21 Day Prayer and Fasting Devotional (Post Fast)

What can I expect to happen after the fast is over?

What’s next?  What happens after I fast?  Many of us ponder this question as we near the end of a fasting experience.  The answers can be as many and varied as the stories of people who’ve seen what fasting can do . . . to change not only circumstances but to change THEM. 

God will sometimes respond immediately, but most of the time He responds over the weeks and months that follow a fast. Remember . . . all of the miracles in Jesus’ life took place in the three years following the fast that launched His ministry. Most of the books of the New Testament – and the entire expansion of the early church – came in the years that followed Paul’s initial three-day fast.

The wonderful news you have to take with you following a fast is that you can live with great expectation and with the knowledge that you are different because you have been in the presence of the Lord. There may be a time of waiting, especially if other peoples’ wills and destinies are involved in the answer.  There also may be a matter of timing, where God is working behind the scenes in ways that you can’t see. You have drawn closer to Jesus over these past 21 days and have also sloughed off clutter and distraction. Now allow the promise of the living and active word of God to shine through as an unshakeable truth in your life. Continue now to speak the impossible and stand immovable – knowing that, according to Romans 8:28, God HAS heard your prayers and petitions and is working all things together for your good!

We have set the course for our lives for 2026 at the very beginning of this year through the fast and now we look forward to the great things God has in store for us this year.

Love you all and can't wait to hear your testimonies this year of how God answered!

Pastor Donnie