What is the Fast of Daniel?

What is the Fast of Daniel?

I will explain what is the Fast of Daniel, how it works, why it matters, what good it'll do, who was Daniel , Why we call this fast " Fast of Daniel " and what you should do during the 21 days of fasting . So here we go.

Let's first understand what is the Fast of Daniel. Consider these questions:

How many TV channels you have access to? How many radio stations you have the possibility to hear? How many emails you receive in your inbox daily, weekly?

How many web pages are available for you to access on the internet? How many songs are on your phone or mp3 player? How many news sources you have access to?

How many advertisements do you see during a day? As soon as you get up in the morning you see the brand of your toothpaste, what is written on the box of cereal, even what is on the bus and on billboards, and finally, how many advertising messages bombard your mind daily? How many contacts do you have on your phone? People who link to you and send text messages? How many books in are bookstores and on newsstands magazines, newspapers?

I mean, we are living in a period when there has never been so much information as we have available now. This has its good side as well as the bad side. Why?  On the bad side, because all of that competes for two things that you have : First, your eyes, visual information competing for your attention visually, and secondly , your ears . All this is crying out for you to look and listen - listen – in order to enter into your head to occupy a little space in your head, in your mind. And you know that everything that enters in your mind has to occupy some place, all information that enters in your brain occupies a space.

The main idea of the Fast of Daniel is to take all that is unnecessary from your mind, all unnecessary things that entered into your eyes and ears so that you can create a space, an open space in your mind to hear the voice of God. Daniel is a man from the Bible. His story is that he was living in a foreign land, in Babylon. He was a man of faith, a man who believed in God, but he was surrounded by people who did not believe in his God; people who were pagans. But despite being in a world totally contrary to his faith, what did he do? He excluded himself from the practices and habits of the culture of the world around him. He took care of the food he ate, he took care of his health, he prayed three times a day (morning, afternoon and night) even when a law was passed where no one could pray to God unless for the god of that nation, Daniel ignoring that law, usually continued praying and seeking God morning, noon and night. He was excluded from the distractions of the world around him to be able to focus on his faith. Obviously, Daniel had a very good communion with God, which earned him many fruits, many good things, and not only the great deliverance from the lions, but he could represent his God in his own nation. So, like Daniel (Daniel fasted once for twenty-one days, hence the twenty-one days), we are taking twenty-one consecutive days to avoid distractions that keep us from growing spiritually. We are removing the visual pollution of this world so we can better hear the voice of God and concentrate better on the word of God.