10/12/2026
Can I tell you something strange⁉️
Last spring a close friend of mine was having a really rough few months, and I felt prompted to make her the focus of my fast. I never mentioned it to her. I just said her name in my prayer that Sunday morning and kept praying for her all day long, even around three o’clock when I was hungry and a little cranky.
A few weeks later we met for lunch, and while we were waiting for our food she looked across the table and said, “Can I tell you something kind of strange?”
She told me she had spent weeks asking Heavenly Father if He even noticed her. Then one Sunday afternoon she was folding laundry and this calm, warm feeling came over her out of nowhere. She sat down on the edge of her bed with a towel in her lap and cried. She said it was the first time in months she knew He was aware of her.
I asked her which Sunday it was. When she told me, I knew it was the day I had fasted for her.
I didn’t even try to hold back the tears. We were two grown women crying in the middle of a restaurant and passing napkins back and forth. I’m pretty sure our waiter had no idea what to do with us.
This week as I studied Isaiah 58 for Come, Follow Me, I read verse 11 and my friend was the very first person who came to mind:
“And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”
All I could picture was her on the edge of her bed with that towel in her lap. The Lord had satisfied her soul that afternoon. He also did the same for me. I walked out of that restaurant feeling more full than any lunch could ever make me.
I’m telling you this because your fast matters so much more than you know. When you say someone’s name to Heavenly Father on fast Sunday, He hears it, and He knows exactly how to get His love to them.
These days I stick a little note with a name on it right on my phone case every fast Sunday, and each time I reach for my phone I say a quick prayer for that person. Will you try it with me this fast Sunday?
Looking back, I can see that what made that fast so sweet was keeping my friend in my hea