AUGUST 11-31, 2025
PRAYER GATHERINGS
Encounter
August 20 at 7:00pm
PRAY 21 IS FOR YOU
If you sense God has more for your life, 21 Days of Prayer is a great place to start believing Him for all that He has for you. As you practice seeking Him first, He will move on your behalf like never before. You will start to see the power of prayer impact your relationships, work, family, and every area of your life. We would love for you to be part of 21 Days of Prayer by downloading the daily prayer guide below.
DAILY PRAYER TOPICS
Follow along with us as we pray for these topics each day.
CHOOSE THE RIGHT FASTING PLAN FOR YOU
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In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.
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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 fruits and vegetables for food.
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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.
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This fast is 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 doses at the conclusion of the fast.
Why We Pray
Prayer begins with a burden to embrace our brokenness. We take our limitations to God, embracing what we cannot do in order to trust Him with what only He can do. Prayer aligns our heart with His — changing us, shaping us, encouraging us, helping us to hear His voice and trust His wisdom. Prayer puts us in a posture of humility because we must face our own limited power while asking God to use His power to work in and through us.
Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. — Isaiah 59:1
Why We Fast
Fasting is a way to push back on the incessant need to fulfill surface level desires. Fasting clears away the clutter and our self-medicated stupors to help us see ourselves and God a little more clearly. By doing this, we trust that God will meet us in our hunger and feed us by His word.