Prayer & Fasting For Spiritual Breakthroughs!
Twenty one days of “Prayer & Fasting!” January 8 – 28
In many places in His Word God calls His people to pray and fast when we
need spiritual breakthroughs, revival, healing and help with people’s
needs and for our nation! Prayer and fasting should also be a regular
discipline that every believer participates in (Matt . 6:16).
This will be the sixth consecutive time Harvest has begun the new year
with prayer and fasting. We believe God has called us to set this time
aside each year for a time of devotion and consecration to Him. We have
then seen and received answers to prayer throughout the year that we
believe are a result of this time of prayer and fasting!
There are two rules.
1. There are no rules. You should fast and pray before God, for Him, in the way that you feel works best for you.
2. No guilt. For these twenty one days fast and pray with no guilt. If you don’t fully succeed one day or week in what you planned regarding fasting, just start again and keep going. Don’t let anything hold you back or stop you.
Personal & Church Needs
1. Use this time to come before God repenting and asking for His forgiveness. The Holy Spirit will often
speak to us about habits and behaviour He wants us to drop off and change.
2. Ask God to revive every one of us at Harvest. Ask for His manifest presence when we meet together.
3. Ask that every person at Harvest will be saved and set free.
4. Ask that God will show us how He wants us to reach lost people all around us.
5. Ask for a powerful youth leader with many young people and a great outpouring on our children.
6. Ask for continued unity & oneness among all people at Harvest.
7. Personal needs:
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a. A new job for Elizabeth
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b. Housing & jobs for Agnes & Abiodun-school for their son Samuel.
National Prayer Requests
1. Revival for our nation. Pray that millions of children, teens & adults would be saved and delivered!
2. Mighty Holy Spirit revival for Christ’s church in Canada!
3. Salvation for our Prime Minister, Premiers and mayors.
4. Protection from all terrorist attacks
Your Own Personal Needs
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Ezra 8:21-23 “…I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for.......So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and He answered our prayer”.
Joel 2:12 – Fasting, praying and repenting!
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
Matthew 6:16-18 – God expects us to fast & pray!
“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, 1so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
Luke 2:37 – Prayer & fasting as a commitment to God!
“..and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying”.
Acts 13:3 – Fast To receive the Holy Spirit’s guidance & help!
“So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off”.