Encounter & 21 Days of Prayer
At Ironbridge Church, we believe in starting the year by seeking God first. Prayer aligns our hearts with His will, strengthens our faith, and sets the tone for all He wants to do in and through us.
Join us as we kick off 2025 with Encounter—three powerful nights of worship and prayer, January 13-15. Together, we’ll gather with great expectation to experience the presence of God, seek His guidance, and celebrate His faithfulness.
Following Encounter, we’ll launch into 21 Days of Prayer, beginning Thursday, January 16. Over the next three weeks, we’ll dedicate time each day to pray, fast, and trust God to work in extraordinary ways in our lives, our church, and the world around us.
This is your opportunity to start 2025 with purpose, focus, and faith. Let’s come together as a church family to seek God and watch Him move in powerful ways!
Types of Fasts
Complete Fast – In this type of fast, you drink only liquids, typically water with light juices as an option.
Selective Fast – This type of fast involves removing certain elements from your diet.
One example of a selective fast is the Daniel Fast, during which you remove meat, sweets, and bread from your diet and consume water and juice for fluids and fruits and vegetables for food.
Partial Fast – This fast is sometimes called the “Jewish Fast” and involves abstaining from eating any type of food in the morning and afternoon.
This can either correlate to specific times of the day, such as 6:00 am to 3:00 pm, or from sunup to sundown.
Soul Fast – This fast is a great option if you do not have much experience 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.
Timing of a Fast
We encourage fasting for 21 days each year in the month of January. This is part of 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting: a season of focused prayer as a church family.
You may also choose to fast at other times during the year for your own spiritual development.
It’s very typical to fast a single meal, a whole day, or 3 days or more.
The timing of your fast is not as important as the strength of your focus on God as you fast.
Scripture References