The most important thing, one thing i cannot stress enough is you must seek to actually know God, on a personal level, to build an actual relationship with him because this is where alot of people fall. There is why when the hard times come and when the mass deception that is coming arrives in the world people will abandon the faith. It is the reason why there are so many Christians who have been reading the bible for years, attending church but yet know nothing, have experienced nothing and have made no progress. It is why the church is stale. The question what next you just asked me, you should be directing to him, expecting to receive one just as you expected to receive one from me, with even greater expectation in fact.
All the stories you read in the bible of Abraham, Enoch, Jacob, Joseph, Samuel etc.. You need to realise that you can know God on the level that they knew God if you desire too, that's what he wants from us most a desire to know him. He is not as far away as we think he is right there always. Ask for the holy spirit to fill you and guide you, ask to hear his voice, guide you and teach you wisdom and knowledge of the truth and his word. The real truth, wisdom and understanding only comes through revelation of the holy spirit. Continue to read the word daily but most importantly talk to him, like you would talk to any other person sat right next to you. Talk to him when your doing well, and if you happen to fall talk to him about your struggles, he is always there for real. God knows our hearts and minds anyway but i've noticed vocalising it to him honestly seems to mean alot to him. Also pray against the enemy cause if you start to try to know God like this he will work overtime on you, pray against his attempts to deceive you. Ask and desire for God to reveal himself fully to you.
More than anything do not be content knowing him through the pages of his word only and through reading of his works and his commandments, seek to know him personally.
For fasting i cant really give you a lowdown on that because i rarely ever fast, in fact i have only ever fasted once. It was the week leading up to that experience when the woman who was into the occult, and the kabbalah and communicated with spirits entered the store i worked at and as soon as i saw her i knew. I only fasted because i felt the push of the holy spirit, God was bugging me to fast for a while, his voice in my mind and i had a huge desire in me to fast out of nowhere. I gave in and for 7 days i ate and drank nothing, not even water. I spent my entire lunch break at work praying, id finish work go to the coffee shop round the corner and read the bible till it closed then id go home and sleep to repeat the next day, and at the end of that week in walked that woman. I wouldn't advise you to do what i did cause like i said i ate and drank nothing for 7 days, but maybe im the wrong person to ask cause for me all those questions i would direct to God. I ask him everything. I dont have like a blueprint for someone to follow, i feel like you should go to him in regards to each and every enquiry. He knows you better than i do, he knows what is next for you, he knows what he would want or need from you, everyone else is just guessing.
In the second book of Esdras, the prophet Ezra is speaking to God, asking for knowledge and understanding on things he doesn't understand, he seeks an explanation from God and an angel of God is sent to tell him to fast for a week and at the conclusion of his fast God will address the questions he brought before God. We dont need Angels dispatched these days as we have the holy spirit here with us, but it is an example of fasting because it was an instruction from God with an end purpose in mind.
