March 18th - April 7th
what to do
Throughout our 21 Day Challenge we invite you to join us in the following ways:
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Follow us on Instagram and check our stories for daily reminders and inspiration.
Two
Set aside time each day for reading the Bible and praying. A daily prayer list has been provided as well as different types of fasts for you to consider. Be sensitive to the Lord’s leading when choosing your fast.
Three
Join us each Sunday Morning at 10:30 am as we collectively seek God and His Word. If you’re unable to attend services in person, join us online. There’s nothing better than gathering together to celebrate Jesus.
Day One:
Pray for the rest of the year and ask God to grow your faith during the rest of 2023. Ask the Lord to reveal Himself to you in ways that He never has before.
Day Two:
Ask God to help you to become a better representative of Him and to recognize the opportunities He gives you to make a difference.
Day Three:
Spend time in prayer today for your city, our Nation and our leaders.
Day Four:
Take a moment to walk through your neighborhood, job, or school. Pray for each family, co-worker, student, and individual to find strength and discover God’s love, forgiveness, and restoration.
Day Five:
Pray for your sphere of influence. Ask God for opportunities to serve, love, encourage, and lead those in your life to a relationship with Him.
Day Six:
Pray for the pastors and leaders of the churches in your community. Pay special attention as you walk or drive through your neighborhood and pray for those churches to love their community well, impacting others with the love of Jesus Christ.
Day Seven:
Pray for those that you know who do not know God or walked away from faith. Ask God to draw them by the power of His Spirit to faith in Christ.
Day Eight:
Pray for those who are also participating in this 21 Day Challenge. Ask God to strengthen them and help them (and yourself) to remain faithfully focused on the reason why we’re spending this time in prayer and fasting.
Day Nine:
Spend time praying for specific challenging areas in your life that continue to keep you from experiencing the nearness of Jesus. Ask God to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of His Word.
Day Ten:
Pray for those who are sick. Ask for the faith to believe in supernatural strength and healing.
Day Eleven:
Pray for your classmates or co-workers and ask God to meet the individual needs they may have.
Day Twelve:
Ask God to make His presence and power known in your marriage, relationship, and/or friendship. Pray that God would continue to conform you into the best partner or friend that you can be. If you know of a marriage or relationship in need of prayer, spend time praying for those individuals as well.
Day Thirteen:
Pray for Sunday’s church services. At Encounter, we believe an empty seat is a serious matter. Who does God want you to bring to service tomorrow? Pray that not only would their lives be changed but that they would find their place and purpose in the body of Christ.
Day Fourteen:
Pray and believe for God’s provision, especially for those who are unemployed and financially in need. Ask God to build up a new level of trust in hearts that may doubt God’s ability to provide for every one of their needs.
Day Fifteen:
Pray for those who volunteer at church. Pray for a renewed sense of joy in the privilege we have to serve the people of God every week. If you’re not currently serving at Encounter, ask God for an open door and opportunity to get connected. We like to call this “Taking the next step!”
Day Sixteen:
With only a few days left to the 21 Day Challenge, the spiritual battle only gets tougher. Let’s pray for an overflow of God’s power and perseverance for our church family and for their desire to be a light in this world to grow all the more.
Day Seventeen:
Spend time in prayer for your family. Ask the Lord to help you to honor your parents. If you are a parent, ask God to help you nurture, equip and love your children with the love of Jesus.
Day Eighteen:
The Lord has a specific calling on each of our lives. Spend some time asking Him to reveal that plan to you, if He hasn’t done so already, and for the courage to walk it out daily.
Day Nineteen:
Begin to pray for the abused, the orphan and broken families. Ask God to make His presence and His love known in their lives and to heal the broken areas of their heart.
Day Twenty:
Pray for rest of 2023 and ask God to continue to give you the strength to maintain the spiritual disciplines you’ve established during this challenge. Spend time asking the Lord to continue to take you to a new level this year and to not be satisfied with convenient or cultural Christianity.
Day Twenty One:
Pray for Easter Weekend starting with this evening’s Night of Worship and that as we gather together, we would sense a greater level of expectation, boldness and excitement for the things God has prepared for us. We’re believing that we, as a church, will be stronger than ever before as a result of this period of prayer and fasting!