I have friends who ever Jan do 40 day juice fasts.  I have not.  I would like to one day when the time is right, but my health doesn’t tolerate even a 1 day fast.  At this point.  Still healing.

In the meantime last year I decided to do a different kind of fast.  I spent 40 days repenting and forgiving.  I started with my birth.  Of course I don’t remember my birth, but I do know of some details around it that were life-altering.  I spoke out forgiveness for those things.

Each day I went through each year of my life and asked the Lord if there was anything in that time area that I need to repent from or needed to forgive.  It was surprising how many things came up, that I remembered.

After 40 days I did feel different, but not dramatically.  It was only as time went on that I really noticed I was lighter inside.  There was a definite change.  The fruit grew.

In retrospect after a year, I can see it was one of the most powerful fasts I ever did.  And worthy of doing again.