Section I: HumbleHungry For GodI’m glad you picked this reading plan on fasting like Daniel. Honestly, I’m no fasting expert. I don’t even like to fast! But the Daniel Fast has been a revolutionary part of my life for over 10 years and has helped draw me closer to God and experience incredible breakthroughs.You may have never fasted before. That’s OK. I hadn’t really connected with fasting either,...  Read More

Fatherhood Is A Legacy and BlessingBy Danny SaavedraFather, Your Word tells us that if we train up our children in Your ways, diligent to raise them to walk with You, teach them to live according to Your Word, “meditate on it day and night, so you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful” (Joshua 1:8 NIV) and “even when [they are] old [they] will no...  Read More

Fatherhood Is PriesthoodBy Danny SaavedraHeavenly Father, I thank You for the High Priest we have in Your Son Jesus. Thank You we have a High Priest who “understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin” (Hebrews 4:15 NLT) and intercedes for us (Hebrews 7:25). Lord, I pray for dads in the faith, my brothers in Christ, that they would remember their role a...  Read More

Acts 6:3-7Therefore, brethren, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task.  But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.  The statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parm...  Read More

Fatherhood Is AuthorityBy Danny SaavedraHeavenly Father, I thank You and praise You, to whom all authority in heaven and on earth belong. You are supreme in everything, and all authority any of us have on earth is given by You to accomplish Your good and perfect purposes. This includes the authority You have bestowed upon each and every father. Today, dear Father, I pray and ask that You touch the...  Read More

Fatherhood Is ProvisionBy Jimmy PurchaseLord, thank You. I see Your hand in every area of my life. I see the mountains You've moved, the ways You've provided, and the peace You've given me in my most anxious seasons. Looking at Your providential care, I'm reminded You hold all things together. I'm free to release all my cares into Your hands because of who You are and what You've done on my behalf...  Read More

Fatherhood Is EncouragementBy Pastor Dan HicklingDear God, You are our heavenly Father who delights in encouraging Your children. You are constantly working in our lives to edify and build us up, never to discourage, disparage, or demoralize us. It’s never Your will to snuff out the smoldering wick or break the bruised reed, but to mend and strengthen them. You know where we’re weak and faltering ...  Read More

Fatherhood Is ProtectionBy Pastor Tony DavisFather, I come before you today humbled and in awe of Your grace and mercy. Lord, I thank You for how You have designed what a family is supposed to look like and the specific role You have ordained for fathers. Within this role, You have called us to be protectors. I pray You would give dads the strength, perseverance, and discipline to protect their ch...  Read More

We use the phrase “thorn in the flesh” to describe a persistent problem we can’t seem to solve. But the wording originates in the New Testament writings of Paul, who wrote about a thorn in his flesh and how he prayed three times for it to be removed.Surprisingly, God didn’t remove it.As a missionary, Paul devoted his life to serving God and experienced extreme suffering. Surely God would grant him...  Read More

1 John 5:18-21We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.  We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.  And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is th...  Read More

I hate spiders—let’s be honest, none of us really like them.But when I think of the metaphor of my life leaning on a spider’s web, it is a picture of having confidence in the wrong things. No spider builds its web to last forever.They are not engineered to bear structural loads.They are temporary.At any point, a web could give.They were never designed to be a support structure.The picture is a war...  Read More

The question is this: Where do we turn when there is nowhere else to go?When we are down and out, messed up, fearful, and stressed, to whom do we look?When bankruptcy brings us to our knees, when the death of a loved one takes our joy away, or when our errors in judgment shipwreck our lives, how do we dig ourselves out of the difficulties we find ourselves in?An eternal view is what puts our earth...  Read More