Notes

Listen • 21 Days of Fasting

Five Options for Fasting 21 Days:

1. Daniel Fast*
2. Fast Lunch or Dinner
3. Drink Vegetable and Fruit Juices
4. Media Fast
5. Fasting Negative Words and Thoughts

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.  Matthew 6:17-18

*What is a Daniel Fast?
The concept of a Daniel fast from Daniel 1:8-14, “But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.  Now God had caused the official to show favor and sympathy to Daniel, but the official told Daniel, “I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.”  Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink.  Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.”  So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.
Using the Daniel Fast, please abstain from all junk food and sweets (see “Foods to Avoid).  As you fast, please pray in faith with great fervor.  We are expecting God to move during this Fast.

Foods You May Eat
• Whole Grains:  Brown Rice, Oats, Barley
• Legumes:  Dried Beans, Pinto Beans, Split Peas, Lentils, Black Eyed Peas
• Fruit:  all fruits including apples, apricots, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cantaloupe, cherries, cranberries, oats, figs, grapefruit, grapes, guava, honeydew melon, kiwi, lemons, limes, mangos, nectarines, papayas, pears, pineapples, plums, prunes, raisins, raspberries, strawberries, tangelos, tangerines, watermelon
• Vegetables:  all vegetables including artichokes, asparagus, beets, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, gingerroot, kale, leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, mustard greens, okra, onions, parsley, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, scallions, spinach, squashes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, turnips, yams, zucchini
• Seeds, nuts, sprouts of all kinds
• Liquids:  water only (including spring and distilled water.  No flavored water)

Foods to Avoid
• All Meats
• White Rice
• Fried Foods
• Caffeine
• Carbonated Beverages
• Margarine, Shortening, High Fat Products
• Foods containing Preservatives or Additives
• Refined Sugar
• Sugar Substitutes
• White Flour and all products using it
• Junk Food
• All sweets including candy, cakes and pies