Prayer

Prayer is an opportunity to spend time with God. To really understand the heart of God, you need to pray. In John 15:15, Jesus says He no longer calls us his servants, but calls us His friends. Talking with God develops a deeper relationship with Him. During lock down this day has become an entire day of prayer with someone praying every hour.

Prayer is one of the most powerful weapons God has given us. We turn to prayer because it is the most personal way to experience God, to encounter Him and to grow in knowledge of Him. We encourage everyone to make prayer a part of your daily life.

Fasting

Fasting is an essential part of this special day.

Fasting is a deliberate abstinence from physical gratification, usually going without food for a period of time in order to achieve a greater spiritual goal. Fasting is intentionally denying the flesh in order to gain a response from the spirit; it means renouncing the natural in order to invoke the supernatural.

We urge everyone to fast for the day and put aside the time saved for God. You don’t have to fast from food, you can fast from TV or Netflix, social media or even your phone.

All we ask is that the time you would normally spend doing this activity is actually spent seeking God, listening for His voice and giving Him your undivided attention regularly throughout the course of the day.

 Day of Prayer and Fasting

, Usually, on the 1st day of each month, we encourage the whole church to join in a day of
prayer and fasting. To begin 2025, we will hold our day on the 11th of January, instead of the first, as part of our Week of Prayer.

Prayer and fasting is a sign of our desire and hunger to seek God. Through prayer and fasting, we develop a passion for God that supersedes everything else. When this happens, the Holy Spirit begins to flow into us, allowing us to live above our circumstances and low self expectations.

To help plan our day of prayer, we use a 24-7 prayer room and publish notes to help you pray for the hour you choose. You can book an hour prayer slot through the newsletter link the week before or by clicking on the button below.To book and hour slot during our day of prayer and fasting, please click on the button below.

Prayer Notes for our
Day of Prayer and Fasting

Take an hour to pray for the great life of the church here at NBC.

Start

Take 5-10 minutes in praise and prayer, sing and give thanks for the Lords goodness and loving kindness.

Read

2 Timothy 3:5 - here is the danger; that we would have a form of Godliness but deny its power.

Pray

Our prayer is from Psalm 48 New King James version.

Verse 12 - ‘Walk about Zion, And go all around her.’

Take some time in prayer to consider all of the action and activity of NBC, give thanks for all of the activities and people that come to mind.

Verse12 - ‘Count her towers;’ 

Towers of course, are for spotting what’s coming outside the gates, both friend or foe.  

Pray for NBC to be able to spot what's coming in regard to culture, activity, theology and opportunity, and be able to tell right from wrong, friend from foe.

Also, the watchtowers would be able to spot wrong activity and behaviours within the walls, pray that we would be aware and able to spot things which hinder church growth, and discipleship.

Verse13 - ‘Mark well her bulwarks;’ 

Bulwarks are the defences, built pragmatically for a specific purposes and reinforcement.

Pray for NBC as we gather to pray worship read the bible share time together. For  Lifegroups, services, bible studies, and leadership gatherings, as we seek to submit to God resist the devil that he would flee..(James 4:7). 

Verse13 - ‘Consider her palaces;’ 

Palaces are places of beauty of luxury of celebration. Not brutalist or pragmatic, but expressions of love of light of grace etc.

Please pray for NBC, in all that we do in enabling beauty and faith, generosity and relationship. For meals, fun days, outreaches, sun lunch, meet’n’eat, creativity, the poetic, and rich; give thanks then.

Verse 13 - ‘That you may tell it to the generation following.’ 

Pray for our children’s and youth work, that we can show them true faith in Christ, and show these young ones the towers. How to spot right and wrong. The Bulwarks, showing them our defences from evil, and our palaces of beauty, life and hope.

Breakthrough Prayer Clinic

If you would like to have someone pray for you, please email prayerministry@northchurch.com to book an appointment in person or online.

Alternatively, you can check out our Prayer Clinic Page.

Spiritual Rhythm

We believe that a regular spiritual rhythm plays a key role in our walk with God. That's why on Tuesdays we have our rhythm of prayer throughout the day. We would encourage people to get involved with prayer.

To see all our prayer meetings, just click Spiritual Rhythm.