CCM prayer and fasting week

As Colin outlined last Sunday we are looking to finish our month of prayer with a week of prayer and fasting. In July as we joined the two churches together Jane Graves gave that wonderful prophetic word about God using the two boats to bring in a great catch. I do believe that prophesy like this really encourages us to pray.

Monday -  Pray for our broken city
Neh. 1:1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Neh. 1:2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem. Neh. 1:3 They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.” Neh. 1:4 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.

Tuesday - Pray for the Power of the Holy Spirit
Luke 4:1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, Luke 4:2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
Luke 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.

Wednesday - Pray for your family and future
Ezra 8:21 There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. Ezra 8:22 I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, “The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.”
Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.

Thursday - Pray for a multiplication of ministry
Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 14:23 Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust.

Friday - Pray for the poor and be generous
Is. 58:6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is. 58:7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter — when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

As Colin mentioned last Sunday please seek God as to the type of fast that God wants you to have this next week. It could range from missing one meal to fasting for the whole week. My encouragement to us all, is to pray that God’s kingdom will come on our bit of earth as it is in heaven.

These themes for each day and the bible verses should serve to motivate and encourage us.

CCM prayer and fasting week

As Colin outlined last Sunday we are looking to finish our month of prayer with a week of prayer and fasting. In July as we joined the two churches together Jane Graves gave that wonderful prophetic word about God using the two boats to bring in a great catch. I do believe that prophesy like this really encourages us to pray.