21-Days of Prayer and Fasting

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Daniel Fast Journal Prompts

“Setting our hearts to understand” (Daniel 10:12)

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.”
‭‭Joel‬ ‭2‬:‭12‬-‭13‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jol.2.12-13.ESV

Day 5 – Repentance & Cleansing

Scripture: Joel 2:12–13

Why: Fasting is often paired with repentance—not to earn forgiveness, but to realign with grace.

Prompt: What repentance is God inviting me into?

21-Days of Prayer and Fasting

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Daniel Fast Journal Prompts

“Setting our hearts to understand” (Daniel 10:12)

Day 4 – Spiritual Hunger

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭6‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.5.6.ESV

Scripture: Matthew 5:6

Why: Physical hunger trains the soul to recognize its deeper need for righteousness.

Prompt: What does my soul hunger for more than food?

21-Days of Prayer and Fasting

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Daniel Fast Journal Prompts

“Setting our hearts to understand” (Daniel 10:12)

Day 3 – Humility Before God

Scripture: Daniel 9:3

“Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.”
‭‭Daniel‬ ‭9‬:‭3‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/dan.9.3.ESV

Why: Scripture ties fasting to humility; it lowers the soul so God may be exalted.

Prompt: Where do I need to humble myself before the Lord?

21 Days of Fasting and Praying

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Day 2 – Seeking God, Not Control

Journal prompts

“Setting our hearts to understand” (Daniel 10:12)

“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?”
‭‭Zechariah‬ ‭7‬:‭5‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/zec.7.5.ESV

Why: Biblical fasting redirects motivation—from self-discipline to God-dependence.

Prompt: Am I fasting to change God’s hand or to change my heart?

21 days of fasting and praying

Journal prompts…

12 Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. (‭‭‭Daniel‬ ‭10‬‬:‭12‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Over the next 21 days we will seek together, a deeper understanding of Daniel 10:12.

Day 1 – Consecration Begins

Scripture: Daniel 1:8

“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.”
‭‭Daniel‬ ‭1‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/dan.1.8.ESV

Why: Fasting begins with a decision of the heart. Daniel’s fast was not about diet alone, but devotion—choosing holiness over comfort.

Prompt: What convictions is God asking me to set in my heart before this fast begins?