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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Twelve | Created For Community Jan 22, 2024

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Today's Prayer: Lord, where would I be without my brothers and sisters in Christ? As we move into a time of prayer, ask the Lord to reveal areas of your own life that you have been reluctant to share with the Body. Ask Him to speak life and truth into these areas. Ask Him to deepen your faith and allow you to trust Him in the vulnerability of sharing your gifts with others. Lord, we know that your ways are better than our own. We know that your ways alone bring fullness of joy. We confess our attempts to live in isolation, despite your command to live as one body. We confess our attempts to withhold our gifts. Unwilling to be vulnerable. Unwilling to risk rejection. You have given us a better way. You have given us the gift of a New Family. Through your Spirit, you have made us one. Thank you for allowing us to reflect your glory as we live as one body. As we walk through our day, remind us that your Word tells us that “two are better than one.” Remind us that your strength and perfection are made known as we live in unity. Deepen our understanding of what it means to belong fully to one another today. Remind of us our need for you. Remind us that your ways are better. For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Eleven | A Kind Gaze, A Gentle Question, & A Brave Invitation Jan 21, 2024

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Today's Passage: John 5:2-9

Today's Prayer: Jesus, the one who’s gaze never waivers from those that you care for. Today, right where I am, give me eyes to see those around me, right where they are. In their loneliness or brokenness, in their hiding or their shame. Let me love those who are longing to be known, and know those who are longing to be loved. You are a God who notices - the small victories and the deepest of pain. We pray that we would become more devoted to your teaching - To rejoice with those who rejoice, and to weep with those that weep. Teach us more deeply how to dignify others with our presence and our personal attention. Jesus, you never seemed to be in a hurry. You stopped and called people by name. You took the long way around. You lingered. You inquired. You asked questions you no doubt already knew the answer to. Tune our hearts to be like yours - on the lookout for those that need to feel the simple hope of companionship today. For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Ten | As For Me and My House Jan 20, 2024

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Today's Passage: Deuteronomy 6:4-9

Today's Prayer: Lord Jesus we love you. May you give us the grace to daily love you more. May our lives be marked by a choice to turn away from the idols surrounding us. Fill our hearts with a love of your word and a desire for those around us to know that your word is truth. Today we consecrate our daily mentality. Instead of being people just trying to get by or trying to be as happy as can be, let us be people moved by a desire to know you and trust you more and more. Move our hearts from being just hearers of the word to doers of the word. Today and tomorrow and all our days to come are yours. For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Nine | The Fruit of Forgiveness Jan 19, 2024

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Today's Passage: Ephesians 4:31-32

Today's Prayer: Father, in faith, I thank you for the instruction to forgive in Ephesians 4. I confess the places in my life where I need to practice this. With the friend I feel wronged by…My colleague at work…The child who actively rebels and resists relationship…The situation that did not go the way I desired...
I confess the places in my life that have been tainted by bitterness and anger. I confess that I have said things I should not have said. I confess that I have not desired others’ best good.
And in faith I come to you and whisper: “I forgive.”
I release people and circumstances into Your hands and I choose to walk in kindness and compassion, entrusting the details of my life into Your care.
- When I think of old hurts…I trust You to make me new.
- When I recall recent wounds, given and received…I trust You to make me new.
- When I remember hurtful words, spoken by or to me…I trust You to make me new.
- When I recount unfairness, toward me or by me toward others…I trust You to make me new.
- When I’m tempted by a quarrelsome spirit…I trust You to make me new.
- I walk in kindness…knowing You have me new. - I put on compassion…knowing You have made me new.
- And bind them both to me…knowing Your forgiveness has made me new.

Because You forgave me, I choose the way of forgiveness. For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Eight | Because He First Loved Us Jan 18, 2024

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Today's Passage: 1 John 4:19 and 1st Corinthians 13:4-7

Today's Prayer: Spencer prayed over us and for us, enjoy that today.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Seven | A Quiet Place to Rest Jan 17, 2024

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Today's Passage: Psalm 62:5-8

Today's Prayer: Lord, you alone are my strength and you alone are my hope.

You alone sustain me.

Lord, I confess that I find myself time and time again falling into the rhythm of trying to define my worth by my own productiveness – attempting to earn your love, earn your approval, by my own list of accomplishments.

But you, Lord, have called me to something different. You have called me to come to a place that is quiet and still. You have called me to step away and create space for solitude.

Lord, I long for the rest that only you can provide. My own efforts fail time and time again and leave me weary.

Your Word tells us that You make us lie down is green pastures. That you lead us by still waters and restore our souls. Remind us today that You are the provider of true and sustaining rest. Remind us that your promised rest is greater than anything we can achieve by our own strength.

Lord, we pray today that you will enable us to quiet our thoughts and sit with you in the stillness. We ask that as we remove the distractions of our day, you will reveal yourself to us in a new way. We trust that you will alone sustain us.

Lord, you alone are my strength and you alone are my hope.

You alone are my rest.

For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Six | Those Who Are Wise Jan 16, 2024

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Today's Passages: Proverbs 2:6-15 & James 3:13-18

Today's Prayer: Father, thank you that you graciously give us all things. Today, unlike other days, we seek wisdom as we walk through our day to day life.
Let the wisdom I have be pure, peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits. Let me be impartial and sincere. Convict me when the wisdom I seek is for selfish ambition.

In my seeking of wisdom, let me become a clearer reflection of You and your heart. Help me trust you when the wisdom you give asks me to wait, rather than illuminating my next step.

Thank you for how you generously lavish your gift of wisdom on me. You are a good God and I trust in you. AMEN

For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Five | Abide In Me Jan 15, 2024

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Today's Passage: John 15:1-8

Today's Prayer: May we start our day with truth.
Jesus, you are the vine and God is the gardener.

From your true vine is where we grow.

We fight the urge to water our own soil with comforts of the world, disconnecting from the true vine.

Prune away the places in our lives that are withering and dead.
Areas where apathy, impatience, anger, idleness, indifference have begun to take root.

As you prune the branches producing good fruit and we feel the wince of discomfort,
may we find comfort in the nearness of your presence and hand as the pruning takes place.

Remember, through pruning, more fruit can grow.

Abide in me and I in you.

An invitation and a promise that Jesus has spoken.

We are invited to abide in Christ as he promises to abide in us.

May we live in a way to stay connected to the true vine and have the words of Jesus come true in us.

For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Four | A Psalm of Confession Jan 14, 2024

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Today's Passage: Psalm 51

Today's Prayer:
O God, the dark is not dark to you.
You see in us the remnant of our old selves, still gasping for breath and contending to rule us.
Our wrong is not hidden from your loving gaze.
In your power, You are keenly aware of the ways our sin seeks to drag us back down into the pit.

We confess the ways we knowingly and unknowingly reject the life of freedom you have given us.
Our selfishness, our pride, our fear, our desires, our addictions and our sloth.
Our insatiable desire to be seen, Our doubts, our lusts, our pettiness and our violence. They writhe around in us - echoes from the heart of stone that once beat in our souls.

But you, O God, have done a mighty work.
You have cleansed us, washed us, made us new and declared us good-to-go in your sight.

You have both absorbed our wrong and bestowed on us all of your right-ness.
A holy exchange of which we are not worthy but lovingly accept in bewildered gratitude. In the moments that we think we are awesome, remind us how you’ve rescued us.
In the moments that we think we are awful, remind us how you’ve rescued us.
We confess that all our sinful desires in this life point to an eternal truth.
That we are hungry.

For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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21 Days of Prayer & Fasting: Day Three | Audit & Attend Jan 13, 2024

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Today's Passage: 1 Timothy 4:7-16

Today's Prayer: Father, I will have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather, I choose to train for godliness, knowing it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

It is on you, the living God, that my hope is set.

I choose to be an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

I choose to devote myself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, and to teaching.

In the year ahead I will not neglect the gift you have given me.

I will practice what you have commanded me, I will immerse myself in Your ways.

I will keep a close watch on myself and be persistent in following you into the future.

For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.

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