21 Days of Prayer and Fasting
February 3rd-23rd, 2025
Types of Fasts
Selective Fast
This type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet. One example of a selective fast is the Daniel Fast, during which you remove meat, sweets, and bread from your diet and consume water and juice for fluids and fruits and vegetables for food.
Complete Fast
In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with juices as an option. Please consult your doctor before starting this fast to determine if this choice is safe for you.
Partial Fast
This fast is sometimes called the “Jewish Fast” and involves abstaining from eating any type of food in the morning and afternoon. This can either correlate to specific times of the day, such as 6:00 am to 3:00 pm, or from sun up to sun down. Please consult your doctor before starting this fast to determine if this choice is safe for you.
Abstaining/Soul Fast
This fast is a great option if you do not have much experience fasting food, have health issues that prevent you from fasting food, or if you wish to refocus certain areas of your life that are out of balance. For example, you might choose to stop using social media or watching television for the duration of the fast and then carefully bring that element back into your life in healthy doses at the conclusion of the fast.
This type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet. One example of a selective fast is the Daniel Fast, during which you remove meat, sweets, and bread from your diet and consume water and juice for fluids and fruits and vegetables for food.
Complete Fast
In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with juices as an option. Please consult your doctor before starting this fast to determine if this choice is safe for you.
Partial Fast
This fast is sometimes called the “Jewish Fast” and involves abstaining from eating any type of food in the morning and afternoon. This can either correlate to specific times of the day, such as 6:00 am to 3:00 pm, or from sun up to sun down. Please consult your doctor before starting this fast to determine if this choice is safe for you.
Abstaining/Soul Fast
This fast is a great option if you do not have much experience fasting food, have health issues that prevent you from fasting food, or if you wish to refocus certain areas of your life that are out of balance. For example, you might choose to stop using social media or watching television for the duration of the fast and then carefully bring that element back into your life in healthy doses at the conclusion of the fast.
Not sure what to fast from? Take some time to process through these questions...
- Have I become dependent on something other than God to attend to the deeper aches of my soul?
- What do I use to find pleasure, comfort, or emotional regulation?
- What conveniences am I conditioned to automatically use? (e.g. elevators or escalators instead of stairs, close parking spaces, music/podcasts in the background, etc.)
- What could I abstain from that might help draw my attention to my deeper need for Jesus?
Below you will find prayer points for each day, and resources to dive deeper into the practices of prayer and fasting. Be sure to turn on push notifications in the Enjoy Church app to be reminded daily!
Prayer + Fasting Resources
Scripture References About Fasting
Matthew 6:16-18
Matthew 9:14-15
Luke 18:9-14
Acts 27:33-37
Nehemiah 9:1-3
Daniel 10:2-3
Matthew 6:16-18
Matthew 9:14-15
Luke 18:9-14
Acts 27:33-37
Nehemiah 9:1-3
Daniel 10:2-3
Apps
Lectio 365
Pray First
Inner Room
Lectio 365
Pray First
Inner Room
Books
Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton
Prayer by Richard Foster
How to Pray by Pete Greig
How to Hear God by Pete Greig
Red Moon Rising by Pete Greig
God on Mute by Pete Greig
Prayer by Tim Keller
Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton
Prayer by Richard Foster
How to Pray by Pete Greig
How to Hear God by Pete Greig
Red Moon Rising by Pete Greig
God on Mute by Pete Greig
Prayer by Tim Keller