 21 day of a fast has come to an end. Now the most important question that many people have been asking and not only many people have been asking but I think you should be prepared for and that is how do you end a prolonged fast? How do you come out in a way that you don't hurt yourself? Now big disclaimer first and foremost I am not a doctor I am not a nutritionist and therefore some of the things that I want to share with you are just part of some common sense wisdom when it comes to specifically things that relate to your situation I would really encourage you that you research and as well as you consult your doctor but for right now I want to share with you just 10 very basic things that I would like to leave you with as we're exiting or preparing to leave the fast okay number one is you have to keep in mind that the stomach has been slowly shrinking that means that your stomach's capacity for food is not like it was in the beginning which means the smallest amounts of food not only can make you feel full but they can also irritate your stomach so you have to understand that your stomach now is not the same size that it was when you started the fast it shrunk okay so you don't want to overwhelm your stomach by beginning to eat of course normal meals the second thing that I want you to remember about this as you're planning to come out of the fast is the organs in the body that are usually involved with assimilating the food have taken a rest you could think of as this is that these organs especially the digestive system has gone into a sleep and that has become deeper asleep as you went further into a fast so not only your stomach has shrunk but also these organs have went to sleep a lot of them a lot of processes things that process the food really dialed down in your stomach and so the body now needs time to produce enzymes that are capable of breaking down food and the ramp up bile production and have enough acid to break those foods down so if you're going to just go right away into a fat into eating okay not only your stomach is not as the size because it really started to shrink I mean you probably see it even in your belly but also all these things in your stomach the digestive system that have used to process food okay they a lot of them dialed down okay so they need to be slowly wakened up they need to be slowly wakened up not instantly they cannot wake up instantly that's where there's gonna be a lot of problems with that the third thing I want you to keep in mind eating too much food right away will result in bloating nausea stomach pain diarrhea and could result in irreversible damage to your digestive system if you go into overloading your digestive system by eating a lot of food or eating normal food what's going to happen is that not only you can overwhelm your digestive system there has been cases of people who have went on a 40-day usually it's the 40-day fast who have went and right after the fast to a junk food place or like ate a you know burger from like McDonald's or something and they not only end up in the emergency but they actually died so these are not made up stories these are real stories of people who died and some of them were pastors or I heard a person who went and ate a chicken afterwards and they died so this this is not to be played around this is not something very light it's as important as serious and demands your full self-control and discipline and patience as fasting okay it's easy right now to be thinking about food and it's easy right now to be thinking about all the food I miss I'm gonna go and catch up and that will lend you in some really bad waters now number four physical hunger right now is not as high as mental hunger what is higher is not your physical hunger about this time right now you probably don't feel physically hungry but you're mentally psychologically you are hungry meaning you're missing the food the cravings probably are still there it's important to not eat because you missed eating but to eat because you're hungry and in this case by now you are not probably very hungry at all and so what you could be eating with is with your brain instead of with your stomach and so your brain will want more than your stomach will allow for and it's very important to understand that you're actually for most of us who are fasting and you're watching this on a 21 day of fasting you're probably not as hungry as you think you are because a lot of these appetites have died down stomach has kind of shrunk you are not craving the food physically but mentally you begin to think all the foods you missed and so the temptation will be to let your stomach run at the pace of your brain and there will be damage if you do that because your stomach is not as hungry as your brain is and so your brain wants to think that you're hungry you're not that hungry so just relax and slow down okay number five now we're gonna get to something more practical the longer your fast was the longer it takes to come out of it I am dealing right now with people who did the fast without food now if you are fasting with food the next things will not necessarily apply to you because you can gradually come out of that if you were eating one meal you can add one more meal to your diet and you will be okay but people who have completely stopped eating for 21 days please listen very carefully this applies to you and it applies to me the longer your fast was the longer it should take to come out of it it's recommended that if you are 21 day without food that it should take you at least at least three days to come out of it if you were 40 days on without food it should take you seven days to come out of it now there are people who fast a lot and they recommend taking even longer like seven or two weeks if you fasted for 21 days personally I've never taken two weeks don't ever take my example for that but just personally speaking but it is recommended to take at least three to four days so that all the enzymes and then acids all of the stuff starts functioning starts waking up it's kind of like this imagine that you know you come to the house and your air conditioner or your heater has been off all the lights are off the fireplace is off and then you're turning everything on you can't expect the house to be warm right away you turn on the heater it starts warming things up then you turn on the lights and you turn on this and you turn on that things start to kind of warm up and that's exactly what's happening to your stomach everything has been off if you've been drinking water or tea or some other things then your stomach is still pretty asleep a lot of these processing things in your stomach are asleep and so you want to be slowly turning them on and then they will start warming things up things start warming up and then after about three days you can start introducing some heavier foods now number six and this is the basic rule for coming out of a prolonged fast a very simple and basic rule and it's not that we don't know that it's that it's hard to do it all right you should never break the fast a prolonged fast by eating a normal meal very simple very basic very hard to do you should never come out of a prolonged fast with a normal meal bread sugar dairy processed foods eggs nuts meats these are not easy to digest it takes your stomach more acid and enzymes to break those foods and the stomach is not awake yet is sleeping so throwing all of that in will not only overwhelm your digestive system but what it will create is it could create it could damage your digestive system and you don't want to do that so number seven you want to wake up your digestive system with something like bone broth or water cooked from ice rice so if you you can coat your colon you know by drinking water that you cooked rice with and or bone broth and so that helps to kind of slowly begin to wake that up and then next few hours you know you want to do some maybe steamed vegetables or bone broth again or cooked tomato again in smaller portions and then maybe you know four hours later do something like that you want to kind of do that for a few days so my eighth practical advice is that for the next few hours after you drink bone broth you know three four hours later you want to just eat a little bit of cooked tomato maybe steamed vegetables or bone broth again you can add tofu to broths which help to add substance but it's less than tomato and rice now you don't want to eat all of that together okay so this is not like bone broth steamed vegetables and you know you cook a tomato and all of this stuff together it just you want to space that out you know every few hours every three four hours or something so you want to kind of slowly start introducing again very soft foods and preferably cooked you know vegetables to your digestive system give it enough time to produce those enzymes enzymes you want to give it enough time to produce on those acids you want to give it enough time to start breaking them down waking stuff the stomach begins to wake up and so you don't want to drink soda you don't want to eat sweets you don't want to eat meat and you don't want to eat anything that's dairy like yogurt or milk or processed foods or eggs or nuts or meats or or salmon or anything of that stuff so you want to kind of avoid that for at least you know three to four for three days kind of give give your stomach a break let it slowly begin to wake up that's why as much as of a celebration it is that the fastest coming to an end unfortunately you really have to still add about three more days for you to begin to come out rightly now you can come out right away and do what you want and go stuff yourself but the Lord will not be responsible for you sitting on a toilet and cry for his mercy because he will say I told you so Vlad told you and you did not listen so number nine you want to avoid sugars and carbs because it will make you hungry so let's say that on a day two you already like you know you feel like hey I feel really good I am already you know I could start adding you know a little bit of bread and other stuff or even in the day three the moment you start adding carbs and the moment you start adding sugar you know sugar right the way makes you more hungry and you know carbs as well and so that therefore you want to avoid that honestly want to postpone that as far as you can for some of you some of us this will be a big breakthrough actually freedom from sugar this year freedom not that you don't have any sugar because a lot of foods have sugar but not adding extra stuff and honestly this is probably me too because I need to have more more freedom from sugar in my life so I I claim that for myself and then number ten is that after a few days you can start adding more solid foods like boiled eggs and etc so let's repeat this number one your stomach has been shrinking so you must understand that you cannot overwhelm it by adding normal food in introducing it number two is that organs in your body that usually are involved with breaking down the foods like enzymes and bile up bile and acids you know they need to also you need to give them time to start kind of warming up and start working again a lot of them have really dialed down number three is that eating too much food or overwhelming your digestive system will result in pain and could result in you actually hurting yourself and even potentially dying the fourth one we mentioned is that you have to understand you probably are not as hungry as your brains as you're hungry so don't let your stomach take cues right now from your brain and so just make those decisions for your stomach by not saying oh I missed all these foods so let me go right now try this and try that try that and so you want to not allow your mental emotional dictate your physical decision number five is the longer you fast the longer it takes to come out of it so for 21 days it takes at least three days 40 days it like takes at least seven days number six you should never break the fast with a normal meal number seven is you can wake up your digestive system slowly with the bone broth or water cooked from rice number eight for next few days you know every three four hours you want to eat small portions of cooked tomatoes steamed vegetables or bone broth and number nine you want to avoid sugar and carbs at least probably for these three to five or maybe even seven days and so you want to kind of give your system a break from that as well as for some of us it will be a good thing to actually permanently create restrictions for sugar and carbs and number ten after a few days three days for some people it's four days for some people be five days some people it's gonna be two days depending on you your organ your body and your digestive system you can start adding slowly solid foods like boiled eggs and other steamed vegetables so these are just few of practical recommendations concerning how to come out of a fast I also see my wife is answering some questions in the chat thank you Lana for doing that and finally I want to leave you with five decisions I want you to consider making this year five healthy habits I'm gonna call healthy habits are holy habits and so five of them that I want to leave you with number one habit that I want you to think about making this year is this make a decision to fast three days monthly during this year so make a decision to fast this year three days monthly so there are spiritual benefits of fasting so there we discuss that but I just want to mention something about as small as three days of fasting what it does is that you have in your body this thing called autophagy autophagy is when your body has the ability to eat itself now at first it sounds scary but autophagy is when the body uses itself as a fuel to clean up all the junk what happens when you begin to go into a three-day fast is your body instead of consuming the food that you give it begins to go and starts doing deep cleaning with cellular garbage garbage bacteria viruses food particles damaged proteins and even developing cancer cells it begins to eat them up it begins to destroy them and each cell in your body has a healing power and autophagy activates those cells to start healing themselves your body when God created our body you have to understand in the earlier days people didn't eat three meals a day they had to go prepare food kill something prepare it and sometimes people went hungry for some time a week maybe a few days and this starvation that they would experience during this starvation got implemented a system that while you are going without food your body experiences autophagy so it starts going and repairing itself and getting rid of all its toxins so I want to encourage you not only for spiritual reasons but also for health reasons that you make a decision if you are able this year to fast three days a month not as a rule but as a principle not only you can put God first through that three days is pretty manageable for most of us so we will practice that on March and so we will announce that a little bit earlier we will let you know that in the group on Facebook we will let you know to those people who have signed up on pastavlad.org forward slash challenge and so and this will really be a great blessing to your spiritual life to your physical life and I believe also to rekindle certain things in your walk with Christ that's a first decision I want you to make right now the second decision is this I want you to consider for those of you who came out of a fast or coming out of a fast and I want you to consider practicing intermittent fasting I know I mentioned to some of you that to live a fasted life one of the ways to live a fasted life is to practice intermittent fasting and intermittent fasting I am again neither not a dietician or nor am I a doctor but I've seen personally in my life where this started to happen when I started to cut out breakfast from my diet few reasons one of them is during my breakfast time that's when I usually spend my time with the Lord secondly I started to recognize the job I have now this might not apply to every person's case the job that I have doesn't require a lot of physical activity eating three times a week three times a day is way too much and so when I cut off breakfast and I would have my first meal at 12 and just have a little coffee in the morning and eat two meals a day instead of three not only it helped me to fast more every day but it also helped me to focus more during those morning times instead of trying to find food I spend more time in God's word and so there are people in the chat and you are watching or rewatching this and that's something you should consider as both spiritual practice and as a health practice it will help you to draw maybe more nearer to the Lord you'll have more time to spend with him and it will help you also not to overstuff yourself and your body with fuel when you're not actually using most of it number three that's something that I would like to encourage you as well and that is to eliminate junk food soda alcohol and limit sugar for those of you who have a practice of drinking alcohol I want to challenge you this year to eliminate alcohol from your diet your body organs will thank you later for that and if your view on Christians and drinking alcohol is you know kind of like it's okay to drink for the sake of your health but also for the sake of you walking closer with the Holy Spirit you should put alcohol on the back burner I'm not saying you're gonna go to hell if you have a bottle of wine in your house or you drink wine but I do believe that there are better health benefits and also focuses more us on being self-controlled when you don't consume alcohol with alcohol another bad thing and that is soda and junk food a person came to me a week ago and said I want God to break free break me free from gluttony and I said okay he said could you pray for me I said I will be more than happy I just ask you a few questions how often do you eat in fast food restaurants he said every day I said how often do you drink you know soda coke or Pepsi or all of them he's like every day I said are you willing to give that up he says oh I'm not sure and I said I don't think I can pray for you I said what how can I pray for you if you're you're gonna go back and do that and so I don't believe that you can break free from certain you know bad habits if you constantly feed your temple with junk the Bible says if we defile God's temple we destroy God's temple God is not pleased and so if you intentionally put into your body you know like a large coke you know Big Macs and you know french fries and all of the stuff and I understand they're cheap and they're convenient but this year God doesn't want you to be cheap and convenient he wants you to be holy he wants you to be happy he wants you to be healthy and he wants you to be honoring him and he wants you to take care of your body and so make the decision you know restrict your sugar limit your junk food or remove them completely or eliminate completely the alcohol from your diet so that you can focus more on Christ and so you can honor him with your body for someone you could think why is he talking about our physical health you know I'm here to just learn about fasting please understand if we fast but we don't live right after the fasting in the area of our health it's not honoring to the Lord your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit Jesus heals our body he created our body he will judge us based on what we do in our body he will resurrect our body and the Lord his spirit lives in there so therefore you must consider this year to be a year where you honor the Lord by taking your taking care of your body better than you did last year and why am I speaking about this at the end of the fast because this is the best time to make the decision fasting will not help you to lose weight but it could trigger healthy habits that could result in you feeling better this year walking closer with the Lord experiencing more freedom and experiencing the fruit of self-control because all of that really deals with self-control you know what we eat is who we become a lot of us we eat ourselves into sickness sicknesses we could have avoided energy we could have had strength we could have had mental clarity we could have had if we could only change what we put into our body and it grieves the Holy Spirit it does not honor the Lord when we don't take care of our body and this is a good moment to do that when you are coming out of the fast to right away mentally say you know what I want to change how I live I want to change how I eat I want to change how much I eat I want to change what I drink I want to change what I don't drink so I want to make those decisions may this be an encouragement and that confirmation you were looking for it you fast every month that you practice intermittent fasting at least five times during the week and then you cut off alcohol junk food soda and restrict or limit sugar number four make your devotional life your breakfast number four make your devotional life your breakfast may your breakfast be your time with Jesus may your devotional life whether you can eat breakfast or not but may your devotional life be the number one priority this year may this be a habit 15 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes whatever that is but consistent Monday through Friday or Monday through Saturday where you prioritize your time with God and number five something we already alluded to and that is fill your free time with listening number four oh there is two number fours I apologize number five is commit to memorizing the scriptures and as I have shown you already and I'm going to give you just one more thing you can download this app join our group and you can get two verses every single week as this year will be a year where you commit to memorizing the scriptures and number five is number six I apologize I mix those things up fill your free time with listening to the Bible in a drive cleaning doing some other things take some time to listen to the holy scriptures so that is about all that I wanted to share with you today on how to come out of the fast and as well as on what to do this year I've seen that my wife is also been answering a lot of questions in the chat thank you Lana for helping with this and and that's all that I wanted to share with you guys today amen amen so we wanted to just take few moments and maybe if there is any questions if you have a testimony from this fast don't forget to let us know go to hungry gen.com forward slash testimony also if you want to give if you want to bless the Lord and honor him by contribute to this ministry you can do that by going to pastavlad.org forward slash partner it will be much appreciated I am proud of you guys I honor you for sticking with me I honor you for being with us for this these last 21 days I know that this has not been easy for the fasting and unfortunately the sad news is to end the fast is way harder than to fast isn't that the truth to end the fast is way harder than to fast so just making sure that you guys end the fast well okay end the fast well yeah I think that that's why I always have a hard time with Daniel fasting because I just cannot have the discipline of like eating just particular foods and so for me I know personally this is gonna be the hardest thing not necessarily the fasting because fasting is easy you just don't eat this is very difficult because right now you have to control the amounts of things that you eat and you got to restrict yourself practice control control those glutton desires and and just kind of hold the horses you know so that's that's what I would recommend everyone then that's on that end so my screen is not working my the other screen is not working so I'm gonna try to see if I can pull up some things for questions do we do sacrificial giving for the day 3 as well no we will not do a sacrificial giving for three day fast we will try to do that once a year I usually encourage people to do sacrificial giving once a year not every single month that's not necessarily very practical so I'm gonna miss the daily live streams I am sorry tell you but I'm not gonna miss that right now this has been this has been great but it's also been very necessary this is what I'm gonna say I do not have any like any regrets I really I'm glad we did this and I'm glad that our team stuck with me through this but I will live stream tomorrow on Hungry Jen so tomorrow we're gonna drop the Hungry Jen's live stream and we're going to ask you to join us this is where you can give your sacrifice tomorrow but today this is gonna be the last live stream this month that I will do I will not do one for this week we're gonna go to Columbia and so we will still upload start uploading every day kind of like how we used to do and so this has been a great experience for me I feel like we've built a closer community with you guys I feel that you know through fasting there's this like healthy bond that was developed now through memorizing the scriptures and then having these monthly things starting March it's gonna be really awesome so I'm really excited for that I am really excited for that yes so but doing this every day for 21 days that's it that's it's a challenge yeah so I had to cancel pretty much all of my trips as well and other things because I wanted to do this right and I wanted to give myself for this instead of just like you know do it one day not do it another day and so sometimes it's better to do one thing at a time instead of trying to do all the things at the same time and so I really was committed to that so can we eat fruits so I saw that my wife she answered a lot of that question with fruits some fruits will be okay they're softer but some fruits have not only a lot of sugar but they also vary they're they're gonna be difficult on your stomach so I would probably avoid personally I wouldn't eat fruits to come out of the fast I would just stick with bone broth and you know steamed vegetables and maybe a chicken broth without the noodles or meat so that that will be my thing and with smoothies it's kind of same thing as with juices you know there's some that could be okay and some that could be very bad and sometimes some smoothies have a lot of sugar in them because fruits have sugar as well and so I would honestly slowly come out and by not doing a lot of these juices and smoothies but you decide that on your own see what's best for you just do not overwhelm your digestive system and don't go overboard what is the name of the Bible memory app it's actually called Bible memory on the deliverance e course is it once a month at the end of the month you guys do a deliverance prayer once you finish the course yes yes it's once a month what time do we break it so this is the big question is what time do we break the fast so you can break the fast as you're led by the Lord recommendation is to do it after church on Sunday so that is the recommendation that we encourage or evening of Sunday night the reason being evening Sunday night is because you really technically supposed to start a fast on Sunday night before and so you want to finish on the Sunday night after some people just choose to do it on Monday morning that's also completely normal and actually good and slowly or maybe in the evening on Sunday night you know you eat you know bone broth and you know and then seemed vegetables on Monday morning and then at noon you eat something more you know like bone broth or or cooked tomato and so but you definitely keep in mind when you're coming out you're not coming out in an hour you're gonna be coming out in three days so you just kind of want to come out slowly all right you want to be coming out slowly so pace yourself give yourself some grace and also give yourself some space don't go kind of all out and you know come out as quickly as you can and so as much as you want to come out as quickly as you can you can't do that and stuff how many days can we eat smoothies somebody really loves smoothies fruits and stuff like that I would do maybe after like three days yeah can you share the link to give yes we're gonna drop the link to give right now but it's past of lad dot org forward slash partner I see somebody over here on Instagram needs to be restricted media you can block yes our lentils or and beans okay longa can you answer that how much bone broth 12 ounce yeah you can do 12 ounce you can do more I think in the beginning probably not a lot and then you can increase it just a little bit more just kind of one thing about when you finish fasting that I love is you have this like spiritual sensitivity to like not to eat certain things sometimes you can look at look at that food and you say you know you shouldn't be eating that like even though your brain maybe says you should but you're like something it tells you just you just shouldn't just wait no this is too much and so just follow that and I believe I do believe it's leading of the Lord when I was coming out of the fast you know out of a 40-day fast and it was like that you know I was able to you know was presented with some stuff people gave me some carrot juice and some other stuff and I was like mmm I'm not sure and so I just really follow the common sense but also like this sensing it was weird I I've never had that word food like that that clear and so and as long as I followed it I was fine and so yeah and I exited fairly quickly definitely not recommend it and how fast I exited that and I mean I think it took me like three three days or something for the 40-day fast and so but but it's definitely not not recommended and I was I was fine but again I kind of knew my limits and I just ate a little bit of soup again a little bit of soup again a bit of soup again a bit of soup and then just kind of felt fine so added a little more I think of egg or something and then just added steamed vegetables and one thing led to another and I think like on seventh day I already you know ate meat and stuff but again that was me I'm not saying that everybody should do that should coming out of the Daniel fast also be slow no I think that it shouldn't be as slow I think you can come out way faster out of a Daniel fast because your stomach is engaged and it's active is soup okay yeah I think soup is okay but I would start with the bone broth first and and like cook rice and then you drink water from the rice what you cook so that's what I would start with yeah so I answered this already but in San Antonio will both services be the same so both services will be I will speak at both services but they are gonna be slightly different I think each service is going to be different yeah alright guys will you be posting in telegram yes we're gonna continue to keep posting on telegram we don't stop that everything is gonna continue as it is I wouldn't do salads for first few days I would just do something with like soups or a bone breath I would do salads fasting experience was amazing God is good feel closer to God that's good to hear good to hear three-day liquid fast monthly aim yep so that's gonna start in March excited for that really looking forward to that I think it's gonna be a wonderful wonderful experience for all of us this is gonna be an amazing year for us will these recordings be available for people as a resource buying your books and having the support yes Marcia so I'm gonna leave this this is one of the reasons we created this playlist and actually one of the reasons I live streamed every day while doing actually the fast so that we can leave this I believe for years down the road and people who are fasting will be able to actually just go each day let's watch the video watch the video watch the video watch the video and just be encouraged with that