Introduction
Rise City Church is entering into 21 days of prayer and fasting this January. This is a season of focused prayer and fasting as a church family. You may also choose to fast at other times during the year for your own spiritual development. It’s very typical to fast a single meal, a whole day, or three days or more. The timing of your fast is not as important as the strength of your focus on God as you fast. Here are some descriptions of different types of fasts for you to pray about. Your "choice" of fast for these 21 days is personal to you and is prayerfully discerned as an act of worship and dependence on God. Please consider your fasting and prayer schedule as we move closer to Jan 6th when we will begin our fast as a church family.
Complete Fast
In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.
Selective Fast
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.
Partial Fast
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.
Soul Fast
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.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
Matthew 6:16-18 | Matthew 9:14-15 |
Luke 18:9-14 | Acts 27:33-37 | Nehemiah 9:1-3
