14 Days of Prayer & Fasting
A time when Verve Community intentionally seeks God in prayer and believes for Him to move in powerful ways.
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Daily @ 7am
Morning Zoom Prayer Gatherings
Start the day in prayer, weekday mornings from 7am – 7:30am on Zoom.
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Daily Prayer Focuses:
1/21 Leadership and Outreach
1/22 – Creativity/Diversity within the Church
1/23 – Our Church Pastors, Staff and Leaders
1/24 – Clear Vision/Purpose
1/25 – God’s Provision (resources)
1/26 – Healing (physically and emotionally)
1/27 – Restoration (relationships and broken places)
1/28 – Salvations (reaching those far from God)
Why We Pray
Prayer is our first response.
From the moment we give our lives to Jesus we are invited into the beauty of communicating with God, the very creator of all things in heaven and on earth. We can come to him in boldness lifting up our every word, need, and desire. Whether we find ourselves in the valley or rejoicing on the mountain top, God sees it all. Prayer is not our last resort, but our first response. There is nothing too grand or too insignificant to God. If you’re worried, pray. If you’re weary, pray. If you’re wondering, pray. If you’re waiting, pray. Seasons of life may change, but God always remains the same.
Habakkuk 2:1, “I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guard post. There I will wait to see what the Lord says ad how he will answer…”
Why we fast
Prayer is our first response.
“Fasting helps us to express, to deepen, and to confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves, to attain the Kingdom of God.” — Andrew Murray
Fasting is the act of choosing to abstain from food for a period of time. When we fast, we are practicing spiritual discipline by sacrificing one of our most essential daily routines. There is power in the absence of food as we hunger after the word and seek God with our mind, heart, body and spirit. There are several different ways that we can partner both prayer and fasting together.
LIQUID FAST: Consuming only liquids for a specific period of time.
PARTIAL FAST: Abstaining from specific kinds of food. For example Daniel Fast
TV/SOCIAL MEDIA: Choosing to abstain from certain technologies for a specific period of time.
Fasting Guide:
FASTING GUIDE TYPES OF FAST – Your personal fast should present some level of challenge, but it is very important to know your body, your options, and most importantly, to seek God in prayer and follow what the Holy Spirit leads you to do.
COMPLETE FOOD FAST - In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.
SELECTIVE FOOD 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 fruit and vegetables for food.
PARTIAL FOOD 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.
MEDIA/ONE THING YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT FAST - This fast is referred to as a Soul Fast and 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
