42 DayS

PRAYER & FASTING

1.11 – 2.22

 

 

 

We would like to invite you to spend 42 days with the PIHOP community intentionally seeking and ministering to Jesus.  Nothing but Jesus.  In Psalm 42:7 it says, “Deep calls unto deep, at the sound of your waterfalls.”  This is the thirst that is beckoning the PIHOP community to spend 42 days intentionally going after the depths of Jesus Christ.  Let’s go after something greater than our own personal destiny, let’s go after the depths of Jesus!  We will begin the evening of January 11 at 7pm and will continue to February 22 at 7pm.  

 

Like deer panting for water, let’s make Jesus the goal – that we would know Him – the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.  Lets lighten our diet and our busy schedules!  Let’s let go of needing to know more about ourselves and let’s give Him some space to show us His glory - His mercy, His power, His grace, His long suffering, His truth, His goodness, His justice, His righteousnessand we could go on forever – literally. 

 

For PIHOP, the organization, the 42 days will look like more of Him, and less of us.  We will close down healing appointments, The Well, intros and the healing center.  Mott Training Center will offer a very modified schedule.  The prayer room will be open Monday-Friday, 6am-12am and Saturdays, 12pm-10pm.  Our Wednesday and Friday night gatheringswill continue as corporate times to connect and be inspired during this extended fast. 

 

Why 42?  PIHOP has history with this number and in 2012, God called us, using Isaiah 4:2, Revelation 4:2 and Revelation 2:4, to go on a 42 day fast and seek first love and to go after the Branch of the Lord as beautiful and glorious. Many spent long times in the prayer room before the presence of God seeking Him and His Word.  We believe that God is going to change the expression and understanding of Christianity in one generation and that Jesus is going to be the main attraction of His church, not the many wonderful programs, but Jesus will be the Magnificent Obsession of His church.

 

What to do on these 42 days?  From 1-11 to 2-22, be intentional to give God longer times to be with Him for Him.  

  • Spend a few hours a day to worship Him without distraction.  Come to the prayer room and do it there.  If you can’t, find an undistracted place and worship God.
  • Take an hour a day to encounter God in His Word.  Go after one of the books in the Bible during these 42 days or go after a chapter in the Word and camp out there – Go deep – Spend hours in purposeful meditation – read it, write it, say it, sing it, and pray it.  Journal out what God shows you about Himself.  
  • Fast – give your stomach a new obsession – the word of God.  Intentionally skip meals and/or adjust your diet for the entire 42 days to seek God in times when you would have been eating.  Go after God like a deer panting for water.  
  • Starve your eyes from the quick images and quiet your soul to seek God for God – take time away from media.
  • When you would have normally served on a PIHOP prayer or healing team, come and spend time in the prayer room ministering to God.

 

Starting on 1-11, we believe it has to do with Malachi 1:11 being established in the earth – incense/ministry to Jesus would arise in every place.  Ending on 2-22, we believe God wants to give His bride the key of David and we would experience the power of answered prayer through intimacy.