The 40 Day Soul Fast. Your Journey to Authentic Living
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Contents Quick Start Guide: Joining the Movement Preface: For Freedom! Section I: Journeying Toward Authenticity Chapter One: A Series of Unfortunate Events? Chapter Two: Twenty-one Grams Chapter Three: Soul-Person Chapter Four: Learning to Live Authentically Chapter Five: The Journey Section II: The 40 Day Soul Fast Week One: The Power of Forty:Enlarging Your Capacity Day One: Transforming Characteristic 1: Awareness Day Two: Cleansing Characteristic 2: Godliness Day Three: Aligning Characteristic 3: Truth Day Four: Preparing Characteristic 4: Commitment Day Five: Loosing Characteristic 5: Patience Week Two: The Purpose of a Soul Fast: The Self-Leadership Challenge Day Six: Connecting Characteristic 6: Capacity Day Seven: Healing Characteristic 7: Wholeness Day Eight: Empowering Characteristic 8: Balance Day Nine: Directing Characteristic 9: Peace Day Ten: Seeing Characteristic 10: Goodness Week Three: The Nature of the Soul: The Essence of You Day Eleven: Becoming Characteristic 11: Discipline Day Twelve: Restoring Characteristic 12: Simplicity Day Thirteen: Resting Characteristic 13: Uniqueness Day Fourteen: Imaging Characteristic 14: Passion Day Fifteen: Sensing Characteristic 15: Joy Week Four: The Properties of Thought: You Are What You Think Day Sixteen: Believing Characteristic 16: Beauty Day Seventeen: Receiving Characteristic 17: Effortlessness Day Eighteen: Focusing Characteristic 18: Authenticity Day Nineteen: Envisioning Characteristic 19: Focus Day Twenty: Conquering Characteristic 20: Order Week Five: The Importance of Identity: Becoming a Master by Mastering Your Mind Day Twenty-one: Embracing Characteristic 21: Faith Day Twenty-two: Agreeing Characteristic 22: Gratitude Day Twenty-three: Capitalizing Characteristic 23: Destiny Day Twenty-four: Belonging Characteristic 24: Identity Day Twenty-five: Becoming Characteristic 25: Purpose Week Six: The Power of Words: Healing the Hole in Your Soul Day Twenty-six: Eating Characteristic 26: Integrity Day Twenty-seven: Legislating Characteristic 27: Responsibility Day Twenty-eight: Asking Characteristic 28: Potential Day Twenty-nine: Sowing Characteristic 29: Impeccability Day Thirty: Blessing Characteristic 30: Compassion Week Seven: The Power of Doing: God’s Chosen Fast Day Thirty-one: Helping Characteristic 31: Respect Day Thirty-two: Partnering Characteristic 32: Loyalty Day Thirty-three: Continuing Characteristic 33: Credibility Day Thirty-four: Prioritizing Characteristic 34: Temperance Day Thirty-five: Willing Characteristic 35: Morality Week Eight: Sealing the Healing: The Cleansing Power of Love Day Thirty-six: Dancing Characteristic 36: Justice Day Thirty-seven: Accepting Characteristic 37: Tolerance Day Thirty-eight: Standing Characteristic 38: Ethics Day Thirty-nine: Uniting Characteristic 39: Interdependence Day Forty: Telling Characteristic 40: Community Appendix A: Empowering You for Life! Appendix B: More Empowerment Initiatives from Dr. Cindy Trimm DESTINY IMAGE BOOKS BY DR. CINDY TRIMM Heal Your Soul, Heal Your World Reclaim Your Soul Reclaim Your Health © Copyright 2011– Dr. Cindy Trimm All rights reserved. This book is protected by the copyright laws of the United States of America. This book may not be copied or reprinted for commercial gain or profit. The use of short quotations or occasional page copying for personal or group study is permitted and encouraged. Permission will be granted upon request. Unless otherwise identified, Scripture quotations are taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2010 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. 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ISBN 13 TP: 978-0-7684-4026-3 ISBN 13 Ebook: 978-0-7684-8872-2 For Worldwide Distribution, Printed in the U.S.A. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 / 15 14 13 12 11 The most desperate need of men today is not a new vaccine for any disease, or a new religion, or a new “way of life.” Man does not need to go to the moon or other solar systems. He does not require bigger and better bombs and missiles…His real need, his most terrible need, is for someone to listen to him, not as a “patient,” but as a human soul. —TAYLOR CALDWELL Quick Start Guide Joining the Movement Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. —Wayne Dyer Capacity building by learning to live authentically is what The 40 Day Soul Fast is all about. Capacity building, in a way, is also about community building. It’s about growing into “the fullness of God” as a community (see Eph. 3 and 4). Don’t journey alone! There is power in community. There is strength in numbers. I challenge you to bring at least four friends along with you on this soul-healing adventure If everyone who picks up this book takes it upon him or herself to encourage four other people to participate, we would create an unstoppable movement! You may think that one healed soul cannot heal the world, but it can. If you would like to bring healing to your community, nation, or hemisphere —or if you would like to see positive change even closer—in your home, your family, church, or organization, please consider doing the following: 1. Give your pastor, group facilitator, or community leader a copy of the book. 2. Identify and promote the long-term benefits of soul healing. 3. Get The 40 Day Soul Fast program on the agenda and calendar! 4. Start a signup sheet. Pass around a clipboard asking interested individuals to sign up. 5. Start your own small group that meets weekly for the next eight weeks. 6. Find all the tools you need to become a soul fast leader online at www.soulfast.com. 7. Order books in larger quantities at a discount. 8. Buy two extra copies and share with two of your closest colleagues, family members, or friends. For more information about how to facilitate a 40 Day Soul Fast in any setting, please visit www.soulfast.com. Every one of us can make a difference. Together, we can heal the world. I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. —Steven Covey Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6 NIV) Preface For Freedom! To deprive a man of his natural liberty…is starvation of the soul. — Mohandas Gandhi I am so glad you have chosen to join me on this 40-day journey to greater mental, emotional, and spiritual health! If you are looking to transform your life, you are in the right place! Over the next eight weeks, I will teach you the foundational principles of spiritual and personal empowerment—no matter what your background or experience, you will learn and grow and be empowered like never before to maximize your personal potential and break through to greater success. My heart’s cry is to liberate the souls of humanity so people everywhere would be empowered to grow into their most authentic, God-created, divine selves. Of course, it is only through a personal relationship with your Creator that you can truly be set free.