40 Days of Prayer & FastingSample

Fasting + Remembrance

Fasting and remembrance may not be your typical ways of connecting with God, but we can connect with Him in so many ways.

When you remember what God has done, you feel close to the Lord. If you are beginning to feel your relationship with God is growing stale in this fasting season, incorporate remembrance into your daily encounters. Revelation 2:2-7 shares how the church in Ephesus was exhorted in their patient endurance and had not grown weary. But one thing Jesus had against them was they abandoned the love they had at first. Have you lost the passion and fire for loving God when you first met Him? The cure for finding the love that you had at first is remembering! As you fast, remember what God has called you out of. Remember the encounters you had with Him when He showed His faithfulness and goodness to you. Remember the things He spoke at the beginning of the fast and in previous fasts. Remember how He performed miracles in your life. Remember how He walked you through the darkest valley and led you beside still waters. Remember how He restored you! Remembrance brings us back to our first love.

Prayer: Lord, I return to You as my first love in my fasting and with remembrance. You have been so faithful to me. Even in the ways that I have yet to understand, You are still good. I remember what You did for me on the cross. I remember how You saved me from the pit. I repent for forgetting Your goodness and Your faithfulness. I bring our history to the forefront of my mind and say thank You for who you have been and what You have done! Increase my patient endurance as I finish this fast. Amen