Commit now to join us in the special time of asking God to do what ONLY HE CAN DO both in and through our lives.
Starting on January 5th, we’ll have daily devotionals online (Facebook & Youtube), as well as weekly prayer gatherings on Wednesday nights at 6 pm (Family Friendly).
Let’s make prayer our first response, not just our last resort!
At Manna, we encourage fasting for 21 days each year in January. This is part of our 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting, a season of focused prayer as a church family.
The goal of fasting is to draw nearer to God. Biblical fasting always involves eliminating distractions and obstacles for a spiritual purpose. Fasting hits the reset button of our soul and renews us from the inside out. It enables us to experience and celebrate the goodness and mercy of God. It also prepares our hearts for the blessings, plans, and purposes God desires for us.
Your personal fast should represent a level of challenge, but it is very important to know your body, and your options and, most importantly, to seek God in prayer and follow what the Holy Spirit leads you to do.
This fast is a great option if you don’t have much experience with fasting food, have health issues that prevent you from fasting food, or if you wish to refocus certain areas of your life that are out of balance. For example, you might choose to stop using social media or watching television for the duration of the fast and then carefully bring that element back into your life in healthy doses at the conclusion of the fast.
This type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet. One example of this kind of fast is the “Daniel Fast”, during which you remove meat, sweets and bread from your diet and consume water and juice for fluids and fruit and vegetables for food.
This involves abstaining from eating any type of food for certain periods of time of the day (eg: 6am to 3pm, sun-up to sundown)
In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.
article by Bill Bright
article by Bill Bright
The Advancing, the Kingdom Prayer Guide, is a resource to help you exercise the authority God has given you in prayer. This resource is explained in Parts Three and Four of our sermon series, Church in the Wild.
Use this simple prayer guide to fulfill Jesus’ call to “watch and pray” for one hour from Matthew 26:40-41. Adapted from the book The Hour That Changes the World by Dick Eastman.
This book is designed to give you several prayer models. You don’t have to master all of them at once; you can select a different prayer model each day in any order you want, and even spend a few days on the same model as you become more comfortable.
