Monday: Week of Prayer & Fasting
Let’s pray about
Discipleship, Small Groups and Community
In Bracknell, our prayer focus for Monday is on how we grow healthily in discipleship within community.
This growth in our faith takes place in and beyond our Sunday gatherings. It happens in our small groups and all the other ways that we gather together in community — like the friendships we develop within our Sunday serving teams and Revive volunteer teams; in Encounter (midweek lunchtime fellowship); on our Summer picnics; during the prep and actual running of our Easter and Christmastime events; in our corporate prayer meetings; within our Kids, Youth and Young Adult ministries (the list goes on and on)! God has blessed us with so many expressions of community within Kerith, let’s be praying that those who feel like they’re on their own will find a group or community to call their own and grow. Remember that as a church, we are passionate about:
“Helping people find their way back to God
through communities growing in their love for God
and love for people.”
Through jubilant times, tough seasons and everywhere in between, we want to grow together in our love for Jesus and each other. Let’s keep supporting each other… “not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:25)
Let’s pray!
Please follow the links below to join us online for corporate prayer:
• 6:45 am - One Church (All sites) on Simon Benham’s Prayercast
• 12:30 pm- One Church (All sites) on Instagram Live and
• 8:00 pm - Bracknell Site on Zoom
Reminders and Quick Links:
Week of Prayer and Fasting
Monday 29th Jan to Friday 2nd Feb
Morning Prayer on Facebook - Simon Benham’s Prayercast 6:45am CLICK HERE
Jump on at 6;45am or watch back and pray along with the community who meet on Facebook every weekday morning.
Lunchtimes on Instagram LIVE 12:30pm CLICK HERE
At Lunch on our main Kerith Community Church IG account. from 12:30-12:45pm
Evenings Mon-Thurs Bracknell Site Prayer on Zoom 8:00pm USE THIS LINK
This is the time we get to gather as a site to Pray ‘Your Kingdom Come’ across our site and beyond. It’s community together time so jump the kids in their PJs or go to the gym early and come and join in. Running for 30 mis we are going to pack in the session with the below themes
Monday - Discipleship: Small Groups and Community
Tuesday - Evangelism and Outreach
Wednesday - 2024 Bracknell Vision (Creating Space for Healthy Growth)
Thursday - Praying for our under 18 ministriesFriday Night:
Worship & Prayer Night 7:30-9pm
Half Night of Prayer 9:30pm-Midnight
Join with our friends from across all our mainland Kerith church sites as we gather in the kerith Centre to worship and pray. Bring your kids, your youth ( just not your pets!) and lets worship together before we head into our half night of prayer. Come for an hour or come for the whole evening.
Want to book the Prayer Room?
Looking for a distraction-free place to spend time speaking with and hearing from God? You can book one hour slots on site in the Kerith Bracknell Prayer Room (see this link)
Fasting….?
Fasting shows us how quickly we rely on things, rather than God. In Matthew 6: 17 Jesus says “When you fast..” not if. So there’s something in abstaining from food that is helpful enough that Jesus saw it as a given.
Fasting shows us how quickly we rely on things, rather than God. While fasting implies abstaining from food, it more importantly means a feasting on God - an utter dependence upon the presence of God beyond the sustenance of food. In doing so we prove the words Jesus quoted during His own fast: “…man does not live by bread alone but by every word that precedes from the mouth of God...”
For a HOW TO GUIDE head to page 14 of our Prayer PDF
Visit the 24/7 Prayer website for a beginner’s guide to fasting and guidelines to help you grow in prayer through fasting.