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Five key things to do after you start your fast. Number one, replace eating with reading of God's word.

Matthew 4 4 says, men shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Did you know that that verse was spoken by Jesus when he was fasting? Let your hunger

remind you to pause and pray, deepening your connection with God. Create an environment

with worship and music according to Psalm 100 verse 4 so that you as you read the scriptures, you can experience the presence of God and the Holy Spirit can guide you.

Learn to meditate and memorize on scriptures that will align with your spiritual goals.

So one of the things that you can do is actually write out scriptures for the goals that you are fasting and praying and just meditate on those scriptures.

One of the things that we are doing during a 21 day fast and we have a whole guide for that both in my little book called Fast Forward as well as in the short book that talks about 21 days of prayer and fasting with guidance,

where we give you kind of some of the prayer points to pray as well as the scriptures to meditate.

Now, you can nowadays go on Google or search your Bible app or flip the Bible and find those verses.

But in case you're one of those people are like, hey, I kind of need help to have some verses

to think about, meditate on, and a direction in prayer for fasting, we got you.

Let us know in the comments and we will send you that link or just check right below this

video in the description.

The second thing you must do, and that is overcome physical challenges with wisdom and rest. So you gotta stay hydrated with water and maybe add some light electrolytes to your water.

You have to avoid dehydration.

Also you gotta be patient with detox symptoms like headaches or fatigue and rest as much as you need.

Use light activity such as prayer walk or stay engaged without overexertion.

So if you were normally exercising, you know, going for a run,

or lifting heavy weights, you probably want to cut back on that during that time. Now sometimes

people are worried. They're like, oh, I'm going to lose a lot of muscle mass. Remember,

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