worldly things than in heaven.
2. Ask God to give you a strength that only comes from Christ to ask God day after day for grace.
3. Pray that God help bring your soul into focus on the things of Him.
4. Continue in prayer, focusing on what God has showed you to be fasting about.