Prayer + Fasting 2025
Sunday, January 5th we will be starting our 7 days of prayer + fasting. The church will be open Monday - Saturday for corporate prayer from 7:00-8:00, both AM and PM. We encourage you to join us!
WHY DO WE FAST?
Fasting is a way of fully surrendering your body over to God, trusting that God will come and meet you in your place of need. Below are some other reasons why we fast.
TYPES OF FAST
Complete Fast
In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option. The purpose is to deny our flesh of physical food and replace it by consecrating ourselves unto the Lord in prayer and devotion.
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 sunrise to sundown.
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.
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.
PRAYER FOCUS
Each day that we meet together for prayer at the church, there will be 2 focuses.
1. Take time to pray for your personal needs.
2. Come together corporately to pray, with a different focus each day.
Below, you will see each prayer that we will be focusing on daily as a church. If you cannot make corporate prayer, feel free to still pray with us by checking this page daily.
DAY
1
Ask God to help us be faithful and steadfast in prayer.
DAY
2
Pray to repent of our sins and seek God's favor for ourselves, our families, and our nation.
DAY
3
Pray for the Holy Spirit's strength to persist in prayer.
DAY
4
Pray for boldness to share the gospel with those who need Christ.
DAY
5
Pray that believers will be unified in love as we seek God together.
DAY
6
Pray for the gifts of the Spirit to operate in our lives and in our churches.
DAY
7
Pray for a deeper desire to know Christ and experience the power of His Spirit in our lives.
DAY
8
PRAYER + FASTING ENDS. Join us for church at 10am.
"Fasting must forever center on God. More than any other discipline, fasting reveals the things that control us."
Richard Foster
“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
Matthew 6:16-18 ESV
“We fast because we’re hungry for God’s Word and God’s Spirit in our lives.”
John Piper