Lent Devotional Series Week 1 Fasting
Lent 2024 Focus for this week : Fasting
How I plan to fast this week:
Day 1 Read Mark 9:17-29
Mark 9:29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but fasting and prayer.
Today’s prayer challenge:
”What are my prayer requests and concerns today?
What is God speaking to me?
What is my purpose today?
My challenge is to do this today for others.
How did fasting help me today?
Day 2 Read Joel 2:12-13
Joel 2:12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
Today’s prayer challenge:
”What are my prayer requests and concerns today?
What is God speaking to me?
What is my purpose today?
My challenge is to do this today for others.
How did fasting help me today?
Day 3 Read Acts 13:1-3
Acts 13: 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Today’s prayer challenge:
”What are my prayer requests and concerns today?
What is God speaking to me?
What is my purpose today?
My challenge is to do this today for others.
How did fasting help me today?
Day 4 Read Matthew 6: 16-18
Matthew 6:18 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.
Today’s prayer challenge:
”What are my prayer requests and concerns today?
What is God speaking to me?
What is my purpose today?
My challenge is to do this today for others.
How did fasting help me today?
Day 5 Read Isaiah 58: 1-11
Isaiah 58:6-7 “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him,
Today’s prayer challenge:
”What are my prayer requests and concerns today?
What is God speaking to me?
What is my purpose today?
My challenge is to do this today for others.
How did fasting help me today?
Day 6 Read Matthew 4:1-11
Matthew 4:2-4:And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Today’s prayer challenge:
”What are my prayer requests and concerns today?
What is God speaking to me?
What is my purpose today?
My challenge is to do this today for others.
How did fasting help me today?
Day 7 Read Nehemiah 1:1-10
Nehemiah 1:4 As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
Today’s prayer challenge:
”What are my prayer requests and concerns today?
What is God speaking to me?
What is my purpose today?
My challenge is to do this today for others.
How did fasting help me today?
