21 day interdenominational prayer and fasting (Jan 8–28)
From Jan 8 a 3-week long inderdenominational prayer and fasting has started. Several churches will start a full or partial fasting and pray for the same prayer requests.
Our church will join this initiative.
We encourage everybody, if the Lord is leading you, to join us in a form of prayer and fasting that you feel free to do (fasting can be abandoning any kind of time consuming activity or thing by practicing self-control to spend time with the Lord in prayer.) We are aware that not everybody is able to fast with food for several days, so it is up to you when and how long you are fasting abstaining from what thing (food or other)
Before Sunday nights at 6 pm we are going to pray for the topics of that week. Below you can read a letter of the prayer and fasting initiative and its topics and timing.
“In each city and area the local churches decide how to organize the forms of prayer, and whether to join other churches for organizing prayer meetings for the three weeks. Churches can broaden the prayer topics according to the local needs of their area.
The suggested form of fasting in the first week is juice fasting and the second and third week is "Danial fasting" but each church and brother should feel free in the Lord in the form of fasting.You can share your vision and experience and keep an ongoing contact on this page: imabojt.blog.hu
The topics of the three-week prayer and fasting aim to touch needs in our personal, local church and national life.
Week #1: January 8-15: Prayer and fasting for our personal lives and families
Let's pray according to Isaiah 58:6-14 so that the blessing of fasting would be poured out on our personal lives. Let's pray that:
1. the yoke of sin would be broken in our lives (6)
2. we would be healed from all sicknesses (8)
3. we would be prepared to recieve God's greater anointing in our lives (8,10,14)
4. we would be more sensitive to the leading of the Spirit! (9-11)
5. the yoke of poverty would be broken in our lives (11)
6. we would be in the main stream of God's will (12)
7. our empathy towards those in need and our willingness to serve them would increase (7,10)
8. our spirital lives would be continuously renewing (14)
9. we would be able to reach the lost with passionate love (6,7)
10. we would want to and be able to be quickly restored from failures and losses (8,12)
Romans 15:13 – Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Week #2: January 15-22.: Prayer and fasting for our local church and the Body of Christ
Let's pray that:
1. the body of Christ would stick to the hope and faith received from God, would be overflowing in the so to have something to give to the world (Romans 15:13)
2. the body of Christ could understand, grasp and experience the promises, heritance and power of of God , so that it would be able to move in the world and have an influence on it.
3. the Chruch would wish and strive to keep the unity in the Spirit (Eph 4:3) and would strive to by love to be perfectly one so that the world would realize that the Father sent Jesus and that God loves us (John 17:22-23).
4. God would raise up those people whom he prepared for this time to encourage the Body of Christ and would be used to reach the world
5. God would shake up the world and the Church and in His mercy He would give us grace so that His eternal Kingdom would determine our thinking and it would be visible in our lives (Heb 12:26-28).
6. the local chuches would be able to be light and salt in the world, affecting it so that it wouldn't be the other way around.
Week #3: January 22-28.: Prayer and fasting for the Hungarian Church and Nation
Let's pray that:1. " Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence." (1 Tim 2:1-2)
2. Let's pray for and let's bless the lives of families, the nation and the economy.
3. ...there would be signs and wonders in the area of healing so that the problems of the Hungarian Health and Medical System would be solved. Let's pray for a phyisical and mental health of those living in Hungary, and that depression, abortions and suicides would decrese.
4. ... God's Kingdom would be present in the media and that freedom of speech and impartiality would happen in 2012.
5. Let's pray for marital and family relationship and let's bless them. Let's pray that the number of divorces would decrease and the number of marriages made would increase.
6. .... such laws would come to pass that are enhancing the Kingdom of God (in the area of Church, tax, media, constitution, areas affecting the bank of issue), that the Jurisdiction would serve the truth, and that the armed forces would be affected in the exposure and restraint of sin.
7. ... God would bring revival in our youth, as He has promised.
8. Let's pray for the different nationalities living in Hungary (esp. for the gypsies and jews) and let's bless them in prayer.
9. ...Hungary would be able to live in harmony and peace with the nations around her.
There will be a closing service in Budapest on Sat, Jan 28, from 4pm in the 8th district in the Rhema Conference Center, at Golgota street 3.
In the name of the organizers: Henderson Paul, Horváth Balázs, Mikes Attila, Perjesi István, Simon Sándor, Vincze Gábor"
