We begin 2023 with 21 days of focused prayer and fasting, seeking the Lord together as a church family. Our hope for this experience is that we become united together: one in purpose as a Bethel community and one in our kingdom mission as Christ-followers.
 
These 21 days are for all of us, whether you’ve never prayed or fasted, or you’re in a regular rhythm of both.

Simply put, prayer is communicating with God. We talk with Him and invite Him to talk to us.

• Commit to a specific time each day to devote to prayer. Find a place where you can be free of distractions and be alone with God. 
• Use the reading plan and listen to the accompanying Anchored Daily podcast to focus and guide you as you are praying. 
• Consider journaling your prayers or working to memorize the verses each day. 
• Pray with others: your small group, family or friends

Fasting is the choice to temporarily give up something that consumes a great deal of your time or focus. Instead of engaging in that activity, you focus your time and energy on God in prayer. The goal of fasting is to turn ourselves from worldly things and set our minds and hearts fully on God. 
 
Ask God to lead you in this time of seeking his face. Humble yourself and draw near to God. Here are some ideas.

• A selective fast, eliminating certain things from your diet.
• A  partial fast, which is refraining from eating for a set period of time each day. You could choose to fast from a single meal or from sunup to sundown. 
• A complete fast, refraining from eating and only drinking liquids for particular days or even an extended period of time. 
• A fast from social media, television, or certain times or activities on your cell phone.

Seeking God together as a church family is the best way to enter 2023!

Prompt 1: Jesus, remind us that You are the only one who came down from Heaven and that our eternity is now secure because we are in You. (v. 13)

Prompt 2: Father God, shine Your light in our lives and reveal to us our heart behind our works. Show us how our works can only be carried out by You, not by our own strength. (v. 21)

Prompt 3: Holy Spirit, show us specific ways that Your generosity is leading us to be generous people, not to make a name for ourselves, but to glorify God. (v. 30)

Prompt 1: Jesus, remind us of what it is like to be a humble child that is fully dependent on You for our spiritual needs and show us where we are still relying on our own ability. (v. 4)

Prompt 2: Father God, astonish us with the lengths that You go to pursue us, give us your heart, and reveal the people we should pursue just as You did us. (v. 12)

Prompt 3: Holy Spirit, impress upon our hearts the bigness of the generosity of the Gospel and show us who we can be generous towards by offering radical, big forgiveness. (v. 27)

Prompt 1: Jesus, remind us of Your incredible grace! Show us specific truths about Your life as a human and bring to mind when we have felt the richness of the new life we have from You. (v. 9)

Prompt 2: Holy Spirit, change the desires of our heart to make giving and generosity not feel like a burden, but something we desire to do because You have been generous to us. (v. 10)

Prompt 3: Father God, show us how the generosity of Bethel can honor our community and change the hearts of our community to see Your love through our actions. (v. 21)

Begin 2023 with transformation through worship! For 3 Sundays in January, gather for nights of worship and prayer at the Richland campus.

6:00P on JAN 8, 15, and 22 in the Kids Auditorium.

Anchored Daily Podcast

P.R.A.Y. Bookmark with Prayer Prompts

Daily Prayers by Scotty Smith

Daily Devotional in the form of a Puritan prayer book, The Valley of Vison