21 Days of Prayer & Fasting
About
We’re setting aside January 2-22, 2025 to fast and pray as a church. This period of 21 days will start the year off right by seeking the Lord during this time of extraordinary prayer.
Why:
The goal of fasting is to draw near to God. It hits the reset button of our soul and renews us from the inside out.
When and Where:
Join us as often as you like. From January 2-22nd, we will meet Monday through Friday at 7-8 am and 7-8 pm for a time of extraordinary prayer. We will meet in the Victory Chapel for these times of prayer except in the evenings on Wednesdays when we will meet in the main sanctuary.
Extraordinary Prayer:
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (MSG)
Because we know that this extraordinary day is just ahead, we pray for you all the time—pray that our God will make you fit for what he’s called you to be, pray that he’ll fill your good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it all amounts to something. If your life honors the name of Jesus, he will honor you. Grace is behind and through all of this, our God giving himself freely, the Master, Jesus Christ, giving himself freely.
Psalm 77:13 (NET)
O God, your deeds are extraordinary. What god can compare to our great God.
Job 8:7 (CEB)
Although your former state was ordinary, your future will be extraordinary.
Acts 19:11-12 (NASB)
God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.
Practicing ordinary prayer can become extraordinary in the following ways:
- Extraordinary in time: This is in relationship to the length you pray.
- Extraordinary in days: This is in relationship to the number of days you may desire to focus on a specific prayer need.
- Extraordinary in commitment: This is in relationship to combining your prayers with fasting.
- Extraordinary in focus: While extraordinary prayer can occur in your normal daily life, there are certain times in your life when you will need to focus on a specific burden in prayer.
“Be much in prayer and fasting, in secret and with one another. It seems to me, it would become the circumstances of the present day, if ministers would often meet together, and spend days in fasting and fervent prayer, earnestly seeking those extraordinary supplies of Divine Grace… When God has something great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayer of His people.”
Prayer Guide
We’re setting aside January 2-22, 2025 to fast and pray as a church. This period of 21 days will start the year off right by seeking the Lord during this time of extraordinary prayer.
Types Of Fasts
- Selective Fast - This type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet. One example of a selective fast is the Daniel Fast, during which you remove meat, sweets, and bread from your diet and consume water and juice for fluids and fruits and vegetables for food. ( See download below for ideas. )
- Partial Fast - This fast is sometimes called the “Jewish Fast” and involves abstaining from eating any type of food in the morning and afternoon. This can either correlate to specific times of the day, such as 6:00 am to 3:00 pm, or from sunup to sundown.
- Complete Fast - In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.
- Soul Fast - This fast is a great option if you do not have much experience fasting food, have health issues that prevent you from fasting food, or if you wish to refocus certain areas of your life that are out of balance. For example, you might choose to stop using social media or watching television for the duration of the fast and then carefully bring that element back into your life in healthy doses at the conclusion of the fast.
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