Call on Heaven: A 25 Day Journey of Prayer and Fasting

As followers of Jesus, we are For People This means we walk with people through the highlights of life as well as through the valleys.

This is the call and identity of Jesus’ Church: to be a family, a body, a blessing, and a people of support in a turbulent and broken world (Eph. 2:11-22; 4:1-3).

The Church is the gathered people of God. It is one “body” but it is made up of individuals. You, as a uniquely designed and equipped ambassador of God, have a role to play and a gift to contribute. You are meant to encourage, love, and celebrate the community of believers you belong to, and as you do, the Church shifts from a place you go to a family to which you belong. When you transition from treating church as something you attend to something you personally belong and contribute to, you step into the community and worship God had in mind for His people.

This week, we are going to be the church by building community through a Corporate Fast. It is in and through relationships that our community becomes our family, so we are taking a step together this week. Think of a Partial or Surrender Fast - perhaps even continuing the same fast from Week 1 - but this time invite one or two friends to join you in your fast. As you commit to pursuing after God together, share your prayer requests and heart’s desire with each other and commit to praying for each other.

As you step into this week, know that God is working in you to shape you into the person of Christ. One of His primary means to this end is community - His Church. This is why the Proverb writer could say, “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another” (Prov. 27:17). By sowing into your relationships and blessing your friends and family, you invest in your own spiritual development and open up your life to the transformative blessing of rich, Godly community (Heb. 10:24-25; Gal. 6:2).