Prepare 2026Sample

Fasting & Hearing God

God is a communicator.

From the beginning of creation, God has always desired to be in relationship with us. He is always speaking. His Word promises that His sheep hear His voice (John 10:27). The more you spend time with God and attune your spiritual eyes and ears, the easier it will be to discern His voice. Today is the first step in deepening your relationship with Him. When you take one step toward God, He comes running toward you.

Fasting

Jesus didn't say "if you fast" or "maybe you should fast," instead, he used the language “when you fast." Fasting is a spiritual discipline and tool in our arsenal to position ourselves to hear God more clearly. Your spiritual senses are being heightened. You are denying your body its sustenance and instead allowing your spirit to be renewed and strengthened. If this is your first time fasting, that is amazing! You can do it! You are going to look back at the end of these three days and be blown away at how God spoke to you. If fasting were easy, everyone would do it. The results are worth the effort. God isn’t looking for religious performance; He’s looking at your heart to be closer to Him.

Calibration and Surrender

Choose now that over the next three days of Prepare, you will have open hands and an open heart so that God can do whatever it is He wants to do in you. Maybe you’re believing for someone else, or a situation to change in your life. Oftentimes, God starts with you. He wants to do something in your heart first. He wants to speak to you today. He wants your relationship with Him to become the most important thing in your life.

PRAY THIS OUT LOUD

God, I believe You want to speak to me this year. Help me position myself over the next three days to hear Your voice. As I fast, as I pray, as I worship, and as I prioritize You, I ask that I would hear Your voice. What do you want to do in me this year? What do You want to speak to me? What are You asking me to let go of? What area of my life are You putting your finger on? I open my heart to You now. Speak to me. AMEN.

PRACTICALS

• Commit to the three days of fasting.
• Start a prayer list for 2026. Write down the things you are believing God for.