The 40-Day Sugar Fast Quotes

“One of the practical things I've learned during my seasons of fasting and feasting is that God's Word can be served up all day long in different sized portions. There are snack-sized portions for on-the-go encouragement, main courses when we can really sit down and feast, and desserts that are sweet reminders of just how loved we are!”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“I strongly advocate for a prayer life that is comprised mostly of silence. It's a great delight to talk to God, but it's even more thrilling when He talks to us. I've discovered that He has more important things to say than I do. Things don't change when I talk to God; things change when God talks to me. When I talk, nothing happens; when God talks, the universe comes into existence.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“If you want a changed life, you must do more than just change your diet.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“The door will be opened to you if it's the door God knows is best.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Here's the truth you need to ingest today: You don't deserve anything.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Satan hates you. But for the most part, he pays you no mind as long as you are entangled in sin and struggling with shame.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“If we spend our energy loving things, we’ll come to God spent. Flat broke and bankrupt.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Author Bob Sorge wrote these challenging words in his book The Secrets of the Secret Place: “Hearing God’s voice has become the singular quest of my heart, the sole pursuit that alone satisfies the great longings of my heart.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Fear the LORD, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. (NIV)”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Take my life as I empty it out and fill me with Yourself. Your Word proclaims: “It is for freedom that Christ has set you free.” I’m choosing to believe that’s true. Set me free! In the bondage-breaking, freedom-giving, sweet, sweet name of Jesus, Amen.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“self-focused people can’t garner the attention of an others-focused God!”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Fasting is merely denying yourself something temporal and ordinary in order to experience the One who is eternally extraordinary.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Where am I pedaling off to these days? What am I running after? If all this is true, how should my life look? If Jesus truly came to set me free, why am I still running to food?”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“God has the power to turn our hollow places into a hallowed place.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“The One who made our core is the only One able to fill it.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Scottish minister Andrew Bonar said, “Fasting is abstaining from anything that hinders prayer.” Not just food. Anything. As a matter of fact, Bonar often fasted from reading in order to spend more time with the Lord. Reading! His example ought to challenge us to consider what else might be hindering our intimate friendship with the Lord. If we want to experience His sustaining hand in our lives, it may be a good idea to take a season to set aside anything that might be in our hands. I like to say it this way: We abstain so that He might sustain. This isn’t just about food. We don’t just run to the pantry—we run to online games, we run to romance novels, and we run to Starbucks too.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“When our lives begin to change from the inside out, our eating habits will change from the outside in.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“THERE’S NOTHING WRONG with wanting to lose the extra weight you may be carrying around, whether the extra load comes from literal pounds or from pounds of pain. However, for deep and lasting physical and emotional transformation to occur, you first need deep and lasting spiritual transformation. Matthew 6:33 makes it clear: When you turn your eyes, first and foremost, on God, everything else will fall into its rightful place. Conversely, when you look to the scale first, it’s nearly impossible to see past it to the soul.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Food, the very thing God created to satisfy our physical hunger, has been engineered to stimulate it!”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“As we fast from food and feast on Him, He fills the empty places in our hearts and lives with Himself. Even now, as we go without, He goes within.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“The reward for giving and praying and fasting is found in the giving and praying and fasting. Because fasting and praying and giving allow us to experience more of Him. And He is everything. Our reward is the intimacy forged in prayerful conversation with the One who stitched us and knows us and sits enthroned within us and over us.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“The presence of God is our present-reward when we join Him in giving and caring for others; the nearness of God is our near-reward when we join Him in prayer; and as we empty ourselves through fasting, we experience the reward of His fullness.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Exchange what can never satisfy you for the only thing that can.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Fasting from eating doesn’t change our hunger, but when we exchange what we hunger for, it can change the way we eat.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“My issue isn’t actually with sugar, or with food, but with hunger—misplaced, insatiable hunger.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“The same God who saved you eternally has the power to save you internally.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Satan hates you. But for the most part, he pays you no mind as long as you are entangled in sin and struggling with shame. He likes you lethargic and ineffective. He prefers it when you struggle with migraines and emotional instability, when you are irritated with your spouse and your kids and your coworkers. He loves it when you blow up at your family or friends over a sugar-induced spike and crash. However, when you turn to Christ for His free and freeing power, Satan takes offense and goes on the offensive. He hates it when you fast and pray because he knows that each time you go to God rather than to sugar to fill your longings, the Spirit of God floods into the empty places in your heart and life. Satan hates losing ground.
When you started your forty-day fast from sugar, you may have anticipated temptation, but you may not have expected the tempter himself.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“You must remain in the Word. Five minutes of nibbling on a verse in the morning won’t fill you up and fuel you through the other 1,435 minutes of the day. You need a continual feast to carry you through long fasting days. First Thessalonians 5:17 tells you to “pray without ceasing.” If praying is talking to God, then reading God’s Word is listening. Let’s make the conversation a continual feast! Read and pray, then read and pray some more. Let your fasting days propel you into a feasting life.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“Each time I forget to feast, I fast in order to remember.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation

“The same God who saves also speaks! So listen.”
― Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation