We are thrilled you are committing the first part of your year to developing yourself spiritually
Every year, millions of people make promises to themselves and those they love to change for the better, yet they break those promises a few weeks (or sometimes days) later. We spend so much energy looking for our best life only to experience so much heartache when we don’t find what we’re looking for. Perhaps we’re looking in the wrong place!
Do you want 2025 to be the best year of your life? If so, commit to making it your best year spiritually. Make a decision, here and now, to seek Jesus with reckless abandon and watch as He begins to transform every area of your life! Trust me; I know from personal experience that there is no better investment you could make in yourself and in your family than to put God first in this way. That’s why we can confidently say this will be the best year of your life, if it’s your best year spiritually.
Jesus said:
“If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” Jesus is making a staggering and counterintuitive claim here. He’s saying that seeking your own best interest will never work. He’s saying you will never find the peace, the satisfaction, and the life you’re looking for, by looking for it! He’s saying the only way to find what you’re truly looking for is to find it in Him. Again, in Matthew 6:33 ESV, Jesus makes a similar promise: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Mark 8:34–35
We are praying and fasting:
1. for fire to be ignited in you to pray and seek God.
2. that our families would come to salvation in Jesus Christ.
3. that provision would be released so you can fulfil the call of God upon your life.
According to Ezra 8:21-23, God will answer our prayers as we humble ourselves before Him, seek His face for direction, pray for the next generation [little ones], pray for our families, pray for our possessions.
Ezra 8:21-23
Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions.
For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.”
So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.
You will find 21 days of devotional content on our website. This is meant to guide you on a journey of pursuing God first. I encourage you to take this seriously. Put your heart into it, even if you don’t see immediate results, and watch what God will do.
The content of this 21 days of devotion has been prepared to guide you on a journey of pursuing God first. I encourage you to take this seriously. Put your heart into it, even if you don’t see immediate results, and watch what God will do.
21 DAYS OF FASTING
During this challenge, we will commit to growing closer to God through discipline in the form of fasting food or something else we use on a daily basis, so we can identify God as our true priority.
21 DAYS OF PRAYER
For 21 days, we will commit to communicating with God by praying on our own and together as a church family.
21 DAYS OF BIBLE READING
Along with prayer and fasting, we will commit to getting to know God better through a daily 15-minute devotional which will help us grow in the areas of our lives that matter most to Him.
Meet on Zoom
every Monday, Thursday & Friday at 7pm during the fast.
We encourage you to join in as many meetings as possible, to build and encourage you throughout the fast.
You will need a link to join in.
These meetings are for live participation.
They are not being recorded or broadcast on our social media.
