COMMON FASTS

Fasting is an invitation from the Lord for us to engage with Him in a heightened way. There is no right or wrong way to fast, and there are many different kinds of fasts to choose from. Here are several ways you can participate:

1-day fast each week for the entire day

3-day liquid fast

10-day Daniel fast or liquid fast

21-day Daniel fast, liquid fast, or 1 meal per day

Water Fast

Abstaining from all forms of food and drink other than water

Juice Fast

Abstaining from all solid food and only drinking juice and water

Daniel Fast

Eating only vegetables and abstaining from meats, sweets, etc.

Eating only vegetables

Eating only vegetables and abstaining from meats, sweets, etc.

Selective Meal Fast

Abstaining from certain meals and snacks throughout the day and only eating a reduced amount during a single designated mealtime Regardless of the type of fast you choose to participate in during Pursue, it’s important to pray about what God is leading you to do, as well as consult a doctor and educate yourself if you have any questions or health concerns.

Scripture teaches us that something unique and powerful happens when believers gather together in faith to seek God and cry out to Him with one voice. Here are some ways to engage through prayer and worship: Attend every MidWeek Service Attend at least 1 prayer meeting per week Set morning alarm 30 minutes early to pray

During these 21 days, carve out significant time to spend reading the Bible. Here are a few reading challenges: Start and complete a 21-Day YouVersion Reading Plan Start 1-Year YouVersion Full Bible Reading Plan Read the entire New Testament in 21 days Read the entire Bible in 21 days


Day 2 | January 8

Humility / Repentance

 

Joel 2:12-13

 

“Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.

 

Day 3 | January 9

Spirit of Revelation

 

Ephesians 1:17-19

 

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength

 

Day 4 | January 10

Spirit of Wisdom / Fear of the Lord

 

Colossians 1:9-11 / Proverbs 9:10

 

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, o that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,

 

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding

Day 5 | January 11

Love: 1st & 2nd Commandments

 

Luke 10:27

 

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' ; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.

 

Day 6 | January 12

Strength / Endurance

 

Ephesians 3:16

 

I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.

Day 7 | January 13

Healing / Deliverance

 

Isaiah 53:4-5

 

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Day 8 | January 14

Strengthening of Marriages

 

Ephesians 5:31-32

 

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

 

Day 9 |.January 15

Gatekeepers (Parents / Guardians)

 

Malachi 4:5-6

 

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

 

Day 10 | January 16

Family Altars

 

Matthew 18:20

 

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.

 

Day 11 | January 17

Strength / Protection

 

Numbers 6:24-26

 

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.

 

Day 12 | January 18

T Unity / Restoration

 

Ephesians 4:1-3 / 1 Peter 4:8

 

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

 

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins

 

Day 13 | January 19

Prodigals / Lost Family

 

Jeremiah 24:7 / Luke 15:11-32

 

And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

 

11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. 13 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. 17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate. 25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ 28 “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. 29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. 30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’ 31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

Day 14 | January 20

Spirit of Adoption

 

Psalm 127:3-5 / Psalm 68:6

 

Psalm 100:3: Know that the Lord is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, the sheep of His pasture.

 

Psalm 95:7-8: For He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care. Today, if only you would hear His voice, “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the wilderness.”

 

1 Timothy 2:8: Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.

 

Matthew 13:58: And He did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith.

Day 15 | January 21

Spirit of Prayer on the Church

 

Isaiah 56:7

 

these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

 

Day 16 | January 22

Outpouring of Holy Spirit

 

Acts 2:1-4, 29-31

 

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues[a] as the Spirit enabled them.

 

“Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30 But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. 31 Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay.

 

Day 17 | January 23

Awakening in the Next Generation

 

Acts 2:16-21

 

No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17 “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. 21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved

 

Day 18 | January 24

Unity in the Church

 

John 17:20-23

 

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

 

Day 19 | January 25

Salvations in the City

 

2 Thessalonians 3:1

 

Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you. And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has faith.

Day 20 | January 26

T Justice in the City

 

Amos 5:24 / Isaiah 1:17

 

But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

 

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. 18 “Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD.

Day 21 |.January 27

Unreached People

 

Revelation 7:9-10 /Matthew 28:19

 

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.”

 

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.