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Welcome to our time of prayer and fasting! Oswald Smith says ‘when we work, we work, when we pray, God works’. Our prayer during this time of 7 days of prayer and fasting is that God would do an incredible work in your life and that you would know him in a deeper way.

Every Nation has always placed a high premium on the power, truthfulness, and benefit of Scripture. God reveals himself to us through his Word, by which he transforms and empowers us. In 2022, we’re calling everyone to a renewed commitment to read, understand, believe, and obey God’s Word. Thus, our 2022 consecration devotional material will focus on metaphors that refer to the Word.

As we push through challenges and the unexpected, we find more reason to fix our attention on who our awesome God is. This plan will lead you into a deeper understanding of God’s greatness and goodness resulting in worship, holiness, and mission.

Every year we come together to pray and fast, so we can hear from God and know where He wants us to go for the whole year. From Bible times until today, people who meet God realize how awesome He is—meaning He is the only one who deserves all our worship, and no one can ever compare to Him. Let's learn more about our awesome God this year.

At the start and middle of each year, we take time to pray and fast in order to humble ourselves before God, consecrate ourselves to Him, and corporately agree for breakthroughs. God’s awesome greatness is not only demonstrated by how big He is, but in His ability to humble Himself, come down to our level, and become small like us—even stooping lower to save and serve us.

Does sugar hold you back from the good life that God has planned for you? Sugar imprisons us because it weakens our physical bodies and clouds our minds. Yet God has the power to set us free. This week we’ll be exploring seven Scripture passages that show us how to receive God’s powerful presence in our lives as we let go of sugar’s trappings.

Are you ready to deepen your connection with God? This plan provides practical strategies for incorporating the ancient sacred practice of prayer and fasting into modern-day life with steps and insights drawn from personal experience and research. Prayer and fasting usher in miraculous breakthroughs and spiritual growth! This plan will help you grow your faith and encourage you to pray and fast again or try it for the first time!

"He must increase, but I must decrease." (John 3:30). This is the essence of Biblical fasting; decrease and increase. Saying "no" (decrease) to something good to say "yes" (increase) to something, or Someone, better. As we deny ourselves, it is important to keep our focus on the One we are pursuing. This 21-day devotional journey is written by various people, just like you, from Cornwall Church.

In January, we set apart one week of prayer, fasting, and consecration to hear from God and know His direction for us for the year. We claimed God’s amazing grace to rule and reign in our lives throughout that week. Until now, our faith and stance stay the same—humbly asking God to let His amazing grace rule and be seen in our lives.

Over the next 21 days, we invite you to give God time each day intentionally. This devotional includes daily topics with bible-based thoughts, scripture, and a prayer. Topics range from having a heart after God, forgiveness, and developing patience to pray for your family, city, and missionaries worldwide. We hope that at the end of your 21-day journey, you will have further developed discipline by spending time with Jesus and surrendering your cares to Him.

Take a 21-day journey of prayer and fasting with us. Why a fast? Because in it, we have this amazing opportunity to grow closer to Jesus and know Him more deeply as we seek freedom, breakthrough, and guidance! In this plan, we'll have the opportunity to read Scripture and a devotional, meditate on a reflective prompt, and pray.

We believe that God works miracles today by the power of the Holy Spirit to bless people and advance his kingdom. We’re believing God for miracles that will testify to his power and create new opportunities for the gospel to advance. Our devotional material focuses on miracles from the book of Acts, where we see God showing his love for people, resulting in the kingdom of God advancing.

14 Days of Prayer and Fasting

Take a 21-day journey of prayer and fasting with us. Why a fast? Because in it, we have this amazing opportunity to grow closer to Jesus and know Him more deeply as we seek freedom, breakthrough, and guidance! In this plan, we'll have the opportunity to read Scripture and a devotional, meditate on a reflective prompt, and pray.

Fasting is a spiritual discipline that calls us to deny the desires of our flesh and fill ourselves up with God, His Word, and His presence. Over the next 40 days, we will grow in intimacy with God, position ourselves to be in His perfect will, and learn about His dunamis power in our daily personal encounters.

As followers of Christ, one of the most powerful things we can do is develop spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines are the habits and practices that help us become like Jesus. This Plan is all about fasting and abstinence—two disciplines that help us say no to our desires so we can say yes to following Jesus.

During Connect 21, we aspire to gain clarity in hearing God's voice and making His wisdom our guiding light throughout the year. To achieve this, we commit to subduing the desires of our flesh through fasting, redirecting the time spent on meals to prayer, and glorifying God. This spiritual discipline empowers us to experience God's presence and to witness His transformative power in our lives.

Embark on this 21-day journey with Mark and Darlene Zschech. Immerse yourself in key scriptures guided by the insights of these seasoned pastors. Unveil the power of prayer through daily reflections, fostering a deeper connection with God. We pray you will experience renewal, growth, and spiritual breakthroughs as you align your heart with God's Word.

This plan is 21 topics and Bible passages for when you aren’t sure what to pray.

Every year, we come together to pray and fast so we can hear from God and know what He is telling us to do. As we learn to depend on God, His word does not only feed, strengthen, encourage, comfort, and satisfy us, but it gives us life. This family devotional is designed to be used by parents with children from the ages of four to twelve.

Fasting advances our spiritual life, and Scripture encourages its practice. These times of physical denial help us grow spiritually and give us the opportunity to feel the loving embrace of Jesus. In this plan, author, Gretchen Rodriguez will help you set your heart on a journey of sacred discovery as you fast and seek God.

Fasting isn’t a time of emptiness but spiritual abundance! Without prayer, a fast is no more than a diet. As you fast these next 21 days, lean into your daily encounters with God. Each day, invite the Holy Spirit to reset your mind, heart, and appetite on the things of the Lord.

We all know that there is power in prayer. Prayer is defined in several ways: it is how we praise and worship our glorious Lord and Savior; it is our most powerful weapon; our open door to communication with the living God; the vehicle to confess our sin; how to find God's will for our lives and one of the ways we can hear the voice of our precious Savior. It is not very often that we hear about fasting with prayer, either from the pulpit or in our conversations as a church community. Yet, the Bible has so much to say on this subject and so many wonderful accounts of deliverance, forgiveness, and miracles that happened when God's people did fast and pray together. This ten-day reading plan will focus on some of the Biblical accounts and show us the undeniable power and movement of God when His people humble themselves through fasting and prayer.

The amazing grace that we receive through Jesus Christ our Savior empowers us to live a Christian life in every circumstance. This plan will guide you through aspects of grace in a theological, biblical, and practical way. Because of God’s amazing grace, we are saved, and because of his amazing grace, we can walk in faithfulness and obedience to Jesus.

The James River Church 21 Days of Fasting and Prayer Devotion plan is designed to encourage and strengthen you as you devote this time to walking closer with the Lord. The plan consists of short devotions and a Scripture reading plan for each day. We know that as you spend time fasting and praying, you will see God do more than you can ask or imagine!