Daniel Fast Devotional

IF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED BY MY
NAME WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND
PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN AND HEAL THEIR LAND.”
2 CHRONICLES 7:14, NKJV

Has God ever asked you to do something that felt ridiculous? I’ve realized that sometimes, faith is the willingness to look foolish. It’s unlearning your fears until all that is left is the fear of God. And while gratitude thanks God after He’s done some- thing, faith thanks Him before He does it.

Faith takes a step before there’s a sign. And I wonder if this fast you’re in the middle of is exactly that for you. By faith, you’re changing your pace. By faith, you’re moving to a new place. By faith, you’re taking on a new perspective.

The hardest part of any dream or destiny is the holding pattern, the pause, the time waiting for the promise to come to fulfillment.

I think of Abraham and how God promised him that an entire nation would come from him; descendants that would outnum- ber the stars in the sky and the sand by the sea. And yet, years came and went before he began to see that promise fulfilled through the miraculous birth of his son, Isaac.
In the same way, today, I want to encourage you to trust God with the Word He’s given you.

You may be in a holding pattern. You might even feel foolish. But stay in faith. God will fulfill His Word to you.

NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR,
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
HEBREWS 11:1, NKJV