Twenty One Days of Crossing Over
Leaving the Wilderness and Entering the Promised Land
Prepare Before You Begin
Review our Biblical Fasting Guide for practical fasting tips, different fasting methods, biblical examples, suggested durations, preparation guidance, and important health considerations.
View Fasting TipsTheme Scripture
Joshua 1:2 to 3 — “Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them... Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.”
This twenty one day fast and prayer journey is designed to help you leave the wilderness, cross over in faith, and step into the Promised Land with prayer, Scripture, obedience, healing, courage, and intentional focus.
Before You Begin
Fasting is not about convincing God to answer prayer. The primary purpose is to bring the flesh under submission so the spirit becomes more sensitive to God.
Need help choosing a fasting method? Visit the Biblical Fasting Guide to learn about fasting types, purposes, durations, preparation, and practical tips.
Open the Biblical Fasting GuidePrepare Your Heart
Enter the fast with thanksgiving, repentance, humility, and surrender. Ask the Lord to reveal what cannot cross into the promise.
Read the Scriptures Daily
Each day includes a Joshua reading and a supporting Scripture so your prayer focus remains rooted in the Word of God.
Pray Personally
Use the opening prayer as a guide, then add your own family, ministry, business, health, and personal situations as the Holy Spirit leads.
Declare With Faith
Speak the daily declaration aloud. Let your words agree with God’s promise, not fear, delay, or wilderness thinking.
Leaving the Wilderness
Leave survival mode, repent, heal, release the old season, and consecrate your life before crossing over.
Prayer Topic: Thanksgiving for Preservation
Joshua Reading: Joshua 24:17
Also Read: Deuteronomy 8:2
Prayer Focus: Thank God for keeping you alive, covered, and sustained in the wilderness.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank You for preserving me through every wilderness season. Thank You for keeping me, covering me, correcting me, and sustaining me when I did not always understand what You were doing. Thank You for Your mercy, Your grace, and Your faithfulness. As I begin this journey of crossing over, let my heart be filled with gratitude for what You have already brought me through.
Prayer Topic: Repentance for Wilderness Behavior
Joshua Reading: Joshua 7:13
Also Read: 1 John 1:9
Prayer Focus: Repent for fear, complaining, unbelief, delay, disobedience, and rebellion.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I come before You with a humble heart. Search me and cleanse me from anything that does not please You. Forgive me for every place where I allowed fear, unbelief, complaining, delay, disobedience, or rebellion to influence my thoughts, words, and actions. Prepare my heart to cross over clean, surrendered, and aligned with Your will.
Prayer Topic: Breaking the Spirit of Wandering
Joshua Reading: Joshua 5:9
Also Read: Deuteronomy 2:3
Prayer Focus: Pray against going in circles, repeated patterns, and spiritual stagnation.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask You to break every spirit of wandering from my life. Deliver me from going around the same mountain, repeating the same patterns, and remaining stuck in places You have called me to leave. Roll away the reproach of the old season and lead me into movement, obedience, clarity, and purpose.
Prayer Topic: Deliverance From Egypt Mindsets
Joshua Reading: Joshua 1:2
Also Read: Romans 12:2
Prayer Focus: Ask God to remove slavery thinking, fear based decisions, and old attachments.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, deliver my mind from every Egypt mindset. Remove every thought pattern that keeps me attached to bondage, fear, survival, limitation, or the familiar. Renew my mind with Your Word and teach me to think like someone You have called, chosen, and prepared for promise. Let my thoughts agree with where You are taking me.
Prayer Topic: Healing From Wilderness Wounds
Joshua Reading: Joshua 5:9
Also Read: Psalm 147:3
Prayer Focus: Pray for healing from disappointment, rejection, grief, exhaustion, and trauma.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I bring every wounded place before You. Heal my heart from disappointment, rejection, grief, exhaustion, trauma, and every painful memory from the wilderness. Do not let what I survived become my identity. Restore my joy, my peace, my strength, and my ability to hope again.
Prayer Topic: Releasing the Old Season
Joshua Reading: Joshua 1:2
Also Read: Isaiah 43:18 to 19
Prayer Focus: Let go of what God is not taking into the next place.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, give me grace to release the old season. Help me let go of what has ended, what has shifted, and what You are not carrying into my next place. I release old grief, old attachments, old mindsets, old disappointments, and old expectations. Make room in me for the new thing You are doing.
Prayer Topic: Consecration Before Crossing Over
Joshua Reading: Joshua 3:5
Also Read: Romans 12:1
Prayer Focus: Dedicate yourself, your home, your family, your purpose, and your future to God.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I consecrate myself to You. I dedicate my heart, mind, body, home, family, purpose, ministry, business, finances, and future to Your will. Sanctify me for the crossing. Prepare me for the wonders You are about to do and help me enter the next season surrendered, obedient, and holy before You.
Crossing the Jordan
Follow God’s presence, step forward in faith, cross safely, cut off fear, and remember His faithfulness.
Prayer Topic: Hearing Divine Instruction
Joshua Reading: Joshua 3:3 to 4
Also Read: Psalm 32:8
Prayer Focus: Ask God for clarity, wisdom, direction, and next steps.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask You for divine instruction. Show me what to do next. Give me clarity, wisdom, direction, and discernment for this season. Do not let me move by confusion, fear, pressure, or emotion. Order my steps and help me recognize Your voice above every other voice.
Prayer Topic: Following God’s Presence
Joshua Reading: Joshua 3:3 to 4
Also Read: Exodus 33:14
Prayer Focus: Pray to follow the presence of God above emotion, fear, pressure, or people.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, help me follow Your presence above my emotions, fears, pressure, and the opinions of people. Let Your presence go before me and lead me into the place You have prepared. If You are moving, help me move with You. If You are not leading, help me wait with trust.
Prayer Topic: Faith to Step Into the Jordan
Joshua Reading: Joshua 3:13
Also Read: Hebrews 11:6
Prayer Focus: Ask for courage to move before everything makes sense.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, give me faith to step forward when You speak. Help me obey even when I do not see the full path. Give me courage to move before everything makes sense. Let faith rise above fear and obedience rise above hesitation.
Prayer Topic: Supernatural Passage
Joshua Reading: Joshua 3:15 to 17
Also Read: Isaiah 43:2
Prayer Focus: Pray for God to part the waters and make a way where there is no way.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask You to part every Jordan before me. Make a way where there is no way. Open doors that no one can shut and release divine intervention where natural strength is not enough. Let every barrier standing between me and the promise obey Your command.
Prayer Topic: Safe Crossing
Joshua Reading: Joshua 3:17
Also Read: Psalm 121:7 to 8
Prayer Focus: Pray that your family, faith, health, purpose, and destiny cross over safely.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, carry me safely through this transition. Let my family, faith, health, purpose, destiny, peace, and future cross over safely. Preserve everything You have assigned to live. Do not let me lose myself, my faith, or my purpose in the middle of transition.
Prayer Topic: Cutting Off Fear
Joshua Reading: Joshua 1:9
Also Read: 2 Timothy 1:7
Prayer Focus: Renounce fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of opposition, and fear of change.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I renounce fear. I reject fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of opposition, fear of change, and fear of moving forward. Fill me with power, love, and a sound mind. Let courage rise in me and let Your presence remind me that I am not alone.
Prayer Topic: Remembering God’s Faithfulness
Joshua Reading: Joshua 4:6 to 7
Also Read: Psalm 77:11
Prayer Focus: Ask God to give you testimony, evidence, and memorial stones from the crossing.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, help me remember Your faithfulness. Let this crossing produce testimony, evidence, and memorial stones. Do not let me forget how You kept me, led me, healed me, delivered me, and made a way. Let my life become a witness of Your goodness.
Entering and Possessing the Promised Land
Receive new identity, see walls fall, let God fight your battles, possess the inheritance, and dedicate everything back to Him.
Prayer Topic: Receiving New Identity
Joshua Reading: Joshua 5:9
Also Read: 2 Corinthians 5:17
Prayer Focus: Pray to no longer identify as a wanderer, survivor, rejected one, or delayed one.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, remove every old identity that came from the wilderness. I am not a wanderer. I am not rejected. I am not forgotten. I am not defined by delay. Let my identity agree with who You say I am. Roll away the reproach of the past and establish me in the truth of Your Word.
Prayer Topic: Jericho Walls Falling
Joshua Reading: Joshua 6:2 and Joshua 6:20
Also Read: 2 Corinthians 10:4
Prayer Focus: Pray against delay, resistance, rejection, lack, intimidation, and opposition.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I bring every Jericho wall before You. Let every wall of delay, resistance, rejection, lack, intimidation, fear, and opposition fall by Your power. Give me obedience to follow Your strategy and faith to believe that what You promised will not remain locked behind a wall.
Prayer Topic: God Fighting Your Battles
Joshua Reading: Joshua 10:8
Also Read: 2 Chronicles 20:15
Prayer Focus: Ask the Lord to fight what is too strong for you.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I surrender every battle to You. Fight what is too strong for me. Defend me, cover me, strengthen me, and give me victory in the battles I can see and the battles I cannot see. Let the testimony of this season be that the Lord fought for me.
Prayer Topic: Removing Hidden Hindrances
Joshua Reading: Joshua 7:10 to 13
Also Read: Psalm 139:23 to 24
Prayer Focus: Ask God to expose anything that could defeat you in the promise.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, search me and reveal anything hidden that could hinder me in the promise. Expose hidden fear, hidden sin, hidden pride, hidden disobedience, hidden wounds, hidden agreements, and hidden patterns. Give me humility to repent and courage to remove what does not belong.
Prayer Topic: Possessing Your Inheritance
Joshua Reading: Joshua 21:43
Also Read: Psalm 16:5 to 6
Prayer Focus: Pray for what belongs to you by covenant, purpose, prophecy, and promise.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, help me possess what belongs to me by covenant, purpose, prophecy, and promise. Release what has been delayed, restore what has been stolen, and open what has been closed. Give me faith to receive, wisdom to possess, and humility to steward what You place in my hands.
Prayer Topic: Establishment and Stewardship
Joshua Reading: Joshua 22:5
Also Read: Psalm 90:17
Prayer Focus: Ask God for wisdom, maturity, discipline, and character to maintain the blessing.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, establish me in the promise and teach me to steward well. Give me wisdom, maturity, discipline, and character to maintain what You release. Establish my home, family, purpose, ministry, business, finances, relationships, and future for Your glory.
Prayer Topic: Covenant, Rest, and Dedication
Joshua Reading: Joshua 24:15
Also Read: Hebrews 4:9 to 10
Prayer Focus: Dedicate your life, family, ministry, business, finances, and future to the Lord.
Opening Prayer
Father, in the name of Jesus, I dedicate everything to You. My life, family, home, ministry, business, finances, relationships, purpose, and future belong to You. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Establish covenant, rest, peace, fruitfulness, and obedience in my life.
Final Declaration for the Twenty One Days
I am leaving the wilderness and entering the Promised Land. I will not keep circling the same mountain. The Lord has kept me, cleansed me, healed me, strengthened me, instructed me, and prepared me. Every Jordan before me must part. Every Jericho wall before me must fall. Every battle too strong for me belongs to the Lord. I will possess what God has promised, steward it with wisdom, and dedicate it back to Him. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Amen.