21 Days of Prayer: January 2025
Oasis is setting aside 21 days from 6th-26th January 2025 to pray together as a community, alongside a posture of fasting. This will include beginning to reflect on our 2025 vision of ‘multiplication’, and taking inspiration from a range of passages across the whole story of the Bible to shape our prayers.
There’s a booklet now available to encourage you in your prayers across the three weeks; featuring a key theme for each week, a daily focus, associated Bible verse, and space for notes. These can be collected at South Street from Sunday 5th January, and are also available to download yourself at home by clicking here.
Alongside this, there will be gatherings every Wednesday and Sunday evening during the 21 days, at 7:30pm at South Street to pray and seek God together, with the first on Wednesday 8th January and a bigger prayer and worship celebration to round off the time on Sunday 26th January. This will also incorporate a special gathering to pray with those from other churches in Harborne on Wednesday 22nd January from 7:45pm at St John’s Church (rather than South Street). Early Morning Prayer also runs every Wednesday morning at 7:30am via Zoom — find the details for this via the Oasis Weekly Blast.
Along with the rhythms of daily prayer and gathering with others, you may also want to consider living with a posture of fasting over the 21 days. Fasting is never about twisting God’s arm or proving something to others, but rather is a privilege that believers are invited into. It helps us to focus on God, and to develop a hunger both for Him and for breakthrough in the situations we are praying for. This provides a way to illuminate different areas of life, and often comes with some mystery as God moves in unexpected ways! Typically, believers across history have fasted from food, but fasting can involve anything that we give up for a set period of time to facilitate greater connection with God.
As you begin your prayer journey, perhaps ask God if there is something you could go without during the 21 days, and speak to others about how they could support you in that.
It is a privilege to be able to dedicate time together in prayer, and it’s so exciting to see what God will do within, through and beyond the community as prayers are answered!
