Fasting That Moves Mountains

By JN Everly

Fasting That Moves Mountains: The Complete Guide to Breakthrough Through Biblical Discipline

Transform Your Life and Move Every Mountain Through the Ancient Power of Strategic Fasting

What if the solution to your biggest problems—your health crisis, financial struggles, broken relationships, or spiritual emptiness—was hiding in plain sight in Scripture? "Fasting That Moves Mountains" reveals how a 4,000-year-old spiritual discipline can unlock breakthrough that modern solutions can't touch.

From a desperate waitress whose 21-day fast launched an international movement lifting 500,000 families out of poverty, to a failing CEO whose 40-day fast built a $50 million business while restoring his family—this book proves that strategic fasting moves impossible mountains.

What You'll Get:

Real Breakthrough Stories: Dr. Elena reversed diabetes in 21 days. Marcus lost 100 pounds permanently. Jennifer's family fasting transformed an entire region.

Complete Toolkit: 16 different fasting protocols matched to specific breakthrough needs, from 24-hour resets to 40-day transformations.

Scientific Foundation: How fasting rewires your brain in 72 hours, triggers cellular regeneration, and breaks addiction cycles that willpower cannot touch.

Practical Protocols: Step-by-step guides for moving health, financial, relationship, and spiritual mountains—with preparation checklists that guarantee success.

Perfect For:

• Christians seeking deeper spiritual breakthrough
• Anyone facing health, financial, or relationship mountains
• Leaders wanting to guide others through transformation
• Families building spiritual legacy and breaking generational patterns

Your mountains are not permanent—they're temporary obstacles waiting for someone with enough spiritual authority to command them to move.

That someone is you. The time is now. Your mountain-moving journey begins with your next fast.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JN Everly
• Release date: Aug 15, 2025
• ISBN: 9798231526819

Book preview

Chapter 1

Why Fasting Moves Mountains

When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do... But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. - Matthew 6:16-18

Sarah's Impossible Mountain

Sarah Rodriguez stared at the foreclosure notice taped to her front door, her hands trembling as she held her crying six-month-old daughter. Three months behind on mortgage payments, $47,000 in credit card debt, and a husband who'd left her for his secretary—at 28, Sarah's life felt like a series of immovable mountains.

God, she whispered, sitting on her porch steps, I don't know what else to do.

That's when her neighbor Maria approached. Mija, you look like you need a miracle, Maria said gently. Let me tell you about something that changed my life—fasting and prayer.

Sarah almost laughed. I can barely afford food as it is.

That's exactly why it works, Maria smiled. When we choose God over our most basic need, He moves heaven and earth.

Six weeks later, Sarah stood in the same spot, but everything had changed. During her first 21-day Daniel Fast, she'd received an unexpected settlement from a lawsuit she'd forgotten about—enough to catch up on payments. A local businessman, moved by her story, offered her a job with benefits. Most miraculously, her husband called on day 18 of her fast, broken and asking for forgiveness.

I don't understand it, Sarah told Maria. I just gave up meat and sweets for three weeks, and my whole world shifted.

That's the power of fasting, Maria replied. It doesn't just change your body—it moves mountains.

Today, five years later, Sarah owns her home outright, runs a successful consulting business, and has been happily remarried for four years. More importantly, she's led over 200 people through their own mountain-moving fasts.

The Ancient Secret in Modern Times

Sarah's story isn't unique—it's part of a 4,000-year pattern of ordinary people discovering extraordinary breakthrough through the spiritual discipline of fasting. From Moses receiving the Ten Commandments after 40 days without food, to modern-day executives finding career breakthrough through strategic fasting, this ancient practice consistently produces results that defy human logic.

What makes fasting so powerful?

Unlike other spiritual disciplines that work primarily in the spiritual realm, fasting operates simultaneously in three dimensions:

Physical: Your body literally rewires itself for optimal function

Mental: Your brain clarity and decision-making dramatically improve

Spiritual: You access divine intervention that transcends natural limitations

The Science of Supernatural Breakthrough

Dr. Valter Longo's groundbreaking research at USC revealed something remarkable: when humans fast for 72+ hours, we activate ancient genetic programs that literally regenerate our bodies at the cellular level. But what science is just discovering, spiritual practitioners have known for millennia—fasting creates optimal conditions for breakthrough.

Here's what happens when you fast:

Hours 0-12: Your body burns stored glucose while your spirit becomes more sensitive to divine promptings.

Hours 12-24: You enter ketosis, providing superior brain fuel while spiritual static begins clearing.

Hours 24-72: Autophagy peaks (cellular cleaning), stem cell production increases, and many experience their most profound spiritual breakthroughs.

Beyond 72 hours: Complete metabolic reset occurs alongside unprecedented spiritual encounters.

Marcus: From Death's Door to Vibrant Life

Marcus Chen was 52 when his doctor delivered the devastating news: You have six months to live if you don't make dramatic changes. Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, high blood pressure, and 80 pounds overweight—Marcus was a walking medical emergency.

I'd tried every diet, Marcus recalls. Nothing worked long-term. I felt hopeless.

Then Marcus discovered therapeutic fasting. Working with a physician experienced in fasting protocols, he began with a 5-day water fast.

Day three was brutal, Marcus remembers. But day four, something shifted. Mental clarity like I hadn't felt in years. By day five, I knew I'd found my answer.

Marcus adopted a lifestyle of weekly 24-hour fasts combined with monthly 3-day fasts. The results were stunning:

3 months: Lost 35 pounds, blood sugar normalized

6 months: Off all medications, liver enzymes normal

12 months: Lost 80 pounds total, ran his first 5K

24 months: Completed a marathon, optimal health markers

My doctor called it miraculous, Marcus says. But I know it was the combination of physical healing and spiritual breakthrough that fasting provided.

Marcus's mountain of health problems didn't just move—it was completely demolished.

Why Fasting Works When Other Methods Fail

1. It Addresses Root Causes, Not Just Symptoms

Most approaches to life problems treat symptoms. Struggling financially? Get a budget app. Marriage problems? Try communication techniques. Health issues? Take medications.

Fasting goes deeper. It addresses the spiritual and emotional roots that create external problems:

Financial stress often stems from trust issues and fear

Relationship problems frequently have roots in unforgiveness

Health issues may involve spiritual and emotional toxicity

Career stagnation can reflect unclear purpose and calling

2. It Demonstrates Ultimate Surrender

When you voluntarily give up your most basic physical need (food), you make a profound spiritual statement: God, I need you more than anything else. This level of surrender invites divine intervention that partial commitment cannot access.

3. It Breaks the Power of the Flesh

Every addiction, compulsion, and destructive pattern involves some form of fleshly appetite controlling you. Fasting builds the spiritual muscle to say no to immediate gratification, breaking these controlling patterns at their source.

4. It Creates Space for Divine Downloads

Modern life fills our minds with constant noise—notifications, entertainment, worries, to-do lists. Fasting clears this static, creating space to hear divine guidance that's always available but rarely accessed.

The Pastor's Revival

Pastor David Williams had led Cornerstone Community Church for twelve years, watching attendance steadily decline from 400 to 85 members. The building was in foreclosure, families were leaving, and the board was discussing closure.

I felt like a failure, David admits. Every strategy I tried made things worse.

In desperation, David called for something the church had never attempted: a corporate 40-day fast where every member would participate at their capacity level. Some committed to the full Daniel Fast, others to weekly 24-hour fasts, and those with health issues fasted from entertainment and social media.

The transformation began within days:

Week 1: Prayer meetings that usually drew 12 people had 60 attendees Week 2: Three families who'd left returned, saying they couldn't shake the feeling God was moving

Week 3: A local businessman paid off the church's $180,000 mortgage Week 4: New families started visiting, drawn by something different about the church Week 6: The church had to add a second service for the first time in eight years

By day 40, we weren't the same church, David reflects. We'd gone from survival mode to revival mode. Our building was saved, but more importantly, our hearts were transformed.

Today, five years later, Cornerstone runs three services for 800+ weekly attendees and has planted two new churches. The 40-day fast didn't just move their financial mountain—it launched a spiritual movement.

Your Mountains Are Not Permanent

Right now, you're looking at mountains in your life that seem immovable:

Financial mountains: Debt, lack of income, business struggles

Health mountains: Chronic illness, weight, energy problems

Relationship mountains: Marriage conflicts, family dysfunction, loneliness

Career mountains: Dead-end jobs, lack of purpose, professional stagnation

Spiritual mountains: Feeling distant from God, lack of direction, spiritual dryness

Here's what you need to understand: These mountains are not permanent features of your landscape—they're temporary obstacles waiting for the right spiritual force to move them.

The Three Levels of Mountain-Moving

Level 1: 24-48 Hour Fasts

Break daily patterns and addictions

Gain mental clarity for decision-making

Experience initial spiritual breakthrough

Build fasting confidence and capacity

Level 2: 3-21 Day Fasts

Address chronic issues and patterns

Experience significant physical transformation

Receive major spiritual revelations and direction

Break generational curses and limitations

Level 3: 40+ Day Fasts

Complete life transformation

Supernatural encounters and spiritual authority

Impossible situations resolved

Prophetic calling and ministry anointing

Jennifer's Freedom from Food Addiction

Jennifer struggled with food addiction for 15 years. At 35, she weighed 280 pounds and felt completely out of control around food.

I'd tried every diet, Jennifer recalls. I'd lose weight, then gain it all back plus more. I felt like a failure.

Jennifer's breakthrough came through a 72-hour water fast:

Hour 18 was the worst—I found myself standing at the refrigerator with no memory of walking there. That's when I realized this wasn't just hunger, it was addiction.

By hour 48, something had shifted: The compulsive thoughts about food just... stopped. For the first time in years, I felt free.

Jennifer continued with weekly 24-hour fasts and monthly 3-day fasts:

6 months: Lost 60 pounds, food cravings gone

12 months: Lost