My 21 Day Daniel Fast Experience | Struggles, Food, Tips + Lessons

[Music] hi friends welcome back to my channel so today I'm doing a video that I've been anticipating doing for a while and it's just something that I'm really excited to make because I don't know I just think this experience has been so valuable and I definitely want to share it and have wanted to share it since like at the beginning but I decided to wait until I was finished and then I would you know tell you guys all about it if I do seem a little hasty it's because my battery is like on to Boz I don't have my charger with me right now so if my camera dies that's it and I really wanted to like get this video done oh yeah I'm gonna talk to you guys about the down Lafosse that I did last month because we're in cover you know so I did the Dino fast throughout January well for 21 days with in January and I wanted to share my experience so I'll be covering the what the why on the house so I'll definitely be going over the what for those of you who may be new and like you don't know what I don't know house even is so I was definitely going over that but I would just say I started my fast on the 9th of January and it ended on the 29th of January so yeah so what is it Anasazi da neo-fascist taken from Daniel 10 in the Bible Daniel they started too fast upon a vision that he received and so he decided to fast and he refrained from eatin I read well in NLT says rich food modern day Christianity has adopted this fast but the fast essentially is refraining from a list of food for 21 days you can also do the fast for 10 days because there's also another instance where Daniel fasted for just 10 days in the Bible so within the fast you're refraining from meat sugar dairy flour alcohol caffeine I'm like we're gonna mine I was like what did I forget so you're only allowed to eat basically fruits and vegetables yeah pretty much and for a lot of people it might be like what are you kidding me that's basically like a vegan diet yeah so that is basically to do what you know what is it ah no sauce now I'm gonna move into the Y and so I'm gonna start with the general why like why do people do this fast what's like the main reason or the main point so there are different reasons honestly I would say the original reason when you read the story of Daniel which I would definitely urge you to do if you feel inclined to do this in addition to like your own personal prayer and devotion to God and just make sure like you know this is something that you are seeking God for not trying to do it of your own strength in the Book of Daniel when he received the vision he became frightened man him on and he refrained from eating certain foods for him I think this was what the way I interpreted at least it was like his submission to God um I'm a god so that sacrifice that led to Guardian or revealing what the vision meant to Daniel twenty-one days later so you can interpret that in a lot of ways of course I mean man way a lot of people um take from it is you find a lot of people to design in fact when you want clarity from God when you want an answer of some sort and that answer could be several different things so it could be an answered prayer for a loved one or it could be an answered prayer for yourself it could be like literally a symbol of sacrifice for whatever reason you showing symbolically that you're cleansing yourself and literally as well because of course you're not gonna be eating like junk food I'm not gonna think if you're gonna eat fruits and vegetables right so why did I decide to design it possible this my personal reason ah so much but I'm gonna try to summarize so later in the year 2019 God began to really speak to me about food in general um he spoke to me through people like through elders a church two friends just through community godly counsel and also through the Bible through different Christian writings and teachings and so forth and it had been a perspective that I personally have never encountered in that way before so of course it really convicted me and it made me yeah this might be a problem and it was exciting I really admitted to myself like you know food might be a hindrance or a stumbling block for me in a lot of ways and as much as you know it's and a lot of practical ways and in a lot of world Louie's like oh it's making me fat it's different when you get it in a spiritual way in a way where God is like this is also hindering you from getting closer to me and I was like oh what so because of that I looked into you know what this really meant for me personally and how food really was affecting my own experience with God so essentially I realized that certain foods were causing me to stumble whether it be in sin or actually like disruptions or slowing me down cause me to be lethargic waking up late going to bed late keeping me up you know just those types of things and it's so interesting how we don't necessarily connect things all the time in our lives we feel like you know our life is fragmented and so I eat to survive I sleep I hang out I have my relationship with God like we kind of categorized a lot of things in our life but not understanding that a lot of these things all work together you know and they all have an effect on each other and you don't really realize that until God like so clearly uncleanly shows you sometimes I began to do research and I found like chocolate really does heighten your sensual experience and just foods high in sugar um affect you mentally in a lot of different ways so I was like whoa this is so real for me because I experienced it an especially one God like made it so plain to me after the fact I was really able to see like yeah this is this is causing me to not be my best self and not show up fully for God even in my alone time or in my quiet time with God I was just sometimes hard to focus or concentrate not only that but food also had a very magnetic pull in terms of I was no longer controlling what went into my body food sort of controlled me so whatever I crave you know whatever I wanted I fed it to myself which meant that my flesh was also be controlling me like I wasn't being led by the spirits I was being led by my flesh all of the time so essentially God really showed me like deandre fear they want to do this thing with me if you want to really come my checks out to me and seek true transformation and not feel stagnant not be like in the same place over and over again or repeat any same cycles over and over again you need to you need to fast like you need to let this thing go and allow me to renew your mind so I think I went through a mental shift before I physically fasted and I think that's super important and it's great to like hair you might even hear my story and I might inspire or motivate you and you decide okay I'm gonna fast and because you have not necessarily spiritually or mentally prepared yourself you might find it very challenging you might even fall short of what you're really supposed to do while fasting because you know you didn't go to God first to have him renew your mind or begin to renew your mind to start it fast and that isn't like some long adios process but it's really like committing every part of yourselves to fasting and you know in my quiet time in my prayer time with God God really showed me something special and something that was one of my main anchors throughout the 21 days so it's maybe about five or so days before it actually started the fast and I just heard God tell me deandre be spiritual the physical and the emotional or mental are all connected and I mean I did psychology so that makes sense to me I know that in theory but this is the first time I'd practically understood it on a spiritual level in a discerning way and so I did a little diagram in my and I have my journal right here this region all I had used to do the journal Challenger guys about in a bit so I wrote down spiritual physical emotional such mental on the spiritual I put prayer devotion Bible study worship and church under physical I put exercise sleep healthy food and celibacy under emotional mental I put positive thoughts controlling your emotions encouraging others not judging others and you know right and our dog God really began to show me how all of these things are connected and for me I see it as this spiritual affects the emotional immense of which then affects the physical and it kind of goes in a loop so when you're consistently praying you're doing devotion Bible study worship whatever worship means to you that is you being fed spiritually that is making sure your cup your spiritual cup is filled and so that obviously will affect your mental emotional you're able to have positive thoughts you're able to control your emotions you're able to encourage others you're able to not judge and of course when you have this kind of mental framework and emotional stability you can do the physical things that come with it because your mind is in the right space to say able to exercise sleep properly eat healthy practice celibacy and all of the other physical things and so if you fall short in any of these areas they will affect the other one and of course this is a very utopian framework because for some people is like well that's not perfect persona nobody's perfect trust me uh I am struggling to sleep as we speak I have like the worst Sigma box in any world and guess what I see how that practically affects every other aspect of my life I promise you when I wake up late y'all I do not feel to do my devotion because my day feels thrown off like completely thrown up and of course that's affecting me physically which is affecting me mentally emotionally because I'm not controlling my emotions because I didn't sleep properly so I don't have like you know it's all connected so I know that God didn't show me that to say in tra this is why I need to do immediately you need to practice this and be perfect right now like no God understands just as much as we do like it's a process to grow into the person God sees you becoming but I am so grateful that he's set up this framework and showed me like ideally what I should strive for ideally what is gonna keep me close to him and you know it was just a really important perspective shift so yeah that is my main reasoning behind everything in addition to I cannot leave this out I really wanted vision for this year and I knew that you know the Daniel Fast a lot of people did it to get vision from God especially at the beginning of the consummation Church they do the Daniel fast at the beginning of every year so that was also motivation it wasn't like the reason like because they did it but of course knowing that they do it as well encouraged me and it gave me like this I don't know mental support like you know all these other people are doing it you can do it too and it's a good time to do it so that you can set the right intentions and have a good foundation for the rest of your year so now I'm gonna talk about things that have helped me a while on the Daniel path so this is this is great to know like hey I did it or whatever you know I started as fast but for people who may be interested in doing it like you know there are practical things that may help you not to you know fail so for me personally um and this is just specific to my experience I started this thing called the heatherlindsay journal challenge so if you know how the Lindsey she is a pop star she's just a great Christian woman and she just exemplifies what it means to me to be christ-like and I just really you know and my all that she has done within her ministry so I follow her on Instagram and she put out that she was starting her journal challenge for 2020 and it was a 21-day challenge and I applied I applied this was like two weeks before the first of January and I just applied I signed up and that was also super instrumental for me when I decided to Saudi fast which was only nine I'd already been journaling and it had instilled a lot of discipline and if you watch my last video you know that the width that I have for this year is discipline it instilled a lot of discipline in me mentally to be like okay DeAndre you're doing this and you know it gave me a lot of structure so I wasn't just waking up any morning structured and doing this doing that you know turning twisting like wasting time like I had real structure to my day I knew that when I woke up I was journaling correct I'm reading my Bible and that set the tone as well as give me all of the strength that I needed to because if I thought is really not easy it's not like if you're accustomed rather like eats and means eating this each and whatever eats in sugar like you kind of have any sugar on this box like no sugar like what you cannot fruit but outside of like natural sugars and fruits you can't have sugar like what so I needed this strength of II was very like I could not do this ain't none of my own strength so that was like the spiritual aspect of it that really kept me stable on a physical level y'all grocery shopping like I could not do this if I was not grocery shopping I live in a home with meat-eaters like everybody in my house its meat dairy like that's the type of food that they buy on our eggs like regularly and so obviously if I'm doing this fast I have to get my own food so I stopped at grocery shopping on it again that took a lot of discipline cuz it means now okay I have to budget my money and make sure because before I could just buy food or the food or a KFC my friends they know me just eat once because you know I have no kind of but now it's like jeez I know the thing wasn't me oh crap this is a food fast not every type of fasting involves food but this in particular is a food fast so preparation for that is important and I am a priest on and everybody's a friend I don't like to cook like I can cook and I do cook but I don't like to cook I said before the fact I was really cooking regularly like my sister did although I cook in the house but because of this because I have to make my own meals now I have to get together and because of that I don't want to be cooking every day I don't even wanna be gonna get every other day so I would usually like cooker and send me and then obviously house food for Sunday have food for Monday and then have food for Tuesday and then Wednesday I'll cook again so I'll have food for Wednesday Thursday and Friday and then either Saturday or Sunday I'll cook again or you know so that was like my routine to just make food for like three days at a time because it really helped me not have to depend on cooking regularly especially if I was at home that was another thing I had to plan ahead organization scares my discipline all these things like heightened drastically because I had to otherwise I would have failed so you know any time I have to go out or I wasn't home for like the entire day I knew okay I have to prepare my my lunch for that day the night before or like the morning of pack all of my food with me carry it with me seriously even on church at the carry food to church with me because my church serves food almost every single Sabbath but my church usually serves like starchy foods white rice just things I know like I can't eat even though I took my church is vegetarian like I still gonna eat a lot of because we Falcone allows you to have like brown rice if you're having pasta it has to be holy past that kind of thing and you can't have any bread etc so I just had to make my own meals and carrots to judge me another thing I did so much research when it came down to recipes if you know about red onions if you are in an iron you know the type of foods that we make half of those who is I cannot have 90 percent maybe 99 but I just got it like it's rice and flour and sugars and meat like that's the type of things that we make so obviously I can't really depend on to too many Trinidadian recipes it's so hard to get creative and find things that I enjoy because I also I like food so I'm not gonna like checked myself to blonde food I'm gonna need it to be flavorful so that was great and like it really taught me creates empathy in the kitchen because I just honestly like I said I don't like to cook so I'm just gonna make me like basic stuff like if I have to so yeah those are the more like food based things that help me on tips that I will give you a in terms of the things that I consumes like content transmission Church thankfully because they were doing it as well there's two months I was tuning in their statements weren't necessarily based on fasting but the theme that they have for this year is stronger and when I tell you it is so fitting for my life right now I'm just everything I need so I watched really like every single sermon every week and it just really helps me so I will link all of these sermons and just all of the like resources down below as well as I found this Instagram page that she makes like vegan meals and it's been a blessing so I'm encouraged to because yes I also found a Bible plan of 21-day fast bible plan and it's based on Iranian fast as well on it so yeah when I tell you it's so good it is so good like again gonna link it down below definitely check it out so the last thing I want to touch on is what God taught me throughout this time essentially my takeaway from Daniel fast so yeah and I guess that would be my hull so we touched on the what the why and now we're going into the hull so the first thing or one of the first things that I felt like God is teaching me so at that time I thought this time as well as dependence you know God showed me like I was really placing my dependence on the wrong things most time I was placing my dependence on myself which is why I was feeling so many times uh I kept falling falling back into old sin repeating cycles like just falling flat on my face you know he really told me like what it means to actually depend on him especially when I'm challenged to do something that I've never done before like that means I actually need him you know and I would just cry out into many times like lord I need your strength I kind of do this like fill me with you strength please I don't like strength is probably in my journal ten million times I okay another thing is comfort God told me that he is my comfort like I again food was in a way like an idol for me because when I'm sad or whatever I may be feeling I'm going to run to food of course we use food as a comfort a lot which is not good I don't think you know or like like ice cream a house in this I'm like ice cream is inherently wrong you know certain things like I have nothing don't have those things but I just think we have to examine like where do these things like fall in our heart like what are we are we using it to fill the place that God is supposed to have what he's supposed to be the one comforting us are we just like content with you know being cuddled up with a bowl of ice cream and watching Netflix like instead of going and pray and I'm you know really point a heart out to God and I think that has been my situation for a long time so come on tell me he's my comfort not food not social media not people you know he is the one that's meant to comfort me first and foremost another thing is sacrifice I can't tell you how many times you know my mind kept thinking about the cross throughout this time and it's curvy so romantic like the curls like obviously that wasn't my type of sacrifice it's just so fast it's just food but it reflected the theme of sacrifice and how a lot of times we have to do without so a greater good far greater purpose and it made me always like remember Christ's sacrifice for us and how grand that was and you know unmatched unjust you know I just really began to become a lot more grateful for that because a lot of times you know you care about the cross a lot and it could it just could become like this repetitive thing but for the first time I really just like sunk in like wow God really you know sacrifice his only son for us and to save us because He loves us and that was like a constant theme in my mind throughout this time another thing was to be about to steward God really showed me like I was not against you out of my finances of my time of the gifts that he has given me well you know which are my talents the platform that I have leadership whether it be in church or wherever and he really began to show me like you know I have to improve in these areas because at the end of the day God gives us these things to steward over which means it's not ours it doesn't belong to us but we have to be responsible for it and make sure that we're taking care of it and I have to do that and I'm a steward of my body as well because this is it's not really mine it's God you know he made me like another lesson I learned was to focus on adopting better patterns overall this Fox really revealed to me certain patterns in my life and it really asked me leave the main question of what are your passes deandre like what do you practice regularly other things good all those things but what kind of fruits are they buried in your life and it really made me like dig deep and introspect and I was like yeah I have some turtlebot it's like I don't even make my bed every morning this Fox made me made my bed every morning I started to see simple things I saw the last last thing that I want to touch on is you know God who's the old semi during this time what it really means to renew my mind and I urge you guys to read Romans 12 verse 2 I've been reading a verse for a long time and it had never really stuck what it means because I always thought of renewing my mind that's okay well go and renew my mind like do it like just chance for bit like just hop like hurry up but it went back to what I spent in the beginning about the mind and the spirit and the body all being connected when God wants her in your mind he's not just trying to do this magic like he snaps his fingers and we've just become different he is telling us practically how we can again create better patterns which then changes the way we think about things but we have to physically get involved in that process and that's a big part of what I was not doing before so you're my battery's blinking I'm trying to hurry about footages I'm like mark please help me but I just want to end off by saying did I receive vision throw this time absolutely um I ended up writing a ton of goals not a ton but I wrote down a good amount of goals that I felt like God was God really puts in my heart this like during this time and I'm just gonna continue praying and I don't think that God wants to reveal everything to me right now because then I'm not gonna want to depend on him anymore like I already have all the answers I gotta just go live my life but no that's not the point so I do believe as the year progresses God will continue to speak to me and reveal so much to me and I just trust in that I thank you guys for watching let me know if you guys want more about this fuss and yeah I'm really sure subscribe leave a comment down below give this video a thumbs up I love you guys so much I'll see you guys in my next one bye [Music]

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Published: Tue Feb 04 2020