Daniel Diet Fast Blog: Valerie's Daniel Fast Preparation

Hello and how honored I am to have been chosen to give you the tips that I have for FASTING. Our pastor has been going over the very same thing in church to help the members to get prepared for the January FAST. We are not going on the Daniel FAST, but God will lead as to what FAST is the FAST for this upcoming January.

When I am getting ready to FAST, I feel that I should get the body ready by FASTING for one or two days before the big FAST (such as in January). Hopefully, after FASTING for two days a week , the last two weeks, one should be able to add another day.I try to start staying away from sodas, sweets and anything that is very hard for me to refrain from. Hopefully, by this time, you will be ready for the FAST the first of the year.

This is a time for me to pray to God and make my requests known to him, whether they are spiritual, physical or mental, etc.(It should include all of these and more).

During the FAST, it is good to try at all times to focus on praying and reading God's word and partaking in Godly activities under God's guidance.

It is also good for me not to look on the FAST as a diet, although it is probable that losing weight is going to happen while on a FAST.

FASTING is also a time to talk to God about his will, purpose and plan for one's life and it is a time to be thankful for what God has already done. It is always good to praise God while the FAST is in effect.

I find it beneficial while on the FAST to think on the needs of others as well, the government officials, and now the economy, our church leaders-they need prayer as well and for the doors of jobs to remain open, and the spiritual and natural needs of men and women.

The Daniel FAST is very cleansing and although , I (we) was (were) allowed to eat certain things, I made sure that I did not become a glutton of the things that was permissible for me to eat.

After the FAST, I felt good and successful and I felt that I had honored God in a deep sense of a relationship that only I and God could have. It is a personal thing.

The Daniel FAST caused me to drink a lot of water and I realized, after the FAST, that it was a mental thought that I had to have a soda once a day, because after the FAST, sodas had a funny taste. In other words, it is a trick of the enemy!!

For those that will be going on the DANIEL FAST in 2009, I bid you Godspeed and I admonish you to hold out and endure the FAST. You will not regret it. While on the FAST, bind and rebuke everything that is unlike God from your life. Speak life over every situation and circumstance in your life. Life and death are in the power of the tongue, so choose life! MOST OF ALL.. BE SERIOUS!!!