FASTING & PRAYER IN DECISION-MAKING SITUATIONS
Read: Acts 13:2-3
Have you ever paused and possibly refrained from doing something before taking a big step, like going to university, changing your residence, or other big changes in your life?
We are often driven by our life circumstances and don’t always take time out to think. But it is precisely in this moment of pause that this great treasure is hidden; with it, we give God the space to give us direction and encouragement.
Paul and his colleagues had already fasted before they received instruction from the Holy Spirit, that they should be sent out and "released".
Through fasting and abstinence, space is freed up in my hectic life. When we take time to seek out and listen to God, completely new ideas, possibilities, and even callings can sometimes emerge.
Jesus, before choosing his twelve disciples, spent a whole night praying on a mountain.
Read: Luke 6:12-13
How much more does it make sense that we too should seek God and ask him for his advice before making important decisions.
Prayer, Get Free & Next Step
Now take a pen and paper and write down the questions to God that you have right now. Maybe you have a decision to make? Or is it on your heart to fast for your church? Are there people on your mind? Whatever it is, put it down on paper and trust that your fast will make a difference in the spiritual dimension.
Note down a date in your journal so that at the end of this fast you can look at this list again, together with Jesus, and ask him for his perspective. Maybe something has already materialized?
Prayer Points
Thank the Lord for allowing you to participate in this year’s 21 days of prayer and fasting.
1 John 1:9 – Confess any known and unknown sins.
Praise the Lord for bringing you and your household into the year 2023.
1 Kings 18:46 – Continue to ask God for special grace and strength to sustain and keep you during this fasting season.
Matt 6:6 – Father, help me to build an altar of prayer in my life and home. Lord use this fast to set it up in Jesus’ name. (pray earnestly)
Matt 6:6 – Father, help every participant of this year’s fast build an altar of prayer
Luke 6:12 – Father, help me to seek Your face through intense prayer and fasting before any major decision that I make going forward. Lord use this fast to prepare me for this. (pray earnestly)
Luke 6:12 – Lord, help all the participants of this fast and PPT households to seek Your face through intense prayer and fasting before any major decision.
Matt 26:39,42 – Like Jesus, I will seek for Your direction in my decision-making. O Lord, give me clarity and controlled emotions. (pray earnestly)
Daniel 5:14 – Jehovah, give me, my household and PPT households wisdom, insight and understanding into all things. (both in spiritual & physical realms)
Daniel 5:14 – Lord, give the church wisdom, insight and understanding about the schemes of the enemy affecting the body of Christ.
Acts 13:2 – Almighty God, give me clarity about my supplication(s) when I fast and pray this year. Give me the grace to fast and pray beyond this 21-day fast.
Acts 13:2 – Lord give every participant and PPT households clarity about their supplication(s) when they fast and pray. Release upon them the grace to fast and pray in 2023.
Pray for the PPT missionaries and the persecuted church.
Pray about 4 things you would want God to do for you during this 21-day fast.
Prayer Declaration
If it had not been you, Jehovah Ebenezer, our helper on my side, where would I be? Your grace and mercy brought me through 2022 and now I have seen 2023. Father, I am thankful and appreciate all that You have done for me, my household, PPT households and the church.
Oh Lord, as we wait on you through intense prayers and fasting this month, let me, my household, and PPT experience “open heavens” creating spiritual opportunities resulting in having dominion over our lives (health, career, relationships, and finances).
I declare and decree that every spiritual valley in and around my life will be filled with an overflow of Jehovah’s blessings. I declare and decree that every spiritual mountain and hill in my way, in my family’s way, in PPT households’ way will be brought low in Jesus’ name.
I declare and decree that every spiritual crooked place in and around my life will be made straight by your power. I declare and decree that every spiritual rough way in my pathway, in my family’s pathway, PPT households’ pathway and the church’s pathway will be smooth.
I affirm that the zeal of the Lord will accomplish this. So shall it be.
Group prayer at 8:00 pm tonight.
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