21 Days of Prayer & Fasting Guide
Theme: I Surrender All
Day 1 – A Living Sacrifice
📖 Romans 12:1 – “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”
💭 Reflection Question: What area of my life (habits, thoughts, actions) do I need to present as a living sacrifice to the Lord?
Day 2 – Search Me, O God
📖 Psalm 139:23–24 – “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
💭 Reflection Question: Am I willing to let God expose and remove hidden things in my heart?
Day 3 – A Clean Heart
📖 Psalm 51:10 – “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
💭 Reflection Question: What unclean attitudes or desires do I need to surrender for God to give me a clean heart?
Day 4 – Undone Before God
📖 Isaiah 6:5 – “So I said: ‘Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.’”
💭 Reflection Question: How does seeing God’s holiness change the way I see my own life and words?
Day 5 – Deny Yourself
📖 Luke 9:23 – “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
💭 Reflection Question: What does denying myself look like in my daily routine?
Day 6 – Not My Will
📖 Luke 22:42 – “…nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”
💭 Reflection Question: Where in my life do I need to stop insisting on my will and submit to God’s will?
Day 7 – Humble Yourself
📖 James 4:10 – “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”
💭 Reflection Question: In what ways do pride or self-reliance keep me from full surrender?
Day 8 – Cast Your Cares
📖 1 Peter 5:7 – “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
💭 Reflection Question: What burdens or worries am I still carrying that I need to release to God?
Day 9 – Lay Aside Every Weight
📖 Hebrews 12:1 – “…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”
💭 Reflection Question: What weights (distractions, habits, relationships) do I need to surrender so I can run freely with Christ?
Day 10 – Trust in the Lord
📖 Proverbs 3:5–6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
💭 Reflection Question: Where am I still leaning on my own understanding instead of trusting God fully?
Day 11 – Surrender Your Mind
📖 Romans 12:2 – “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…”
💭 Reflection Question: What worldly patterns or thoughts do I need to surrender for my mind to be renewed?
Day 12 – Guard Your Heart
📖 Proverbs 4:23 – “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
💭 Reflection Question: What influences do I need to remove from my life to keep my heart pure before God?
Day 13 – Surrender Your Tongue
📖 Ephesians 4:29 – “Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.”
💭 Reflection Question: How can I surrender my words so they bring life instead of harm?
Day 14 – Be Still
📖 Psalm 46:10 – “Be still, and know that I am God…”
💭 Reflection Question: What areas of my life do I need to quiet so I can fully recognize God’s presence?
Day 15 – Forgive Others
📖 Matthew 6:14 – “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”
💭 Reflection Question: Who do I need to surrender my bitterness toward and forgive?
Day 16 – Surrender Your Plans
📖 Jeremiah 29:11 – “‘For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,’ says the Lord, ‘thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.’”
💭 Reflection Question: Am I willing to lay down my plans and trust God’s plan for my future?
Day 17 – Walk in the Spirit
📖 Galatians 5:16 – “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
💭 Reflection Question: What fleshly desires do I need to surrender in order to walk fully in the Spirit?
Day 18 – Surrender Your Possessions
📖 Matthew 6:19–21 – “…lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven… For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
💭 Reflection Question: What material things or comforts have I been holding onto more tightly than God?
Day 19 – Take Every Thought Captive
📖 2 Corinthians 10:5 – “…bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
💭 Reflection Question: Which negative or unholy thoughts do I need to surrender daily to Christ?
Day 20 – Surrender Your Fears
📖 2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
💭 Reflection Question: What fears do I need to surrender and replace with God’s power, love, and sound mind?
Day 21 – Complete Surrender
📖 Philippians 3:7–8 – “But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss… that I may gain Christ.”
💭 Reflection Question: After these 21 days, what am I fully surrendering so that Christ may be all in all in my life?
