21 days - Fasting & PrayerSample

The secret

Read Matthew 6:6-7 and 17-18.

How do you feel about fasting? Do you tell everyone how weak you are because you are currently fasting?

The passage today is to encourage you to fast and pray in secret. Of course, you can tell anyone who asks that you are not eating. But don't tell everyone without being asked.

Fasting and your personal prayer times are a matter of discretion, almost like a secret between your heavenly Father and you. It is not about going public so much as it is about times of encounter. Good friends or spouses share secrets with each other. Conversations shared in confidence, secrets that not everyone knows, are often especially precious.

The Father sees all that you covertly invest in His kingdom, which no one else sees. Jesus promises that the Father will reward your fasting. 

Isn't that great?

He does not say which reward awaits you but be attentive and expect that God wants to meet you, that he wants to speak to you, that he has prepared good things for you.

Today, deliberately take time to talk to the Father. Don't just talk about him or read about him, but exchange ideas with him like with a friend. Consciously seek to meet and talk with him.

Jeremiah 33:3 says: "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

Prayer, Get Free & Next Step:

Grab some paper and a pen and start your prayer with the following words:

"Father, here I am. I am purposefully seeking you today. I am here to meet you and to listen to you. Thank you for promising to show me secrets."

Perhaps it will help you to write down the thoughts, impulses, impressions, and Bible words that come to you in your conversation with God. Start with "My beloved son/daughter..." and continue writing from the perspective of your loving Father.