Here are journal questions that you might want your flock to keep. We are also studying the book of John. One chapter per day for the next 21 days.
DAY 1
Today’s Quote:
“Jesus, while being a very public figure, was actually a very private person. You do not
see Him praying in public nearly as much as you see Him praying in private. In fact, our
Savior was so committed to prayer that He would often pray for hours on end, even all
through the night. He seemed to crave intimate moments alone with His father in
heaven.”
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. What are your own personal reasons for fasting?
2. Do you desire sensitivity to the things of God?
DAY 2
Today’s Quote:
“Out of those private and profound times alone with His Father came an enormous
outpouring of public demonstration where God’s power would be poured forth in
healings, raising the dead, abundance and more. Victories are not won in public, but in
private. That is why fasting, whether corporately or individually, is a private discipline.”
Jentezen Franklin
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Do you need a deeper, more intimate and powerful relationship with the Lord?
2. Do you need a fresh encounter with God?
DAY 3
Today’s Quote:
“I have seen people who have never fasted before experience marvelous breakthroughs in
their lives. If you are ready to bring supernatural blessings into your life and release the
power of God to overcome any situation, begin today making the discipline of fasting a
part of your life. God is no respecter of persons…what He has done in our church, in the
lives of our members, He will do for you when you set your heart to seek Him through
fasting.”
Pastor Danny Sartain
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. What is that dream inside you that only He can make possible?
2. What are other people’s goals in your accountability group?
3. How can you obtain these goals with God’s help?
Day 4
Today’s Quote:
“As important and intriguing as divine depths might be, they defy discovery by the
natural means of our minds. He reserves these things for those whose hearts are
completely His…for those who take the time to wait before Him. Only in that way can
there be intimacy with the Almighty.”
Charles Swindoll Intimacy with the Almighty
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Do you have a friend or loved one that is in need of Salvation?
2. Is there any healing that you need physically?
3. What are the needs in your family right now?
Day 5
Today’s Quote:
“Tragically, precious little in this hurried and hassled age promotes such intimacy. We
have become a body of people who look more like a herd of cattle in a stampede than a
flock of God beside green pastures and still waters.”
Charles Swindoll - Intimacy with the Almighty
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Why do you think fasting is important in order to achieve your greatest breakthroughs?
2. Jesus fasted, and He intimately related to His Father in heaven. How has this
experience so far helped you to relate to your Heavenly Father?
Day 6
Today’s Quote:
“Our forefathers knew, it seems, how to communicate with the Almighty…but do we?
We must learn anew to think deeply, to worship meaningfully, to meditate unhurriedly.”
Charles Swindoll - Intimacy with the Almighty
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. How is experiencing fasting as a private discipline bringing you closer to God?
2. Has God revealed anything to you since the Fast has begun?
Day 7
Today’s Quote:
“It is my prayer that you are drawing strength from each other and that you are truly
experiencing the power that is found in fellowship with the Body of Christ.”
Pastor Danny Sartain
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. How do you keep from resisting the temptation of hunger?
2. How can resisting hunger relate to avoiding other temptations in your life?
Day 8
Today’s Quote:
“So are the saints and pioneers of faith down through the ages.
And they’re all saying—shouting—You can do it, in Jesus’ mighty name! Go for it!
Think big! Dream without boundaries! Be limited only by what He limits. Change the
world!”
Bill Bright
Founder, Campus Crusade for Christ - Amazing Faith,
The Authorized Biography of Bill Bright
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. How can this fast give you supernatural insight?
2. Reflect on how there is great power and supernatural blessing that awaits the man or
woman who forsakes all flesh for the chance to know their Savior and hear His voice.
Day 9
Today’s Quote:
“Fasting prepares the way for God to give you fresh revelations, fresh visions, and clear
purpose. God will do this for you. Stay the course, finish the race. An incredible reward
of fresh wind and fresh fire awaits you on the other side.” It’s not IF but WHEN.
Pastor Danny Sartain
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Think about the mental, physical and spiritual battle you encounter as you combat the
hunger pangs.
2. Reflect on the battle that ensues between the carnal man and the spirit.
3. How has God’s presence become clearer through this experience?
Day 10
Today’s Quote:
“Do you want to hear the voice of the Creator? Do you want to know Jesus more deeply?
Do you want to know the direction He desires you to take? I do. I am convinced that we
will never walk in the perfect will of God until we seek Him through fasting. God knows
your hunger…but He also knows that what you need is Living Water and the Bread of
Life. Taste and see that the Lord is good!”
Jentezen Franklin
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. What do you think the specific assignments are that God has for your life?
2. What do you currently desire in your life? Remember to pray about your dreams and
ask God for guidance in what is best for your life.
Day 11
Today’s Quote:
“If you can see it you can be it”
Evangelist Bill Piker
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Humility is a discipline and not something that just comes naturally. Fasting places one
truly in the hands of God, dependent upon Him for spiritual nourishment in the absence
of physical nourishment. Journal how this experience has humbled you and made you
trust God more
Day 12
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Has God revealed anything to you personally?
2. Reflect on what it means to present your body as a living sacrifice through your time of
fasting
Day 13
Today’s Quote:
“Hold on to your dream, and let it hold on to you. Joseph knew terror in the pit and
frustration in the prison, but he never lost his dream.”
Mark Rutland- Dream
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. What are the various ways you can experience guidance from God?
2. Reflect on how you can resist more temptation in these next days as the hunger pangs
continue
Day 14
Today’s Quote:
“Fasting and praying will provide the perspective of God that can only be described as
magnification as His perfect will, His presence and His power come into focus with
greater clarity than ever thought possible.”
Pastor Danny Sartain
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Praise God for bringing you this far and thank Him for His steadfast presence.
Day 15
Today’s Quote:
“If you are in a rut or a routine where your worship just isn’t cutting it…if you have not
heard God speak to you in a long time…if your circumstances seem to be the biggest
obstacle in your life…stop everything and begin a fast.”
Jentezen Franklin
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Reflect on how worship and obedience has provided you with the opportunity for God
to reveal Himself and His purposes to you, His special servant.
2. Write down the details that were a concern in the beginning of the Fast that no longer
seem as of great concern
Day 16
Today’s Quote:
“Worship is totally God-centered! God Focused! Out of worship comes a clearer and
more focused relationship of faith and obedience with God. Worship is God’s way of
developing character and directing the life into the center of His will.”
Henry Blackaby - Created to be God’s Friend
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Remember to stay the course. Write out your thoughts on how you can continue to
present your body as a living sacrifice and see if the Lord does not open up the windows
of heaven to you and shower you with His presence.
2. Fasting is a form of worship that will humble you.
Day 17
Today’s Quote:
“We must get to the place where we are desperate for God again. We must begin to desire
Him more than food or drink. Let us be filled with the Bread of His Presence instead of
the refuse of religion.”
Pastor Danny Sartain
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Reflect on comments of encouragement that others have expressed throughout your
Fast. Thank God for people in your life that have touched your heart
Day 18
Today’s Quote:
“This frightening hour calls aloud for men with the gift of prophetic insight. I am talking
about His coming and possessing the full body and mind and life and heart, taking the
whole personality over, gently but directly and bluntly, making it His, so that we may
become a habitation of God through the Spirit.”
A.W. Tozer - Gems from Tozer
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Examine any areas of un-forgiveness and bitterness that the Lord is asking you to
surrender to Him
Day 19
Today’s Quote:
“Purpose today to make fasting a regular part of your Christian walk and to watch as the
Lord reveals himself to you in wonderful and miraculous ways.”
Pastor Danny Sartain
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Consider what you would be willing to share with others today, and how you will
articulate your experience and what it has meant to you in terms of your relationship with
God
Day 20
Today’s Quote:
“The proof that we have the vision is that we are reaching out for more than we have
grasped. Our reach must exceed our grasp. If we have only what we have experienced,
we have nothing; if we have the inspiration of the vision of God, we have more than we
can experience. Beware of the danger of relaxation spiritually.”
Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest
Thoughts for your Journal:
1. Take some time today and go back to read your journal entries from the start of the fast
to this 20th day.
2. What do your journal entries tell you about your own personal journey these last three
weeks?
3. Take a moment and journal about the breakthroughs you have experienced or key
things the Lord has shown you during the fast. Spend time in prayer and thanksgiving
Day 21
Your Final Day
“Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all men
of war draw near, Let them come up…Multitudes…multitudes in the valley of decision!
For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.”
Joel 3:9-14
On your twenty-first day of fasting, remember:
1. Find someone and share your experience with them
2. Replenish yourself with liquids, and prepare to ease back into solid food on the 22nd
day
3. Go to your prayer place and praise God
4. Be thankful and rejoice
5. Write your feelings in your prayer journal
Today’s Quote:
“Jesus said to His followers, ‘whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will
liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock’ (Matt. 7:24). You have heard
His Word, you have obeyed. And you are victorious!” YOU MADE IT!
Pastor Danny Sartain
Praise God!
1. On this final day, ask the Lord to reveal to you if there is any un-forgiveness, bitterness
or other hindrances that you have yet to lay fully before your Lord.
2. Prepare for blessing, harvest and an anointing like you have never experienced before.
3. Get ready because the rest of this year will not be like any other before it!
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