21 Days of Prayer and Fasting
We are starting off 2026 with a time of prayer and fasting. We want to begin the year asking God where he is working and how he wants us to join him in that work. We also want to pray for wisdom in how we do so. We want to pray for God to reveal his vision for us as his church in downtown Bellingham.
Why should I fast?
Fasting prepares you for the works God has ordained for you to do.
Wesley Duewel, a twentieth-century writer, said, “You and I have no more right to omit fasting because we feel no special emotional prompting than we have a right to omit prayer, Bible reading, or assembling with God’s children for lack of some special emotional prompting. Fasting is just as biblical and normal a part of a spiritual walk of obedience with God as are these others.”
Some of the most encouraging words that we can read as we prepare to enter into this season are found in Acts 13:2, which reads, “While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said…” We are encouraged and invigorated to know that our time of dedicating ourselves to the Lord in this way will result in us actually hearing from Him!
