Fasting from Asking: A Sacrifice of Praise with Wendy Speake

What if the boldest thing you could do in prayer wasn't asking god for more, but fasting from it? This week, Kimberly sits down with author and actress Wendy Speake for a conversation about her new book, A Sacrifice of Praise and Thanksgiving, releasing September 1st. Wendy is the voice behind The 40 Day Sugar Fast, The 40 Day Social Media Fast, and The 40 Day Feast, and this new 30-day devotional invites readers into a fast from petition itself: laying down the pleading and picking up praise instead.

Wendy opens up about her path from stage to page (she trained as an actress before God redirected her toward writing and Bible teaching), the hardest season of her life that this book was born out of, and why praise is a spiritual discipline that has to be practiced like a muscle, not something that just happens naturally. She and Kimberly talk about repentance without condemnation, the difference between wandering and wondering, why fear is often the quiet sin tendency nobody names, and how rescripting our prayers from "God, save my wayward child" to "God, save your child, this is what you're good at" actually starts rewiring the way we think. It's an honest, hope-filled conversation about learning to boast in who God is, even in the hardest, most unanswered seasons.