2025 Theme: We are Accelerating Our Healing, Restoration, & Reconciliation
Daniel Fast Guidelines
Scripture Reference: 1 Chronicle 4:9-10
The Prayer of Jabez
9And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. 10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
Why are we fasting in 2025? Please read the Prayer of Jabez
1. Spiritual Growth Personal and Collective
2. Deliverance: From the strongholds in your life
3. HONOR: As individuals and as a church we should be found honorable to
God.
4. BLESSED by GOD: We want God’s blessing to fill our lives.
5. PROSPER: Enlarge our Coast. Help us TO PROSPER IN LIFE not only for our
personal gain but for the growth and increase in our ministry
6. DIRECTION: God’s HAND to LEAD US and GUIDE US!
7. PROTECTION: To be PROTECTED from evil. Do not allow evil to GRIEVE us.
For All Saints Regardless Of Age
Do's And Don'ts
I. School Age Youth & Children
Please speak with your parents to make the decision for you to participate in the fast or not.
What You Can Eat And Drink:
1. Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, And Fish. Be Creative, This Can Get Very Boring.
2. Drink Only Water, Coconut Water etc… No Sugar-Based Drinks.
Note: If you are doing a liquid fast you can drink the various types of fruit juice: Apple juice, Orange, grape etc...
Try to eat cooked foods prepared at home. However, if you are working and outside of your home still follow the fasting guidelines.
Please Abstain from the following:
1. No Secular TV.
2. No Secular Music.
3. No play station, Xbox, video games, Wee etc…
4. No outside extracurricular activities other than what is required for school and work
5. Married Adults: Come together with your spouse before and/or after the fast. Not During.
6. No candy, potato chips etc…
7. No Fast Foods, (McDonalds, Burger King etc…)
8. No bread…sandwiches
Exercise
Walk at least 1 mile per day (treadmill or outside) or ride the stationary bike for 3 miles. Please speak with your doctor if you feel walking or the stationary bike is too much for you based on your current health.
You May Enjoy The Following:
1. Attend Sunday Service & Bible Study
2. Take your prescribed medications as directed by your “doctor”. If you need food with your medication, please eat what is prescribed within the fasting guidelines unless you need something specific directed by your doctor.
3. Watch only Christian TV programs
4. Listen to only Christian music
5. Read your bible!!!!!!
6. Find a daily prayer and devotion time
Daniel
Daniel 10:3 ESV
I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.
Daniel 1:8-14 ESV
But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore, he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.” Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. ...
Matthew 6:16-18 ESV
“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Daniel 10:1-21 ESV
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision. In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks. On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris) I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist. ...
Isaiah Chapter 58
Isaiah 58:1-2
God’s commandment and conversation with Isaiah (Verse 1)
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Isaiah 58:3-4
Incorrect Fasting (V3-4)
3 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors. 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Isaiah 58:5
God asks a Question
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Isaiah 58:6-7
The Reason for Fasting (V6-7)
6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To lose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is itnot to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Isaiah 58:8-14
Benefits of Fasting (V8-14)
8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy re-reward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness be as the noonday: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt rise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.