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About this journey

A journey is a short, themed path through Scripture, one day at a time: a passage to read, a short reflection, a question to journal on and a prayer.

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Guided journey · 21 days

21 Days of Prayer & Fasting

Many churches begin the year by setting aside three weeks to seek God together. Walk through what Scripture says about humbling ourselves, turning back to God, listening for his voice and praying with persistence — trusting him with the outcome rather than demanding one. If you have a health condition, are pregnant or take regular medication, please fast wisely and speak to a doctor first; fasting can also mean giving up a meal, media or a habit and giving that time to God.

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  1. Day 1: Rend your heartJoel 2:12-17God calls his people to turn to him with all their heart, with fasting and weeping, and to tear their hearts rather than their clothes, because he is gracious, merciful and slow to anger.
  2. Day 2: Seen by your FatherMatthew 6:16-18Jesus teaches that fasting is not a performance to impress others; we fast before our Father who sees in secret.
  3. Day 3: Bread for the hungryIsaiah 58:6-11God says the fast he chooses includes freeing the oppressed, sharing bread with the hungry, welcoming the poor and clothing the naked.
  4. Day 4: If my people2 Chronicles 7:12-14God tells Solomon that if his people humble themselves, pray, seek his face and turn from their wicked ways, he will hear from heaven and forgive.
  5. Day 5: A clean heartPsalms 51:1-12David appeals to God's loving-kindness, honestly owns his sin and asks God to wash him, create a clean heart in him and restore the joy of salvation.
  6. Day 6: Two men prayingLuke 18:9-14A religious man boasts that he fasts twice a week, while a tax collector simply asks for mercy; Jesus says it is the humble man who goes home justified.
  7. Day 7: Who can tell?Jonah 3:4-10When Nineveh hears God's warning, everyone from the king to the least person fasts and turns from violence, hoping God will show mercy — and he does.
  8. Day 8: Thirsting for GodPsalms 63:1-8In a dry land, David seeks God early and longs for him, declaring that God's loving-kindness is better than life itself.
  9. Day 9: One thingPsalms 27:4-8David's one great desire is to dwell with the Lord and behold his beauty; when God says 'Seek my face', his heart answers, 'Thy face, Lord, will I seek.'
  10. Day 10: Not by bread aloneMatthew 4:1-11After fasting forty days, Jesus is tempted by the devil and answers each temptation with God's word: we do not live by bread alone, but by every word from God.
  11. Day 11: Speak, Lord1 Samuel 3:1-10At a time when God's word was rare, the Lord calls the boy Samuel again and again, and Eli teaches him to answer, 'Speak; for thy servant heareth.'
  12. Day 12: A safe road aheadEzra 8:21-23Before a dangerous journey, Ezra calls a fast so the people can humble themselves and seek from God a right way for their families and possessions, and God hears them.
  13. Day 13: Weeping for the broken wallsNehemiah 1:4-11Hearing that Jerusalem lies in ruins, Nehemiah weeps, fasts and prays, confessing his own and his people's sin and reminding God of his promise to gather those who return.
  14. Day 14: If I perishEsther 4:12-17Facing a threat to her people, Esther asks the community to fast with her for three days before she takes a dangerous step, saying, 'If I perish, I perish.'
  15. Day 15: Three full weeksDaniel 10:2-12Daniel mourns for three weeks, eating no pleasant food, meat or wine; then a messenger tells him his words were heard from the first day he humbled himself before God.
  16. Day 16: Ask, seek, knockMatthew 7:7-11Jesus invites us to ask, seek and knock, assuring us that our Father in heaven gives good things to those who ask him — far better than any earthly parent.
  17. Day 17: Do not give upLuke 18:1-8Jesus tells of a widow who keeps coming to an unjust judge, to teach that we should always pray and not lose heart, because God cares for those who cry to him.
  18. Day 18: The church prayedActs 12:1-12Herod kills James and imprisons Peter, while the church prays without ceasing; God sends an angel to free Peter, who finds the believers still gathered in prayer.
  19. Day 19: Grace that is enough2 Corinthians 12:7-10Paul asks three times for his thorn to be removed; instead the Lord answers, 'My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.'
  20. Day 20: Yet I will rejoiceHabakkuk 3:17-19Even if the fig tree does not blossom and the fields and flocks fail, Habakkuk chooses to rejoice in the Lord, who is his strength.
  21. Day 21: Pressing onPhilippians 3:7-14Paul counts everything as loss compared with knowing Christ, and, forgetting what lies behind, he presses on toward the prize of God's upward call in Christ Jesus.