Join Grace International Church for 21 Days of Purpose, Power & Prayer THE DANIEL FAST unthinkchurch.org What are you willing to do to show The fast we pray will change our God how serious lives, community, and our nation. you are about Him? ARE YOU READY FOR 21 DAYS OF PURPOSE, POWER, AND PRAYER? TAP INTO THE POWER OF FASTING Fasting has been a regular discipline of believers for many ages. The truth is that it has been unharnessed in the Christian faith. We’re planning on changing that. New Power to come...are you ready? Continued on Page 2 A WHOLE BODY EXPERIENCE The Daniel Fast brings health to every part of you! You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. And the Daniel Fast is an excellent tool to bring increase and goodness to all of who you are! Continued on Page 3 Grace International Church WHAT EXACTLY IS THE DANIEL FAST? Preparing for the The concept of a Daniel Fast comes from most amazing year Daniel 1:8-14... of our lives. A fast Continued on Page 5 for the mind, body, and soul. Grace International Church, 851 Hollins St., Baltimore, MD 21201 | 410-921-0181 | www.unthinkchurch.org TAP INTO THE POWER OF FASTING! PAGE2 Break Chains in Your Life OUR PATH TO A SUPERNATURAL 2011 God is waiting to reward our diligence The {lost} discipline of fasting. (Heb 11:6), and is faithful to reward us There are supernatural elements and through diligence. Not only does He blessings that come only through fasting, as reward, but He is faithful to provide us with Some of us have Jesus said to his disciples in Matthew 17:21 the strength we need to reach the goal set been dealing with “these things only happen through prayer before us. It’s almost cheating! We are issues and and fasting.” We believe God for rewarded for our faithfulness toward the strongholds that supernatural blessings this year in seven goal, yet God provides us with the have been in our areas: Salvation of our Loved Ones, Grace’s supernatural strength to reach the goal? lives for years, if not Church Growth, Radical Outreach, Amazing! Purpose in your heart that you’ll decades. None of Personal Spiritual Growth, Health, Debt- march with God and dig your feet in for the Freedom, and Clarity & Wisdom in our call time of your life. those issues and to living out God’s plan for our lives. strongholds can HEAR FROM THE LORD stand against the HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST HELL We would also be able to hear from God power of a pure We’ve all heard of hunger strikes. They get over most of our repetitive prayers. “Is not our attention not because we wait to see a this the fast that I Choose: to loose the heart and fast before person succumb to their cravings, but bonds of wickedness, to undo the things of God. because we are fascinated by a person’s the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to audacity to think they can overpower the break every yoke? Is it not to share you desires of their flesh. It’s an amazing thing bread with the hungry, and bring the when someone places their body under homeless poor into your house...Then shall subjection for a greater cause. Likewise, you call, and the Lord will answer; you shall how much more do you believe you’ll get cry, and he will say, here I am,” (Isaiah God’s attention by placing the very flesh, 58:6-7, 9) which is often an enmity between you and Let’s {see} God in a new way in 2012. God, under subjection? Grace International Church, 851 Hollins St., Baltimore, MD 21201 | 410-921-0181 | www.unthinkchurch.org THE DANIEL FAST! PAGE3 The Daniel Fast - A Whole Body Experience © 2007 Susan Gregory The Daniel Fast brings health to every accepted the truth of Christ into your your spirit. What controls your spirit? part of you! You are a spirit, you have a life. The body is easy to understand. God and His Word! soul, and you live in a body. And the You can see it! It is the physical place Finally, the body. It will do some Daniel Fast is an excellent tool to bring where our spirit and soul live. kicking and screaming, at first. The increase and goodness to all of who The Daniel Fast is experienced by body will want the usual amount of you are! all three parts of us and brings health food . and when it doesn't get it, it There is a lot of confusion about to those parts. As a spiritual exercise, will send out hunger pangs to the brain the makeup of our beings. Yet once we turn our attention to spiritual (the soul receives those messages). understood, one is amazed at the truths. In doing so, our spirits become When your body doesn't get the clarity in the Scriptures and the ease it stronger. In Matthew 4:3-4 we read caffeine it has come so used to, it might brings to living! Your spirit is the inner- about Jesus being tempted by Satan, send out an alert by way of a most part of you. It is the God- "The tempter came to him and said, "If headache! But soon, the body too will centered essence where Christ abides. you are the Son of God, tell these come into line and benefit from the Jesus addressed the two parts of us stones to become bread." Jesus goodness of the foods in the Daniel in John 3:5-7, Jesus answered, "I tell answered, "It is written: 'Man does not Fast. In fact, you might even get some you the truth, no one can enter the live on bread alone, but on every word rebellion from our body after the fast kingdom of God unless he is born of that comes from the mouth of God.'" when you introduce foods that it's kind water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth Our spirits are fed from the Word of of liked doing without! to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to God. So during the Daniel Fast, many During the Fast your body will spirit. You should not be surprised at will give extra food to their spirits by begin working more efficiently as it my saying, 'You must be born again.'" increasing the time and attention they receives foods more easily digested, lots Your mother didn't give birth to your give to God's Word. of refreshing water, and no artificial spirit and your father didn't provide the Meanwhile, it is the soul that will chemicals! sperm (seed) for your spirit. bring up the fight during the Fast. You So the Daniel Fast is a whole- Only God can give birth to your will experience this fight when you have body-experience! It brings health and spirit. The soul (also called the flesh) is to make a choice to push through the strength to the spirit, it brings health the non-material part of you that was hunger pangs and the cravings. Or and control to the soul, and it brings born from your mother and of the seed when you want to have "just one little health and good foods to the body! from your father. Your soul is the seat bite of that bread," even though it's Your willingness to participate in of our conscience, emotions, intellect against the fasting guidelines . after- this fast is a sure sign that you are and will. Your soul cannot perceive all, no one is looking! expecting God to do some never-before truths from the Spirit of God. Your The choice to push through and seen miracles in your life and you are soul can be transformed to the degree "quiet the soul" is your spirit taking willing to move in God’s direction, that you renew your mind, change your precedence over your soul -- or another against the wishes of your physical attitudes, and conform to the Word of way of saying it is "living a spirit-led nature, to see those accomplished. God God. life." One of the primary benefits of is a rewarder, and you will not only see This should happen, and it’s in the the Fast is that your soul gets "put in its the physical benefits, but the spiritual process of happening, but it didn’t place," which is under the control of benefits as well! Happy Fasting! happen automatically when you Grace International Church, 851 Hollins St., Baltimore, MD 21201 | 410-921-0181 | www.unthinkchurch.org THE DANIEL FAST ! PAGE4 What exactly is the “Daniel Fast”? The concept of a Daniel Fast comes from complete agreement with the Mosaic Law. Daniel 1:8-14, “But Daniel resolved not to defile As a result, Daniel asked if he and his three himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked friends could be excused from eating the the chief official for permission not to defile himself meat (which was likely sacrificed to this way. Now God had caused the official to show Babylonian false gods and idols). They also favor and sympathy to Daniel, but the official told had made a commitment to not take of Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord the king, who has wine, so Daniel asked that they only have assigned your food and drink. Why should he see water to drink.